Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Deliberating three days after this. I think its very sad what theyve done to paul manafort. Thank you very much. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. The president appears to be terrified he has a quote rat in his midst. Inside the white house. That i should be clear, thats his word. Rat. Its not the kind of language we are used to hearing from the president of the United States who is, of course, entrusted by our constitution when suring the nations laws are faithfully executed and who is responsible for appointing our most senior Law Enforcement officers. Youd expect to hear that word in a very different context. Your uncle was a rat. Sit down, sit down. Your uncle was a rat and now hes in the witness protection program. Thats my fathers brother youre talking about. Now the president is assuring
the country not that he has obeyed and upheld the law but that he does not hire snitchs. Tweeting the naming Nort
A recap of the days news. When you listen to the rhetoric of the politicians and the leaders and the people in that movie, right, and i remember listen, i remember one of my friends, a white kid. I went to pick him up at his restaurant in louisiana. We were going out. I was going to lsu. He was talking about some incident that happened in the restaurant because his family owned it. I said, who are you talking about . He said, whos that . He said, just some that works for us. Then he caught himself. He didnt realize that word gets thrown around a lot. That i was there. This was 1987. 86. And it just it jolted me. It was a moment. It was like a moment of complete awakening for me. I think this movie, im sure youre hoping its going to be the same way for some people. I hope so. I mean, as an artist, as a filmmaker, whether youre whatever you are, you put your stuff out there and you hope that people connect to it. You know, in my case, don, ive had several films that people didnt get when
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Very troublesome for the president here. The fact is if President Trump were president right now, he could be indicted for these Campaign Finance violations, couldnt he . Absolutely. When you look at the way the prosecutors have described it, when you look at the way Michael Cohen described it in court, these documents, its criminal information, so its essentially laying everything out. If this was an indictment and trump, donald trump was not the president , we could be looking at an indictment against the president. We could also, you know, if this was an indictment, look at this as the president being an unindicted coconspirator. Think of that, and certainly, the ramifications of that. Its really serious here. Well see what happens from here. The other thing in these documents that the prosecutors have talked about was that Michael Cohen, and we dont know who these people are, was working w
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Perhaps even before watergate that a federal criminal guilty plea has taken place. And the guilty person has said i committed this crime with and for the president of the united states. If this were any other person, given the evidence that was presented in court today, it seems to me a virtual certainty that donald trump would have been indicted and charged, too. Remember, who benefitted from this Campaign Fnls Violation . It wasnt Michael Cohen. The beneficiary was, according to Michael Cohen, the person who directed and then helped cover up this Illegal Campaign contribution. This brings this criminal case to the door of the Oval Office Like nothing we have seen before in this investigation. But jeff, obviously, you know, sitting president ,
according to precedent, not law, cant be indicted. Had the president leaves office, is this something charges could be pursued against him for . Well,
Him. Again, i am not going to get into the back and forth details. As the president estatesed on numerous occasions, he did nothing wrong. The president did nothing wrong. And there are no charges against him. He did nothing wrong. There are no charges against him. The president has done nothing wrong. No charges against him. There is no collusion. Well, Rudy Giuliani told robert costa of Washington Post that he had spoken to the president about yesterdays events. This is rudy talk. Hard to believe. One source close to President Trump told john roberts of fox news, remember, the president cant be indicted. Seth waxon, barbara mcquade. Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Trump tweeted Michael Cohen pled guilty to two counts of Campaign Violations. During an interview with fox he seemed to confess to Campaign Violation while denying it. Did you learn about the payments . Later on, i knew. You have to understand ainsley, what he