Highlighted it as much as you have. She has been there really on the ground. Weve been watching news footage from the last few days about her in waders, here in boats going door to door talking to people directly. She is out there in the middle of it. And i think thats fueling her rage and upset. And i hope people in washington can hear. And she finds her eloquence within that every time i hear her speak about this. Were going to hear more from her later in this hour. Rachel, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Well, in the first battle in the first battle of what may become the war between steve bannon and donald trump, steve bannon has won decisively. Steve bannons candidate has just beaten Donald Trumps candidate in the Alabama Senate race. Steve kornacki joins us now with the alabama results. Steve, what happened . Yeah, well, i mean, there it is. Steve bannon and that sort of antiestablishment winning of the Republican Party. Roy moore was their candidate in this race. This
President of the United States appears to be focused on instead. The issue hes spoken about and tweeted about repeatedly since friday, athletes in the nfl and elsewhere taking a knee during the National Anthem to protest what they see as racial injustice. Wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out. Hes fired. Hes fired. Wouldnt you love it . The president friday night in alabama. Over the weekend protests spread across the nfl. Suddenly sobs as he called them were everywhere. Yesterday he tweeted this. Sports fans should never support players that do not stand for their National Anthem. Nfl should change policy, change the rules. What san franciscos Colin Kaepernick started doing last year, what candidate trump said was his absolute right to do even though he disagreed with it. Someone must have forgotten to tell his press secretary though because today she said thats not what hes doing
A very dramatic sos tonight from the mayor of the largest city in the caribbean, the largest American City in the caribbean. I just want to underscore what she said. Were going to post that interview with her tonight. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. And the mayor is really the one, from what ive been hearing from puerto rico who is really delivering the message about whats really needed. Were going hear more of what she had to say later in our hour. But im so glad you have highlighted it as much as you have. She has been there really on the ground. Weve been watching news footage from the last few days about her in waders, here in boats going door to door talking to people directly. She is out there in the middle of it. And i think thats fueling her rage and upset. And i hope people in washington can hear. And she finds her eloquence within that every time i hear h
Authors of how democracies die on where we are after a year of trump. Its bad. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight the white house is caught in an enormous lie about the chief of staff john kelly and his decision to vouch for the honor of a man who is alleged to have physically abused his two exwives the man in question is now former white house staff secretary rob porter who maintains in the face of significant evidence to the contrary that these out outrageous allegations are simply false. Porter handled every document that went to the president , many of them high lie classified. Yet in his nearly 13 months on the job, he was never given a full security clearance. Porters exwives say when the fbi interviewed them as part of his security clearance review, they detailed his abuse. During the fbi background interview for security clearance, i shared with the fbi all the details that i have shared in previous articles including access to a p
Theres substantial evidence if you think its such a close decision you cannot make a decision about whether the president committed a crime and you took the step of saying when the president , theres any document that touches upon these issues at all, Robert Mueller made it clear to say this does not exonerate the president. That raises a lot of questions. Just this afternoon were getting a closer look at whats likely one of the key flashpoints in the obstruction case. Mark corallo, a member of trumps legal team, is speaking out about the decision amid air force one to craft a false statement about the trump tower meeting. Corallo is saying what he saw was so alarming, it led him to resign. I pointed out the statement was inaccurate and there were documents that i understood there were documents that would prove that. Hope hicks replied to me when i said look, theres documents, she said well, nobodys ever going to see those documents which made my throw dry up immediately. And i just a