Obsession with more nixonian than you might think. Plus, meet the one man standing between democrats and a special prosecutor. And why todays trump travel ban, born from the trump muslim ban, may already be in trouble. We have no choice. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We are growing alarmingly accustomed to a president of the United States who makes incendiary claims with no basis in fact and a white house that stands by those claims despite all evidence to the contrary. Today the white house is still defending the president s explosive and baseless allegation that his predecessor ordered a wiretap at trump tower during the election. That claim made on twitter in the early hours of saturday morning was the culmination of what had started as an excellent week for the president , at least in his estimation. Beginning with giving his joint address to Congress Last tuesday. But it was all downhill from there. While the pundits were full of praise
Ordered a wiretap at trump tower during the election. That claim made on twitter in the early hours of saturday morning was the culmination of what had started as an excellent week for the president , at least in his estimation. Beginning with giving his joint address to Congress Last tuesday. But it was all downhill from there. While the pundits were full of praise for the toned down speech, one woman in a cbs focus group predicted what would come next. Where is that guy that says what he wants to say, that is loud, that says everything is where is that guy . Im going to look for him on twitter tomorrow and see what he really think. Great job to the speech writer. But i will see donald trump at 12 00 a. M. She was off by a few hours. Early in the morning. A little later than 12 00 a. M. The Washington Post published a remarkable account of the president s meltdown based on interviews with 17 Top White House official, members of congress and friends of the president. The post speech eu
he is also someone who needs to depend on reliable information in order to in order to make decisions. and what you re saying is that this information didn t come through some channel of a briefing or anything. this was him reading a printout of a breitbart write-up of a mark levin radio monologue. the three things that i find are most important for donald trump as he digests information is that he looks at his twitter feed, not just at what other people are tweeting, but what his supporters are tweeting at him. he thinks that s kind of his populous touch, understanding what his supporters are saying to him on social media. he reads these pile of news articles. and he is also on the phone constantly. that s something his staff cannot control. the president still calls not people in the military or the intelligence community necessarily. he is talking to a network of friends, ally, long-time business people who he trusts. and that s where he really threads out a lot of these argumen
were to individually order a wiretap on any citizen in any condition from the white house down, that in and of itself would be a scandal because that s not the way it works, for good reason. investigators go to judges to get warrants in a sort of bottom up way. but maggie harriman said the president s insistence he will be proven right. wiretaps he sounded less certain in private condos. trump knows little about the government as well as separation of powers. he assumes it s not that different from how he ran trump tower where he was known to tape call, et cetera. how much is this just the president being incorrect? an important figure in all of this is don mcgee on the white house council. because as the preside began tweeting on saturday morning, a lot of guessing began happening inside of the white house. people thought and suggested inside of the white house in my conversations and with others, and maybe there was some kind of fisa warrant. maybe there was some kind of
but maggie harriman said the president s insistence he will be proven right. wiretaps he sounded less certain in private condos. trump knows little about the government as well as separation of powers. he assumes it s not that different from how he ran trump tower where he was known to tape call, et cetera. how much is this just the president being incorrect? an important figure in all of this is don mcgee on the white house council. because as the president began tweeting on saturday morning, a lot of guessing began happening inside of the white house. people thought and suggested inside of the white house in my conversations and with others, and maybe there was some kind of fisa warrant. maybe there was some kind of activity. maybe there was whatever out there without evidence, without fact. and they made these suggestions because the president was making these suggestions. but mcgann said there might not be a fisa warrant. don t be making these accusations.