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 Trumps 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 oped is a matter
of national security. The reporter did not ask which law the president thinks
papadopoulos pleads. manafort weighing plea deal to avoid new criminal trial, source says. also this is a bloomberg scoop. manafort may be talking to mueller about possibly cooperating. it came up before. there was a flirtation with it about a week ago. what i most likely make of it, he s stayed quiet so long. he s broke and knows he s going to be convicted in d.c. in other words, i think the cooperation he is looking to make is just to surrender, let them take him, and but not this sort of full on cooperation that would crush any odds of a pardon. i think it s to lay down his hand and let the sentences come. let me cooperate just to plead? is that what you re saying? yeah. he s just cutting his losses,
careful here because rex tillerson probably knows far more about the world and world affairs and foreign policy than many of the people who will be asking him questions. rick, i m not sure about your athletic ability, but if you can drive a car, i sure hope you can also drive a truck. not a tractor trailer. that s a great point. i m not good at driving either. megan, i want to talk about donald trump s press conference, about his business ties. bloomberg broke it. he s not going to be having the press conference. we were all waiting for the big press conference. that ain t happening. it s going to be don jr. and eric, yes, we have heard donald trump say it before, he s not legally obligated, but come on now, are we dpog to look at this, a family that spends absolutely all of their personal and professional time together, are they really not going to dial up president-elect dad and say what do you want us to do? i think this presents yeah, that was the bloomberg scoop, so than