being part of the michael cohen conspiracy, bad news for the president. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. in just a little bit, president trump will be touching down in el paso, texas. that s the city that he lied about in the state of the union not even a week ago, falsely claiming it used to have extremely high rates of violent crime. and there he ll hold a rally to deliver the same old sthik he has been doing for months. during which time he has managed to torpedo his approval ratings, do a face-plant, and convince people in the middle that the democrats are better on immigration. so now with only three days to go until another deal or another shutdown, trump is going back to the border. this weekend, blessedly, for once, a rare moment of complete, total clarity and candor about what this entire standoff is all about. rather than the fake statistics, rather than the lies, rather than the lurid, gross, made-up
i m chris hayes. in just a little bit, president trump will be touching down in el paso, texas. that s the city that he lied about in the state of the union not even a week ago, falsely claiming it used to have extremely high rates of violent crime. and there he ll hold a rally to deliver the same old sthik he has been doing for months. during which time he has managed to torpedo his approval ratings, do a face-plant, and convince people in the middle that the democrats are better on immigration. so now with only three days to go until another deal or another shutdown, trump is going back to the border. this weekend, blessedly, for once, a rare moment of complete, total clarity and candor about what this entire standoff is all about. rather than the fake statistics, rather than the lies, rather than the lurid, gross, made-up stories stolen from movies about women with tape over their mouths, the president just came out and said what it s about, what it s always been about. what it s ab
spectacularly wealthy and he is. the apparent bag man who ran that operation was allowed himself to skim off $150 million in cash over just two years. he is now sitting in a jail cell in north carolina where prosecutors are pursuing him not only for the lurid double-murder for hire plot he apparently carried out against the guy he thought was with his wife but the massive theft from the russian people and the money laundering operation that followed that allowed him to accumulate such wealth and then try to stash and spend it in the united states. the russian government appears to be fine with that but u.s. federal prosecutors are not. now that they ve got him, what threads does that guy s case pull? right? for his part in terms of his service to vladimir putin and the russian government, he ran part of the russian intelligence operation for 2016 according to mueller s prosecutors, he ran
confirmed, we ve seen other stories fall apart. we will be about this but is the argument that the negotiation even if he is doing a business deal as it s happening with a hostile foreign power as he is running for president that eventually becomes president, that it is potentially something that could be held over the head of the president by russia? the president s statement today, you ran the clip of it earlier with john roberts in which he said what s the big deal? this is a deal we didn t do. i think he s on very solid ground there. the problem will come if, for example, michael cohen says the president told me to lie and i lied before the senate intelligence committee because he and i decided to concoct a scheme to trick people. that s where the president will be impaled. not doing a deal no matter how luxurious it was or lurid that
psycho-ex-girlfriend from help. the mover behind a lurid and devious plot. her parents michael and suzanne couldn t, wouldn t believe it. there s nothing in character with the michelle that you ve raised here. not at all. it s actually 180 degrees so out of sync with her behavior. they went to see michelle on her first day of jail after being charged. is this going to be a conversation with phones through glass? yes. she s in a cage. i don t know why she has to be in a cage one, but she does. michelle s bail was set at a million dollar. to get her out, mike and suzanne would have to come up with 10% of that. that s # $100,000 cash. they told their daughter they had enough to do that or get a good lawyer, but not both. bottom line is you have to fight the bail. that s t. you have the money, you could have had her home for dinner.