good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. we now know the president of the united states asked three different people who obviously have supervised the russia investigation whose side they were on. new report tonight that early last month the president asked rode rosenstein if he was "on my team." that's after he reportedly asked then acting fbi director andrew mccabe ho voted for in the election and after he told previous fbi director james comey the one that he fired "i need loyalty, i expect loyalty," according to comey's sworn testimony. it appears to be yet another attempt by this president to interfere in the justice department's investigation into whether he or his campaign conspired with a foreign adversary in the criminal sabotage of his opponent's campaign. over in congress, a separate brank of government which the framers intended to place a check on presidential power, there's no question about who's on the president's team. in fact, the undisputed team captain is house intelligence chairman devin nunes who obviously served on the president's transition team also subject of the mueller investigation, the transition team that is and who obviously has put name on the line to protect trump. he tried to launder information from the white house back to the white house to back up the president's bogus wiretapping claim. now he's written a secret four-page memo alleging that investigators improperly obtained twoornts surveil members of the trump campaign. get this because i just realize this had today. despite the fact that nunes has not actually seen the classified material underlying those warrants, the stuff the warrants are based on, he hasn't seen that, he wrote the memo. his staff did. he hasn't seen it. despite that the president's allies have run with it. >> members of congress there's have seen this memo have called it shocking, alarming and said it literally mirrors kgb style tactics. members are saying it could cause many people to go to jail and could lead to the end of the mueller investigation. >> ah. huh. that last line, could lead to the end of the mueller investigation. that presumably is, of course, the whole point. in a letter to nunes this week assistant attorney general, a man who obviously works for and is close to jeff sessions warned releasing that memo without review would be and i quote here extraordinarily reckless. after seeing the memo over the weekend, fbi director christopher ray, a man who obviously donald trump appointed just a few months ago, went to the white house on monday along with deputy attorney general rod rosen tine to appeal to the president's chief of staff john kelly directly not to make the memo public. but later that day, house intelligence republicans led by nunes went ahead and voted to release the memo anyway. this morning kelly said the public should expect to see it soon. >> the memo came over. we've got our folks in the our national security lawyers in the white house that work for me work for the president, they're slicing and dicing it, looking at it so we know what it means and what it understands. >> did you see it. >> i did. >> what did you think? >> it will be released here pretty quick and the whole world can see it. >> last night after his state of the union speech, the president was caught on a hot mike reassuring a republican congressman he would approve the memo's release. >> release the memo. >> don't worry. 100%. can you imagine though? >> yes, sir. >> now the federal bureau of investigation, the fbi has taken the extraordinary step, they very, very rarely do this if ever, i can't recall a recent example of releasing a public statement that accuses the nunes memo of cherry picking information to paint a false picture. "as expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally will impact the memo's accurate sit." senator chris murphy, a democrat from connecticut. sort of broad rule of law sense, what do you think you're watching happen here? >> well, this feels like a really dangerous day, news of the president once again asking for loyalty from a law enforcement officer whose loyalty is only supposed to be to the country he serves and the rule of law. and then more news that the white house seems intent on hot lining this memo to the public despite the fbi's grave reservations. the fbi has reservations for very good reasons. one, they very clearly think there's wrong information in this memo. but two, they have suggested that there are what we call sources and methods that will be disclosed in this memo. that's a way of saying that the means by which the fbi gets information about bad guys will be made known to those bad guys and thus, it will be harder for the fbi to get the information in the future. so this is not just about a political agenda that chairman nunes seems to be putting forward. it also seems to be about potential real compromises to national security and that's why to me this is amongst one of the most dangerous days of this presidency so far. >> are you surprised to see the republican party en masse particularly in the house, i think a little bit less in the senate, less on the senate intelligence committee, but the republican party in the house essentially kind of march to the tune that the fbi is a threat to america, that it is essentially a redoubt of traitor russ liberals i guess who obviously wanted to elect hillary clinton president. it's a theory that seems a little tough to swallow and seems to be one now driving the train in washington. >> yeah, this is the party that tried to stake its reputation for years and years on being that of law and order. and the fbi of course, is the standard of law and order. so attacking the fbi betrays the traditions of the republican party and you know, of course, is a real threat 0 democracy if people lose faith in the highest levels of law enforcement. you know, listen if they think they're going to stop muler from getting to the truth, i just don't think that's how this is