Back. And the man who says he was recruited to collude with the russians talks to robert mueller. Russia is fake news. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president s nominee for drug czar is out. After an investigation by 60 minutes and the Washington Post uncovered his role in fueling the deadly Opioid Crisis. The president chose were congressman tom marino from pennsylvania to lead the office of National Drug control policy at a time when drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for americans under 50. According to that investigation by 60 minutes and the post, marino pushed a bill through congress written by the pharmaceutical industry that prevented federal officials from cracking down on drug distributors at the very height of the crisis. To the dea agent in charge of monitoring those prescription drugs, it was an outrage. I just dont understand why congress would pass a bill that strips us of our authority in the height of an opioid
For 60 million from a Russian Oligarch as an economy guy that sends up red flags. If you dont focus your entire career on the economy, i suppose that sends up a lot of red flags as well. It just seems weird. Yeah. Well, its also strange that its undisclosed this far into this investigation, and this far into all the public scrutiny that Paul Manafort has had. One of the interesting things in this reporting from Richard Engel tonight is not just the size of the financial relationship between this putinlinked oligarch and Paul Manafort its that the manafort spokesman withdraw part of his statement to nbc news after he had initially given a statement saying manafort had never been indebted to his clients and wasnt at the time of the campaign. Rescinding the statement after initially giving it to nbc is yet another red flag. Its very, very good shoeleather reporting from richard. Incredible. Indebtedness to a foreign adversary while running a president ial campaign to the tune of millions
Ocean. President trump responding on twitter. Kim jongun of north korea, whos a madman who doesnt mind starve ving or killing his people, will be tested like never before. So, north korea threatens a nuclear bomb. President trump threatens to test kim like never bmp, certainly when it come to words, it is a war and could be bringing us to the brink of one. Some saying Nuclear Tensions have not within this high since the cuban missile crisis 55 years ago. Here is the foreign minister here in new york. Translator i think this could mean the strongest ever Hydrogen Bomb test on our above the pacific ocean. The strongest ever nuclear bomb test. Here are the facts. No country has exploded a nuclear bomb aboveground in 37 years. Theres a reason for that. Such a a test is against humanity. It would unleash the deadly effects of radio active fallout on human beings. This test could mean all out nuclear war. Michelle kosinski begins outfront at the sTate Department. This threat is is different.
Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president s nominee for drug czar is out. After an investigation by 60 minutes and the Washington Post uncovered his role in fueling the deadly Opioid Crisis. The president chose were congressman tom marino from pennsylvania to lead the office of National Drug control policy at a time when drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for americans under 50. According to that investigation by 60 minutes and the post, marino pushed a bill through congress written by the pharmaceutical industry that prevented federal officials from cracking down on drug distributors at the very height of the crisis. To the dea agent in charge of monitoring those prescription drugs, it was an outrage. I just dont understand why congress would pass a bill that strips us of our authority in the height of an opioid epidemic. In places like congressman marinos district. Why are these people sponsoring bills when people in their backyards are dying from drugs tha
Fr mueller from his position or to pardon key witnesses in any effort to shield them in accountability or shut down the investigation would be a gross abuse of power. The white house has repeatedly said that President Trump will not fire mueller. And mr. Trump told the New York Times in an end of the year interview that he expects mueller to be fair. Yet, in that same interview he insisted 16 times that theres been no collusion. There has been no collusion. Theres no collusion. Theres no collusion. And there is no collusion. There was absolutely no collusion. Its something he has said often. You know, i guess the collusion now is dead, because everyone found out after a year theres been no collusion. Theres been no collusion between us and the russians. We dont know what mueller has found. What we do know is this. According to the intelligence community, prior to election day, 2016, russia infiltrated the Democratic National committees Computer Systems and the email account of Clinton