Ultimately reach a plea deal. If Elliott Broidy does reach a plea deal, if he agrees to testify about other peoples crimes that he knows about in order to get lenience for himself, i have to tell you this could get fairly nutty fairly quickly because of all the Different Things that Elliott Broidy has been involved in in the trump era. And this news from the Washington Post tonight comes at a remarkable time. I mean we are two months out from the election now. In less than five months, were going to be inaugurating either a new president , joe biden, or inaugurating the current one again. But meanwhile tonight, were apparently awaiting an indictment of one of the members of this president s last inaugural committee, who has been investigated by multiple prosecutors for allegedly using the first trump inaugural as the basis for a massive alleged criminal foreign influence scheme. And we have been seeing this slowly unspool for months now, building scandal around the unexplained financia
And Donald Trumps emergency visit to texas to help ted cruz. I call him lyin ted. Donald, youre a sniveling coward. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. There is a reason that the president of the United States has been waging an allout public war against an obscure career civil sevrvant because h reportedly had information in the summer of 2016 that russian intelligence believed, quote, they had trump over a barrel. The Civil Servant in question is Longtime Justice Department lawyer named bruce ohr. Unless you watch a lot of fox news, you probably dont know anything about him. Ohr has spent a decadeslong career prosecuting violent gangs and organized crime, developing a special focus on russian organized crime. For all those years since he first became a prosecutor 27 years ago, ohr was basically just a guy who went to work every day doing his job, investigating some pretty dangerous people on behalf of the u. S. Government. Until he ended up involved in the special counsels ru
Flynn, rick gates, George Papadopoulos that what the president calls a rigged witchhunt continues to bear fruit, which may explain the president s tweet storm on the subject the last several days, his attack on the attorney general, and his threat which he restated on the stump last night. All i can say this, our Justice Department and our fbi at the top of it, because inside they have incredible people, but our Justice Department and our fbi have to start doing their job and doing it right and doing it now. Because people are angry. People are angry. Whats happening is a disgrace. And at some point i wanted to stay out, but at some point if it doesnt straighten out properly, i want them to do their job, he will get involved and i will get in there if i have to. The whole world gets it, he went on the say. Keeping them honest, though, what the whole world gets seems to be something quite different than the message the president gives. 63 of respondents in a new abc Washington Post surv
Youve got a friend in jesus youve got a friend in jesus you have been watching Aretha Franklins funeral, a glorious tribute to her life. We will be keeping an eye on it for you and bringing you all of the highlights as they unfold. The late senator john mccain lying in state today at the capitol where it almost felt he was watching with a smile, snickering at those of us reporters who were caught in the downpour that just opened as his casket was being carried up the capitol steps. In choreographing his own funeral, mccain sending a last message from beyond. His legacy and the american spirit is bigger than the smallness of the Trump Administration. In a break with protocol, congressional leaders from both parties laid wreaths at his casket. In the audience, President Trumps chief of staff, john kelly, who stood just a few feet from rod rosenstein, the man overseeing Robert Muellers investigation. Truly, the whole town turned out to say goodbye except a president who is increasingly is
Court on the Legal Defense team thats repmag representing maria buttina. To try on influence the 2016 election on behalf of the russian government. Maria butinas lawyer has done lots of interviews and made lots of appearances. Prosecutors are asking for the judge to put a gag order on her lawyer so he will be restricted to only pleading her case in court rather than on tv. She of course remains in jail tonight awaiting trial. The judge in her case refused to allow her out on bail after prosecutors argued that she was a severe flight risk. They argued that her extensive alleged ties to the russian government would create too strong a possibility that she would take refuge in the Russian Embassy in washington or otherwise find a way to flee country to avoid this prosecution. So she did not get bail. She does not even yet have a date set for her trial. It looks like she will be in jail until that trial happens. And small world, as it happens. The jail where she is being held this very nig