Plus the president s latest hard right turn to try and sell trumpcare 2. 0. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. And from selling your Internet Browser history what the heck are you thinking . To rolling back protections for women. How trumps america is taking shape faster than you know. Would you like to make a change, folks . When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Amid a steady drip of news about trump worlds connections to russia and under the shadow of an unprecedented federal probe into possible collusion between a foreign adversary and the sitting president s campaign, the white house and the gop is in full change the subject mode. The scandal is not what we know, its how we know it. In a throw back to the benghazi days, theyve got a familiar scapegoat. Former National Security adviser
susan rice. I believe susan rice abused the system, and she did it for political purposes. She needs to be brought in and questioned under oath.
well, you know, it certainly is a theory in search of a villain and for whatever reason the hard right has always chosen susan rice to be their villain. i think you heard some snippets about that today. i was dra gooned into service on the benghazi select committee. for two years, that committee s purpose was to take down hillary clinton s numbers. but one of the central figures the republicans went after and after and after was susan rice. and after two years they could find nothing that susan rice did wrong. in fact, the only thing susan rice did was go on sunday morning shows and repeat what the intelligence committee best assessment of the early hours of benghazi was. that was consistent with what we were hearing, what susan rice was hearing, and that s all they could find, which was perfectly appropriate on her part. so what it is they have about susan rice that they like to go after her, i don t know. but i do think you re right in your summation at the outset. this is yet anot
two congressional committees investigating any trump ties to russia, congressman adam schiff of california. congressman, ken dilanian had this quote that i thought was interesting and made me think. he says, non-partisan former senior intel official to me just now on unmasking fake scandal. it s like iraq wmd, a theory in search of facts. what do you make of that? well, you know, it certainly is a theory in search of a villain and for whatever reason the hard right has always chosen susan rice to be their villain. i think you heard some snippets about that today. i was dra gooned into service on the benghazi select committee. for two years, that committee s purpose was to take down hillary clinton s numbers. but one of the central figures about that today. i was dra gooned into service on the benghazi select committee. for two years, that committee s purpose was to take down hillary clinton s numbers. but one of the central figures the republicans went after and after and after was s