Were 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. Thats one thing you can count on. Its 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, were waitsing for the next big thing to happen on two very important stories. Ill just tell you flatout, 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, its 9 00 p. M. Eastern, and this hour is going to be crucial. Republicans have just issue
mueller investigation go away. more on that later. if that was the goal here, the declassification gambit does not seem to have worked. the president does not seem to have had the let s call it wherewithal to go ahead with that plan. that was this morning. and then this happened. hours after the president climbed down on that declassification thing, the new york times decided to do this. quote, rod rosenstein suggested secretly recording trump and discussed 25th amendment. quote, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein suggested last year that he secretly record president trump in the white house to expose the chaos consuming the administration and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment to remove mr. trump from office for being unfit. this article today from adam goldman and michael schmidt at the new york times has led to exactly what you would expect,