Second thoughts. And why democrats are ringing alarm bells as tax reform sfe reform sneaks into an attack on obamacare. This literally flew in out of nowhere in the last 20 minutes. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. There is a lot Jeff Sessions doesnt remember about the Trump Campaign, and its various contacts with russian agents. But the one thing he does remember beyond a doubt was his own attempt to head off anything improper. Today the attorney general returned to testify on capitol hill, this time before the house judiciary committee, where he was once again compelled to correct the record about his own role in the Trump Campaigns interactions with russian officials. With sessions first time testifying under oath since newly unsealed Court Documents revealed that he was informed during the campaign of efforts by george papadopoulos, a Campaign Foreign policy adviser to connect with senior members of the russian government. Both sessions and the p
Because he lied to the Vice President and the fbi. He has pled guilty to though lies. Its a shame because his actioning during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide. If the president really did know that flynn lied to the fbi and then he asked the fbi director at the time, joames comey, to drop the investigation into flynn, thats what has many concerned tonight. Boris, tell us about this reaction to this tweet from the president. Hey there, ana, yeah. It has opened up the president to a number of questions and there is no shortage of democratic lawmakers that have begun to attack the president for what appears to be a shifting story as to why Michael Flynn was dismissed. One of his more vocal critic, ted lew of california, saying this is obstruction of justice if President Trump knew that Michael Flynn was deceitful of the fbi, his asking of former fbi director james comey to dismiss the investigation would be unlawful. Another california representative, this time the r
Russia investigation. Our Kaitlan Collins is in west palm beach, following the president. It was a short time ago, kaitlan, we got this statement from the white house supporting a specific kind, maybe, of gun control legislation. Reporter yeah, thats right, john. We heard from the white house of a conversation the president had on friday, and the Deputy Press Secretary raj shah issued this statement and said the president spoke to senator cornyn on friday about the bipartisan bill that he and senator murphy introduced to improve federal compliance with criminal background check legislation. Now, shah said discussions are on going and revisions are being considered, the president is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system. I have to note that the white house says the president is open to supporting the improvements in the background check system, the president didnt tweet once about that matter over the weekend, though he was on a tear on twitter talking abo
Officially tomorrow that the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi, doj infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for political purposes and if any such demands or requests were made by people in the Obama Administration. Hes referring to recent reports that the bureau sent someone into the campaign in 2016 looking for potential ties to russia. President trump equates that to the fbi spying on his campaign. Cnn correspondent ryan nobles is at the white house right now. The Justice Department is already responding to the president s demand. Yeah. Thats right, anna. The president s tweet yielding results already. The department of juts tis saying today they are going to instruct the Inspector General to expand the investigation which we should point out was already taking place into whether or not the fbi correctly acquired surveillance waivers to look and to track certain people that were involved in the Trump Campaign. This is a statement that came out earlier today