Reporting this morning the administration is considering ways the president could testify before special Counsel Robert Mueller we have reaction from the white house and capitol hill and Police Officers want reporter waited outside as a gunman committed mass murder inside a Florida High School could that be a game changer for whether teachers should be armed a closer look at that and a lot more right now as we look ahead and sunday morning futures. President trump responding to the release of the democrats countermemo. The president calling it a total political and legal bust. Meanwhile democrats are using the document to defend the fbi and the department of justice. The rebuttal seeks to undercut claims by republicans that the two intelligence agencies abused their powers in order to obtain a fisa warrant on a Trump Campaign member. It also claims that the doj officials narrowly used information from the antitrump dossier and officials did disclose details about its author to the fisa
Authors of how democracies die on where we are after a year of trump. Its bad. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight the white house is caught in an enormous lie about the chief of staff john kelly and his decision to vouch for the honor of a man who is alleged to have physically abused his two exwives the man in question is now former white house staff secretary rob porter who maintains in the face of significant evidence to the contrary that these out outrageous allegations are simply false. Porter handled every document that went to the president , many of them high lie classified. Yet in his nearly 13 months on the job, he was never given a full security clearance. Porters exwives say when the fbi interviewed them as part of his security clearance review, they detailed his abuse. During the fbi background interview for security clearance, i shared with the fbi all the details that i have shared in previous articles including access to a p
Can americans count on washington to shield them from the worst of humanity . A live picture of the white house, pushing back on 13 indictments by the special counsel in the russia investigation. All these efforts were about sowing confusion in the electoral process and undermining the next president , not about supporting one candidate over the other. And so really when you see these efforts by democrats that pushing this collusion conspiracy, what theyre really doing is doing the dirty work for the russians for them. There is an example of collusion in the last campaign. It just has nothing to do with this president and his campaign. But democrats on capitol hill say the indictments are Proof Positive of efforts by russia and for President Trump to ignore them would raise even more suspicions. Here is House Intel Committee member Eric Swalwell with my colleague joy reid earlier. If hes not to put in place a whole of government approach to prevent them from doing this again, then we h
To a fitness class with my infant daughter. I was taking the seats facing backwards, and a guy walked up on me and said to me, leave trump alone. Forget the story. And then he leaned around and looked at my my daughter and said, a beautiful little girl, it would be a shame if something happened to her mom, and then he was gone. You took it as a direct threat . Absolutely. That parking lot threat alone is potentially criminal, and while she did not say it was cohen who threatened her, Michael Cohens lawyer has sent a cease and letter. Michael cohen says he paid daniels 130,000 he claims he did it on behalf of his client, thencandidate donald trump without his knowledge. He alleges he was never even paid back by trump or the organization. These do nothing to quiet watchdog groups who say the Monetary Exchange could amount to an illegal contribution, while cohen insist he and he alone reached a deal with daniels, nbc news broke that cohen used his Trump Organization email account to make
Special counsel . Good evening, outfront toni t tonight, a lot of breaking news. Claims of drunk driving, wrecking a government car, giving out percocet. These are the new allegations against Ronny Jackson tonight ch these coming from 23 of jacksons current and former colleagues. The allegations detailed in a document compiled by democrats on the Senate Veterans affairs xwhe. One of the allegations that after a going away party, he drove a government vehicle, drunk at the time then wrecked that vehicle. Another damming accusation is that jackson, who was the physician for president s george w. Bush, obama and trump, could not be reached because he was passed out drunk in his hotel room and another claim, that quote, he provied a large supply of percocet to a White House Military Office staff member. Just a short time ago, President Trump walking past reporters as you see there, refused to answer questions about jackson. A jackson denistill denies the allegations. You never wrecked a ca