Days have been from there to here. It feels like two months ago. We were talking about the subpoenas that have gone out in federal criminal investigations, right, were able to report tonight, there was a subpoena that has gone out related to Paul Manafort in order to we only knew about one other subpoena thats gone out related to mike flynn. I was writing that up today to be able to explain it. When i proved to myself that also was one week ago, that wasnt like seven months ago, i had to check it 17 times because i cant believe how much is happening in such a short period. Consider now, andreas point, its so great, these are the nights when we need our experienced voices who can remember the rumblings of water gate and what that momentum felt like. There is john mccain who remembers it well, using the word water gate tonight saying this is possibly bigger than watergate. So far we dont have any demands from the republican side, really, on a special prosecutor, seven days from now, you
Angles. I want to begin with our justice correspondent pamela brown. Pamela joins us from washington. Pamela, Justice Department naming the former fbi director as a special counsel to investigate russias meddling. What else can you tell us . Rod rosenstein making this decision and announcing today that hes chosen bob mueller, the former fbi director, to take the reins of the russia probe. And essentially the department of justice is now out of the equation and bob mueller will run this investigation, which means hell have the same authority as the attorney general. He can issue subpoenas and even interview the president. Anything he deems necessary in this investigation and whats so interesting here, don, is that they didnt give much warning to the white house or Jeff Sessions who has recused himself from the russian probe. The white house found out a half hour before rosenstein wanted to do this by the book clearly. Don . Heres the statement by Rod Rosenstein. My decision is not to fi
We thought watergate changed america and our political process. But did it . Good evening. President nixon reportedly will announce his resignation tonight. Vice president ford will become the nations 38th president tomorrow. That word comes unofficially from aides and associates the president has been part of politics for 28 years now. Part of the National Political scene for about 24 of those years. And this appears to be the final day of his administration. Tonight at 9 00 Eastern Daylight Time the president of the United States will address the nation concerning developments today and over the last few days. This has of course been a difficult time. This is indeed an historic day. The only time a president has ever resigned from office in our nearly 200 years of history. You see the white house there. In just a few moments now president nixon will be appearing before the people perhaps for the last time as president of the United States. Have you got an extra camera in case the lig
Our tools to undermine democracy. As facebook comes to terms with its unprecedented power, is there anything anyone can do about it . I wish i could tell you that were going to be able to stop all interference. But that just wouldnt be realistic. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight, the infamous steel dossier is at the very center of the news on the russia investigation. Nbc news reports that investigators on special counsel Robert Muellers team have interviewed christopher steele. Thats of course the former British Intelligence officer who compiled that absolutely explosive document. The dossier deals an alleged effort by the russian government over a period of years, stretching back to 2013 or so, to cultivate and coopt donald trump and his inner circle, as well as an extensive conspiracy between the Trump Campaign and Russian Forces to Work Together to interfere in the 2016 president ial election on trumps behalf. The president denies those c
Country one year into the trump presidency. Our lead tonight, the plot to stop special counsel Robert Muellers russia investigation did not take a break for christmas. The president spent the long Holiday Weekend at his florida club golfing and live tweeting trump tv, as he often does, and tweeting on apparent dvr delay, to be more accurate. This morning, he started off this morning using the latest Conspiracy Theory to discredit the russia investigation, linking it to the steele dossier. Wow, dossier is bogus. Clinton campaign, dnc funded dossier, fbi cannot after all of this time verify claims of dossier of russia collusion. Fbi tainted. Each of those claims is either false or distorted. The president appears to have been quotes jason chaffetz. Dossier we have long known is bogus. The question is, how was it funded. And that question has not been answered yet. The second part is, did they use it to go to a court and get that court then to allow them to spy on americans . And if that