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why? because information is powerful. that s our closing thought for you. and that does it for the beat. i also want to say a big thank you to ayman mohyeldin and chris jansing for anchoring all last week. i will be back here at 6:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. hardball with chris matthews starts right now. big bad wolf. let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews back in washington. well, the president spent the weekend defending his mental stability. and look, i ve been away for two weeks and ucome back to that kind of news. and perhaps more telling, his defense of his military or mental stability only raised more questions about, you guessed it, his mental stability. and then there is the new hope of the resistance. like other heroic figures, she goes by one name and one name president. on saturday, president trump tweeted, actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being really smart. i went from a very successful b ....
if confirmed by the senate, i will keep an open mind in every case and i will always strive to preserve the constitution of the united states and the american rule of law. so kavanaugh is a graduate of yale law school and clerked for justice kennedy. in 1993 he met ken starr during a justice department fellowship and became a key staff member when starr was the independent counsel investigating the white water and clinton/lieu ensky scandals. kavanaugh helped write the final report to congress that laid out 11 possible grounds for impeaching president bill clinton. he served as george w. bush s white house counsel and staff secretary before he was nominated to be a federal judge in 2006. he was confirmed at that time by a vote of 57-36. now, brett kavanaugh s nomination sets up an extremely consequential confirmation battle. within minutes of trump s announcement, several top democrats voicing their intention to vote against him. senate minority leader chuck schumer put out ....
Business news and analysis. for, and the russians provided. so it seems in all fairness if you re looking at the trump campaign, you d want to be looking at the other side too if you want to know what russia is up to. why don t they? trish, in all fairness, what you ve seen the special counsel do is follow the facts where they lead. you have publicly indictments, evidence that the russian intelligence services tried to infiltrate the democratic campaign to release e-mails to help the trump campaign. fbi agents have corroborated, brought it to a grand jury. i don t think you can criticize that piece of this investigation. why are they not looking to the hillary side? if you re going to talk about collusion and believe that somehow that russian attorney meeting at trump tower with jr. equating to collusion, why wouldn t it be by the way, they weren t paying for anything in that meeting. that meeting happened out in the open for everyone to see. there were security came ....
Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on today s top stories. letting him ask about obstruction but doing so in written answers and limiting in-person questions to questions that dealt with things that events that happened before president trump was inaugurated, focus on the potential collusion questions and nothing about obstruction of justice. all of these debates over whether they will sit down are going on while giuliani is saying president trump does want to sit down with him, he is expressing interest. it s the legal team that has the reservations about that. this is happening while the president is continuing to lash out at the special counsel. that s because the president believes he can sway public opinion to agree with him that this is a witch hunt and be on board this investigation has gone on too long, that it s a witch hunt. whether or not that pans out is up to the president s twitter feed and whether he can convince his supporters. stand by to stand by. great to see ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories. whether a person is too close to the subject of the probe, whether jeff sessions would beak be more of a trump campaign surrogate who happened to be attorney general rather than acting as an independent law enforcement officer. if sessions didn t recuse after that statement, it would have made him look even more like he was doing trump s bidding. and trump apparently didn t know that making that statement would also as just a general matter of embarrassment, make him look weak and out of the loop about a decision that was already done. because there were reports that show the internal doj process had already resulted in sessions accepting that nonpartisan recusal recommendation from the career staff earlier that week and that jeff sessions was already working with doj officials op writing the very rationale they would soon release to the public. in fact, it was barely an hour after trump put that public press ....