Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. What the president and his attorneys are up to, devlin barrett. They really moved quickly to get out there, the notion that there is no directive or order behind this tweet. No other set of instructions going to the justice department. And while they say, you know, this is just his opinion, the truth is that the president does sometimes announce or carry out Executive Decisions via tweet. You can ask rex tillerson, the former secretary of state about that who was essentially fired by a tweet. This is an amazing day. I think there were incredible things that happened today. But how it all plays out and what the ultimate consequences of these things is still playing
on it great point. Thanks for your time. Here to help me joyce vance. We already know that the mueller team was looking at pronouncements by the president by tweets. An interesting debates about the status of those legally. What do you make of what he said today . Today look loose i ca
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Of these things is still playing out. One of the things that has happened is we have seen an escalation against mueller. This was crossing a line he has not crossed before. This is the closest he has come to a direct order to stop an investigation into himself and the campaign. And not only that, he is doing it as an fbi agent is on the stand testifying. It is still amazing and i dont think we should lose track of either of those things, they are both remarkable and both frankly what we have seen before. It has been hard. And we are looking through the Mueller Investigation through a straw and we get the king of unreliable narrators. What do we know in terms of the back and forth. A lot of today was about
gam gamesmanship. They dont want to say absolutely not we will not do an interview. So this is part of the gamesmanship. Mueller is saying, okay, we will take some of the questions off the table. Would you please sit down with us. And frankly i
starting february 2021, early days after the biden administration. i m seeing 50/50, half passing through here wearing masks, half people not wearing masks. what is so interesting is even the signage at the tsa checkpoint going into the terminal here at reagan national airport has disappeared, that would have mandated that folks wear this mask. this is after this court ruling by judge catherine kimble, u.s. district majority of florida, she said mask mandate exceeded the cdc s authority, and initially after that it threw the travel industry into disarray. the white house said the mask mandate would not be enforced, pending a federal review of that court decision. the tsa then said that it would not be enforcing the transportation mask mandate. in fact, you heard on the lead-in that even some airlines announced midflight that they would no longer be enforcing the transportation mask mandate to some celebratory cheers from on board planes. we have seen that over and over
collisions, cornell, there is a guy who won the democratic primary there, very impressive resume. what s interesting about that district, he s a black nominee running in a district i think 80, 85% white, a very white district. he s not the only one losing, down in georgia six is a black woman running in a district majority white and you have stacy abrams running and in 14 as well. that s right. that s a fascinating phenomenon to me given the white racial identity politics we ve seen cultivated by donald trump in this era, those are test cases. it s a backlash. in full disclosure, i work for lauren underwood. that name just came to you! she s getting her money tonight.
primary there, very impressive resume. what s interesting about that district, he s a black nominee running in a district i think 80, 85% white, a very white district. he s not the only one losing, down in georgia six is a black woman running in a district majority white and you have stacy abrams running and in 14 as well. that s right. that s a fascinating phenomenon to me given the white racial identity politics we ve seen cultivated by donald trump in this era, those are test cases. it s a backlash. in full disclosure, i work for lauren underwood. that name just came to you! she s getting her money tonight. it s part of this backlash that you can double down on the tribalism and it will expand the tent.