Twitter account. After House Republicans voted to gut the ethics committee. President elect ran oon promise to drain the swamp and tweeted. Working behind the strings to hamstring democratic predecessor and its not donald trump. Lot to get to you. Start with dana bash and david and christoph, it is official that donald trump is going to hold his own press conference. What do you think hell say to the press. Notice he says having a general News Conference. Remember we were looking for initially said hold a midjanuary News Conference about topic of separating from business and clear up concerns about conflicts of interests with business interests. Im sure that will be a topic of this conference no doubt but i think donald trump is looking to have First Press Conference since july and im sure going to get a lot of questions about his views on u. S. russia relationships, relationship with putin, thoughts on the hacking, business relationships with Trump Corporation and how separating them
Hamstring his democratic predecessor, and its not donald trump. Lot to get to you. Start with dana bash and David Chalian and nicholas kristof, it is official that donald trump is going to hold his own press conference. So lets talk about it. What do you think hell say to the press . What would the press want to know . Notice he says having a general News Conference. Remember we were looking for initially he said he would hold a mid january News Conference about the topic of how hes going to separate from his business and clear up any concerns about conflicts of interest with his business interests. Im sure that will be a topic at this News Conference, no doubt, but i think donald trump is indicating hes looking to have his First Press Conference since july. And im sure hes going to get a lot of questions about his views on u. S. russia relationships, relationship with putin, thoughts on the hacking, hell get a lot of questions on the business relationships of Trump Organization and ho
Good evening from michigan. Im chris hayes coming to you from connor oneals pub here in ann arbor. We are live. [ cheers and applause ] we are live 57 days, most i am important midterm election. One of the key states that went for donald trump. Were here to talk to voters and candidates about whats driving them to the polls in the mid terms. Namely donald trump. Much more ahead. Over the last week something seems to have shifted in the conversation about the president. In the wake of the New York Times oped about a Senior Administration official, Bob Woodwards going behind the scenes at the white house. Pollsters, lawmakers and the press are discussing the president s fitness for the office he holds. According to woodward, the public has fully to grasp the danger we are facing. Heres the problem. This has not been treated seriously enough. And the things some of the things trump did and does jeopardize the Real National security. This country does some things in the intelligence world
Legal team has resumed some discussion with special counsel, with the special counsel in the weeks since the president responded to written questions. Mostly regarding collusion and the time period before the inauguration. The two sides had agreed to hold off on discussing any interview while the president wrote responses to those questions which were returned, as youll recall, just before thanksgiving. That was seen as a first step to concluding more than a year of back and forth between the two sides. And the president s lawyers had hoped would bring mueller closer to finishing his probe. But were learning that muellers interest in talking with the president continues, and it includes an interest in asking questions about the president s state of mind in regards to actions under scrutiny in the obstruction probe. Now we should note there has been no indication mueller is moving to subpoena the president. Youll recall there was a threat to do so by muellers Team Last Year according to
Correspondent will ripley. We know they are telling people not to crowd around these locations and a curfew in effect later. Reporter right. An an active and unfolding situation with reports of the eighth bombing coming in the last hour or so. Clearly they are not out of the woods in sri lanka and they dont know who is responsible because nobody has yet to come forward. What this is, clearly, is a coordinated attack on multiple fronts. As i mentioned, eight explosions, three of them targeting churches. Four of them targeting hotels. And then an explosion at a house in this south asian island nation. You have a target of christians who were celebrating easter and target foreigners in Highend Hotels across multiple cities in sri lanka including colombo which is their largest city. Also an attack on the sri lankan economy, next month is the tenth anniversary of their quarter century civil war. The nation has struggled to bounce back from this and in recent years, a hot spot for tourism. O