Revealing anything privileged tomorrow or wednesday. And then spicer was deflecting on russias role by arguing that maybe election interference is more of an issue for Hillary Clinton than vladimir putin. Why Arent We Talking about the influence other influences on the election . Why Arent We Talking about Hillary Clinton getting Debate Questions ahead of time . Thats a valid attempt to influence an election. Spicer is citing an email there that showed a democratic operative on cnn appear to share Debate Questions in advance with clinton, an email revealed by the underlying russian hack. Now trumps aides would apparently prefer to take shots at Hillary Clinton than address the Foreign Policy dilemmas theyre facing right now. Its easy to see why. Its pretty easy to blame your competitor for everything. That is, of course, what 2016 was a about. But 2016s over. This is 2017. Its not a test. Its about to get much more difficult for donald trump. Joining me now former cia
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When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Days after a senior republican senator referred to the white house as adult day care, the man that many believe is in charge of supervising the president , Chief Of Staff john kelly, was sent out before the press to shoot down reports that the president s tantrums are causing big problems. The day began as it often does with a president ial outburst on twitter. This one aimed at the struggling people of puerto rico. Who three weeks after Hurricane Maria are still suffering through an acute deadly crisis, many lacking access to safe water and food, and Urgent Medical care. Well have the latest from the island coming up later this hour. Today the president appeared to blame puerto rico for its current situation, threatening to cut off federal recovery efforts. I quote him here. Electric and all infrastructure were disaster before hurricanes. Congress to decide how much to spend. We cannot keep fema, the
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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. On. Reporter after the jury is seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. Were not going to hear Opening Statements today. Its possible we could hear them tomorrow or thursday. Got it. Pete williams. Thank you very much. Let me bring in National Political reporter for the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst. Two msnbc contributors. Charlie savage. Let me go over briefly this reminder about Paul Manafort and why the Special Counsel is interested in him. Starts with donald trump. He hired Paul Manafort to run his president ial campaign in march 2016. Prior to his work on the Trump Campaign, manafort did political work overseas. Some for the prorussian
highlights which as you indicated, rick gates, all eyes will be on him. He was the right hand man to manafort. What hell have to do in order to fulfill his cooperation agreement, for the government
Federal agency is out to get him. Or is trump simply saying he, the countrys good leader is simply expressing his opinion on the matter. Under investigation for Obstruction Of Justice, donald trump demanded that the Attorney General end the Mueller Probe all together. Quote this is a terrible situation and Attorney General that is trump tweeting. The president knows he is the subject of the investigation. That means the president s tweet could be further evidence that he is out trying to obstruct justice. Trumps lawyers immediately attempted to control the damage. Telling the Washington Post that the president was merely expressing his opinion. Here is Rudy Giuliani defending his tweet today. He used a medium that he uses for opinions sort of. One of the good things about using that is he has established a clear practice now that he expresses his opinion on twitter. He used the word should, he dont use the word must. And he wants the investigation to come to a conclusion and not interf
Unwanted, the poorly bred, those yearning to be free, and we will do whatever the hell we can to make it if were given a chance. It is the exception among us who doesnt have that in their blood. Remember who we are because who we are is the key to what we are and why this country has always been great. Thats our closing argument. Thank you for getting after it with us tonight here. Ill see you tomorrow night. D lemon picks it up from here. Its a great closing argument. Number one, lebron james talked to me about the kids being separated at the border. Again, hes saying thats not who we are. Number two, when you said that and talked about summer camp, you reminded me. I saw your wife this weekend. Didnt you pick up one of your kids from summer camp . She was in chicago, and she won best actor in her level of character she had. You know whats sad . I asked a guest a while back, do you think that its possible that some of these kids will never be reunited with their parents . The guest sa