going to play out as lindsey graham said from the senate's perspective, mueller getting fired might be the end of the trump presidency. and so they are all going to go down with the ship if they are seen as trying to protect against the truth coming out in this investigation. if the truth is in the end damning. >> do your constituents care about the story? >> my constituents care about the story but they to be honest, chris are, not following it with the same fervor. >> i want an honest answer. >> yeah, they're not following it with the same fervor that you are or other folks covering the white house day to day are. folks are really concerned about it, but i'll be honest, first and foremost, they're talking about bread and butter issues that never go away like taxes and wages and pensions and health care. so yeah, sometimes i worry that while this is certainly a threat to democracy if they are trying to stop the mueller investigation, it is not the defining issue for my constituents back home. they care about it, but they also want their members of congress to focus on the stuff that directly affects their daily pocketbook lives. >> all right. senator chris murphy, always appreciate you taking time. thank you. >> natasha bertrand covers national security for the atlantic, fred feg lew zi, a former assistant director of the fbi where he served under then director robert mueller. frank, i want to read a little bit from the nunes response to the fbi. so the fbi, the trump fbi, christopher wray, trump guy saying material omissions we basically think this is a misleading document and also don't want you to release it. nunes having stonewalled congress demands it's no surprise they issue spurious objections to allowing the american people to see abuses at these agency. the fbi's intimately familiar with material omissions with respect to their presentations to both congress and the courts. what do you make of that? >> i think congressman nunes is displaying what we call willful blindness. you reported earlier that he's not even seeing the underlying sensitive intelligence that he claims is in support of his own memo. you heard the fbi say they have grave concerns about the release of that. there's significance in the intelligence community in the word grave. it may be a subconscious use of the word or may be deliberate. when you hear someone in the intelligence community use the word grave, they're referring to the definition of top secret. that have intelligence which can do serious and grave damage or actually the language is exceptionally grave damage to the security of the united states. it's also a word that's used when you do a damage assessment of a leak. did grave damage occur? now we see the fbi saying they have grave concerns. it's a hint there may be top secret information underlying this memo that nunes doesn't know about. i'm here to tell you if it's top secret, that means there's sources, methods, techniques involved. it means there could be human lives involved, human sources. maybe russian human sources that have been flipped recruited, maybe a sensitive wiretap placed somewhere inside moscow and only when the russians read this memo will they know that this human who obviously is singular in nature or this wiretap only one place is in place. that's what nunes is ignoring right now. >> there's an amazing exchange in which nunes was asked straight up, did you work with the white house on this. he did not answer. we then got transcripts today of the meeting of the committee when they had these votes. i want to read you this exchange and get your response. mike quigley from illinois said when you as a majority conceived of doing this memo for release to the public the thought and consultation of it, was any of this done after conversations with anyone in the white house? nunes, i would just answer as far as i know, no. quigley, mr. chairman, does that mean none of the staff members that work for the majority had any consultation or communication with the white house. >> the chair is not going to entertain a question by another member. what do you make of that? >> this whole thing started with the white house. this whole thing started when nunes made his late night excursion to the white house last march after receiving a call from one of his sources. he won't disclose who obviously that was saying come over here and view this explosive information we have that implicates the obama administration in this is massive surveillance scandal. i'm paraphrasing. then devin nunes came out and briefed the press about these documents that he had supposedly been shown. and what was interesting about the whole thing is that people were saying if you got these documents from the white house, why did you have to brief the president on documents that you got from the white house? why didn't he have access to these himself? so the whole thing was contrived from the very beginning. to say now the result, the memo which is the result of this kind of over nearly year long investigation into the doj, fbi whether they abused the fisa process had nothing to do with the white house is not true. again, it started there. >> there are, frank, there are obviously congress has oversight of the executive and the power to surveil is an extremely dangerous power in the wrong hands. and it's incredibly important that that be deployed constitutionally and with oversight. have you ever seen though a situation in which you have essentially the congress and the president kind of teamed up against the fbi in the middle which is what we appear to have here? >> i've not in 25 years as an fbi agent and in leading the counter intelligence program, i've into the seen this level of intervention, interruption, and disarray quite possibly. i've got to tell you, the only winner so far in this picture is the russian intelligence service. the russian intelligence service has one goal, and it's not to get a certain man in office that they want in the oval office. it's