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still possibly some other candidate can do the essential job most americans most want accomplished, not just winning in iowa and later in pennsylvania, but removing donald trump from his current address at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. and that s hardball for now. all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in that was some crowd. thank you for all that you do, thank you. the president tours the aftermath of a racist massacre as a deportation force conducts a massive raid. pour favor. please. tonight the latest example of how the cruelty is the point for trump. this is a hoax. a sudden vacation for the face of fox news as the tucker carlson controversy grows. another trump supporter accused of a violent crime tries the trump made me do it defense. and the growing movement to boycott businesses owned by a
your harry potter facts were not accurate. who did the research? i have the one who said houses and classes interchangeable because i was trying to be more explicit so people can get a feel for it. rod, you re fired. harry potter facts not accurate there. tolu, why bring this up now? it s a little bit bizarre but it s the everybody does it defense that we ve heard from the president so many times. but not him, of course. not him, but everybody else. he defended his son over the trump tower meeting saying everyone takes opposition research. he s defended paul manafort saying everyone is guilty of the corruption he is and this is the defense the president is using. we may see a pardon out of it. you had alexandria ocasio-cortez talking about an aide and basically saying that she s basically distancing herself from this aide saying i think it was
member of the new york times editorial board. first on the elliptical, i ll call it defense, but elliptical defense of birtherism. first of all, the entire interview, there is a saying in journalism. we often will say show, don t tell. in other words, don t tell me that something is indefensible. show me. and i think this entire interview from birtherism to israeli palestinian relations and so on was a vivid example of that. jared kushner was unwilling, first of all, to defend birtherism, which i thought was interesting. trying to do some damage control for himself and his own brand, perhaps. and maybe has some kind of a moral compass that guides him at some point. but also just to have someone like jared kushner whose sole purpose was to defend the president and his father-in-law, and to have him so unable to be able to do that tells you if
hannity. let me play you a little part of that. i can tell you personally he said to me, at least a dozen times, that he made the decision on the payments and he didn t tell you. yeah. told me personally. he did. and he made the decision. and remember this, he s an attorney. whatever decision he makes, he s supposed to rely on an attorney to make a decision. natasha, is what s going on here, he s relying on the my lawyer made me do it defense. you know how sean hannity knows that is because sean hannity was a michael cohen as well. that s something that didn t get brought up in the hearings the other day. it s implausible. a lawyer, even michael cohen who is not necessarily the best lawyer in the world is not going to do something without his client s express approval. and donald trump being the control freak he is would not have been pleased if michael cohen went out and made this $130,000 payment to a woman who was claiming to have an affair with the president and coverin