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and it starts with copper, the mineral copper. there s copper in brass. there s copper in bronze. the statue of liberty is sheathed in a layer of copper. that s about the thickness of two pennies. pennies themselves used to be copper, but now they re just copper-covered zinc, which sort of seems sad. it makes financial sense, because copper over time became too valuable to use in something as cheap as a penny, because most of what we use copper for now is conducting electricity. we use copper for wiring. there is a massive global appetite for copper. and the world s largest producer of copper is an american company. it s a company that used to be based in new orleans but now the mining company freeport is based in phoenix, arizona. and the freeport mining company of phoenix, arizona, they do still mine copper in arizona and they mine copper in new mexico and in colorado. but they are a gigantic firm. and they re a global operation. in south america, they mine copper in chile, ....
trust the president. new reporting on the president s humiliation of jeff sessions in the wake of the mueller appointment. and the treasury secretary s new excuse for asking the government to subsidize his honeymoon. they had to give up a lot to take these jobs. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the most prominent voices of the trump base discovered today what many of his business associates and customers learned long ago. if you re in business with donald trump, eventually you re going to end up on the wrong side of the deal. this afternoon in an off-camera session with reporters on board air force one, the president defended his decision to work with democrats on a deal to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children. in exchange for increased border security. i m a republican through and through, but i m also finding that sometimes to get things through, it s not working that way. and, you know, we got ver ....
we re going to start with the cuban missile crisis. cuban missile crisis was 1962. it took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. the united states at that point had long been flying high altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. it s interesting. the cuban missile crisis is very precisely identified in all the history books as having started on october 16th. two days after that u2 spy plane captured those images in cuba. but the crisis didn t start on october 16th because something happened that day, because there was some overt act by cuba, there was some provocation there or some announcement by them, it didn t start because on october 16th there was some act by the soviet union or some announcement by the soviets that kicked off this crisis. the reason we can be so specific about when the cuban ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. here in new york. day 581 of the trump administration, and just tonight a short time ago, in fact, new legal troubles potentially for the president on a new front. we ll let the new york times tell it. quote, the manhattan district attorney s office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the trump organization and two senior company officials in connection with michael cohen s hush money payment to an adult film actress, according to two officials of the matter. a state investigation would settle on how the company accounted for its reimbursements to mr. cohen for the $130,000 he paid to the actress, stephanie clifford, who has said she had an affair with president trump, closed quote. mostly along those same lines a big story today had to do with a long time friend of the president who has apparently turned on him. the publisher of the national they came from me. rem ....
that a businessman would have knowledge is limited in any when he is about to sign a transaction. but if you go after his integrity, right, if you go check. and by that he clearly meant after his public service, if you go after his military record, that president trump was you re done. thinking about or had in front but chuck, isn t there a high stakes problem with that, for of him the possibility of providing security assistance to trump and the republicans to say, because then the next question is, okay, who does know ukraine. it was similar to writing a check to someone who you re what trump said? bolton and trump. about to send. he used that analogy very and they don t want those folks to come before congress. i absolutely agree. i m saying if there is a path to clearly to indicate that this try and point out that he has limited knowledge, that s the would be this would require path and it s a narrow one. something. if that person owed him does it ultimately work? no, it ....