other states. but yes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend is no longer a valid motto for journalists. they have to get to work. they have direct people. they have to reintroduce rationality into their sphere and really press people and please rediscover skepticism. gillian: or just some vetting. kayleigh: they have avenatti and fauci and they tend to make heroes of anyone who is antirepublican. gillian, let s look at these headlines about his presidential ambitions. quite a few from a myriad of different media sources. cnn saying president michael avenatti, never say never. politico. michael avenatti is winning the 2020 democratic primary. the des moines register. i m exploring around the presidency of the united states. from president to prison. gillian: it s a spectacular fall from grace and it s not our
saga on this scandal, too. oh, and state prosecutors in new york have just issued subpoenas to obtain eight years of federal and state tax returns for the president and for his business. starting in 2011 and through to this year. this will open the one gazillionth new legal fight for the president s tax returns but as a point of interest on this one, these are the same prosecutors who within the past few weeks reportedly went up to the federal prison in otisville, new york, to meet with the president s longtime personal lawyer, michael cohen. in those conversations with prosecutors, cohen reportedly made a proffer agreement which means he may have offered information to these new york state prosecutors in exchange for some sort of grant of immunity for himself in the event that state charges are brought involving the president and/or his business. we now know that state prosecutor s office opened a criminal investigation to the president and his business, related in part to the hush mo
gazillionth new legal fight for the president s tax returns but as a point of interest on this one, these are the same prosecutors who within the past few weeks reportedly went up to the federal prison in otisville, new york, to meet with the president s longtime personal lawyer, michael cohen. in those conversations with prosecutors, cohen reportedly made a proffer agreement which means he may have offered information to these new york state prosecutors in exchange for some sort of grant of immunity for himself in the event that state charges are brought involving the president and/or his business. we now know that state prosecutor s office opened a criminal investigation to the president and his business, related in part to the hush money payments that sent michael cohen to prison. we know they re talking to michael cohen. we know cohen has made a proffer off to them. we know they have now subpoenaed the president s tax returns from the last eight years. this is a criminal grand jury
thursday, his sentence was put on hold, we tell you that the fresh pictures of the former illinois opener and jogging around the prison grounds. the famous made of dark hair now silver because they don t allow die in prison. he made it all the way to reception and discharge come up it s a buddy from the and administration very close to the president became concerned about the amount of public pushback that occurred after president trump floated the idea of. so the president is now rethinking it. republicans went to work creating that pressure, the entire illinois congressional delegation reached out to the white house and pressured the president s staff not commute the sentence. five governors have gone to present, a study by the unit for state of illinois, 80 percent almost one in five elected to city council goes to prison. he told me that we have to clean house and send that illinois is not a spake state police raided
thank you for joining us. that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now with joy reid in for rachel. thank you very much, chris. have a great rest of the night. thank you at home for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. our news to do list is very long tonight. we are going to be talking 2020 with democratic candidate and senator cory booker fresh off his big debate performance last night. we re going to take a closer look at senate leader mitch mcconnell, and why his new nickname, moscow mitch, is driving him bananas. we just got news just this past hour of another republican retirement, and that is number eight from the house. texas republican congressman will hurd, the only black republican in the house, says tonight that he will not run for re-election in 2020. and we have intriguing news about a fresh subpoena from prosecutors in new york asking for records from the trump organization in connection with the crime that sent michael cohe