This coming as President Trump does appear to be going ut alone. Essentially acting as his own lead attorney. This was according to sources who say the president feels misled and no longer wants anyone else in charge. It is a decision with massive implications, given the fact President Trumps personal lawyer and ficker of a dozen years is under investigation and his documents have been seized by federal prosecutors. That means the president , who does not have a law degree, is trying essentially take over his own defense and today he went on offense on twitter about the russia investigation, tweeting slippery james comey, the worst fbi director in history, was not fired because of the phony russia veinvestigation. Where by the way, there was no collusion except by the dems. Of course, theres a huge problem with the tweet like that. And that is this. The president himself said last year on National Television that comey was fired because of russia. Regardless of recommendation,
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Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Spent an entire week at one of his golf course. It should not be that hard to find out whose interest the president is serving if own the congressional leaders would say subpoena his tax returns. More likely to support a candidate who promises to be a check on the president. Fresh off another round of encouraging Election Results on tuesday, democrats have a message of their own, they are in the words of nancy pelosi clean up corruption. What does that mean . Cleaning up corruption. How do you do it . We have to make sure that we can get big money out of politics. What we have seen is dark money
risk of not getting kavanaugh confirmed. It is not a matter it is a matter of timing. That sounds like they support in impeaching Rod Rosenstein but not doing it now. The plot which is to go after Rod Rosenstein but allow the senate to jam the Supreme Court justice. Do that work and then return after the midterm elections to try to jam up Rod Rosenstein.
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Legislation that this congress has been pushing forward. The biggest example of it was the corrupt gop tax scam where 83 of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 . This was not done for the people. Thats what we stand for as democrats. It was done for the lobbyist, the wealthiest, the billionaires. This is corruption happening in plain sight. I would not disagree that is corrupt. But that is every day corruption. That is a system that is shot through with corruption. I dont want to minimize that. We are talking about specific corruption in that this president has a whole host of corrupt relationships to his business and things like that. That my question would, what would they do if they got the majority they are lying, cheating, stealing and doing it with impunity. And the reason is this congress has refused to do constitutional oversight responsibilities. The House Of Representatives doesnt work for donald trump. We work for the American Peopl
should invoke the powers of the national security agency in an attempt to show foreign power had meddled in the election to help biden win. we re seeing bombshell report, after bombshell report on this election-stealing plan. and trump seemingly nervous. posting more rally, appearing on right-wing television, trying to deflect blame. trump is saying pence and pelosi should be investigated. today saying capitol security was pelosi s job, why i am responsible for anything. fact check, again, the house speaker not responsible for security on capitol hill. joining me now formerance chair michael steele and barbara mcquade. michael, what is your top takeaway from these memos? well, i think they give you an insight into the somewhat degree of panic that trump was engaged in in trying to figure out, okay, how do i grab back
republican voters, especially women. we ve seen those people go back to glenn youngkin. but if the democratic party wants to make a play for winning those people over, that suggests one path. if the party wants to make a play for, you know, trying to win back some of the not just white working class but trump has made gains among the black working class, among certainly smaller ones, some hispanics, he s made gains among asians. that is a different bath. and so, again, i think there is a there is different groups that are voters who are maybe out there who, that the democratic party should take as much of an ideology question. you invoked governor ron desantis. and now calling biden a