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
significance beyond that. it was a relatively minor plea agreement. so harry, let s talk about the roger stone and creditco part of this. it seemed mueller is zeroing in on stone. sto stone has said he expects to be indicted. my question to you having worked in the justice department, do you think today which is 60 days to the midterm, duke the idea the justice department can t bring anything in that 60 day window applies to anything with stronger stone? the short answer is no. no as we ve learned from giuliani s false assertions before, there s no strict policy and the guidelines such as exists has to do with the direct effect on an election. i think the argument is stronger that indicting stone doesn t have a direct effect on any particular election, though it s not good news for trump. now, we do know that when
randy creditco who has links to julian assange and roger stone was back there testifying. of course, it makes you wonder, was mueller interested in wikileaks today or roger stone or both? we learned the answer. take a look. how much of the questioning have you of assange? very little. no, don t the major the majority of the questioning had to do with roger stone. specific questions we re not going to get into. you saw the lawyer trying to get creditco not to answer. that is big news tonight. roger stone was the focus of the questions today in that grand jury room. let s take it together. bob mueller is hunting right now. trump s lawyers, meanwhile, sending their own mixed signals about whether donald trump will ever face mueller. rudy giuliani announced to much fanfare that trump wouldn t answer any questions about obstruction of justice, even in writing. that made headlines, he added later, well, nothing s totally
creditco were how he approached the investigation. up ahead, donald trump says jeff sessions ain t real. we ll explain in 30 seconds. i believe, i really do believe that something s got a hold on me, yeah oh, it must be love oh, something s got a hold on me right now, child oh, it must be love let me tell you now, oh it must be love donald trump has used public attacks to drive all kinds of senior people out of federal law enforcement. he didn t personally fire the number two fbi official andrew mccabe, or peter strzok who was terminated yesterday, but he set the scene.