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Reports and interviews that give viewers a look inside the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. all this is ken vogel of the new york times and also the law firm of butler rocca and dershowitz, former federal prosecutor georgetown law 0 professor and legal analyst paul butler. former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york also an msnbc legal analyst mimi rocca, and professor emeritus at harvard law school, alan dershowitz. he is the author of the book the case against impeaching trump. thanks to all of you for being with us on this sunday night. ken vogel, i want to start with you just in terms of what we ve been seeing out of the white house from this president today. what prompted this flurry of tweets? well, clearly he s fairly under a lot of pressure. michael cohen is coming out publicly and releasing the tape of the conversation regarding a payoff to a woman who alleged he had an affair with her, has seemed to set him off in a way we haven t s ....
no question about it. talk to your doctor about chantix. welcome to kasie d.c. i m kasie hunt. we are live in washington from 7:00 to 9:00 eastern. tonight the president lashes out against robert mueller claiming conflicts of interest. plus russia gate travels to the worst airport gate in america. don junior and robert mueller treated to the lucid nightmare that is gate 35 x at reagan national airport. at the same time the president s inner circle is fighting it out in federal court and the court of public opinion. later we ll talk to senator chris van hollen about matters foreign and domestic. he floetsz new sanctions for months could you as tariffs start to turn politically toxic at home. but we begin with a series of tweets from the president late today including a greatest hits of grievances against special counsel robert mueller. quote, is robert mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to president trump, including the fact that we had ....
Republicans, even gun owners, support most of this. what i m saying, chris, actually, is that you can hold two ideas in your head at once. you can tell a pollster that you support universal background checks and you can also hold accountable or vote against a lawmaker who votes for those background checks that you say you support. in addition to that, the energy on the side of those who are against background checks and some of these other restrictions is huge. and so, as ken points out, these republican lawmakers are looking at potential primaries. the president of the united states, who is running a base-only strategy for re-election, is concerned that if he does anything on gun control, he s going to lose people that he needs to show up and support him in his re-election, i mean, you ve seen his rhetoric change from right after this shooting and right after previous shootings, i should say, you know, within 24 hours at times. yeah, i m not sure it s not the other way around, ken ....
The public conversation on our platform and protecting the integrity of elections is an aspect of that mission. we have made significant strides since 2016 to counter manipulation of our service, including our release of additional data in october related to previously disclosed activities to enable further independent academic research and investigation. facebook has yet to respond and google has declined to comment. joining me now, the man reporting this story out for us, intelligence and national security reporter den delanian and analyst malcolm nance. malcolm is author of the plot to destroy democracy. ken, you have been reporting on this new knowledge report. there are so many interesting key findings. what stands out to you? well, as you mentioned, we knew that the internet research agency had been doing this and laid out in a robert mueller indictment and the reports lay out the scope and the scale to an extent that we haven t seen before and what number stood out to me. ....
These reports. ken, i want do go back to this targeted of african-americans. there s some i want to read from your reporting. the russians set up 30 facebook pages targeting the black community the researches found and 10 youtube channels with 571 videos related to police violence against african-americans. what was the intent? it appears, ali, voter suppression, fomenting distrust in the system, whether clinton or trump is elected the police will still kill african-americans and clinton doesn t care much about that. very sophisticated effort. it appears to have played some role if suppressiof suppressing. they knew which swing states to target including states that clinton didn t know she was vulnerable in like wisconsin, ....