Knew about the hack of the dnc before the public did. Boy, i love reading those wikilea wikileaks. What to make of the president s gun show. I like taking the guns early. With the lawmaker in the room. I think you underestimate the power of the gun lobby. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. White House Communications director hope hicks is out. One day after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, where she acknowledged telling, and im quoting because its such an indicative phrase, white lies. White lies for the president. The president s longest serving aide is joining the extensive and ever growing list of senior officials to leave the Trump Administration. Hicks has been a player in some of the pivotal moments of the russia saga. She was interviewed by Robert Muellers Team Last Year and her departure comes as muellers investigation appears to be turn together key question at the heart of the whole affair. Did the president of the Uni
Nbcs White House Correspondent jeff bennett. Jeff, the plan on track to pass here, we think. It certainly looks that way. You laid out the substance of the bill in great detail. Politically republicans think they are on Firm Political footing. Here is why. They were able to flip two holdout lawmakers flipping them to yes votes. On the one side you have republican senator marco rubio, who wanted a boost in the Child Tax Credit for working families in exchange for his vote. He got that. Now hes on board. You also have a reversal from tennessee senator, excuse me, bob corker, who says he doesnt want to stand in the way of republican progress on this. He sees it as a once in a generation chance to enact tax cuts to boost job growth. President trump was earlier today happy to talk about taxes. He was headed to marine one on the way to camp david. My colleague asked what is the chief criticism of the tax plan, that it benefits the wealthy at the expense of the middle class, here is how he re
Narrative, an epic tweet storm on russia, election, his candidacy, well walk you through the social media meanderings. Its clear now we know for a fact theres no collusion between President Trump and candidate trump or the campaign in any russian actor. Now we know for a fact of the election. Didnt effect the outcome of the election at all. Thats the white house opinion but one zpert suggests russian meddling could have significantly at tered the outcome. Will new rules about classified clearances leave one of the president s closest advisers and soninlaw out of the loop . The playmates tale, none of the allegations of done add trumps prepresident ial affairs seem to matter. We begin with the tweet storm many just in the last 90 minutes, railing against critics and fbi even his own National Security adviser, attacks all coming 48 hours since the bombshell mueller indictments of 13 russia nationals. In one tweet this morning saying i never said russia did not meddle in the election. I s
Me, its case closed on the question of russian meddling. And offering the bob mueller effectively ended the debate about whether russia did indeed meddle in our democracy. Suggesting it will become awkward at best for the president to continue to call the investigation a hoax. Now that a grand jury was convinced by bob mueller and his investigators who presented this evidence to them, and to which they responded with todays indictments. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein took to the d. O. J. Podium and announced the charges. The defendants allegedly conducted what they called Information Warfare against the United States, with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general. They used stolen or fictitious american identities, Fraudulent Bank accounts, and false identification documents. The defendants posed as political and socially active americans advocating for particular candidates. They established social media pages and groups
Heating up the white house. Sarah sanders having to comment that President Trump is trying to silence the porn star who claims she had a relationship with President Trump a decade ago. Is and on policy, confusion at the white house. President trump was scheduled to announce his controversial plan to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum today, but the signing ceremony is not on the white house schedule at the moment. It appears the policy is not finalized yet. All right. We have several developments in the russia investigation. A new report in the New York Times that says President Trump asked key witnesses what they had discussed with special counsel bob muellers investigators. The president targeting White House Counsel Don Mcgahn and former chief of staff Reince Priebus for the followup talks. The Washington Post reporting bob mueller is gathering evidence about a meeting in the seychelles last january. Why . The paper reveals they believe it may have been an attempt to establish a b