The u. S. Senate . I believe in the second amendment. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Polls have just at this moment closed in the state of alabama in the republican runoff to fill Jeff Sessions old senate seat. Frontrunner seen here today campaigned as a warrior none other than steve bannon and Phil Robertson and waving the gun around on stage to show off his love for the second amendment. Well have more on that race in later in the show. Plus, the results from alabama, which well be moderating. The president endorsed Luther Strange, big luther, tall guy, the president is fond of saying. But with his sustained attack on protesting the nfl, the president is leaning hard into precisely the same divide and conquer politics that have boosted moore. Donald trump is at this moment programming the presidency like youd program a rightwing talk radio show. Whatever keeps the switchboard lit up and the phone calls keep coming in. His callers dont want to tal
Followed . Now they are saying that trump is blocking free speech as they all scream it in unison. Trump accuses them of groupthink and they respond with groupthink. Since the election, the media has been one malfunctioning car alarm. This after slipping through obamas terms, ignoring iran, doj, irs, immigration while dreaming of hillary. Now hes gone mother dreams are shattered and now they are wideawake because trump is their red bull. What phonies. They gave up trump endless airtime while reading their hands thinking it was okay because hillary had it. He wasnt the empty can you thought he was. While mocking trump come of both caring what you thought. In the red bull gourd your gored your butt. They ignored the clarifications obvious to us. Remember when one of us would criticize obama or hillary, we would be called a bigot. I remember it like it was yesterday, probably because it was. You pretend you are the victim. You are not oppressed, just depressed. Get over it. All right, jed
Multiple counts including conspiracy, Money Laundering and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. After prosecutors hit him with another round of felony charges for a total of 31, rick gates flipped. He pleaded guilty to two charges while agreeing to cooperate and provide information to Robert Muellers team. This was a Pivotal Moment in the special counsel investigation. Rick gates who knew so much about the inner workings at the very highest levels of the Trump Campaign was now willing to spill secrets to Robert Muellers team. Cooperation agreement he just signed is probably a nightmare scenario for a number of other people. Rick gates has been potentially witness to much more than manafort saw. Rick gates becoming a cooperating witness is a big leap forward into how much of a window the Mueller Investigation is going to have in all different phases of the trump candidacy and presidency. That was february 2018. Rick gates pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate with mueller and pr
Come 2020 . House debate over the president s racest tweets was fiercely partisan and unruly, the congressman presiding over the debate got up and walked away. Frankly, i was embarrassed to remain as the chair, presiding over what should have been a very shameful moment for all of u us. Can i make a point of order . In fairness its not enough. We want to just fight. I abandon the chair. I dont know if anybody can look at whats going on here on capitol hill and think that its okay and think that its the normal way in which legislatures conduct themselves. We begin this hour with the day after that debate yesterday and a new push to impeach the president of the United States. A push that divides House Democrats just one day after they unanimously rebuked the president for racist tweets. Congressman al green telling cnn earlier today he expects a vote on the floor today. Later today, after he introduced an impeachment resolution last night. Congressman green saying its time to, quote, pun
Executive production. Whats executive production, you ask . No idea. Thanks to you at home for the audit doesnt say. Joining us this hour. We have lots to get to, but we but hey, theres that 27 start with news about a key million accounted for. Figure in trump world and now a nothing to see here. Now this week a new report from key witness in the mueller investigators with the house investigation. Rick gates served as deputy Oversight Committee finds that chairman of the trump campaign. He leveraged ties to president gates had been Paul Manaforts trump and the administration to right hand deputy working for promote his own interests, including by pushing mike ukrainian oligarchs before manafort joined the trump flynns Saudi Nuclear plan. Campaign and brought gates overnight chairman elijah along. Manafort was pushed out in cummings wrote august of 2016, but rick gates stayed on through election day. Gates then served as the number two official on the trump nug as an example, the report