Trust the president. New reporting on the president s humiliation of Jeff Sessions in the wake of the mueller appointment. And the Treasury Secretarys new excuse for asking the government to subsidize his honeymoon. They had to give up a lot to take these jobs. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The most prominent voices of the trump base discovered today what many of his Business Associates and customers learned long ago. If youre in business with donald trump, eventually youre going to end up on the wrong side of the deal. This afternoon in an offcamera session with reporters on Board Air Force one, the president defended his decision to work with democrats on a deal to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children. In exchange for increased Border Security. Im a republican through and through, but im also finding that sometimes to get things through, its not working that way. And, you know, we got very poorly treated on the hea
Americas interests first. Who believed that the decline of america was a choice that we could reject. The American Dream is now being renewed. 3 growth, maybe even 4 , a market that is roaring, historic highs, unemployment, the likes of which we havent seen since 1973. And africanamerican unemployment is the slowest in decade. Thanks cuts for all of us. Government regulations cut faster than any time in history to help business. And the military finally getting the support it deserves. While it crushed the islamic caliphate in the middle east. Illegal immigration is at its lowest level in more than a decade. So yes he arrived just in time when our nation needed to be inspires, needed a new agenda, desperate for a better path to the future. The president is being who he has always been. He has always believed in bringing all different ideas and inputs and individuals to the table. He always looks for disagreement, dissention, he doesnt need 100 agreement. He just needs an honest convers
Obscure the larger truth. If the ideological gulf between the president and steve bannon is small. This is not a fight over ideas, its a fight over who deserves credit for an election win. Talk about missing the point. If the legacy of 2016 is not a single person, any person, its a set of ideas, the ones that reflect the hopes and their needs and the fears and the aspirations of a badly mistreated american middleclas middleclass. Those voters came to the polls because they wanted real borders, higher wages, they were dispirited by the opioid epidemic, why wouldnt they be. They were sick of being lectured by Political Class of washington that despises them and holds them in contempt. They were the other country, but they had come to recognize that it is hard to make the rest of the world better and very easy to make it worse. Above all, they voted for leadership that promised to put Americans First above any foreign nation or domestic interest group. That is the real legacy of 2016. At
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