Well see. Thank to you phillip, zerlina, john. Thank you for being with us. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in. I dont want to talk about pardons for Michael Flynn yet. A New York Times bombshell. Can you say unequivocally no one here has discussed pardons in this case . The president s lawyer reportedly floated pardons for flynn and plfrt before they were charged. Ive always found Paul Manafort to be a very decent man. Tonight it the reporter who broke the story and what this means for the Obstruction Case against the president. Then, did the Special Counsel just file evidence of Trump Campaign collusion with russia . Thats what he said. Thats what i said. Thats obviously what our position is. Plus, the president announces the firing of the v. A. Secretary on twitter. And apple ceo tim cook on Mark Zuckerbergs current
predicament. I wouldnt be in this situation. Okay. More from kara swisher and my exclusive interview when all in starts right now. Good evening
Evening. And the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. You. Just lived my nightmare. I know. This was going to come out while i was live on the air. Your staff had a betting pool on it. We did. Whoever won the betting pool was supposed to get tacos. You got tacos anyway. We got tacos for everybody at 8 00 anyway. I couldnt wait any more. It worked, because i got it. We brought the tacos, we did not bring your staff any tacos, well make that up to you tomorrow. Usually when i start this show at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, i have a script that i have written because there are things in the news that i would like to tell you about. Tonight there is no script because im going to go through what we just learned from the special Councils Office, im going to go through it with you,
basically as i am learning this. This just came out within the last 30 minutes, god bless chris hayes who was able to very ably digest this, handle, go to the i think the key elements of it right away, bring in lots of Expe
the night before the fbi notified secret service we are going to do that interview tomorrow. the fbi was then told that hunter biden would be given the phone number of an fbi agent and if hunter wanted to talk to them, he would call him. next morning, agents waited outlines of hunter s house and his lawyers would not let him speak to the fbi. ainsley: well, i mean in this situation we don t even know if he would have interviewed but they had an opportunity to go in, surprise him and say we need to ask you a few questions. we need to interview you. that would have been the fbi. and he got the tip, secret service got the tip, his people got the tip, of the transition team, and they got his lawyer involved. you know, if fbi knocks on your door you are probably going to say talk to my lawyer or i m going to get a lawyer because i m not talking to you without representation. but general flynn didn t do that remember at the white house when the fbi went in and talked to him, he spoke to th
the glands efforts to get out of testifying to the grand jury were shut down when a judge in florida ruled last month that he must comply with the subpoena. earlier this, week in appeals court declined to block that order from them the washington post reports that in a court filing, fulton county district attorney listed for areas of interest that she wanted flynn to testify about, including the december 2020 appearance he made on newsmax. suggesting trump could use military capabilities to re-run elections in states, including georgia. the prosecutor also cited a subsequent meeting flynn had at the white house with trump attorney sydney powell and other trump campaign advisers, where the group floated ways of overturning the 2020 election results. including martial law. and seizing voting machines. leading off our discussion tonight is democratic congressman eric swalwell of