Good morning everybody. Im Thomas Roberts at msnbc World Headquarters in new york. 9 00 a. M. In the east, 6 00 in the west. We have new comments from the president today, who used his weekly address to mark the end of what the white house has dubbed infrastructure week. This week i laid out a bold and exciting new vision for the infrastructure in america that will make our country faster, safer and wealthier. Frankly, it will make our country greater. With the talent, skill and drive of the American People, there is no doubt to the beautiful feature we can create together. All it takes is a bold and daring vision and the will to make it real. Infrastructure week was overshadowed by the testimony of the fired fbi chief james comey which the president was quick to knock down in a press briefing from the rose garden on friday. He did say under oath that you told him to let the flynn you said you hoped the Flynn Investigation hed let go of that. I didnt say that. So he lied about that . I
Beto orourke on the case he is making to africanamerican voters in South Carolina. New Horror Stories from americas growing and unprecedented migrant detention camps. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Today we learned the president of the United States has taken the drastic step of accusing his own formal white House Counsel of perjury. We know the charge of making false statements to officials is something that trump is keenly aware of because people have been convicted or pleaded guilty to this crime including trumps First National security adviser, his campaign chairman, his Deputy Campaign chairman, a Trump Campaign Foreign Policy adviser and of course trumps longtime personal lawyer and fixer. In an interview with abc trump accused don mcgahn former white House Counsel of lying to Robert Mueller about trumps request for mcgahn to fire the special counsel. No special counsel should have ever been appointed. You know why . Because there was no crim
about what is happening to our nation in the future. marsha blackburn objected to unanimous consent. today the president thanked her for doing that to make it clear on whose behalf that was but he says, fighting obstructionist democrats, i want to be clear about this. there is actual legislation crafted that you think would pass and would certainly pass in the house that mitch mcconnell s obstructing, right? there is a proactive attempt to legislate being blocked by the senate majority leader. that legislation by the way was introduced at the same time by eric swalwell in the house. it has 31 cosponsors there including the chair of the judiciary committee. there is no question it will pass. we have an identical bill in the senate that is supported by a number of my colleagues including cory booker and sheldon whitehouse and martin heimrich and i think would pass by an overwhelming bipartisan majority. what the president is saying in effect is i ll listen to any
there should be no fuzz on the fact that russians interfered in the 2016 election, even going further to say they ll be back in 20/220. he also told martin heimrich that the conversations with president trump were never about that. did the president in any of those interactions that you shared with us today ask you what you should be doing or what our government should be doing or the intelligence community to protect america against russian interference in our election sis snem. i don t recall a conversation like that. joining me now, former fbi special agent clint watts who also testified to the senate intel committee about the russia investigation. clint, what do you make of comey s version there, and is that to the president s credit or discredit because of knowing that there was a problem with sessions having to recuse himself, there was an open investigation of flynn? could he even ask those