between all of these government buildings. where we stand after the midterm rejection of donald trump s bigotry. and the latest on the california wildfires as the trump delegation sidesteps the president s attacks. not pointing fingers. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. news from the mueller investigation into roger stone on multiple front seat tonight. nbc news has exclusively obtained text messages between trump campaign adviser roger stone and his friend randy credico showing once againstone s foreknowledge of those wikileaks e-mail dumps. big news, according to the text messages provided by stone, now pretend you don t know me. you died five years ago, stone replied. create, yesterdhe wrote back.
the content of allegedly stolen or allegedly hacked e-mails published by wikileaks. i never predicted anything of the kind, nor heard any such thing from jerry corsi who is a great researcher and a writer and a friend of mine. so it s a witch hunt. witch hunt. get all that? he didn t know what, he didn t know, quote, in advance the source or the content of stolen e-mails published by wikileaks. that is, one should note, quite different from not knowing it was coming. those texts provided by stone to nbc news ostensibly to vindicate himself show he knew it was coming. quote, i think it s on for tomorrow. october 3rd, 2016. later that day, why can t you get trump to come out and say that he would give julian assange asylum. mueller s investigation is still firing on many fronts. today it was in court where prosecutor from the special counsel s office said they were
heard and everything that we know from the days of watergate on, he is very likely to be a person who thinks that he can get away with anything and that he would intimidate witnesses without even thinking that he was doing it. so i think it s quite possible that that s something that has happened. i think everyone underestimates how much mueller knows. yes. and so they go in there giving their story, not realizing that everything that they say, there is some contradictory statement under oath by someone else or some document. i mean, all of the text messages and e-mails contradict what roger stone says. and people need to really pay attention to all of the things that get triangulated in any investigation. yeah. that s what we do as prosecutors. we take conflicting statements and we triangulate and then you come to the truth. i think that that s going to catch roger stone. what you just described is what jerome corsi by his own words happened to him. they went in to talk to i
we are today. jim, take us through more of your reporting. you go through these intersections that we re talking about, the mueller investigation into financial ties, your paper has done a lot of reporting on the subpoenas that went to the trump organization, on mueller s interest in eventually talking to mr. cohen if he hasn t done so already. just talk about what you were able to isolate in terms of building on what mr. avenatti put out last night in your piece today. well, i think what s really being isolated here is this shell company, essential consultants llc. there was a great amount of surprise in my newsroom and certainly it seems now everywhere that this, again, it is a limited liability corporation created in delaware. it is seemingly to hide an initial payment to cover up potentially damaging information during a campaign that will be litigated. and as rudolph giuliani, the
in the fbi, that the president has done this repeatedly and this is another instance of some of his innuendoes and tweets about the partisan nature of mccabe because his wife had run for office in virginia. and i think it s an attempt, given what we know about the mueller investigation into president trump and his own history with the campaign and collusion with russia potentially so i think it s a continuation of that campaign against the fbi and so i think that s what he s trying to gain here. what s interesting here, you notice the fbi has stayed mum in all of these attacks but now former fbi director james comey can speak out and he certainly is on twitter. he spoke out in defense of james baker, top lawyer at the fbi, who was recently reassigned to a different role under fbi director christopher wray. here s what he said. we re now at a point when anyone can be attacked for partisan