Trump white house wont implement russia sanctions. And new concerns over a trumpconnected company hired to fix power in puerto rico. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes, it was an extraordinary day in washington. Two sitting republican senators went before the American People to denounce the president of the United States. The head of their own party as an unstable and unfit leader who endangers the country and debases our democracy. After deciding to retire at the end of this term, senator bob corker and jeff flake gave a dramatic tribute not just to the president but to their own republican colleagues. The day started with corker, who has been vocal about his concerns since announcing his retirement last month talking to just about every tv camera he could find about the man in the oval office. For young people to be watching not only here in our country, but around the world someone of this mentality, or as president of the United States is something
And the rebuke of dirt. Do you think congress should pursue every avenue to get President Trump out of office . Then democrats break out the obamacare playbook on taxes. The president said this is not a plan for the rich, blatantly untrue. New questions about why the Trump White House wont implement russia sanctions. And new concerns over a trumpconnected company hired to fix power in puerto rico. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes, it was an extraordinary day in washington. Two sitting republican senators went before the American People to denounce the president of the United States. The head of their own party as an unstable and unfit leader who endangers the country and debases our democracy. After deciding to retire at the end of this term, senator bob corker and jeff flake gave a dramatic tribute not just to the president but to their own republican colleagues. The day started with corker, who has been vocal about his concerns since announcing his
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you and other liberals rail against, is because of the estate tax. fundamentally, here is what i want to know on the record, when all is said and done, i know you guys have a blueprint that will come out. will it be deficit neutral? is that the idea? whatever goes up on one side of the ledger comes down and vice versa, ala 86? well, that depends on how much spending we cut. the house of representatives passed a budget that cuts more spending than any budget that newt gingrich and welfare i want to make a prediction, so it does or doesn t come true so you can lord it over me. that won t happen. the deficit will go up. i m going to be fighting for it. you come back and we ll see who is right about this. congressman, thank you for taking the time. still to come, why did a two-person company in white fish, montana get the contract to build puerto rico s power grid?
whitefish is the source of our reporting and the source of many questions. in fact, when we asked power officials in puerto rico about this, they declined to answer specifics on it. in fact, the governing going as far as saying this is really just rumors of people who just didn t get the contracts and missed out on better work. okay. i want to be clear here. when you talk about this mutually aid model. in places like texas or florida, what you re saying is other utilities band together and send a lot of people. so you ve got sufficient boots on the ground to restore power. that s how it works? that s effective it, yes. the utility in puerto rico is a basket case, it s in debt, notoriously had a hard time. they sign a contract for $300 million with really high prices with this tiny little outfit in whitefish, montana, with two employees and no one knows how that contract came about? so when we spoke to the company about this, they were spinning up dozens of people if not a week