simply to sow discord and chaos in the united states. and whoever is in charge of this program back at svr headquarters in moscow is getting a huge bonus this year. he's going to put on his performance appraisal, i got the fbi pitted against the white house, congress against account fbi, the white house against its own department of justice, i want my bonus. and that guy probably deserves it. >> do you think wray can withstand this standoff in having put himself out there right now, it seems to me he is out on a limb. if the president says nos, screw you, we're going to release it anyway, how can he keep doing his job? >> it's unclear. there are mixed feelings within the bureau to how wray responded to the president so far. we've seen reports he stood up to pressure originally fire mccabe and then the way he dismissed mccabe earlier this week rubbed people within the bureau the wrong way. former intelligence firofficial the wrong way. the fact of the matter is wray ultimately will not be able to control whether or not trump decides to release this memo. he can perhaps work with the democrats to release their version of the memo which is more than double the length of the nunes memo because it contains so many corrections on what nunes wrote. he will brief them and issue redactions. that's another thing about the nunes memo. there are no redactions. it's extraordinarily dangerous. the nunes memo as far as trump is concerned will be released. >> important point to remember in the construction of the national security state post war world war ii, classification flows from the president, he can declassify 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president asking someone supervising the russian investigation, that is the investigation into whether esor his campaign committed crimes, the third time we have the president asking the person supervising that investigation whose side you're on. first donald trump told james comey i need loyalty. i expect loyalty according to comey's sworn testimony. comey says he didn't at first. when pressed replied you will always get honesty from me. then "the washington post" reported during their first face-to-face meeting in the oval office last may the president asked andrew mccabe ho voted for in the 2016 election. is he said he didn't vote. now tonight we've learned the president may have put pressure on deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. cnn reports an exchange last month, trump wanted to know where the special counsel's russia investigation was lidding. and he wanted to know whether rosenstein was "on my team." rosenstein reportedly responded of course, we're all on your team, mr. president. this reportedly happened ahead of rosenstein's testimony before the house judiciary committee where he was asked about interactions with trump. >> is it ever appropriate for the president of the united states to demand the department of justice official or fbi director take a loyalty pledge? >> i don't have any opinion about that. nobody's asked me to take a loyalty pledge other than the oath of office. >> america is counting on your integrity and your commitment to protecting the independence of the special counsel to reaffirm our commitment to the rule of law. so when you said just a moment ago that you don't have an opinion about a loyalty oath from the president being asked of people, it might be useful to remind you, sir, that members of the department of justice take an oath to the constitution. and so a loyalty oath to the president of the united states is inappropriate for any president to ask for and for anyone to swear it. do you agree. >> congress man, nobody has asked me for a loyalty oath. >> with me is barbara boxer, former senator from california and harry lipman, former deputy assistant attorney general. harry, had you rod rosenstein's job. i want to get your first person sense of how appropriate or inappropriate or unusual it would be to have that asked of you in this circumstance. >> stupefying. i was a kid at the department with rod rosenstein during the infancy of the starr investigation. if anything like that had come from the white house, it would have sent shock waves through the building. but it could never have happened. look, compare this for one second with the big controversy when clinton spoking with lynch on the tarmac. that was a terrible hubbub for the republican majority. this was the president of the united states, the boss of rosenstein with a proven track record of firing people who obviously he doesn't consider to be loyal and the main suspect in a criminal investigation looking him in the eye and saying are you on my team. that's like straight thuggery plain and simple. >> do you agree, senator boxer? >> without a doubt. and you know, i was for a while the chairman for a long time the top democrat on the ethics committee. and i can tell you if a united states senator was under investigation by the justice department and they even so much as called to see how am i doing, what's going on, they would be kicked out of the united states senate. you know. >> wait a second. really? >> yes, yes. >> that red line is so serious that if robert menendez who obviously just had the charges against him dropped, occasionally it happens members are prosecuted. you're saying if someone calls over there and says we're just checking where we are, that could be grounds for removal. >> can't do it. you're not even supposed to do it if you have a constituent. you're not supposed to intervene directly. could you send a message, you can send a note. the point is, we know what trump has done. he got rid of preet bharara. he got rid of sally yates, got rid of comey. he got rid of mccabe. what scares me and even if i seem a little calm, i am so alarmed, is that the lackeys in congress, those goppers led by ryan and nunes are just in many ways i use a word i don't mean in a legal sense, colluding and collaborating with a president who obviously is under investigation. we