Obstruction of justice. How america learns about this major scandal as the white house shrinks from public scrutiny. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. This president tells so many lies so oven that news organizations are now employing entire teams of Fact Checkers to document them for posterity. And because it is so hard to get the simple and most basic truth from the administration, much of what we now know only came to light in spite of the white house. Take for instance the saga of Michael Flynn. The first inkling there was something sketchy about the trump Foreign Policy adviser and his relationship with russia came a year ago through Republican National convention when yahoo news chief investigative correspondent pressed flynn on a trip he took to moscow for the 10th anniversary of r. T. Were you paid for that event . You would have to ask the folks i went over there to no, im asking you. You would know if you were paid . Yeah, i went over there
Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. This president tells so many lies so oven that news organizations are now employing entire teams of Fact Checkers to document them for posterity. And because it is so hard to get the simple and most basic truth from the administration, much of what we now know only came to light in spite of the white house. Take for instance the saga of Michael Flynn. The first inkling there was something sketchy about the trump Foreign Policy adviser and his relationship with russia came a year ago through Republican National convention when yahoo news chief investigative correspondent pressed flynn on a trip he took to moscow for the 10th anniversary of r. T. Were you paid for that event . You would have to ask the folks i went over there to no, im asking you. You would know if you were paid . Yeah, i went over there as a speaking event. It was a speaking event. Then one week before the inauguration, the Washington Post reported the very same day president