Under way on a busy friday night. Busy here tonight. Good evening once again. Day 645 of the Trump Administration and it brought further proof that you should never bet against the feds. A florida man suspected of mailing bombs to highprofile democrats including the homes of two former president s has been arrested. Earlier today, 56yearold cesar sayoc was charged with five federal counts including mailing of explosives and threats against former president and assault of current or former officials. His First Court Appearance will be on monday. He faces up to 48 years in prison if convicted on all counts. The break in the case came thankfully after a fingerprint was lifted off the outside of one of the packages. One of the bombs was mailed to congresswoman maxine waters. According to officials, dna evidence was further found on some of the devices. This morning the fbi seized this white van owned by sayoc that was covered with protrump stickers. As you might imagine, it was a wellknown
Episode leaves us as a country. As the 11th hour gets underway on a busy friday night. Good evening once again from our msnbc headquarters here in new york. Day 645 of the trump administration, and it brought further proof that you should never bet against the feds. A florida man suspected of mailing bombs to high profile democrats indicating the homes of two former president s has been arrested. Earlier today 56yearold cesar sayoc was charged with five federal counts including mailing of explosives, threats against former president s and assault of current or former officials. His First Court Appearance will be on monday. He faces up to 48 years in prison if convicted on all counts. The break in the case came thankfully after a fingerprint was lifted off the outside of one of the packages. One of the bombs was mailed to congresswoman maxine waters. According to officials dna evidence was further found on some of the devices. This morning the fbi seized this white van owned by sayoc th
We are at the top of the hour which means im out of time. Happy holiday to all of you and to my friend morgan rad forward to whom i toss the baton right now. Happy holidays. Hello, im Morgan Radford at msnbc headquarters in new york. Mattis is out, shanahan is in. The president is kicking jim mattis out the door at the Defense Department so what do we know about the new secretary who is taking over, and why the president wants it done now. And increasingly alone, suspicious and spending more time watching tv, thats how white house staffers characterize the behavior of our commander in chief, but is the era of containing the president over. Plus trumps border wall is already working, unfortunately its only separating republicans and democrats. Standing on opposite sides of a proverbial wall, can a deal be reached to put americans back to work with cash in their pockets in time for the holidays . We begin with breaking news. President trump announcing deputy secretary of defense Patrick
Capitol hill next week. Mr. Cohen clearly had some significant credibility problems. Prosecutors and agents have a lot of experience working with witnesses that have credibility problems. What he really did yesterday was create a whole bunch of additional witnesses that the house is now empowered to try to bring before them. Folks like Allen Weisselberg at the Trump Organization, the president s children. The good news is what we did see out of the Michael Cohen testimony was there was a lot positive for the president. He confirmed what weve all said, that there was no collusion with russia. The fact remains there are at least four or five areas where there is very credible evidence that the president committed very serious crimes. The list of contenders and the democratic primary just keeps growing. Another democrat throws his hat in the to 2020 ring as Washington Governor Jay Inslee announces hes running for president and running on one issue. Were the first generation to feel the st
This trip were secretary pompeo, this individual that worked on iran and Jared Kushners team in the white house. Theres been very little readout about what actually went on in saudi arabia and, like we said, thats concerning members of congress. Erin banco, thank you. Im ana cabrera in for brooke baldwin. Any minute now Paul Manafort learns his fate. Donald trumps former Campaign Chairman is facing the first of two sentencing hearings today which will determine whether the 69yearold will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Manafort was found guilty of defrauding banks and the government and failing to pay millions of dollars in taxes charges stemming from the special counsels investigation. Now prosecutors say manafort deserves up to 25 years in prison. Again, in this one case, the case in which he was convicted on all these charges and he should pay millions of dollars in fines and restitution. He was convicted by a jury after a three week trial last summer and since then, manafor