saw it when on the hot mike they were already discussing the fact that he was going to "release the memo" which could put lives in jeopardy. this is a moment and the last thing i'd say is thinking back to watergate, why did we finally get to the truth? because of a free press, check, thank god we still have it. because of the fact that we had brave republicans. where are they? they're nowhere to be found. aband at the end of the day, the public was on the side of truth and justice. so we are at a very dangerous place right now because we have lackeys in the congress who obviously don't understand that they're supposed to be separate from the president and they're going after a republican justice department. >> harry, i want to present an argument i hear in defense of the president which isn't really a defense. he's bumbling, he's never worked in government before. he used to run a private company. his family wasn't even publicly owned. he doesn't understand the traditions and intoes and independence and he's kind of bumbling in all these circumstances. you described it as thuggery. you don't buy that this is essentially good faith bumbling as opposed to bad faith interference? >> i don't see how you can. the rosenstein exchange was a month ago. by then, there's certainly enough water under the bridge for everyone to have shown including his own white house counsel who obviously had to back him off from firing mueller six months before that that there are certain lines of propriety. he's certainly been told and he goes past them like a bulldozer. so when you look someone in the eye and say are you on my team, yes, he doesn't know the norms, yes, he lacks the protocols but that's sinister. there's nothing kind of hokey or folksy about that. that's a straight outimplicit threat. >> and senator, are you on my team in a conversation reportedly about where the russia investigation is heading, he does seem to be acting in a way that is not a -- it's not presenting or projecting a confident air of innocence. >> not at all. i mean, let's just -- i'm not a lawyer. so i will not discuss it as the wife after i lawyer, the mom of a lawyer and the daughter of a lawyer. i will present it just as me to you. the bottom line is if there is nothing to hide, why is he firing all these people? if there is nothing to hide, why does he have to ask nunes, his lackey, to cause all this trouble and go against a republican justice department? this is unheard of. this is a constitutional crisis. and i know i was thinking about the massacre, the saturday night massacre. this is a rolling massacre. one thing after the other after the other. and now you have the republicans colluding in a way to really cover up what i believe will turn out to be some kind of crime. i really do believe that. >> that is the question that haunts all of us, what happened. we still don't know the the answer to that. former senator barbara boxer and harry lipman, thanks for joining us. coming up, another major trump appointee resigns in what would be a front page scandal in any other white house. that story is next. you can save time, worry, hassle, and yup, money. in fact, drivers who switched from geico to esurance saved hundreds. that's auto and home insurance for the modern world. esurance. an allstate company. click or call. during the first year the trump administration, the higher profile resignations and embarrassments have been well downed. but then there's a whole tier of officials and wannabes whose storieses would make front page led lines in any administration but this one. people like inference brenda fitzgerald, the now former head of the cdc centers for disease control, who obviously resigned today after political reported and this is really something else, she bought shares in a tobacco company one month into her leadership of the agency charged with reducing tobacco use. this is the top public health official in the administration. buying tobacco stocks. we're just getting started. there's also kathleen har net white, she's trump's choice to direct the white house council on environmental quality whose confirmation hearing was an all-time disaster. >> do you think that if the ocean warms it expands? does the law are thermal expansion apply to sea water. >> again, i'm not -- i do not have any kind of expertise or even much lehman's study of the ocean die nat micks and the climate change issues. >> white has suggested that climate science is a hoax to and i quote her here, decarbonize human society. she once said that coal helped end slavery. in a rare moment of sanity, the senate declined to 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this, on monday, the trump administration declined to impose sanctions against purchasers of russian arms sanctions that congress passed overwhelmingly in july 517-5. democrats blast add the administration's decision to defy congress despite voting for the sanctions six months ago, republicans have been all but silent. joining me political analyst jennifer ruben, republican strategist and media consultant rick wilson. jennifer, since you're here, lets me start, i think it's significant to look at the trajectory of this which is that donald trump the republican party is more unified behind donald trump as time has gone on than it ever has been. six months ago, you had this vote seen as a sort of rebuke. overrideable majorities. now they say we're not doing this right now. there's possible explanations for that and you hear nothing. my theory is that it shows how much the party has fall in line behind him. >> absolutely. as rick would tell you, everything donald trump touches dies and everyone who obviously interacts with him becomes morally corrupt. for reasons that still i don't quite emotionally understand, don't quite grasp, they think their fate is tied up with his. it is but not in the way they think i think. they have allowed themselves to be led around by the nose by the likes of not only donald trump but dern nunes. no