Anybody in the national press. Ive been teased for it. Criticized for it. I know the intensity of our coverage, of what we now know of, the russia scandal, our dedication to the story, by necessity has squeezed out time that we may have devoted to other stories. I know that. Im totally cognizant of that. On this of all days, heres why we have covered it so intensely. Since it first became clear that there was something wrong and illicit and unexplained about the relationship between this particular foreign adversary and the unlikely rise of this unlikely politician who shocked everyone by winning the last u. S. President ial election, there was no reason as a president ial candidate he would stick with some care to say anything remotely critical about russia and its president. There was no reason why he would dig out of the vault a Campaign Chairman who had not worked in american politics for more than a generation but he had spent more than a decade doing Vladimir Putins work in the s
Germophobe by the way. And as republicans lay the ground work for obstruction Rod Rosensteins real problem right now is more with congress than it is with the president. Guess whos joining the Trump Legal Team . What difference at this point does it make . All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One of the top lawyers on special counsel Robert Muellers Team Reportedly confirmed a pretty remarkable bit of information in open court today, that investigators started looking at Paul Manafort because they suspected the former Trump Campaign chairman might have been serving as a back channel to russia. The revelation came during a hearing in washington, d. C. Where manafort is claiming that mueller overstepped his authority in the russia probe by indicting manafort for financial fraud and other charges. But according to a Senior Justice Department prosecutor, muellers team was entirely justified in investigating manafort because of his role in the campaign. He ha
Over the steele dossier . I think they ought to apologize to start with, Michael Cohen. Ben smith joins me exclusively on cohen and what they have verified from the dossier. Im also very much of a germophobe by the way. And as republicans lay the ground work for obstruction Rod Rosensteins real problem right now is more with congress than it is with the president. Guess whos joining the Trump Legal Team . What difference at this point does it make . All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One of the top lawyers on special counsel Robert Muellers Team Reportedly confirmed a pretty remarkable bit of information in open court today, that investigators started looking at Paul Manafort because they suspected the former Trump Campaign chairman might have been serving as a back channel to russia. The revelation came during a hearing in washington, d. C. Where manafort is claiming that mueller overstepped his authority in the russia probe by indicting manafort for
Things are going fast now. This is a time when Everybody Needs to pay attention. Here on this show, really since the summer of 2016, we have covered the russia angle on the candidacy and the administration of the current president more than anybody else in the National Press and i will admit that. I have been teased for that and criticized for it. I know that the intensity of our coverage of what we now know as the russia scandal. The intensity and dedication to the story by necessity squeezed out the time we might have devoted to other worthy stories. Im cognizant of that. On this of all days, heres why we have covered the story so intensely. Since it first became clear that there was something wrong and l elic elicit. Between the adversary and the unlikely rise of this politician that shocked everyone by winning the last election. There was no explicable reason why as a president ial candidate he would step with such care to avoid ever saying anything remotely negative or critical ab
Good morning, everyone. Its friday, january 18th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside louis burgdorf. A major story broke late last night which members of congress say could be the most serious allegation yet about President Donald Trump and russia. Buzz steed reports President Trump directed his then Attorney Michael Cohen to lie to congress about negotiations to build a trump tower in moscow, citing two federal Law Enforcement officials involved in investigation of the matter. Nbc news has not independently confirmed the report. Buzz feed sources go on to allege the president and his children, ivanka and donald trump jr. Received regular update details about the development from cohen who they put in charge of the project despite trumps repeated claims to have no business deals with russia. Cohen also told the special counsel that after the election that president personally instructed him to lie by claiming that negotiations ended months earlier than they actually did. All in order to obsc