so i think that helps in contrast to for example andrew mccabe and the department of justice where he turned out to have lost when he came forward and tried to confront his organization. i want to play what we re hearing from the president who isn t known to have the deepest grasp of every official but has certainly drilled down on ukrain as a matter of interest and was criticizing this very person. take a look. i heard very bad things about her and i dont know if it i recalled or somebody recalled her but i heard very bad things about her for a long period of time. not good. again we know now from the transcript that he was relaying things and from the
white house reporter for the daily beast and lynn sweet, washington, d.c., bureau chief of the chicago sun-times. this is a wild story for a bunch of reasons. one is we already knew a lot of what was said in that meeting because it was reported when he said i got rid of comey and the rubber is off. he disclosed classified intelligence about israel. but this is a big deal if this is coming out now. right. it s sort of amazing that we had a two-year long massive federal investigation in the form of the mueller probe and for some reason we re right guy on the washington post to tell us this. this is a case of federal tax dollars well spent. but i must say in terms of trump saying this privately to russian officials in the oval office, it almost surprises me that he hasn t said something to that exact effect publicly by this point now that we re over two years into his administration because in his first year in office, he said during a
now. good evening from austin, texas. i m chris hayes. things have moved extremely quickly. we are just at the end of week one, but the trajectory of the entire trump era has completely shifted, and things are going to continue to move in a rapid clip. just a few hours ago the chair of the house intelligence foreign affairs oversight committee announced they have subpoenaed secretary of state pompeo for a ukraine document. quote including many he s refused to produce for weeks. they ve also announced they ve scheduled depositions for five state department officials beginning wednesday with the former ambassador to ukraine, someone many people want to hear from. the four of the five people mentioned by name in the whistle-blower complaint. one of them just stepped down from his role as u.s. special representative for ukraine. after negotiations earlier tonight. the witness who isn t in the
start criticizing the president. because that is going to indicate that they believe the republican party is moving away from him. jeff flake, bob corker, the senators who criticized the president, republicans, they fled. they gave up. because they knew how much donald trump controlled the republican party. anthony scaramucci doesn t control any votes as far as i m aware. the interesting thing and the important thing will be when republican-elected officials start standing up to him and as far as i m aware, not a single one has. the ones who have, the elected officials quickly announce they re not seeking re-election for whatever reason. exactly. jackie, why is scaramucci s abandonment causing the president such grief, because he s tweeting about it sort of nonstop. that is a great question. we feel like it is a broken record at this point. who isn t the president attacking on twitter. i think this goes without being
north korea. and while the president of the united states is abroad, a former president, jimmy carter, was asked about the russian meddling, and assessed things in this manner. there s no doubt that the russians did interfere with the election. and i think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully investigated would show that trump didn t actually win the election in 2016, he lost the election and he was put into office because of the russians interference. he s been trashed within his own party, he s been badly trashed. i felt badly for him because you look over the years, his party has virtually he s like a forgotten president. and i understand why they say that, he was not a good president. so this is awkward in an a lot of ways, because often you don t have a former president who would speak in that manner about a sitting president. and then of course you ve got the sitting president who isn t necessarily, you know, offering any deference or honor to a