The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Charge of an investigation and a guy who is the subject of an investigation that just got more profound. We have to preface everything, ari, with if the account from Michael Cohen is true, blah, blah, blah. So if the account is true, it is a tremendous change in the landscape. What it does is show us two things. One, that donald trump, from the very beginning, was in on an attempt at collusion, an attempt to conspire with a plot that was described to donald trump jr. As a secret operation by the kremlin to help trump. So if trump knows about that from the very beginning, and is in on it, i think that has a lot of legal, but even more so, political implications. Plus if hes told about this, and even if nothing came out of the meeting, remember throughout the whole campaign and up to now he keeps denying or dismissing the russian operation. Could have been a 400pound guy in a basement. The
judiciary committee for its investigation. remember, all those letters went out. while the committee says it has received or expects to receive tens of thousands of documents, the daily beast reports trump s lawyers have refused to send anything. tonight, in this very studio, committee chairman jerry nadler warned that could mean future legal action. seeing if he can reach accommodations with them, but ultimately people have to respond to us unless the president personally invokes an executive privilege. for more we welcome two new faces to this broadcast. jeffrey cramer, former district attorney for the northern district of illinois. former manhattan assistant d.a. now with the berkeley research group. and tessa berenson, white house correspondent for time magazine. welcome to you both. tessa, interesting interview tonight with nadler. he talked about the volume they are receiving including a couple of thousand documents from steve bannon. what is that a lesson of, do you
question. these documents and others were provided to deutsche bank, on one occasion where i was with them in our attempt to obtain money so that we can put a bid on the buffalo bills. tonight, the new york times is reporting that when it came to inflating assets, deutsche bank executives had reached a similar conclusion. they nonetheless agreed to vouch for mr. trump s bid according to an executive involved. today was also the deadline for trump associates and entities to submit documents to the house judiciary committee for its investigation. remember, all those letters went out. while the committee says it has received or expects to receive tens of thousands of documents, the daily beast reports trump s lawyers have refused to send anything. tonight, in this very studio, committee chairman jerry nadler warned that could mean future legal action. seeing if he can reach accommodations with them, but ultimately people have to respond to us unless the
any pleasure, chris, to define him as a pathological liar. you know, i have conservative friends who are not liars. to talk about to talk about this president as somebody who is trying to divide our people up when you will remember, remember after 9/11 george bush very conservative president he went to a mosque to say this was not an attack by muslims, it was an attack by a handful of terrorists. do you remember that? yes. this guy is something different who will say anything, do anything in order to gain power. and while he s dividing us up, he s busy giving huge tax breaks to the rich and trying to throw millions of people off the health insurance that they have. so i think it is imperative that we rally the american people, not only against trump, but around a progressive agenda which demands the government
ignore who trump is and what he is doing. on the other hand, it certainly is not good enough just to run an anti-trump campaign. we have got to be talking about health care for every man, woman and child. in my view, through a medicare for all system. you ve got to be talking about raising the minimum wage to a living wage, $15 an hour. you ve got to be talking about climate change and the transformation of our energy system. you have to be talking about the demand that the wealthy and large corporations, at a time when we have massive income and wealth inequality start paying their fair shares on taxes, it s good policy and good politics. you ve been in politics for a long time. you ve won races, you ve lost races, you know that politics bean bag as the saying goes, you get nasty down the stretch. have you ever seen anything quite like what this president is doing in this moment. no, i have not, you have not,