on the threat to democracy. plus, while trump s attempt to slow down investigation made be too late. plus or more coming for the theft of ashley biden s diary? and allegations at a texas podcast or could be on a something when it comes to student debt relief. it could drive up turnout, particularly among young people. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes,. on this last week of august, this monday i think it s now safe to say at this point that just three weeks after the fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago home, his defenders have run out of arguments. in the initial days after the search, republicans, right-wing media rushed to fill the vacuum of media what we had that would ve led the fbi to take this in italy extraordinary reaction with just about every bogus excuse in the book. they just don t get a flying flip about how they look which is terrifying. or the rule of law? yeah i feels that way. trump s a more mental guy. you v
trump campaign. but according to prosecutors, trump campaign can t use it. they wanted to go to the fbi. there is no way trump campaign can use this. it has to be done another way. they sold for $40,000 to the right-wing smear for miss leaving lee editing sting videos. harris s colleague testified they would use the book to ruin ashley biden s life and try to influence the election. first they tried to use the diary to blackmail then-candidate biden into sitting for an interview. it worked and surprise, surprise, the diary ended up online. it didn t get that much attention at the time, but as usual the people doing trump s dirty work were caught. two people were caught with stealing the diary, have now been pleaded to conspiracy to transporting stuff stolen goods. they ve been sentenced to five years. michael schmidt is covering the story with the new york times. he joins me now.
to keep track of what the company was doing and they failed in that. when you look at that video that s been so explosive, how did it come about? when i started working with the guardian, one of the things that we thought would be useful is to see what the company is currently doing. so we approached channel 4 and channel 4 agreed to work with us to collaborate on setting up an undercover filming to see if they were still working in the same kind of unethical manner that i saw when i was there. so you helped set up the sting video? yep. christopher, i got to ask you, you re going after people who look pretty important, linked to the trump presidency, linked to all of these operations, were you ever scared becoming a whistle blower and setting up these sting videos? it s incredibly intimidating,
minister. bringing such highly sophisticated extremely dangerous air-to-missile system is exactly for me an example or affections which could be and should be created as an act of terrorism. russia has now released a competing presentation saying the type of missile described is no longer found in russia s arsenal and it must have been fired from ukrainian-held territory. the u.n. security council wanted to set up an international tribunal to register the disaster. they vetoed that request. trace, thank you. als breaking tonight the president of planned parenthood has now announced the group will no longer take reimbursements as a part of the fetal donation program t. change comes after a series of sting videos that appeared to show them profiting from the practice, well, that was what the critics said as
been that fond of politics and only got into it recently kick and screaming. why do you think they have been so relentless? harry reid, mentioned the koch brothers, they painted you as evil t. white house put you on an enemy s list back in the 2012 campaign. thenceish to that question and so many more. mark it often your calendars, set your dvrs. you don t want to miss this interview. charlgs koch on the kelly file this thursday, 9:00 p.m. a big announcement from planned parenthood, a series of sting videos that appear to show the organization trying to make money off of the sale of fetal tissue. something planned parenthood denied. now they have changed a policy and we have that story next. plus, investigators shared some horrifying details about exactly what happened when flight mh17