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
associated chant attorney generals office. that is number three official at the doj. that means he has been overseeing complicated prosecutions coming from visions like the tax division, antitrust division, civil rights division. when you marry that up with his expertise for when he worked for the new york attorney general he was the lawyer there that left several cases that, for instance, dismantled trump s charitable entity or pursue the trump organization when it took this crazy position in census litigation, trying to change the language of the constitution. he has both experience in the courtroom with trump and the ability to know when a criminal case is rife and ready to go. it is tough to believe that he would be taking this job if the can t cthis is unne pos much. the deahead. f, wha is it evean? at does it mean fo corporatto be convicted of crime? obviouslu can a corporation to prison. r one goes to pr orations pay fine finewhenhey a. e is dmatic conseque contoing business,
mr. cohen will be under oath and it will be the first time he provides public testimony under oath. we have a chance to maybe, you know, fill in the blanks. you know, one of which is a lot of don t vcontra ver si over th feed testimony. did he coach you to lie before the congress or not? that is a pretty simple question forward to help is pretty simple. but she an admitted liar. would you believe him no matter what he says? i think you have to look at the context. i m not sure what he is going to go to jail. so i don t know that he has a lot left to lose. i think he understands that the loyal loyalty has not been returned. i think he has a lot going for him to tell the truth. by the way, if under ooet he lies again he risks being
in the courtroom that the president of the united states hindered the investigation far more than the lawyer s planned by launching a fake news campaign and calling the probe a witch hunt. the judge may have found that convincing. papadopoulos was sentenced to just two weeks behind bars. paul man fort has been locked up since breaking the terms of his bail accused of witness tampering. far right conspiracy theorist was subpoenaed to appear, and roger stone, cover si has cold info wars he would like to fight the special counsel. i want to say to mueller, let s go out in the backyard of the justice department. you got to have something? let s duke it out. you want to behave like a thug? well, this is what you deserve. okay. today after his lawyer said he planned to cooperate with mueller s subpoena, of course,
and the con troe trer ver si followed president obama to europe where he continued the receive questions, but today, president obama struck a somber tone as he attended a number of d-day ceremonies, and he joined other world leaders to commemorate a day where more than 160,000 allied troops rolled on the shores of the beach of normandy, france, and liberated a continent. as a part of the day, he attended a lunch with 17 other leaders, including va putin and that lunch is the first face-to-face encounter since the start of the crisis. joining us is the director of the msnbc s the daily rundown and also, medal of honor recipient and msnbc correspondent colonel jack jacobs. chuck, we know that the