At todays sessions hearing. The equivalent of being made to go to the back of the bus. Major holes in tillersons sanctuary. Were we lobbying before or against . Im a germaphobe, believe me. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. There are just nine days until donald trump becomes president of the United States. Today we were inundated with news, much of it disturbing, about what to expect when he takes office. In fact there was so much news today it is, frankly, impossible for us to fully cover what we saw and heard, which may well have been the point. We are going to aggressively cover the issues we have deemed most important and they are big ones. Among them, the President Elect evoking nazi germany to characterize u. S. Intelligence agencies, offering kind words to the russians who the Intelligence Community believe hacked the dnc and clinton campaign. Trumps Secretary Of State pick exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson possibly lying under oath at his Conf
indictments, that would be significant. remember the core of his assignment is potential collusion. now we already nailed one part of it, indicting the russian side of the election hacks. and he did so. let s remember, despite many false denials by trump, claiming russia wasn t responsible, mueller set up the chain of events where donald trump s own appointee rod rosenstein contradicting trump noting, remember, rosenstein noted that indictment did not find knowing misconduct by americans. the indictment charges 12 russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. the conspirators corresponded with several americans during the course of the conspiracy through the internet. there is no allegation in this indictment that the americans knew they were corresponding with russian intelligence officers. there is no allegation in this indictment that any american
i was campaigning. there was a good chance that i wouldn t have one, in which case i would have gone back into the business, and why should i lose lots of opportunities? he s right. there was nothing illegal necessarily about simply running his business while running for president. unusual but not illegal. but the president kept at it because he never thought he would win. he was having cohen and the kids do all they could to maximize the campaign exposure because he thought he would lose and he wanted to make the most of it while he could. and that is very important in understanding why they would have kept doing this deal at a time when it would really smell bad. what a coincidence that the efforts to do this deal stopped on june 14th, 2016, the same day the washington post reported on the russian involvement in election hacks. and that takes us to the arguable larger truth, the president was lying about what he was doing because he knew it was wrong.