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wall, paul. and the threats. he s been terrific. now if he ever goes against me, i won t say that, okay? when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. in 37 days donald trump will become president of these united states. we have breaking news tonight. two senior intelligence officials tell nbc news that russian president vladimir putin was involved in efforts to disrupt the u.s. presidential election. that conclusion is based on intelligence from diplomatic sources and others including spies working for america s allies. that comes on top of growing consensus in the intelligence community in the u.s. that russia was behind multiple large scale attacks on democratic institutions and operatives producing fodder for countless embarrassing and politically damaging stories at the height of the presidential election. the in the just had amazing reporting on the alleged scope of the russia cyber attacks which targeted the democratic national committ ....
the speech is expected to last about 35 minutes, after which, we ll talk with our panel and bring you highlights from his remarks, but we obviously will bring president obama in full, we expect him to come out in the next minute or so. this is something george washington we were talking about was the first president, obviously who chose to give a farewell address. right, when he did it, he did it because there was no such thing as a two-term president. he could have been president for years and years and years, and he wanted to make clear to america that we didn t have a king anymore. sounds like we could be seeing the president? oh, maybe not. [ applause ] certainly sounded like the music coming out, but that was the purpose of that is to say, look, we are a democracy, we are not a monarchy. so that s where the tradition started. let s listen in. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 44th president of the united states, barack obama. [cheers and applause] [cheers ....
destabilizing charge and it comes as the president appears to call for hik s top aide, huma abedin, to go to jail. it happened as of course it usually does, via tweet. today, here s what the president wrote. crooked hillary clinton s top aide huma abedin has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. she put classified passwords into the hands of foreign agents. remember sailors pictures on submarines? jail. finally, the white house press secretary defended her boss obvious disregard for due process in that tweet. is the president requesting that the department of justice investigate huma abedin, and how did he reach his conclusion that she should be in jail given that she hasn t been indicted or convicted of any crime? look, obviously, the facts of that case are very disturbing. considering that the president told the new york times in an interview this weekend, quote, i have absolute right to do what i want to do with the justice department. that would mean th ....
stories of democrats who worked with the russians in the 2016 campaign. president then turned his attention as i mentioned to attorney general jeff sessions. this is important when you consider that this is the individual recused from an ongoing probe of potential obstruction among things and donald trump saying it s too bad that sessions recused and then asked an intelligent question. the reporter asked donald trump to compare jeff sessions to the previous administration s attorney general eric holder under obama and donald trump said this. i don t want to get into loyalty but i will tell you that i will say this. holder protected president obama. totally protected him. when you look at the things that they did, and hold proer tekted the president. and i have great respect for that. i ll be honest. i have a little more on that in a moment. trump also asked here in this very newsy interview whether he would order the justice come to understand can be seen as a triangle with th ....
now asked not to stand against preparing is the next big step as commander of the international space station. i m sumi someone s got to go to have you with us french president a man on the call has condemned a rise in authoritarianism in the e.u. and urged europeans to defend their democracy mccall was outlining his vision for the future of europe in a speech to the european parliament in strasbourg he said the e.u. was failing to address the fears and concerns of its citizens and that change is long overdue. he should read don t think there is doubt in a number of european countries and month after month these doubts seeing others call our foundation this into question the fundamental there seems to be a sort of european civil war national selfishness and egotism taking precedence directly what the e.u. stands for what the european union values are and what the benefits are for citizenship for his citizens this was a highly anticipated speech max the french president s visio ....