investigation. but by that time, it was too late. sessions had already made his decision to step aside based on the advice from career professionals at the justice department. we know the president views sessions recusal as the original sin which, you know, more or less damaged the working relationship. now that s important for a number of reasons. it s politically significant because this episode is known to robert mueller s special council team as they look into whether trump s actions as president amount to efforts to obstruct the russia investigation. the president was on twitter returning to his well worn line of defense on this writing this, well, now that collusion with russia is proving to be a total hoax and the only collusion is with hillary clinton and the fbi, russia, the fake news media mainstream and this phoney new book are hitting at every new front imaginable. they should try winning an election. sad. the other story on the minds of white house aides and reporters here
fiscal responsibility busting taking private planes. we re wasting significant amounts of money. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. major breaking news tonight in the russia investigation. two big revelations on whether the trump campaign colluded with the russians. that possibility. and whether donald trump s actions as president amount to obstruction of justice. first, from the washington post, reporting tonight, the quote, less than two weeks before donald trump accepted the republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a russian billionaire closely aligned with the kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions. if he needs private briefings, we can accommodate, paul manafort wrote in the july 7th, 2016 e-mail. jason maloney has confirmed the authenticity of the e-mails and says they were turned over to