indication yet that investigators remain skeptical that trump has been fully cooperative in their efforts to recover documents the former president was supposed to have turned over to the national archives at the end of his term. here s how team trump responded to brat according to the new york times reporting. the outreach from the department prompted a rift among trump s lawyers about how to respond, one camp counseling a cooperative approach that would include bringing in an outside firm to conduct a further search for documents. and another camp advising trump to maintain a more combative posture. the more combative camp, the people briefed on the matter said, won out. to put all this in perspective. after months of pleading by the national archives, a subpoena from the department of justice back in may, a court-approved search of president trump s private golf club and residents which yielded 11,000 government documents, all in all, a process that has now gone on for m
Last night he dropped this bombshell that you need photo id to buy grocery. That does it for me. Ari is going to be in tonight for rachel maddow. Chris matthews and hardball starts right now. Caught in the swamp, lets play hard ball. Acting like a ships captain in a typhoon. Calling the investigation a witch hunt, the media, the enemy of the people. Good evening, i am Chris Matthews and steaming swamp like
washington that has just been drenched with rainfall. It is wet in this town and steaming. President trump is waging an increasingly desperate battle. Case in point is the president s cavalier tweet in which he calls on the Justice Department yesterday to terminate the russian probe all together. Quote Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this witch hunt right now. One of the most overt message that president has taken to date to shut down the probe. Trying to protect the president , trumps allies are trying to downplay the significance of his tweeting. Saying President Trump i
tweeting. in the courtroom itself prosecutors are laying out just how lavish manafort s lifestyle has been. spent $450,000 on landscaping on a vacation home. and he spent more than $1 million on clothing. including $15,000 for this jacket made from ostrich. who wants a python jacket. facing multiple charges of bank and tax fraud. the charges predate itself. first test for special counsel mueller s prosecution. i am joined by cynthia ox nee and josh gershstein.
sarah huckabee sanders in her first on-camera briefing of the month. it comes after different speeches in president trump and a series of tweets taking to republicans. let s go to josh gershstein from politco. sarah says the relations are fine between the president and mitch mcconnell. is that true? that s not true. the last conversation they had was a shouting match and disagreement from the president over the senate s failure to pass the obamacare legislation and even the fact there s investigations underway in congress and the president and his campaign s alleged connections to russia. so there s a lot of anger. it seemed like the white house s strategy was to paper it over. saying we re going to work together, cumbaya and bang, this
years. it s not clear what the strategy is to get his legislative agenda done and if he has any realistic understanding of the mechanics on capitol hill. shepard: what about the threat of a government shut down? how real is that? do we know? it s fairly real. if the president will be insistent that there has to be funding for the border while despite the fact that he said the mexicans were going to pay for it, it s possible that there will be a shut down. the democrats won t go along with than some republicans may not. is the president serious about this? is he saying that if a bill is delivered to his desk he will allow the government to go in shut down or will he blink wh when he did blink when there was a temporary spending bill that came up. shepard: thanks, josh. we re getting a lot from people saying they haven t spoken because they re in recess.