Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Deliberating three days after this. I think its very sad what theyve done to paul manafort. Thank you very much. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. The president appears to be terrified he has a quote rat in his midst. Inside the white house. That i should be clear, thats his word. Rat. Its not the kind of language we are used to hearing from the president of the United States who is, of course, entrusted by our constitution when suring the nations laws are faithfully executed and who is responsible for appointing our most senior Law Enforcement officers. Youd expect to hear that word in a very different context. Your uncle was a rat. Sit down, sit down. Your uncle was a rat and now hes in the witness protection program. Thats my fathers brother youre talking about. Now the president is assuring
the country not that he has obeyed and upheld the law but that he does not hire snitchs. Tweeting the naming Nort
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. So im going to be a little contrary here, chris, say i see where the president is coming from when he says this is a bit old news, my colleague, bob costa and i wrote in november when don mcgahn went before bob muellers interview team, sat down with verdicts two days straight so people have known for a long time that don mcgahn was cooperating with the investigation, that everyone who was in the white house was encouraged to voluntarily be engaged in these interviews. Now what we do know now is that after the week stories, by the times don mcgahns attorney has alerted and assured trumps own legal team that don mcgahn provided no information that was incriminating to the president , did not incriminate him. In fact, don mcgahns lawyer was putting tear mind to ease, sent them information saying my guy does not incriminate your guy. Are you serving the office of the presidency and you are serving the american public. Youve got to balance those two
starting to unravel. some are starting to come back toke like the manafort trial is on the verge essentially of completing, if the jury gets back with a verdict this week. have you michael cohen now who reports say that prosecutors are finalizing charges against him and of course, you have the president weighing whether or not he s going to sit down with the special count sell. we re at a precipice right now in the mueller investigation and it s kind of the void into which the president has kind of been launching his tweets. it seems like he s getting more and more anxious about how this thing is going to play out. of course, if the mueller, if the manafort trial ends in a conviction, that is going to give mueller a lot of momentum, of course, manafort still has to stand trial in d.c., but mueller has said he has over three times as much evidence in that trial as he did for this one. so this one was not necessarily a slam dunk case because the jury has been deliberating on it for longe
and squeeze. i m curious what you make of it. definitely. it feels like we are reaching a breaking point. all of these threads are starting to unravel. some are starting to come back toke like the manafort trial is on the verge essentially of completing, if the jury gets back with a verdict this week. have you michael cohen now who reports say that prosecutors are finalizing charges against him and of course, you have the president weighing whether or not he s going to sit down with the special count sell. we re at a precipice right now in the mueller investigation and it s kind of the void into which the president has kind of been launching his tweets. it seems like he s getting more and more anxious about how this thing is going to play out. of course, if the mueller, if the manafort trial ends in a conviction, that is going to give mueller a lot of momentum, of course, manafort still has to stand trial in d.c., but mueller has said he has over three times as much evidence in that
remember, mcgahn says, calls trump king kong, because of his volcanic outbursts. mcgahn is the guy who trump says, go to sessions and tell him to recuse before he knows. mcgahn is the guy who argues against the comey firing. and i just don t see how they can blindly say he couldn t have given him anything. it s not the good point that carol makes they don t know what mueller already knows, but the whom core point of evidence that remains here for mueller is trump s state of mind. right. and mcgahn is shoulder to shoulder with trump daily. he sees him screaming. he sees these tirades. he sees him talk about comey, talk about sessions. it seems implausible the info he provide, just the factual enno could be ill num lateing what was if trump s mind when he did