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
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Like could become a violent situation, if you did, by the way, good for you. On this program we called out by a spirit we will do so as long as im allowed the honor to be here every night. We show the clips of the media. At their very worst moments. We tell our viewers to turn the channel if they dont like our coverage, but we dont support boycotts. If we demand firings. We dont support firings of any kind, nor will we ever. Its called telling the truth. And just because people chant fake news doesnt mean they would support any kind of violence in any way and of course theres plenty of bad rhetoric on a lot of sides of the aisle. Your network in particular, others in the Mainstream Media. You are not exactly telling the full story about things to the American People and i see abusive bias every single day purity largely ignored the nasty rhetoric against melania trump. Many glossed over the scary rhetoric about ivanka trump, the p
A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. Steve you mean Reverse Psychology . Brian right. Steve watch this. Were fighting a war. And we are fighting a war on drugs. They are bringing in drugs. Theyre bringing in lots of bad people. And were going to start to get very nasty over the wall. You know, the democrats, anything i want, they want to oppose. You know, i just figured out how to do the wall i will say i dont want to build a wall and they will insist on building it. [laughter] i just figured that out right now. We will be taking some very tough actions. We need more republicans but they are friends of mine they say sir, we are better off until wait until after. Its better before. We are either getting it or we are closing down government. We need Border Security. Steve the president was very clear about that as he has been. Thats one of the issues that got him the keys th to
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Were not doing enough. Look at these five people. Heres the thing, john. There is a whole Cottage Industry of distraction folks. This is a distraction from x or distraction from mueller. Im not sure that was the case because there are a lot of fires happening now around this administration. The Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort, Special Counsel, Jeff Sessions fire series is one of them. There is also the election en r interference fire, big deal. I had conversations with folks on the other side of folks on capitol hill, both parties. One consistent theme i heard in relation to election interference, Leadership Starts at the top. I asked point blank, who do you talk to in the white house, who do you talk to in the administration . Nobody, we dont know who the point person is, we dont know what their strategy is. This is somebody who is at a high level over there. This seemed to be a way of the whit
She joins us now. What did these emails between butina and gordon reveal . Yeah, they showed that the two met at an embassy event, a party at the Swiss Embassy in late september 2016. So really in the final weeks of the Trump Campaign. And then paul erickson, the republican operative who she was apparently dating kind of connected the two of them over email, and they show that the fact that j. D. Gordon had this trump tie appeared to be important to the email relationship that they then struck up. Paul erickson referred to the fact that he was an important person likely in a trump transition, and then j. D. Gordon himself sent back to ms. Butina at some point a copy of a story from politico noting that he had a role in the trump transition. And there was an invitation from gordon to her to attend a concert as well as his Birthday Party in the fall of 2016 . Yeah, thats right. They have a series of emails. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and inv