let s say trump is behind bars and it is a possibility. would he make a speech from prison? working out the logistics of a convict convention. everything is being thought about. everything is being considered. as maga conspiracy figures go in the house. did you select the judge in that case? did you select the jury in that case? tonight the campaign to make the conviction of donald trump stick with voters and the realities of the former president going to jail. i m okay with it. then in wisconsin, criminal charges keep coming. specifically the complaint charges kenneth chas borough with conspiring to commit a crime. plus, senator bernie sanders on the net and yahoo speech to congress. actual good news on the climate front in spite of the deniers. the seas will rise in the next 400 years, which means basically a little bit more beachfront property, okay? when all in starts now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. ever since the former
bribery scheme. that means the unanimous jury found falsification of business records and a violation of new york election law. my view of that is that is called corrupting an election. corrupting a presidential election. by the way, not corrupting a presidential election where donald trump in 2016 beat hillary clinton in a landslide. it was a squeaker. i believe roughly pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan were a total of 80,000 votes. now the essence of the conviction is that it was to ensure that the stormy daniels story would not break in the last two weeks of october. right on the heels of the access hollywood tape. and by the way, at the same time hillary clinton was getting hit with the comey investigation. right, so it is arguably it was a volatile mix.
almost unanimity well, a majority of the cabinet and the vice president. it was sort of a crazy thought. and it s sort of unclear if it got that far. but on that note, phil mudd, rosenstein at the justice department, they released a statement, very carefully worded statement on that saying the following. the deputy attorney general again rejects mr. mccabe s recitation of events as inaccurate and factually incorrect. the deputy attorney general never authorized any reporting that mr. mccabe references. that s just one. let s just start there, phil mudd. that s not a denial. didn t authorize. and also said he didn t on the 25th amendment didn t see that it was necessary and again didn t authorize it. didn t say i didn t talk about it. i m with jack. this makes me uncomfortable but for different reasons. look, when you re in tough situations in washington, d.c., i served at the cia and the fbi, the hotter it gets in the kitchen the cooler the cook better be. during the comey in
almost unanimity well, a majority of the cabinet and the vice president. it was sort of a crazy thought. and it s sort of unclear if it got that far. but on that note, phil mudd, rosenstein at the justice department, they released a statement, very carefully worded statement on that saying the following. the deputy attorney general again rejects mr. mccabe s recitation of events as inaccurate and factually incorrect. the deputy attorney general never authorized any reporting that mr. mccabe references. that s just one. let s just start there, phil mudd. that s not a denial. didn t authorize. and also said he didn t on the 25th amendment didn t see that it was necessary and again didn t authorize it. didn t say i didn t talk about it. i m with jack. this makes me uncomfortable but for different reasons. look, when you re in tough situations in washington, d.c., i served at the cia and the fbi, the hotter it gets in the kitchen the cooler the cook better be. during the comey in
weekend but a planned one-on-one meeting one meeting with the russian president vladimir putin was canceled. administration blamed the cancellation on russia s recent behavior toward the ukraine. it also came shortly after michael cohen s plea deal with the comey investigation. in the end, the president did have an informal meeting with vladimir putin anyway. stephen joins us to sort this out, he s the author of a fantastic new book which you should read called war with russia: from pollutant to ukraine to trump and russia gate. which i just got and read and love. so sort this out if you would. so why the change and what are the implications of it? for the first time since president eisenhower, a president of the united states,