Republicans to change the subject. We have to start the momentum. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes, he is being called the maga bomber, tonights is confirmed the man Authorities Say mailed at least 14 explosive devices to a dozen people, knockeding former president s, senior democratic officials and most prominent critics of the president was a member of the cult of trump. 56yearold cesar sayoc hat a prolific social media presence. He also used the platforms to threaten the lives of people who have criticized the president. Sayocs van, seized by authorities today, was a virtual trump mobile, the windows covered in stickers and protrump propaganda along with pictures of the president s political enemies with targets on their faces. Sayoc was also apparently a frequent and enthusiastic crowd member at Donald Trumps maga rallies, social media feeds featuring photos and video of him attending multiple events. You take a look at these people, you stud
Why a bus filled with africanamerican voters was turned back from a polling place in georgia. It was an intimidation factor, right, but it aint going to stop us. Why the white house just fired the person investigating a trump cabinet secretary. Its music to my ears. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight we have multiple breaking stories on the russia investigation by special Counsel Robert Mueller. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein who appointed mueller has given a very rare interview to the wall street journal defending the russia probe as appropriate and independent in the face of the nonstop attacks from the president. Rosenstein giving the interview in his office at the doj, and telling the journal at the end of the day the public will have confidence the cases were brought were warranted by the evidence and that it was an appropriate use of resources. Meanwhile special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be quite busy. Cnn is reporting ton
White houses dismay, neither the complaints in Rudy Giulianis interviews nor the endless witch hunt tweets are stopping this forwardgrinding progress of what mueller wants and what hes getting. So heres the news. A judge handing down a twoweek jail sentence to the former Trump Campaign adviser who set the russia probe in motion, George Papadopoulos. Now, the very light sentence for the crime of lying to the feds. But its also in its lightness and its leniency a validation of the larger mueller strategy. Defy him, and face an endless legal sledgehammer. Paul manafort, of course, looking at years in jail with up to two trials remaining. Or the alternative, cooperate with mueller, flip and tell, and get a sentence so light you might reasonably forget about it some day. Note, the papadopoulos sentence is less time than any other person who have been sentenced. Now, in this hearing, late today, and thats why we have so much different breaking news right now. George papadopoulos told the jud
Looked like the president was firing the Deputy Attorney general overseeing the russia investigation, even before that fire drill this morning, it was clear through the end of last week, all through this weekend and through today that the news is just persistently off its axis right now. And i know that can make it a little bit hard to get your balance. I know, i know. Were going have more on the Rod Rosenstein fire drill, which did sort of look like an emergency this morning, and then it wasnt. He is still in his job. Were going have more on that to come, including speaking with a senator who has been trying to protect the special counsels investigation from just that kind of threat that we went through the motions of this morning. So thats ahead tonight this hour. But i got to tell you, for the second time in just a few day, were actually starting the show tonight without knowing if our first interview is going to happen or not. You might remember this happened at the end of last wee
Tonight in the wake of a second on the record accusation of Sexual Misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanagh, the white house and the Republican Party have embarked on a coordinated counter offensive to save kavanaghs nomination. And theyve done it by casting the alleged victims as part of the Smear Campaign orchestrated by the left. This is starting to feel like a vast left wing conspiracy. This is shameful, shameful Smear Campaign has hit a new low. It is amazing to me that these allegations come out of nowhere at the last minute and that they werent brought up earlier in this process. And its not untypical for our friends on the other side to pull that kind of crap. For people to come out of the woodwork from 36 years ago and 30 years ago and never mentioned it, all of a sudden it happens. In my opinion, its totally political. It is totally political. In a letter this morning kavanagh complained of character assassination and wrote, these are smears, pure and simple. H