Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. And that may not be the end of it. New york republican Chris Collins was just indicted for Insider Trading and today, in a story we dont have time for tonight, the Second Congress to endorse him, California Republican Duncan Hunter was also indicted for Campaign Finance violations. Noticeably did not mention Michael Cohen by name. I feel badly for both. I must tell you that Paul Manafort is a good man. He was with ronald reagan. He was with a lot of different people over the years and i feel very sad about that. It doesnt involve me, but i still feel, you know, it is a very sad thing that happened. Nothing to do with russian collusion. Had nothing to do with russian collusion. We continue the witch hunt. Thank you very much. Mr. President , what about
months about who should look at the evidence that was seized from Michael Cohen and how should that process go through and a tremendous amount of media attention, Stormy Daniels was in line. It fel
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Cohen as the guy who made problems go away. And they just barely pulled it off. Trump winning the electoral college. Remarkably, they are not the first felons among the president s circle. The man charged has surrounded himself with criminals. Deputy Campaign Chairman. Campaign Foreign Policy aide, National Security advisor inside the white house. And that may not be the end of it. New york republican Chris Collins was just indicted for Insider Trading and today, in a story we dont have time for tonight, the Second Congress to
and then stuff that directly implicates the president. That is right. The first five counts, that is tax evasion. Just to be clear, i want to hang a lantern on that. He pleaded today to stealing 4 million from the u. S. Government. What would the taxes have been on that 4 million. Yeah. That is what he did. And then you have another count where he says, and he has pled guilty to, where he lied about his liabilities to a ba
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Legislation that this congress has been pushing forward. The biggest example of it was the corrupt gop tax scam where 83 of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 . This was not done for the people. Thats what we stand for as democrats. It was done for the lobbyist, the wealthiest, the billionaires. This is corruption happening in plain sight. I would not disagree that is corrupt. But that is every day corruption. That is a system that is shot through with corruption. I dont want to minimize that. We are talking about specific corruption in that this president has a whole host of corrupt relationships to his business and things like that. That my question would, what would they do if they got the majority they are lying, cheating, stealing and doing it with impunity. And the reason is this congress has refused to do constitutional oversight responsibilities. The House Of Representatives doesnt work for donald trump. We work for the American Peopl
Unpresident ial behavior that trump exhibits most in his rally and tweets that we excessively cov cover. Bring on the coverage. The reaction like places of fox news, is this what everyone says leading up to the 2016 election. What a great idea, remember what happened the last time the media covered every tweet and rally and every word of donald trump and every wink and nudge became apart of the medias snarknato, they elected donald trump, the bozos. Is it a No Win Situation or if you are the president , no lose. I want to know what you think. Smerconish. Com, answer this question at this hour. Does covering every one of president trumps speeches,
rallies and tweets and utter rans hurt or help the gop and trumps reelection. Thank you for being late. Tom, great to have you back. I would be remised if i did not say it in the out set. Here you are of another summer of extreme weather. Well, we can talk about that in a second, lets talk about this whole question of coverage of trump. I dont
Manafort faces. The judge told them to get back to work though. So could it mean we are any closer to a verdict. But we start with some Breaking News. An nbc news exclusive. Former trump personal Attorney Michael Cohen is discussing a plea deal with federal prosecutors. One that could come as early as this afternoon. Thats according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke with nbc news. Tom winter is the nbc news investigations reporter who helped break the story. Our guest is a former u. S. District attorney for the Southern District of new york which is conducting the cohen investigation. Let me begin with you, tom, lay this out. What else did the sources say . How close the possibility of seeing some kind of deal emerge today . Sure. So ayman, as ellie can probably well tell you, no prosecutor counts their chickens and counts a plea deal until they have it. Then insigned. And the person is in court. I think were still a little a ways away from that, based upon
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