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
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. what he tends to do is buddy himself up to military and law enforcement, especially at the lower ranks or local level. this is very classic of other schemes where you see people trying to actually skirt the law. right. i think when we watch this, it s interesting to watch, you will always discred i d people at the federal level he s actually in charge of. then he preys on people at the local level, which i finds kind of odd, if he s in charge of the fib february, he s in charge of the department of justice, he can fix it. he is the president. also, hoo tess person charged when acting the laws. today he tells reuters, i ve stayed away from mueller. this sounds so mobster. i stayed away, ki go in there if i. to. i can run it if i wanted to. can he? is that true? it s not true in the sense
what he tends to do is buddy himself up to military and law enforcement, especially at the lower ranks or local level. this is very classic of other schemes where you see people trying to actually skirt the law. right. i think when we watch this, it s interesting to watch, you will always discred i d people at the federal level he s actually in charge of. then he preys on people at the local level, which i finds kind of odd, if he s in charge of the fib february, he s in charge of the department of justice, he can fix it. he is the president. also, hoo tess person charged when acting the laws. today he tells reuters, i ve stayed away from mueller. this sounds so mobster. i stayed away, ki go in there if i. to. i can run it if i wanted to. can he? is that true? it s not true in the sense that constitutional norms that have governed our country for hundreds of years would say, no. now, if he does it, who can stop him? the answer is congress can top him.