los angeles, allegedly trying to get to the cockpit today, passenger sake through my members reacted quickly. if they prevented him from reading the cockpit. they subdued him via zip tie. the flight was going to albuquerque, new mexico, where they arrested the suspect before turning him over to the fbi. also, a frente! tom black frontier airline plane reportedly rolled off the end of the runway. so far, no injuries. they are being declined from the aircraft via stairs, it happens a lot of flights there. they are working to extract the aircraft landing gear from the soft ground at the end of runway one. it breaking tonight, authorities in massachusetts are announcing a new development in a 21-year-old murder case. the district attorney says frances thunder who died in 2016 was a person of interest in the
crisis not a closed crisis, a catastrophe at the border. when he think the numbers, record number people, kids are being used as pawns. i think that, let s put it this way. kids in cages was retired on january 20th when the president was inaugurated because that term no longer exists. at this responsibility in terms of the president no longer exists. kids being painted not the border, being thrown over the wall, it s heart-wrenching. that s the only words to say, particularly when you have children yourself. shannon: this is going on for a long time, it s exponentially worse at this moment in time. any responsible lawmaker who has a heart and sees that has got to come to the table and figure something out, these are human beings. have fun clubbing. shannon: not tonight. it breaking tonight, out of
first to report that jeff sessions as attorney general was refusing to state whether or not he considered himself to be recused from any matters involving paul manafort. if this in fact is true, and all manafort matters are now being handled by mueller, that takes away the worry that any trump justice department interference might get in the way of the manafort part of this investigation. and that to me seems like a really important advance here. that s a great point. because i work here, rachel, i happen to know you re resting up and coming back soon, but while you re out, are you going bonkers not covering all this news this week? yes, ari, i am. i am watching nbc i am watching msnbc instead of help make msnbc coverage. you have been doing an amazing job, as have all the producing staff there. but i m desperate to get back into this because i just i keep thinking it s going to die down and we keep getting these
because he expanded his investigatn into various abuses of power which in the end included the obstruction of justice for ich nin was driven out of office. and so for donald trump to find out if he s finding out tonight that this investigation is going to go beyond, you know, the original focus of it, that s not great news for him. it s so interesting you say that because you re referring to in it is watergate timeline, which many observe took so much longer, it appears that both publicly, as you just said within government, the understanding of how wide this scope was came later. so, do you infer anything as a matter of best practices or abundance of caution, all the legal mumbo jumbo that comes out there, that mueller is drawing some lessons from that history? i think that s right. this has really sped up because as you said, the watergate process took a lot longer. but but we have at least shadows on the wall of investigations of
limited of executive are back in the news because of this countdown to thursday when jim comey is supposed to testify. now, he no longer works for this administration. that s one reason he s testifying. but washington lately has been obsessed about whether trump might follow other presidents and take a broad reading of this privilege to try to limit what comey says. and today the white house indicated it is reviewing the option, according to bloomberg news. and in fairness to this white house, it s really the job of any decent white house lawyer to review, if privilege claims are legally possible for such sensitive testimony and then consider whether they re in the public interest. but here s the thing about presidents. they love their executive powers and they push them way past the breaking point. because a privilege for secrets only works for secrets. not for essentially public matters or, you know, things you ve been tweeting all about. president obama even learned the limits of ex