Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Deliberating three days after this. I think its very sad what theyve done to paul manafort. Thank you very much. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. The president appears to be terrified he has a quote rat in his midst. Inside the white house. That i should be clear, thats his word. Rat. Its not the kind of language we are used to hearing from the president of the United States who is, of course, entrusted by our constitution when suring the nations laws are faithfully executed and who is responsible for appointing our most senior Law Enforcement officers. Youd expect to hear that word in a very different context. Your uncle was a rat. Sit down, sit down. Your uncle was a rat and now hes in the witness protection program. Thats my fathers brother youre talking about. Now the president is assuring
the country not that he has obeyed and upheld the law but that he does not hire snitchs. Tweeting the naming Nort
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. So im going to be a little contrary here, chris, say i see where the president is coming from when he says this is a bit old news, my colleague, bob costa and i wrote in november when don mcgahn went before bob muellers interview team, sat down with verdicts two days straight so people have known for a long time that don mcgahn was cooperating with the investigation, that everyone who was in the white house was encouraged to voluntarily be engaged in these interviews. Now what we do know now is that after the week stories, by the times don mcgahns attorney has alerted and assured trumps own legal team that don mcgahn provided no information that was incriminating to the president , did not incriminate him. In fact, don mcgahns lawyer was putting tear mind to ease, sent them information saying my guy does not incriminate your guy. Are you serving the office of the presidency and you are serving the american public. Youve got to balance those two
york, u.s. attorney s office investigating cohen and andrea bernstein co-host of trump, inc. cohen gets raided. there is all this discussion about what is he being raided for? so then the times has a story saying it s possible bank fraud and it has to do possibly with a taxi medallion business? right. this is something michael cohen has been dock for quite some time because in new york, these taxi medallions pre irish were very valuable. gave you the right to pick up fares in new york city. that i could be worth more than a million dollars. michael conheld a lot of them. you could kind of people and hoard and you make money off them? exactly, like real staechlt can you trade and borrow money off of. that s what he was doing. and his fornl former partner, two former part first have been convicted. one recently in, no jane friedland known as the taxi king for allegedly or actually not allegedly, is sending $60 million offshore as a part of a
weighing whether to file criminal charges by the end of this month. to talk more about this, i am joined by the federal prosecutor in the southern district of new york, u.s. attorney s office investigating cohen and andrea bernstein co-host of trump, inc. cohen gets raided. there is all this discussion about what is he being raided for? so then the times has a story saying it s possible bank fraud and it has to do possibly with a taxi medallion business? right. this is something michael cohen has been dock for quite some time because in new york, these taxi medallions pre irish were very valuable. gave you the right to pick up fares in new york city. that i could be worth more than a million dollars. michael conheld a lot of them. you could kind of people and hoard and you make money off them? exactly, like real staechlt can you trade and borrow money off of. that s what he was doing. and his fornl former partner,