Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Of these things is still playing out. One of the things that has happened is we have seen an escalation against mueller. This was crossing a line he has not crossed before. This is the closest he has come to a direct order to stop an investigation into himself and the campaign. And not only that, he is doing it as an fbi agent is on the stand testifying. It is still amazing and i dont think we should lose track of either of those things, they are both remarkable and both frankly what we have seen before. It has been hard. And we are looking through the Mueller Investigation through a straw and we get the king of unreliable narrators. What do we know in terms of the back and forth. A lot of today was about
gam gamesmanship. They dont want to say absolutely not we will not do an interview. So this is part of the gamesmanship. Mueller is saying, okay, we will take some of the questions off the table. Would you please sit down with us. And frankly i
congress. actual good news on the climate front in spite of the deniers. the seas will rise in the next 400 years, which means basically a little bit more beachfront property, okay? when all in starts now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. ever since the former president of the united states was convicted of 34 felonies, the republican party made a strategic calculation that they throw the loudest popular possible temper tantrum in unison, maybe then they can convince everyone the whole thing was raked by the sheer volume of wining and histrionics. show me the person and i will show you the crime. this was a political smear job, and attack job. this is what you see in banana republics. this is what you see in communist countries. the problem is democrats have
each other. this is old school british intelligence gathering, recruiting somebody, persuading them to do something. if they have access to do something. if they have access to sensitive documents, for example, britain has a vested interest, as does the west, in trying to find out more about china s secrets and military technology. china does the same thing. recently, both sides in britain and china have started coming out in the open and accusing each other. in the past there has been a conviction that china has been a conviction that china has been responsible for a cyber attack but haven t named the country. that has recently been something that they have started doing. two people were charged with spying for china recently under the national security act which came in last year. so, the idea of nurturing somebody and wining and dining room, taking them out, saying: this will be good for you, there is a lot of money on this
the other thing that shows so much in this scene and in the last number of months in 2016, that was in many ways a a diabolical campaign. donald trump stood for horrible things but relative to now he was more disciplineed. this year it s about making himself feel good for the next 60 seconds than wining as a candidate for president with a wining message. i think telling people in advance if they elect you, he wants to be a dictator for a day. pit the defense department against his enemys and possibly take us out of nato and let putin run wild through europe. my guess is that s not a disciplined wining message. it s more of a psychiatry. i think we should applaud donald trump because of his
from the courtroom. this can be a plus. well that s a classic example of turning lemons into lemonade and doesn t seem to be happening. this guy is on display, eight hours a day during this trial and just as you said jonathan, it doesn t exactly suggest that he s fit and ready to be president in almost any other respect. and the other thing i will close with this is, this is someone who can t stand being out of control. what last control is there than being in a courtroom with a jury and a judge that is going to rule on your fate and potentially even put you in jail. it s going to drive him crazy. this is the opposite of campaigning and wining votes. jen, trump claims his trial is firing up his base. but is it actually helping him to be sleeping in court while biden is out campaigning on real issues? i think not. you know donald trump wants to be the big man. he wants to be in charge as