With russian officials and a couple of days after the trump security adviser retroactively registered himself as a foreign agent. What happened . What happened . Tomorrow Jeff Sessions under oath, the first time we will have any chance of learning the answer to that question, if they ask it of him. Watch this space that does it for us tonight. Ill see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with Lawrence Odonnell to whom i owe 1 07. Im sorry. But you were just being so help to feel the senate staff that are preparing questions for tomorrow, that im sure theyre all scribbling furiously. We thought we knew, had a pretty good idea what the questions would be to Jeff Sessions. But now we know that one of the very first questions tomorrow is going to be what will you do if the president orders you to fire special prosecutor Robert Mueller . What was your role in the firing of the fbi director . What was your role in the firing of the u. S. Attorneys . What will you do, what will
While working. Ended up being hospitalized tonight. His wife is women him. The carters put out a statement saying that the former president carter is okay. The statement also says, quote, he encourages everyone to stay hydrated and keep building. God bless him. Former president jimmy carter, age 92, he is in the hospital tonight. Everybody in the whole country of course wishing him well. We are keeping an eye out tonight for any updates we may get on his condition over the course of the hour. Were also keeping an eye out tonight for developments on the Republican Health care bill. The republican plan to repeal obamacare. Its unpopular for a number of reasoning, because it is expected to cause millions of american to lose their health insurance. It will take a huge whack out of medicaid which is the single Biggest Health provider in the whole country. Its even bigger than medicare. On capitol hill republicans introduced their latest version of the kill obamacare bill. It already has two
Thank you. Much appreciate it. I know it is a thursday night in mid july and that means by Political Science logic there is not supposed to be a lot going on on a night like this. But theres a lot going on. Including a few stories were keeping an eye on as developing stories even into the late evening tonight. Former president jimmy carter, god bless him, hes about to turn 93 years old. Look at him. He nevertheless has been spending the week doing construction, building Affordable Housing along with his wife with the group habitat for humanity. And today he was out on a hot july day building houses. He got dehydrated in the heat while working. Ended up being hospitalized tonight. His wife is women him. The carters put out a statement saying that the former president carter is okay. The statement also says, quote, he encourages everyone to stay hydrated and keep building. God bless him. Former president jimmy carter, age 92, he is in the hospital tonight. Everybody in the whole country
Caused by hurricanes, the rapid groetds a growth and sprawl in the houston area has created worse conditions for a storm like this. Its also created some insurmountable challenges in terms of trying to move people out of harms way and trying to rescue people when the effort to get them out of harms way is a failed effort. So were continuing to watch this story tonight. Were going to be getting a live report from houston in just a moment. Were also going to be speaking with an expert tonight who is an expert specifically on the question of what options houston has right now. What options texas has right now in the middle of the thing to cope with what has happened over the last four days and what is likely to continue to get worse over the next 48 hours. They have some very painful decision to make. And getting a sense of what options they have and what the consequences of the decisions might be at this point. Its very difficult stuff but were going to be covering that in detail tonight
Mueller to what they beliefrom believe is clugsz in the white house. Now the dems, and this is brandnew, are asking for this new public commitment to protecting mueller. They cite significant concerns that trump might try to interfiinte interfere with the probe, and lewants Public Officials to deny any questions to shut down muellers investigation, including but not limited to firing mr. Mueller. When we come back, everyone does not have the power to fire mueller, but he can put pressure on the doj. These senators dont want to take any chances as the investigation appears to be moving closer and closer to president donald trump. I want to get right to it with Natasha Bertrand who has studied this significantly. Natasha, the backdrop for this is a president who as we reported last night has more lawyers working to silence women than he has working on the criminal russia probe. And the fbis Deputy Director was removed in that bizarre friday night firing and we havent heart anything from