Roger stone joins me tonight. A new racism controversy for Tucker Carlson as a man who writes his scripts resigns in disgrace. And the retiring of a racist nfl mascot when all in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We have seen an abysmal failure of leadership from our president. The u. S. Has the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world. Our president had zero desire and zero ability actually to solve the problem. Instead, from now until election day, every day, all of his energy is going to be focussed in finding a villain. I said revotedly on the show, this problem that we are in the midst of, it is a very hard problem to solve, and people make mistakes. For example, the cdc initially told americans not to wear masks before reversing that guidance in early april. That was a very bad and costly error. In new york state, Governor Andrew Cuomo and mayor bill de blasio made serious mistakes that very likely cost lives. Heres the thing. There are two categories of lead
Have any idea what hell be talking about . Well, we know that the president has been trying to get out there every single day on the coronavirus pandemic lindsay. The white house trying to show that the president is engaged, hes in charge, and hes in a leadership role. As the polling continues to show that the public does not have confidence in the president s response to coronavirus. And that its really the key factor that is dragging down his reelection prospects at this point in time. But what we know from all these News Conferences the president has been holding in recent days, he goes out there intending to talk about coronavirus, and quickly the topics veer into other territory, such as this crisis over the Postal Service funding for the usps ahead of the election as well as these broader covid relief measures that both sides acknowledge at this point need to be extended. Congress needs to do something to move that forward. About the only sign of progress or life at all in those
The director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe was not specific, this is the kind of email they appear to be speaking about sent from a viewer to Rachel Maddow. The subject line is vote for trump or else. And it appears to have been sent to registered democrats. While it looks like it comes from the far right group the proud boys, officials tell nbc, it was actually sent by iranian intelligence. It warns the voter that if they dont switch their affiliation to republican and vote for President Trump, quote, we will come after you. We dont know how many people got this email but the fbi and dni obviously thought it was a big enough deal to hold a public briefing last night. Heres a little part of it. This data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion, sow chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy. To that end, we have already seen iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimid
They get the bipartisan support the president promised . Ill speak to top Biden Economic adviser brian deese and republican senator rob portman next. Gamestop. Wall street turns into a frenzy after small time investors put the squeeze on hedge funds. Is it time for washington to step in and try to control the chaos . Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren joins me to discuss exclusively. Plus, political civil war. Republicans turn on their own across the country as Senate Republicans appear increasingly likely to acquit former President Trump. His own defense lawyers are jumping ship. What happened to the gop . Ill speak exclusively to Arizona Republican governor doug ducey ahead. Hello. Im dana bash in washington where the state of our union is facing a reckoning. We begin with some breaking news this morning. Cnn has learned former President Trumps defense lawyers all left with just over one week until the start of his impeachment trial because the former president wanted them to make t
25,000 in it needs to be disclosed. And with advocacy with those organizations there is a lot of distrust when we see an advertisement on television of the generic sounding name i think we tend to discount that but with questions how much we trust especially when uc the third party organizations. Host did they have a paid consultant . Not to my knowledge. But those who engaged in the practices make different types of coalitions and partnerships. The corporate groups and at an art with entirely different strategies that the extreme right and left the other in the middle of the spectrum. Has that professional bet with the system . In the guess and no. It is a good thing to get more people involved in politics. And also with the competing interests. So how people have their say before the policy makers. And that can be a very valuable thing. Where i do get concerned is the bargaining to get involved in the first place. They end up encouraging people to get involved where people already re