Lets hope its healthy. It must be. After hearing the news this morning. A revealing admission from the government. Health and Human Services had warned the Trump Administration that separating kids from their families would be dangerous to the children. The president did it any way. So he did it knowing exactly what would happen. He also continues to tell supporters that the free press is the enemy of the people. And as you can hear, the results are chilling. Its getting bad out there. Paul manafort also back in court this morning. After prosecutors kicked off their case against him. Well have the latest on that. Boy, i just andrea, ill talk to you and mike, who have been around a little bit. Through difficult times. In covering difficult stories. Watching whether donald trump goes to the vfw and the press,
he points at the press, and whips the crowd into a frenzy to boo at the press there. Whether he whips the crowd into a frenzy to boo and take the free press in tampa. This is part o
Last night he dropped this bombshell that you need photo id to buy grocery. That does it for me. Ari is going to be in tonight for rachel maddow. Chris matthews and hardball starts right now. Caught in the swamp, lets play hard ball. Acting like a ships captain in a typhoon. Calling the investigation a witch hunt, the media, the enemy of the people. Good evening, i am Chris Matthews and steaming swamp like
washington that has just been drenched with rainfall. It is wet in this town and steaming. President trump is waging an increasingly desperate battle. Case in point is the president s cavalier tweet in which he calls on the Justice Department yesterday to terminate the russian probe all together. Quote Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this witch hunt right now. One of the most overt message that president has taken to date to shut down the probe. Trying to protect the president , trumps allies are trying to downplay the significance of his tweeting. Saying President Trump i
Floo flighting if it does turn out to are accurate. Weve seen evidence of the ship to Ship Transfers. The u. S. Has given evidence to the panel. And we also understand from this report that they say that the north koreans are, quote, increasingly sophisticated evasion techniques, this is what they are using, they are becoming more sophisticated in their efforts to try to hide the fact that these are north korean tankers and ships at sea doing this kind of transfer. Is so certainly this will be of concern to the Security Council sanctions committee. Right. And what about south korea . They were the ones who first made this renewed connection with north korea and that ended up leading to a summit with the u. S. President. Do you expect them to respond . Reporter well, weve had no response from south korea at this point or from any of the players in the region. Certainly this report was only
handed to the committee on friday night. So there will be a lot of questions being asked about it.
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Of these things is still playing out. One of the things that has happened is we have seen an escalation against mueller. This was crossing a line he has not crossed before. This is the closest he has come to a direct order to stop an investigation into himself and the campaign. And not only that, he is doing it as an fbi agent is on the stand testifying. It is still amazing and i dont think we should lose track of either of those things, they are both remarkable and both frankly what we have seen before. It has been hard. And we are looking through the Mueller Investigation through a straw and we get the king of unreliable narrators. What do we know in terms of the back and forth. A lot of today was about
gam gamesmanship. They dont want to say absolutely not we will not do an interview. So this is part of the gamesmanship. Mueller is saying, okay, we will take some of the questions off the table. Would you please sit down with us. And frankly i
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Thats a really good thing. Now were being hindered by the russian hoax. Its a hoax, okay . Earlier this week he wrote, quote, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now. Bob mueller is totally conflicted and his 17 angry democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to the usa. His concern about Paul Manaforts financial crimes trial comes out in this posting. Quote, Paul Manafort worked for Ronald Reagan, bob dole and many other prominent respected political leaders. He worked for me for a very short time. Why didnt government tell me he was under investigation . These old charges have nothing to do with collusion. A hoax. But trump reserved some of his sharpest attacks for his critics, the news media. Even these horrible horrendous people say look at it, it looks l