For months. His longtime lawyer, business associate, one of the men he is closest to is under investigation, has been braid the fbi, and could be indicted at any moment. And we just learned his own son held multiple meetings with agents of Foreign Governments offering help in the 2016 campaign. Thats just the tip of the iceberg. Now, it also turns out that the fbi back in 2016 was so alarmed by the Trump Campaigns various suspicious contacts with russia, it reportedly sent an informant to meet with three Different Campaign aides starting the summer before the election. And now the president , his lawyer, and his allies in congress are trying to use that incriminating fact in a kind of weird jujitsu move to discredit the investigation itself. Just a few weeks ago, the president warned us this moment might come. Ive taken the position, and i dont have to take this position, and maybe ill change, that i will not be involved with is the Justice Department. I have decided that i wont be inv
It is treason. Another guilty plea on the outside. I see papadopoulos today, i dont know papadopoulos. Another Camp Campaign aide is sentenced. Mueller has his sights set on a bigger target. The threat to our democracy doesnt just come from donald trump. It is indifference. President obamas return to the Campaign Trail. You are the antidote. I began by telling the president there was a cancer growing on the presidency. Dire warning from a man who would know on the last day of the kavanaugh hearing. There is now a cancer on the presidency . Yes, i would agree with that. All in starts now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. 60 days from the midterm election. Including tonight a report that his private business empire, a thing that defines him above all else is in the cross hairs of a federal probe. Inside the white house the president and closest aides are reportedly turning the west wing upside down to try to identify the anonymous author of the oped. Asked by a reporter if h
your legal work was handled by michael cohen? well, as a percentage of my overall legal work, a tiny, tiny little fraction. tiny, tiny little fraction, i barely knew anything about his business. or how about this? take another example. george papadopoulos, trump knew him until he didn t. george papadopoulos, he s an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. i don t know papadopoulos. i don t know him. i saw him sitting in one picture at a table with me. that s the only thing i know about him. i don t know him. that i don t know him didn t turn out so well for papadopoulos, as you well know. makes me wonder what matt whitaker might be thinking tonight. pamela brown is outfront live at the white house for us. pamela, what is the president trying to do here with whitaker. reporter: well, you see the president, kate, distancing himself from matt whitaker amid this criticism about his past comments on the russia probe as well as his qualifications to be the acting attorney gen
oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. reporter: but just hours before today s sentencing the president saying he didn t remember him. i don t know papadopoulos. i don t know him. i saw him sitting in one picture at a table with me. that s the only thing i know about him. i don t know him, but they got him on, i guess, a couple of lies is what they are saying. reporter: papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with a professor who claimed the russians had obtained thousands of hacked e-mails from hillary clinton. the fbi suspects the professor of being an operative for the russian government. his attorney just told me outside the courthouse papadopoulos can t recall who, if anyone, he told about those hacked e-mails, but we believe that this is something that robert mueller is pursuing, david. pierre thomas with us on a friday night. thank you, pierre. there is much more ahead on world news tonight this friday. the tv anchor who found herself r
essentially by an agent of russian intelligence who approached him, who saw him as low-hanging fruit, an advisor to the trump campaign, a junior person, 29 years old. and this professor, joseph nipsud told papadopoulos the russian hz obtained dirt in the form of thousands of e-mails on hillary clinton. papadopoulos possessed this information. we still don t know who inside the trump campaign he told about that information. but papadopoulos s lawyer thomas breen said that after meeting with him, papadopoulos made efforts to broker a meeting between senior russian officials and the trump campaign. and papadopoulos lawyer told the judge that donald trump and jeff sessions appeared to look favorably on the idea that that meeting should occur. i ll tell you one other really interesting thing papadopoulos s lawyer said in trying to explain why his client misled the fbi in january 2017 when they went to talk to him about this. he noted that just a few days before, donald trump had called the