trump coughs up new details about the stormy daniels hush payment. this is a very damaging admission for mr. trump. plus. doc ronny, we call him doc ronny. trump s pick for the va withdraws as his epa chief hangs by a thread. i think he has a pretty good cabinet actually. after decades of alleged abuse. a man who had evaded this moment here today for far too long. justice for bill cosby s accusers. women are worthy of being believed. and i thank the jury. when all-in starts right now. being from new york, i m chris hayes. it was yet another extraordinary day of news which began with the president of the united states calling into live national television and explicitly threatening to obstruct justice by interfering with the investigation into his campaign, his aides, family members and himself. you look at the corruption at
of legal problems he has. right? you ve got the situation where the president is someone that generally does a lot of interviews and sort of is out there. he can t do that under legal advice. as people have said before, he s got this really difficult existential problem. if he talks and tells the truth, he gets himself in trouble. if he talks and lies, he gets himself in trouble. there s nothing he can say at this point anymore to get himself out of it. here s what s coming. today at the hearing, judge wood said i m going to appoint a special master, former federal judge. independent person will go through the files. she also said i don t want to waste a lot of time here. i m looking at a four-week plan. time is not friendly to trump. time is friendly to prosecutors. still to come under intense questioning by lawmakers about his mounting scandals, scott pruitt admits he flat out lies about one of them. that story after the break.
him, i have grave kernz he should be the doctor for the president at this point. certainly he had no qualifications to lead the va, an agency with hundreds of thousands of employees. and huge issues that need to be done to help and be our veterans better. i don t think he was qualified for that job. now given these allegations of drunken behavior, given not being prepared to help the president whether he he was needed, are serious allegations and puts into question whether he should keep his current job. do you have a unified theory why this keeps happening, about the sort of quality of the people around this administration about the accusations against them, about all with the drawn nominees? what is your operating theory what s going on? well, unfortunately, president trump said he would drain the swamp. he has filled it up. and he s putting in place people in his cabinet that are directly opposed to the agencies they re supposed to be running. look at mick mulvaney, for example.
universe pageant. i went there to watch it. he said i didn t stay there overnight. of course, i stayed there. a very short period of time but, of course, i stayed. his memo said i left immediately. i never said that. i never said i left immediately. do you think james comey lied about that? i can t imagine james comey lied about that in a memo to himself. much less can i imagine that he lied about it to the public. look, in any dispute between jim comey and donald trump, you have to keep in mind that one of them is donald trump and the other is a person with whatever you think of judgments that he made, whatever you think of you know, his decision making in any of several issues, he is somebody with a reputation for honesty
and lisa green, attorney. good idea, bad idea, legally to do that interview? it was a pretty terrible idea. he sounded like a cross between my uncle may he rest in peace, he used to watch fox news nonstop and a caller to sports radio. donald from jamaica, what s on your mind. the level of anger and, of course, there s never a time i think when the president uses a dim min knewtive to talk about someone else in a flattering way. if your goal is to get cohen to stay in your camp and you start using words like teeny tiny, not a flattering look. you think it s bad you thought what he was doing was minimizing his relationship to michael cohen. right and i get why with cohen under investigation, his papers have been seized. he s under a lot of pressure. but you know, some of the consequential wisdom is that trump might want cohen to feel alignment toward him, friendliness that was not accomplished during this interview. you said he destroyed two