Growing on the presidency. Dire warning from a man who would know On The Last Day of the kavanaugh hearing. There is now a cancer on the presidency . Yes, i would agree with that. All in starts now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. 60 days from the midterm election. Danger threatens Donald Trumps presidency from both within and without. 4 including tonight a report that his private business empire, a thing that defines him above all else is in the cross hairs of a federal probe. Inside the white house the president and closest aides are reportedly turning the west wing upside down to try to identify the anonymous author of the Op Ed Claiming to be part of the resistance inside the Trump Administration protecting the country from an unfit president. Asked by a reporter if he thinks the Attorney General should investigate who wrote it, the president responded he does. Claiming the oped is a matter
of national security. The reporter did not ask which law the president thinks
tomorrower aides to defy the committee s subpoena outright. a spokesperson for his action committee tells nbc news the former president plans on asserting executive privilege to prevent the january 6th committee from obtaining information. in the washington post, they re reporting steve bannon has rebuffed the committee s subpoena claiming executive privilege. joining me now is harelipman. this subpoena deadline has come and gone for the four individuals. what happens now? congress doesn t have a lot of great option, do they? it doesn t. they are starting to sort of rattle sabers and say everything is on the table, but everything consists of three not very good possibilities and the basic problem here is if trump is able to maneuver things to get to court, to make his claims as spurious and meritless as they may be, it turns things up. there s a disconnect between the
resign. as a staff member, he was not elect, and he can t try to normalize the president. we need to see how crazy donald trump really is, and then have the voters make a decision. i want to ask you something that i asked harelipman previously in the segment. do you think, is your understanding of dog regulations such that they would not be able to bring an indictment against roger stone if that s what they were going to do within the 60 day window? i think special counsel mueller could bring the indictment if he wanted to. i don t think he will. i think he understands that you don t want to be seen as messing around with elections or trying to influence elections in any manner. he could certainly bring in indictments after. i do note, however, that rudy giuliani said that this investigation was going to end on september 1st. clearly it s not ending. they re interviewing more and more witnesses. this investigation is going to continue and there s no time line for when it ends. it s