That on instructions from the president , a u. S. Congressman offered him a pardon. It says a confidential now interaction with myself and the white house to determine what can be offered. And worrying numbers for democrats in wisconsin as millions watch the top candidates fight it out. This is not just a question of the mayors character. This is also a question about electability. All in starts now. Good evening and welcome from las vegas. Im joy reid in for chris hayes. If youre the president of the United States and you learned that a foreign adversary was trying to manipulate the elections in your country, essentially to rig them toward the outcome they wanted, what would you do . If you found out they were trying to manipulate the election for you, would you take the help or resist it because you understood that your legitimacy depended on you winning election in your own right and not with foreign help . Well, were learning tonight that donald trump was so angry that his own inte
Of the votes counted so far. We enter a critical stretch in this election season. The South Carolina primary is now only six days away. But sanders is already looking to super tuesday coming up on march 3rd, campaigning today in texas. His message after the nevada victory, only he has the momentum to win in november. In nevada and in New Hampshire and in iowa, what we showed is that our volunteers are prepared to knock on hundreds and hundreds of thousands of doors, that no campaign has a Grassroots Movement like we do, which is another reason why were going to win this election. And as sanders celebrates, he is getting support from the most unlikely of places, the white house. President trump defending sanders this morning, blasting democrats for trying to take away his possible nomination and treating sanders, in the words of President Trump, very unfairly. They dont want Bernie Sanders to represent them. It sounds like 16 all over again for Bernie Sanders. And he won, he had a great
Michael bloomberg is not on the ballot until next week, but tom steyer has spent heavily in South Carolina and on the polls there. At least one voter questions the wisdom of some of that spending. You claim to be proenvironment and raising significant alarms about climate change. Yet we have been receiving so many mailings from your campaign, literally three to five times per week for months now. How do you justify this unnecessary overkill of mailings and printed material in a Digital World that would certainly be much more environmentally friendly . Voters ask the darndest things. We begin there with the democrats big debate night and big is an understatement. Bernie sanders in the middle to raise the curtain on an incredibly consequential week in the 2020 campaign. South carolina votes on saturday, and then one state at a time in february gives way to the politics version of march madness. 13 states plus American Samoa one week from today, super tuesday. After South Carolina on satu
Breaking today, sourcing telling cnn that President Trumps new personnel chief john mcatee told the cabinet officials that they are to report to him, the appointees in the agencies who might be seen as disloyal to trump and the agenda. And he is, as you may recall one of the trump loyalists brought back to the white house in the post acquittal vengeance tour. And yesterday, mcatee told the cabinet officials to be prepared to name names. Reporter today the white house is making another effort at a post impeachment purge. Johnny mcintee is the president s man who was marched out without a clearance two years ago and now he is running the Personnel Office in the west wing and he is on the look out for staffers disloyal to trump. And this is first reported by axios, and he had asked them to identify political appointees who is against the president s agenda, and warning that changes may be made. He is expected to focus on the state and the defense departments and both at the center of the
Months before america votes. Three sources tell cnn the breefr said russias interference is also designed to raise questions about the integrity of the election system itself. Its not a big surprise, but it illustrates the tremendous challenge the Intelligence Community has where theyre teeing up facts our president doesnt want to hear. The new revelations once again prompting an assault on the Intel Community. The first time we went through the president bamg so aggravated he fired the very first in charge of getting to the bottom of it. Of course fbi director james comey which then led to the mueller probe. Now round two and the president is unable to accept his victory could be legitimate squan adversary could already be interfering. Loyalists, nautica rear intel professionals are now overseeing national security. Heres White House Correspondent kaitlan collins. Reporter its really a fascinating turn of events were learning about and i want to start with last week. There was this in