The blue suit there, thats one of nasas flight surgeons for the crew, dr. Steven hart. And that hatch open coming at 1 12 59 pacific time, 1959 universal time or gmt. Once again, the spacex Recovery Team is now assisting nasa astronauts bob behnken and doug hurley to exit the spacecraft. We got the hatch open just about two minutes ago. We paused for a little while as they were just detecting some trace amounts of some of the hyper gol fuels so we executed a series of purges and once those were down back in acceptable limits we were able to then start with the egress. There we see a stretcher ondeck. This is normal. This is part of the standard recovery procedure. And it is just simply to ensure bob and doug remain safe, like we said, readjusting to gravity can be a little challenging, dizziness can often courses personally when youre on boat. The stretcher will just be used to as standard procedure to make sure that the astronauts make it over to the medical tent as easily and as comf
House. But President Trump didnt say anything about location. I had a call with president putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory. The call had to do, also, with the fact that we will probably get together in the not too distant future. Remember, even that congratula congratulatory call raised serious questions. Why would President Trump want to rewashed Vladimir Putin with a white house visit after the election hack and the poisoning of a fwormormer spy in england. And why did we first learn about this from russians . Even some of the president staunchest defenders cant explain his relationship with putin. Whatever were doing is not working and the president for some reason has a hard time pushing back against putin directly. Even if you think theres no money laundering. Even if you think theres no collusion, why . Why is President Trump so intent on being so nice to Vladimir Putin . Well have a great panel to weigh in, max boot and my friend bill kristol. Ma
Were talking about a dip in whats now a roller coaster relationship. But one relationship that has not gone south, the one with scott pruitt. Another day, another investigation for the epa investigator. Hans, the president support, hes tweet, hes continue to call for an end to Court Proceedings for undocumented immigrants. Walk us through the latest in just the last hour or so. Reporter well, the president has explained and expounding on his argument for why he doesnt think that migrants should have any access eether to t eithee United States or to the courts. Think of this as the costs to the physical wall. The president having a grail great deal of time building a wall, he wants to make sure there are no legal loopholes. There are great constitutional questions with that. Heres what he tweeted just this morning. He said hiring many thousands of judges and going through a long and complicated Legal Process is not the way to go will always be dysfunctional. People must simply be stoppe
Situation room. Tonight, dramatic new turnover in the president s legal team as mr. Trump and the special Counsel Robert Mueller may be headed for an ugly highstakes showdown. The Top White House lawyer is calling it quits and an attorney who represented m eed president clinton during the impeachment process is being hired. Ill get reaction from leon panetta, the former defense secretary to president obama, former chief of staff to president clinton. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, this is another sign the Trump Legal Team is getting more combative. Reporter thats right, wolf. President trumps legal team is changing again. This time, its white house lawyer, ty cobb, who is stepping down. He had advocated caution on the trumps legal team, but a source tells cnn that cobb was clashing with the president over his attacks on the special counsels investigation. It could be the most ominous depa
Pruitt . The tonight democrats and republicans calling for pruitt to be fired. Theres a change coming. Theres a change coming. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One of the most infamous members of Donald Trumps cabinet, the one living in a lobbyists house in washington, d. C. , epa head scott pruitt now appears to be hanging on to his job by his finger nails after a swirl of negative stories increasing the perception the Trump Administration as a whole is an ethical mess. According to politico, the white house has been actively considering firing pruitt behind the scenes possibly following the release of an inspector generals investigation noose pruitts lavish travel which weve covered here but which for the record is not even the scandal of the moment. Because this morning, the white house claimed that pruitt is still in the president s good graces. An Administration Official telling the news trump called pruitt to keep fighting and that the adm