Tore from liability and gives rise to legitimate questions about where his loyalties lie, specifically manafort lied about sharing internal Campaign Polling data with kilimnik in discussing a socalled peace plan that would benefit russia. As muellers prosecutor told mueller quote this goes to the heart of what the special counsels office is investigating. All of this begs the question why would manafort risk spending the rest of his life in jail to keep those discussions secret . Theyve floated the theory that manafort may hope to be parted by the president. Theres been reporting to show that a pardon has been considered since 2017, but trump was most direct about the possibility late last year, telling the new york post, quote, i wouldnt take it off the table. Yet the president can only pardon federal crimes, not state offenses. Now bloomberg is reporting that to ensure manafort isnt let off the hook, quote, new york prosecutors have put together a criminal case against Paul Manafort
We will look at the history of such declarations and the awesome powers they give the commander in chief. And bring back our girls, remember the intense anger over the kidnapping of almost 300 Nigerian School girls . Bring back our girls. Remember the feverish demands to get them back . Well, some 100 of those girls are still missing. We have not forgotten. But first here is my take. Watching the struggle over funding for a border wall im struck by the way in which in one sense donald trump has already achieved success. He has been able to conjure up a crisis out of thin air, elevate this manufactured emergency to national attention, paralyze the government and perhaps now even invoke warlike authority and bypass congress. He may still fail, but it should worry us that a president , any president , can do what trump has done. Lets be clear, there is no crisis. The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States has been declining for a decade. The number of people caught trying
Plus as 2020 candidates hit the primary states lets start by changing the rules in washington. A look at what is working on the ground. American values are under attack and it is time to change course. And todays stunning hearing on North Carolina Election Fraud. We believe the evident we will provide today will show a coordinated unlawful and substantially resource scheme operated in the 2018 general election. All in starts right now. Good evening from los angeles. Im chris hayes. The man who first opened investigations of the president which would later become the Mueller Probe is now speaking out for the first time revealing just how alarmed Senior Justice Department officials have been by the president s disturbing and potentially criminal conduct. Former acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe, the president s abrupt firing of james comey after having pressured him over the russia probe set off a week long crisis inside the Justice Department. Mccabe telling 60 minutes senior officials
Ominous for several trump figures in the russia probe and they come as trump used this bizarre and rambling press conference, even by 2019 standards, to claim a National Emergency at the border while also undermining himself. Thats a story i mentioned with chuck and well cover it later on tonight. We begin with todays ruler against trumps longtierm adviser roger stone. It goes against his ability to make this case in public. This federal judge finding mueller won the arguments for a partial gag order. That means it bans stone and his lawyers from public remarks that would prejudice jurors as well as even talking at all when they come and go from the court. Anyone watching stones recent conduct knows that will require him to change gears or go to jail. Because roger stone has been doing those exact things since being indicted for witness tampering, talking in front of the court, doing media tours and likening the fbi to, quote, nazi police in these media appearances. Thats the kind of t
Dana, why wouldnt these republicans vote for the bill and call his bluff . Or at least put it on him to shut the government down . Exactly. This is, which comes first, the chicken or the egg . So is it going to be incumbent on these senators and members of the house, but less so in the house, because its run by the democrats, and theyre going to almost certainly put it on the floor. The senate, its different. Its run by the republicans. And they have just as manu laid out, they have experience now with passing something that they thought the president was going to sign, only to have the president rip the rug out from under them back in debt. And then the government shut down. So the question is, what will they do now . Will they try to push him again, anything he cant, you know, make the same mistake, frankly, politic politically, that most of them believe he made again. Right, because he was blamed for the shutdown. His poll numbers started going down, hundreds of thousands of america