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the senate says kushner withheld e-mails about a, quote, russian back door over tour. and house republicans pass the trump tax plan. i don t benefit. new analysis finds that the plan saves trump s family over $1 billion. i pay as little as possible. i fight like hell to pay as little as possible. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the same president who has weighed in on everything from meryl streep s acting to social media policies of espn tonight has no opinion whatsoever on the voracity of the allegations that his party s nominee for u.s. senate in alabama pursued and sexually assaulted between age girls when he was an adult. reporte reporters today his press secretary studiously avoided taking a position on whether the white house refusing to take a stand on roy moore is the same white house that claims that every single one of those women, every single one of the president s accusers, is lying. obviously, sexual hara ....
so upset about this. especially reportedly saying, giving him advice not to resign, saying that he could weather this. again, this is an accused domestic abuser. right. you have to question kelly s judgment. and, you know, people inside the white house say, look, many of them like kelly, some of them don t like kelly because he silos everything and keeps them away from the president. but one thing most people seem to agree on is that he doesn t have any political sense. and, you know, he doesn t understand political? gloria, listen. no, in terms of i don t want to be insulting. no, but i m not saying on the abuse stuff, but i m just saying, a priori, this is such a terrible thing, get rid of him. why is he even still there after all of this time? that s a good question. i want to get to jim. chief of staff, john kelly, we re talking about him. forward was pretty glowing. and it s sort of odd, a senior white house official told us this evening, don, one of ....
michael flynn. end the investigation. i m joined noud by ken dilanian with nbc news it, natasha bertrand who covers is the russia probe with the atlantic and jill wine-banks, all three of you, i want to know what you make of these two witnesses being called, comey already and sessions very soon. and then the president. chris, what i think this shows is mueller is accelerating sat ob struskz justice aspect of the probe. the three pillars of this investigation, it looks like the obstruction case is going down the track further and faster than the collusion and money laundering. there s a lot we don t see but the obstruction witnesses we know who they are and what stories they have to tell. it s not a surprise that comey is a key witness. what s surprising to me is it s happening now and seems like it s speeding up. natasha, explain how you see what kind of a case mueller is going to make here with these hot witnesses now. it seems like ken said he s moving more quickly alo ....
now new tariffs that might ultimately ignite a trade war. the president has ignored the advice of most of business leaders. if you are thinking this president hasn t really thought this through very well? that s how it happened. jesse: but the tariffs were just a bargaining chip and they worked. president trump: this week we secured a wonderful deal with south korea. we had a deal that was a horror show. it was going to produce 200,000 jobs and i d did for them. she was right, but it was for them, not for us. jesse: south korea doubled the amount of american cars they will allow to be sold in their country. this in exchange for trump temporarily dropping the threat of steel tariffs. the washington post reported it marks the first successful renegotiation of a trade deal for the trump administration. that line was buried at the bottom of the story, not even worthy of a headline. little rocket man traveled to beijing for constructive talks with his puppet master. america ....
and her woman of courage award stemmed from her anti-corruption efforts in ukraine? yes. that is true. was it ever determined who threw the acid and killed her? there have been investigations, but while some of the lower-ranking individuals that were involved in this have been arrested, those who ordered this have not yet been apprehended. after you stepped away from this anti-corruption event to take this call, what did the director general tell you? she said that there was great concern on the seventh floor of the state department. that s where the leadership of the state department sits. there was great concern. they were worried. she just wanted to give me a heads up about this and things seemed to be going on. so she wanted to give me a heads up. hard to know how to react to something like that, i asked her what was it about, what did she think it was about. she didn t know. she said that she was going to try and find out more, but she wanted to give me a head ....