Were looking forward to that the beat, 6 00 p. M. Eastern week nights. But more importantly the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening, ari. Thanks. Much appreciated. Thanks for joining us at home. It is friday. So that means the news has again a little nuts again. I feel like there is nothing predictable about American News cycles anymore other than the fact that the cuckoo pops out of the clock reliably every friday night. Thats one thing you can count on. Its friday. Things are nuts. Tonight is no exception. Tonight the cuckoo has popped out of the clock. And over the course of this hour, actually, were waitsing for the next big thing to happen on two very important stories. Ill just tell you flatout, we expect to be covering developments in both of these stories over the course of this evening, potentially into the overnight hours tonight. As i speak right now, its 9 00 p. M. Eastern, and this hour is going to be crucial. Republicans have just issue
make these materials public. if the point of this whole declassification showdown as set up by fox news hosts, if the whole point of it was to force a confrontation with rod rosenstein, to push rod rosenstein into saying no, to push him into refusing the president s demands so the president could then fire him in response, when rod rosenstein personally went to the white house to talk to the president about this matter, the president appears to have blinked when it came to that confrontation. rosenstein apparently told him no, you can t let this stuff out. and the president, i think the script they thought he was going to follow at fox news was he would then stand up and say well, you re fired. the president said, okay, then i ll withdraw my request. if the president is still looking for a pretext to fire rod rosenstein, who of course oversees the robert mueller investigation, so if he was going to fire rosenstein, he could install somebody else in that job to try to make the