Special counsel . Eventually can he fire everyone . I mean, its going to be fascinating tomorrow. Were going to hear every one of those questions. What we dont know is how many answers were going to hear. Yeah. That were not sure of. Yeah. This question of Executive Privilege and what theyre going the call Executive Privilege and such a i mean thats a difficult legal theory anyway. Thats not a cut and dried thing even in the best of circumstances, i think were going to get into Appeals Court territory pretty quickly tomorrow. And i have a feeling that Jeff Sessions isnt going to rely on the feelings pleading that we heard last week from dan coats and the director of nsa. It is my feeling that i shouldnt talk about this. I have discomfort. Yeah. Yes. I have a gavel. We will seattle. Thank you, rachel. Thanks. When president nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating him, he did it on a friday night and shocked
headline writers who immediately called it the Saturday Night Massacre.
We will not talk about numbers of troops. That is new for the american presidency. At no point tonight did the president clarify anything about what would actually change militarily for the United States in afghanistan. If this speech is meant to be interpreted as an increase in Troop Strength in afghanistan, its the first time a president has announced an increase in Troop Strength without actually announcing an increase in Troop Strength. As commander in chief, i have determined that it is in our Vital National interest to send an additional 30,000 u. S. Troops to afghanistan. After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home. These are the resources that we need to seize the initiative while building the afghan capacity that can allow for a responsible transition of our forces out of afghanistan. And here is how president george w. Bush described the Military Surge that he ordered in iraq. So uch committed more than 20,000 additional american troops to iraq. The vast majority of t
Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One day before President Trumps former Campaign Manager is going to stand trial in Federal Court for Money Laundering and bank fraud in relation to his work for a prorussian Political Party in ukraine and one day after the president went on possibly his most aggressive twitter rant yet about the mueller investigation, which he called the operation an illegal scam, trumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was out today wildly, desperately spinning to try to accomplish two very specific things. One, move the goalposts to say that collusion is not a crime, and two, to get ahead of the emerging storyline of a Trump Campaign strategy meeting that maybe occurred two days before the Infamous Trump tower meeting that had promised dirt on Hillary Clinton. In two interviews this morning, interviews that were often confusing, bewildering, and in which giuliani often seemed confused, one goal of mr. Giuliani was pretty evident. Chris Hayes discusses the days top ne
Think it will be true after 2016. So i think youre going to have a minuscule thirdparty vote. Its going to be up or down. Charlie cook, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. Thanks. That is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight, john bolton is out after a rocky tenure as National Security adviser. Its either a firing or resignation depending on which story you believe. Now the white house looking to hire its fourth National Security adviser in just three years. This comes amid a conversation already spun up over the president s changing the weather forecast, denying a business arrangement in plain sight, which may help to explain some big, bad, new Polling Numbers just out. Plus, a former counterintel chief of the fbi is here with us for an update on that russian asset who alerted america to putins meddling in our 2016 election. And Steve Kornacki at the big board with the North Carolina special election
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Special permission to use a blackberry issued the by the nsa and mrs. Clinton was asking colin powell for advice on using her blackberry. Colin what was your restriction on using a blackberry . Ive been told that Diplomatic Security personnel knew that you had one and used it, but no one fesses up to knowing how you used it. President obama has struck a blow for berry addicts like us. I have to figure out how to bring along the State Department and colin powell responds. I didnt have a blackberry, what i did, i used a Personal Computer that was hooked up to a private phone line and it sounds ancient, he says, so i could communicate with a wide range of friends directly without going through the State Department service. I even used it to do business with some foreign leaders, and some senior folks and the department on personal email accounts. I did the same thing on the road in hotels and anderson, what you are getting a picture here from this email exchange that the democrats have re