Yet another member of the president s inner circle has come under scrutiny in the russia investigation. Both the house and Senate Intelligence committees have requested information and testimony from one Michael Cohen, the president s personal lawyer and longtime confidant, someone not previously known to be involved in the russia probe. Cohen was alleged to have attended a secret meeting last summer in prague to discuss russian hacking of democratic targets, something he strongly denies. Cohen told msnbc hes declining to comply with the committees requests. The request letters first reported by abc news were the same ones initially sent to Michael Flynn, paul manafort, roger stone, and carter page according to a congressional aide. All onetime Trump Associates whose ties to russian officials are currently under review. Flynn, we found out tonight, will provide some documents under subpoena to the Senate Intelligence panel. Another former trump aide, Boris Epstein has received an infor
Pictures of a protest from the roof when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Yet another member of the president s inner circle has come under scrutiny in the russia investigation. Both the house and Senate Intelligence committees have requested information and testimony from one Michael Cohen, the president s personal lawyer and longtime confidant, someone not previously known to be involved in the russia probe. Cohen was alleged to have attended a secret meeting last summer in prague to discuss russian hacking of democratic targets, something he strongly denies. Cohen told msnbc hes declining to comply with the committees requests. The request letters first reported by abc news were the same ones initially sent to Michael Flynn, paul manafort, roger stone, and carter page according to a congressional aide. All onetime Trump Associates whose ties to russian officials are currently under review. Flynn, we found out tonight, will provide some documents u
York. This was day 379 of the Trump Administration. Tonight the president has arrived in florida. Heres a number for you while we watch that. The president has now spent 123 of his 379 days as president at a trumpbranded property. Tonight we now know whats in that top secret house intelligence memorandum thats been used to accuse federal Law Enforcement of political bias and discredit the russia investigation. The three and a halfpage memo was released earlier today despite, as you know, strong opposition from the fbi and justice. House intel chairman, devon nunez, a trump ally who once worked on the transition helped to write the document, has been pushing for it to be made public, a Party Line Vote in the committee set the release in motion. And the president who had the power to prevent it signed off on it. The core of the memo raises questions about the fbi surveillance of former Trump Campaign adviser carter page, alleging that the parent was wrongfully obtained by the fbi and the
Tries to do this. He also said that the president quote, may have done something during the elections and that carter paige was colluding with the russians. That candidate trump knew in advance about john jr. s meeting and that bob muellers investigating are particularly interested in president s business dealings, so with that, good morning. Its tuesday, march 6th. Just another day here in washington, d. C. With us we have associate editor for the Washington Post and washington anchor for world news america along with willie from new york. This is the sort of thing we do all the time. Were under federal investigation, but yeah. I will say nunberg colored our play book because right before the plane hit the ground he pulled up, but i talked to somebody who knew him really well yesterday who said kindly that hes not a road scholar. A lot of his friends were suggesting that he may have been under the influence, and that he was completely overwhelmed by what he found himself in, the lawye
Understand by now the department of justice is not going be extorted. Plus, two of Scott Pruitts top aides quit amid growing ethics investigation. And trumps former doctor says he was raided by trumps longtype bodyguard. Well, all his medical records, pictures, anything they could find. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Special counsel Robert Muellers 49 questions for the president of the United States leaked to the New York Times reveal the scope and the seriousness of the legal peril the president now faces. That might explain why the president and his staff set to work today to try to mislead the public about muellers questions. Questions which cover both, both the president s efforts to interfere in the justice departments investigation and the numerous established documenteded contacts between his associates and russian operatives. The president tweeted first thing this morning, so disgraceful the questions concerning the russian witch hunt