Starting off a new week on a monday night. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters in new york. Day 200 of the Trump Administration, and some of the news is indeed good in the Trump Administration. There are many robust Economic Indicators and this weekends unanimous 150 vote at the u. N. Was in fact a huge diplomatic victory. After touting all of that this weekend the president changed the subject. He went off on twitter again. Again calling the news media fake and uncorking a vicious attack on a member of the u. S. Senate. In terms of the president s preferred metric, the polls, there was more bad news on that front. A new poll found that 38 of americans approve of the way donald trump is handling his job as president. 56 disapprove. It also found that just 24 trust almost all or most of what they hear from the white house. 73 say they trust some or nothing at all of what they hear from the white house. Hours before that poll was released the president wrote on twitter the trump
The fbi raid and the subsequent search for tied to his business dealings and Financial Relationships both in the u. S. And around the world. The Washington Post was the first to report the raid writing, quote, federal agents appeared at Paul Manaforts home without warning, the day after he met voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence committee, and continues, the search warrant indicates investigators may have argued to a federal judge they had reason to believe manafort could not be trusted to turn over all records in response to a grand jury subpoena. A spokesman for Paul Manafort says, quote, fbi agents executed a search warrant at one of mr. Manaforts residences and he has consistently cooperated with Law Enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as well. Just a reminder, we also now have a better idea of the sheer amount of evidence the congressional committees have already collected, specifically the Senate Judiciary committee. The Chairman
The Washington Post was the first to report the raid writing, quote, federal agents appeared at Paul Manaforts home without warning, the day after he met voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence committee, and continues, the search warrant indicates investigators may have argued to a federal judge they had reason to believe manafort could not be trusted to turn over all records in response to a grand jury subpoena. A spokesman for Paul Manafort says, quote, fbi agents executed a search warrant at one of mr. Manaforts residences and he has consistently cooperated with Law Enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as well. Just a reminder, we also now have a better idea of the sheer amount of evidence the congressional committees have already collected, specifically the Senate Judiciary committee. The Chairmans Office says the Trump Campaign has turned over about 20,000 pages worth of documents. Manafort himself, 400 pages and donald trump jr. Abou
Presidency. Then let the people of alabama make the call. As republicans retreat on their rejection of roy moore, the president gives his full endorsement to an alleged child molester. Roy moore denies it. Thats all i can say. And from applause in the senate [ applause ] to outrage in the halls. Dont kill us kill the bill. The growing resistance to the republican tax plan when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight the white house is scrambling to counter the growing evidence the president of the United States committed obstruction of justice. After the president once again appeared to implicate himself in just such a crime. This as his lawyers say the president is above the law when it comes to obstruction, the same defense Richard Nixon infamously used in the wake of watergate. The trigger this time, fridays explosive news that President Trumps former National Security adviser Michael Flynn had plead guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversat
[ applause ] to outrage in the halls. Dont kill us kill the bill. The growing resistance to the republican tax plan when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight the white house is scrambling to counter the growing evidence the president of the United States committed obstruction of justice. After the president once again appeared to implicate himself in just such a crime. This as his lawyers say the president is above the law when it comes to obstruction, the same defense Richard Nixon infamously used in the wake of watergate. The trigger this time, fridays explosive news that President Trumps former National Security adviser Michael Flynn had plead guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador. On saturday, the president responded to the flynn news with this, quote. I had to fire general flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the fbi. He has plead guilty to the lies. It is a shame because the actions during