contributor to the daily beast. he s the author of the book everything trump touches dies. gabe sherman, the aforementioned special correspondent for vanity fair and an msnbc contributor. he s out with a new piece tonight. why roger ailes former right hand is leaving the west wing and msnbc legal analyst maya wiley. she served as chief legal adviser to new york city mayor, bill de blasio. welcome to all of you. thank you for being with us. gabe, you ve been particularly busy because you and i talked earlier today. yeah. when this news first broke. you ve done a lot of research since then. yeah. the question when somebody leaves the white house and joins the campaign is that, is that a good thing, is it a bad thing, is it good for them? what is this about? well, clearly this is not a good move for bill shine. you don t leave the communications director job in the white house, the highest profile perch in communications in american politics, to go become a, quote, senior
secrets of the united states to enrich themselves. the emoluments clause really means you cannot enrich yourself at the benefit of the united states. and they seem to have a tenuous relationship with that. malcolm, i always love hearing from you, and i know that our viewers do. so i just want to remind everybody that you and i will be together sunday night at 9:00 p.m. to talk about the trump/putin relationship. thank you, my friend. my pleasure. coming up, america s sentencing guidelines are broken, according to a former federal judge, but that doesn t excuse paul manafort s sentence. that is tonight s last word. to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that s why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clear
conversations taking place between the two of them. in the hearing to confirm trump s new ambassador to saudi arabia, republican senator marco rubio had this to say about the assad crosaudi crown prince. he is reckless. he s ruthless. confrontation in his foreign policy approach and i think increasingly willing to test the limits of what he can get away with with the united states. he s gone full gangster. it s difficult to work with a guy like that, no matter how important the relationship is. what does it mean for someone with access to top-level security information to be meeting with a world leader who has gone full gangster? i ll ask msnbc counterterrorism and intelligence analyst malcolm nance that question next.
going to be dragged down with him. gabe, the great reporting by jane maier in the new yorker compliments some great reporting you ve done over the years, including a great book about fox and its relationship yeah. the role that it has played. it s not surprising. there is a great depth and great sourcing in the reporting. but the overarching idea that donald trump is tied in with fox news these days, why is that worrying donald trump, that that s getting out there? well, this is not clearly just a matter of optics at this point, this is possibly a serious political problem for donald trump because now that the house democrats are emboldened to investigate these relationships and the idea that perhaps, as jane maier reported, that donald trump ordered the justice department to do a business favor for rupert murdoch by blocking the at&t/time warner merger, a business rival of the murdoch media empire, that is something they will dig into. also, we should point out that there
help congress with its investigation. just as that news broke today, we also learned that a group of four democratic senators have just sent a letter to the director of national intelligence dan coats, as well as the intelligence community s inspector general requesting that intelligence officials open their own investigation into whether or not the white house is complying with security clearance policies. now, this comes just after the daily beast reported that kushner shut u.s. embassy officials out of his meeting with assad crown prince mohammed bin salman last week. mohammed bin salman or mbs as he s sometimes referred to is believed by u.s. intelligence to have ordered the killing of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. but mbs enjoys a close relationship with kushner. that relationship, according to the daily beast, has frustrated members of congress from both parties, who are actively trying to learn more about the