one appears to stand up and say not only does the emperor have no clothes but this is a farce, we're destroying our national security infrastructure, destroying congress's relationship. it's abilities to exercise oversight. there is no institutional grown-up in the room. that is what is so troubling. >> it's in some ways i think, rick, jennifer was talking about standing up or they view their face the as bound. i think i've come around to take people at their word. mitch mcconnell said it was the best year this year since he got to congress 30 years ago for conservatives. mike pence just said that at a retreat tonight. i now take everyone at their word that it's not they're making a calculation, think love donald trump. they think donald trump is good. they think he represents them. represents conservatism, represents the republican party embodies their values. executes their world view. that that's the enthusiasm here. there's no like who is going to stand up to him. they like him. >> look, these are guys who obviously are racing for a finish line called november 2018. and they're going to get what they can get. they've recognized that the m.o. they need to adopt is to praise donald trump if they want to get things done and look, the tax bill was not donald trump's tax bill. >> you think mcconnell saying something like that which erases -- you think he doesn't believe it. >> absolutely. there's such a deep cynicism among them. if you speak to them privately, they've learn this had trick of playing donald trump's ego. they've learned this trick of stroking donald trump's vast empty black hole of need to be praised and patted on his fuzzy little head and they're doing it. and they recognize that they can get trump to do virtually anything they want. so look, it wasn't trump's tax bill. they praised him so much at the ends because they wanted him to not crap on it as he did with the first obamacare repeal attempt. they do all they can to stroke this guy and he's like a child. he's incredibly simple and easy to manipulate. ing. >> but this now, the sort of nunes thing goes beyond the stroking his ego. these are people that are -- this is the entire, even -- will hurd is a fascinating member of congress. he was -- he's one of the few black members of the gop in congress. he represents the border exceptionally bright talented individual. >> sure. >> impressive guy, impressive resume in, the cia. will hurd vote ford this. >> that's how stronging this lure of sticking with the tribe, sticking with the pack is. and it flows from the top. paul ryan sent out the signal. we're going with nunes. everyone line up. we're not going to kick out none nunes. we're going to cleanse the fbi, probably the most horrifying phrase i've heard in this latest iteration. and they take their cues. their money is going to come from their party. their support, getting republicans into their district to try to turn out their base. they have convinced themselves they must go along withing there bizarre shenanigan at the risk of national security, at the risk of their own if they have any left intellectual integrity. i also do think that there is something esgoing on here. and that is that they have genuine fear. they have genuine fear come november not only are they going to be wiped out here but they're going to be wiped out in the senate. this is not looking good for 2020. this is going down in flames. >> two things, we should say the trey gowdy stepped down today. chair of the oversight committee. and even as the generic ballot narrows and it has quite a bit, you're watching more and more retirements which makes me think republicans have a bead on this maybe we don't. reuters now reporting, rick, just in the last few minutes they're going to release the memo tomorrow. what does that mean? >> what it means that speaker ryan made a decision to allow devin nunes to cover donald trump's ass and to compromise national security information by putting out something that is obviously a slurry of cherry picked b.s. and they're going to glide over all the other things that caused the fisa warrants to be issued and pretend it's all about dossier. they're desperate to feed the monster of the fox audience right now that is so hyped up and motivated about this conspiracy theory and desperate to make sure that they do everything they can to protect donald trump even at the cost of compromising national security and sending a terrifying signal there will be no accountability, no oversight, donald trump can kill a live baby on national tv and they will do nothing. there is nothing he can doing i mean, we really are at an inflection point in our history right now where the institutions of government have been in the hands of one person. and congress is no longer a quo call branch of government, a subsidiary of the trump organization. >> particularly in the president overrides his own fbi director. if he does that. >> he will. he will. >> can wray stay if he does that? i feel like that statement today was wray kind of? it seems hard to say if you're fbi director and put that statement in those terms and the rez says no, saws off the limb behind you, i don't know how you stay. >> it's hard. the real question is does the building, does the fbi building think no matter what had he need him. he's the only one standing guard. >> thank you both for being with me. still ahead the congressman who obviously called president trump explicitly racist in the wake of his state of the union speech is here to explain why. plus the lie president trump made up on spot in tonight's thing 1, thing 2 next. mine's way better. this one's below market price and has bluetooth. same here, but this one has leather seats! use the cars.com app to compare price, features and value. thing 1 tonight at the state of the union last night, president trump singled out a homeland security special agent in the audience. >> here tonight is one leader in the effort to defend our country, homeland security