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wall, paul. and the threats. he s been terrific. now if he ever goes against me, i won t say that, okay? when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. in 37 days donald trump will become president of these united states. we have breaking news tonight. two senior intelligence officials tell nbc news that russian president vladimir putin was involved in efforts to disrupt the u.s. presidential election. that conclusion is based on intelligence from diplomatic sources and others including spies working for america s allies. that comes on top of growing consensus in the intelligence community in the u.s. that russia was behind multiple large scale attacks on democratic institutions and operatives producing fodder for countless embarrassing and politically damaging stories at the height of the presidential election. the in the just had amazing reporting on the alleged scope of the russia cyber attacks which targeted the democratic national committ ....
nothing to do with his qualifications. they are opposed to donald trump pointing anyone to the supreme court. kneneil gorsuch a good man. it s the democrats who are breaking the rules, what they re doing is changing the 200 year status quo. the ironny is that you could have said the exact same things, regarding judge garland. that, of course, was president s garland s dom knee to fill the same vacancy who republicans refused to hold a single confirmation hearing, much less a vote. it was an unprecedented feet of obstruction. which mitch mcconnell on the campaign trail later, one of my proudest moments. the garland affairs seem to have taught democrats a lesson about the up sides of obstructionism and now with engaged based marching the streets and turning up the town hall showing to posed any kind of cooperation whatsoever with this president, there s new in washington. just four democratic senators came out against a gorsuch fill buster, facing tough re-election battles ....
police came. my other son was in the battle cage and he is also very brave. you can see him there in that picture, the tall er of the two. we heard shots and it was clear pretty quickly there was a shooter with a high profile rifle. steve scalise was hit in the hip he was hit, and he was down the whole time. senator rand paul was in the batting cage when it started. i could see way in the distance, the gun sounded like an ar-15, and we could not see i kept yelling back are you friendly? we didn t know if it was another gunman or if it was return fire. and the capital policeman put his head around the dugout and i could tell it was them returning fire. it was a very chaotic situation, and it lasted for at least ten minutes and it just kept going on and on. some estimated over 50 shots. i stood up up in the dugout trying to get a sense of where the gunman was. he walked around first base outside of the fence. . and he got into the dugout. and we realized we were not safe ....
event and they were keeping it separate. with some prodding from the press, they decided to allow a few reporters in and one camera. two hours later, they changed their minds. so there s no press inside this event right now. we have no idea what the president is saying to donors, and we likely won t find out unless one of the donors tells us. how much is the trump hotel getting paid to host this? i know you were asking some questions about that. reporter: that s a great question. we have no idea who is paying for this event tonight that the president is attending. we reached out for comment, and our requests have not been answered. so it could be the rnc. it could be the re-election campaign, and it could be that the hotel donated the space. we don t know. is it normal for a president to hold a fund raiser for rhis re-election five months after taking office? presidents obama and bush didn t unprecedented and remarkable in and of itself. put it all together and once agai ....
of experts to explore this further. in london, a geopolitical analyst and author. he serves as the cofounder of economic partners. and in beirut today but actually based in london at the school of economics. an expert on terrorism and the co-author of isis: the state of terr terror. and peter bergen joins us from washington. he is a vice president at new america. peter, let me ask you, does this strike you as terrorists adapting yet again? because what is interesting about this to me is it s in many ways very low tech. a van going into crowds, people brandishing knives and using them as weapons. of course, guns are very hard to get in britain. maybe i m just trying to look for a silver lining here. all of that means they re finding it hard to do big bombs at symbolic locations and that kind of thing, and what they are reduced to is driving vans and using knives, which is, of course, terrible and tragic, but you can only kill so many people, particularly if the police respond ....