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we re looking forward to that the beat, 6:00 p.m. eastern week nights. but more importantly the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, ari. thanks. much appreciated. thanks for joining us at home. it is friday. so that means the news has again a little nuts again. i feel like there is nothing predictable about american news cycles anymore other than the fact that the cuckoo pops out of the clock reliably every friday night. that s one thing you can count on. it s friday. things are nuts. tonight is no exception. tonight the cuckoo has popped out of the clock. and over the course of this hour, actually, we re waitsing for the next big thing to happen on two very important stories. i ll just tell you flat-out, we expect to be covering developments in both of these stories over the course of this evening, potentially into the overnight hours tonight. as i speak right now, it s 9:00 p.m. eastern, and this hour is going to be crucial. republicans ....
growing on the presidency. dire warning from a man who would know on the last day of the kavanaugh hearing. there is now a cancer on the presidency? yes, i would agree with that. all in starts now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. 60 days from the midterm election. danger threatens donald trump s presidency from both within and without. 4 including tonight a report that his private business empire, a thing that defines him above all else is in the cross hairs of a federal probe. inside the white house the president and closest aides are reportedly turning the west wing upside down to try to identify the anonymous author of the op ed claiming to be part of the resistance inside the trump administration protecting the country from an unfit president. asked by a reporter if he thinks the attorney general should investigate who wrote it, the president responded he does. claiming the op-ed is a matter of national security. the reporter did not ask which law t ....
lawyer, william burke. however, the lawyer then says but they were okay with giving this information over. this administration isn t. make some sense of this for me. well, i think the thing to think about is this, i m not sure at the end of the day how much difference it s going to make. partly this is a matter of arithmetic. the republicans simply have the votes. but secondly while this will be, and you can count on it, that the democrats will be following joe biden s advice, they ll be saying how can we vote on this guy until we know every possible thing about him. the crucial question will be how will he vote as a judge, what can we learn from his time on the court of appeals here in the district of columbia. i think that s where the bulk of the questions will be. what s going to be new and different about this confirmation hearing is questions about how far you can go in subpoenaing or possibly indicting or other legal process against a sitting president. that becomes import ....
and he joins us now. it might make landfall a couple of times, kind of bouncing along the coast. we cannot save that precision, maybe ten, 20 miles one way or the other. we do not have that just yet. but the satellite image, the storm very close, just south of the outer banks. at the center of it, crossing 160-mile path right there and tropical storm force winds, about 40 miles an hour and above, 400 miles across. a really large storm that is going to impact so many people. we see little tornadoes pop up throughout this period we have one tornado warning, and i want to move forward and show you the flooding concerns, morehead city flash flooding going on, so the one spot with this. we have probably seen 6-8 inches of rain already fall. and probably 15 or 20% of way through what the storm is going to be doing. take a look at this, a buoy out here, recording a wind gust of 112 miles per hour, the winds are definitely with us right in the center part of the storm. going to ge ....
lawyer, michael cohen accepted his own fate in a deal with prosecutors. the michael cohen case that s shaking the political and legal worlds tonight. michael cohen devoted more than a decade of his professional life to being the president s attorney and go-to fixer. he once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. i said with michael cohen and he told me he could barely walk by trump tower because it made him so sad. to look at a place where they spent a decade together working side by side. less than two years into the president s term, their once close relationship turned to mutual hostility. things have shifted. i think he couldn t walk by trump tower now because he would get so angry. cohen s plea deal followed months of controversy. the media reported extensively on cohen s alleged hush money payments to a porn star and a maybe model. whose claims of affairs with donald trump might have few people who knew michael cohen as a young man who would predic ....