Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Deliberating three days after this. I think its very sad what theyve done to paul manafort. Thank you very much. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. The president appears to be terrified he has a quote rat in his midst. Inside the white house. That i should be clear, thats his word. Rat. Its not the kind of language we are used to hearing from the president of the United States who is, of course, entrusted by our constitution when suring the nations laws are faithfully executed and who is responsible for appointing our most senior Law Enforcement officers. Youd expect to hear that word in a very different context. Your uncle was a rat. Sit down, sit down. Your uncle was a rat and now hes in the witness protection program. Thats my fathers brother youre talking about. Now the president is assuring
the country not that he has obeyed and upheld the law but that he does not hire snitchs. Tweeting the naming Nort
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. So im going to be a little contrary here, chris, say i see where the president is coming from when he says this is a bit old news, my colleague, bob costa and i wrote in november when don mcgahn went before bob muellers interview team, sat down with verdicts two days straight so people have known for a long time that don mcgahn was cooperating with the investigation, that everyone who was in the white house was encouraged to voluntarily be engaged in these interviews. Now what we do know now is that after the week stories, by the times don mcgahns attorney has alerted and assured trumps own legal team that don mcgahn provided no information that was incriminating to the president , did not incriminate him. In fact, don mcgahns lawyer was putting tear mind to ease, sent them information saying my guy does not incriminate your guy. Are you serving the office of the presidency and you are serving the american public. Youve got to balance those two
as he did for this one. so this one was not necessarily a slam dunk case because the jury has been deliberating on it for longer than some people expected them to. the one in d.c. may well be. okay. the michael cohen charges are something that the president has always been more worried about than anything else in this entire investigation. because michael cohen was his long-time fixer and knows virtually everything about trump and the trump empire. so this is definitelying is that we are seeing. it s reaching a critical mass. i think the president is now panicking and making these kind of ridiculous arguments on twitter. there is also his lawyer s representation. i want to play this clip. rudy guiliani does epistomology 1010. take a listen. when you tell me he should testify because he s going to tell the truth. he shouldn t worry. that s so silly because it s somebody s version of the truth. not the truth. he didn t have a conversation the truth is truth.
ironically calling someone a rat. then i am a law and order president. what do people like yourself think of that who work in the fbi. certain laws and certain orders, not all of them. public corruption, white collar, these sorts of things are not where he tends to focus. a misdemeanor entry into the country, we take your child away. a blue wave by the way, someone might tell him it s synonymous with loads of cops showing up at your door. that s another blue wave. he apparently has not heard that one. maybe he ll see it at some point or somebody on his team. i think the.is the in terms of law and order, he has bragged about deregulation, he s taken thing ace way and enforced certain things he likes. he made assertion about crime, crime has been going down dramatically for the past two decades, anything involving next crime, homicides, there is no real proof to that pudding.
remember, mcgahn says, calls trump king kong, because of his volcanic outbursts. mcgahn is the guy who trump says, go to sessions and tell him to recuse before he knows. mcgahn is the guy who argues against the comey firing. and i just don t see how they can blindly say he couldn t have given him anything. it s not the good point that carol makes they don t know what mueller already knows, but the whom core point of evidence that remains here for mueller is trump s state of mind. right. and mcgahn is shoulder to shoulder with trump daily. he sees him screaming. he sees these tirades. he sees him talk about comey, talk about sessions. it seems implausible the info he provide, just the factual enno could be ill num lateing what was if trump s mind when he did