Extremely loyal people. Tonight i will ask Michael Cohens lawyer what else hes got. There is no dispute that donald trump committed a crime. Plus, what does congress do with a potentially compromised president . We should be pushing to postpone the Kavanaugh Hearing. And the other trump world indictment. And duncan, thank you very much right from the beginning. Congresswoman Duncan Hunter misusing Campaign Funds. Good evening from new york. I am chris hayes. Donald trump has gotten caught. It is the president himself that now has been implicated in a criminal conspiracy to help him win the presidency. A conspiracy that doesnt have
to do with russia. And now the president s private business empire, his Family Foundation are in the legal cross hairs and we have no idea what is yet to come or how far it will go. Appearing in Federal Court yesterday to plead guilty to eight felony counts, Michael Cohen fated under oath that he broke Campaign Finance laws in 2016 before the election to cove
A look at the days latest news and headlines. Moment. But first, ed henry joins me live tonight with the back stor story. Congressman hunter has temporarily stepped down from his three Committee Assignments and congress under pressure from p chris Speaker Paul Ryan who l forcibly strip him of those assignments and thats a sign of how much political hot water hes in right now. Stepping down from the Armed Services panel had to be particularly hard for hunter and for a man who quit his job after 9 11 to serve as a combat marine. Also ps stands accused of misusing Campaign Money in some cases, intended for wounded warriors. The congressman and his Wife Margaret who serves as his Campaign Manager pled not guilty to some 60 charges of stealing a quarter Million Dollars in Campaign Funds. The couple today greeted with those chance of, lock him up. The use Campaign Cash for private school tuition, and spend big money on personal
went to Hillary Clintons fundraisers before they did this know t
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Collude and corrupt the american democracy system in the 2016 election which the trump tower meeting was all about. But also, knowledge about the Computer Crime of hacking and whether or not mr. Trump knew ahead of time. Lanny davis will be joining me in just a moment. So stick around. The president s involvement of a federal crime. Despite having been caught, his role. Despite the audio tape we have all heard, the president and cohen planning the mcdougal payment. The president says he didnt know about the hush money until after the facts. Did you know about the payments . Later on, i knew. Later on i knew. But you have to understand ainsley, what he did, and they
lawyer and assistance to tell a story. That is useful, but the legal question here is Michael Flynn pleaded guilty and cooperated and we never heard about it sort of on the outside. Just strange to me, our conversations already happening to mueller. Has Michael Cohen already talked to
ainsley earhardt, that aired this morning. that as the special counsel probe heats up, but aside from the headlines there is one group that remained surprisingly silent when it comes to the letter i word these days. democratic congressman eric swalwell, member of the house judiciary committee joins me this evening. good to see you congressman, thanks for being here. you tweeted this as sort of a retweet of president trump saying, i don t know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job and you said, we won t. and then you have maxine waters who likes to talk about it an awful lot, and she was on chris hayes last night. i know some of the democrats are saying don t mention the word impeachment, don t worry about the investigation, let mueller take care of that. we got to talk about our issues. while we can do both. martha: so why are you against it given the fact that you seem to think there was so much egregious and potentially illegal behavior? when i said, we won t,
i want to ask you a political question. there s a certain line of thinking that says people couldn t care about the mueller probe, they don t care about the russia stuff or even manafort and stuff. i thought this was interesting, two polls from forks today, mueller s approval rating is quite good. 59% approve and 37% disapprove. the congressional ballot gap is 49% to 38%. do you think democrats should talk about these issues on the campaign trail in the mid-terms? i ve always felt we could walk and chew gum at the same time. i know some of the democrats are saying, please don t mention the word impeachment, don t worry about the investigation, let mueller take care of that. we have to talk about our issues. we can do both, talk about healthcare and obamacare and medicaid and medicare, we can talk about the infrastructure and how it needs to be built up. we can talk about all of these