investigation special agent celestino martinez. he goes by d.j. and c.j. he said call me either one. so we'll call you c.j. >> wait a second. does he really go by both d.j. and c.j.ing? have you ever met a person in your life who obviously goes by both d.j. and c.j.? that doesn't seem to make sense. in fact, it doesn't match the prepared remarks which read "homeland investigations special agent celestino martinez he goes by c.j. there's no mention d.j. we needed to get to the bottom of the mystery. we asked does the agent go by c.j. or d.j. or both. and they actually got back to us. their answer is thing 2 in 60 seconds. what can a president do in thirty seconds? he can fire an fbi director who won't pledge his loyalty. he can order the deportation of a million immigrant children. he can threaten an unstable dictator armed with nuclear weapons. he can go into a rage and enter the nuclear launch codes. how bad does it have to get before congress does something? home land security investigations special agent celestino martinez. he goes by d.j. and c.j. he said call me either one. >> you can call me c.j., you can call me d.j. we asked i.c.e. if he goes by both and an answer of yes would confirm something odd. an answer of no might embarrass the president a little. this afternoon, they gave us their answer. 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>> my response to the speech was i wanted to talk about that one big lie that you just presented to us, right? he also said distant relatives, right? guess what, chris, my wife's not a distant relative of mine, neither are my children, my parents or my sister. and those are the people that you can petition for. and they're not unlimited, right? i have a limited number of people in my life. they're my nuclear family. those are the people you can support. so it's an outright bald-faced lie in order to what? to continue this sense of fear. they're coming, they're coming, they're coming, they're coming in unprecedented numbers and uncontrollably coming to this country. they're bringing people, how are they bringing them to the united states of america? without limit, and they're causing crime, and they're causing us to live in a dangerous, and then he flips from that to say that family reunification visas, he calls them chain migration. look, chris, we should spent five minutes one night, we can't do it tonight, and let's see what countries get eliminated. and you know what we're going to find? china, india, the philippines, south korea, mexico and el salvador, what do all those countries have in common? well, they have in common people of color that come to the united states of america. and that's what he wants to stop. so he says it's about crime, right? but it's really not. he said it's about a border and building a fence and building a wall. but it's not. it's about stopping legal immigration so that people like me, people like my mom who came to this country can't come here anymore. >> so you're saying this explicitly is a racial project. you equate that the president wants to preserve, essentially the whiteness of the country and that is what is motivating his immigration rhetoric and policy. >> there is absolutely no doubt. look, here's one thing. when we went into court to kind of prove that the latinos in chicago deserve, right, were being discriminated against in the remapping, here's what we didn't have to prove. we didn't have to prove what their thinking was, right, we didn't have to prove that they explicitly said racist things, what we had to prove was, what? and once you showed latinos were being thrown here and there, and our goals were being diluted, look at the people being impacted. this is a president who started with mexicans are rapists, murderers and drug dealers and we need to get rid of them. and that's facts. >> if you believe that the president is explicitly racist and that immigration policy is guided by that racist vision, can democrats strike any deal with this individual on immigration whatsoever? it just seems like there's a huge disconnect between holding that belief which a lot of democrats hold and maybe the idea, yeah, we can trade daca for border wall, can you deal with someone who has those views? >> it's going to be very difficult. >> that's a yes! to me, that says you don't find it's a bright line. >> i find it very, i'm not optimistic, chris. i spent 25 years of my life focussing on this issue. so it's not easy for me to say i'm not, i have to wake up in the morning, because it's who i am. and if i can't, it's harder for me to become more optimistic. he's saying, luis, if you want to strike a deal with me, you have to stop people like your mom and your dad and people like you come being. we're going to let the dreamers stay, luis, but we're going after their moms and dads. you have to change the rules for me to make it easier to deport your moms and dads and stop more people from coming. and you know what? i don't think the dreamers want to be put in a safe place at the expense of other people being harmed. that's not who our dreamers are. >> thanks for your time. >> thank you. that is "all in" for evening. the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. it has been a day of fast-moving news developments on big, important stories. i'm always grateful that you tune in to watch this show. tonight i am particularly happy that you are here. because i think today was a really important day. there's a lot of important stuff going on all at once, a lot of news stories about important things are changing rapidly today and into tonight. i think that this next hour is going to be very helpful in terms of sorting out these developing stories. we've got a couple of really, really good, really clued-in reporters who are working at the heart of the most complex stuff in washington right now who will be here to help us tease it out. this will be a good show. thank you for being here. i want to let

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