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Didn t tell you. yeah. tonight, from cohen to kushner and beyond the president had no involvement. the president s destabilizing assault on reality. every day, most of us knew we were coming in and we were going to lie for him on something. and it s exactly what s happening here in government, sir. reclaiming my time. congresswoman maxine waters on the president s criminal behavior, impeachment, and her interest in the trump foundation. and after a week of hearing from michael cohen i ve never been to prague. where we stand on the big russia questions with buzzfeed s ben smith. there s just so many dots that all seem to lead to the same direction. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the president and his allies are fully invested in trying to discredit and destroy michael cohen, repeatedly calling cohen a liar. ....
The chair, elijah cummings, it already was looking into the security clearance issue, which has opinion an issue above and beyond just jared kushner. the chair wrote another letter today in the wake of the kushner revelations in the new york times. explain why this is an important issue for oversight and isn t just something that the president can grant or not grant as he pleases. well, here s why it matters. the president has had a systemic assault on expertise and civil servants in our democracy. look, i know jared kushner. we work at the white house office of innovation to pass a bill on the idea act. and this isn t a partisan issue. but who puts jared kushner in charge of middle east peace? and when you give him a top-secret clearance and you know that he s on whatsapp with mbs and saudi arabia and that this may be affecting things like the war in yemen, there are real concerns. so this isn t some partisan issue. this is saying that the president has disregarded foreign policy ....
Authority. right! so why d you lie about it? oh, yeah, i wanted to build a moscow tower. then why d you lie about it? because you spent all the time going after the president s lie. and they come back and go, well, he had that authority all along. why are you so upset, chris? and it s not just trump, right? this is the hallmark of a lot of modern authoritarian states, none more so than russia. there s this book that s called nothing is true, everything is possible, this book about modern russia that will give you a lot of insight into the terrorism that the trump administration practices on us every single day to keep us in this state of derangement and feeling slightly off-centered and not being able to get your bearings in this miasma. i thought this was an amazing statement to the emipistilogica terrorism, nine times, the president of the united states, kushner and ivanka all deny that jared kushner was granted ....
Special clearance over the objection of others. we now that s not true, there s memos moralizing from don mcgahn and john kelly. so a spokesperson for abbe lowell says the following, in 2018, white house and security clearance officials affirmed that mr. kushner s security clearance was handled in the regular process with no pressure from anyone. that was conveyed to the media at the time and if news stories, if accurate, do not change what was affirmed at the time. meaning, we lied, and just because it s now true doesn t mean that we didn t lie. what the hell kind of a statement is that? because, again, if you want to deconstruct the administrative state, it starts with deconstruct the way you think and the way you perceive reality. okay, but is it that strategic? yes! or are they just hustlers who are caught? well, even hustlers have strategy. that s true. that s true. michael cohen showed that on the stand. a canny hustler. particularly when they re in an environment whe ....