Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Deliberating three days after this. I think its very sad what theyve done to paul manafort. Thank you very much. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. The president appears to be terrified he has a quote rat in his midst. Inside the white house. That i should be clear, thats his word. Rat. Its not the kind of language we are used to hearing from the president of the United States who is, of course, entrusted by our constitution when suring the nations laws are faithfully executed and who is responsible for appointing our most senior Law Enforcement officers. Youd expect to hear that word in a very different context. Your uncle was a rat. Sit down, sit down. Your uncle was a rat and now hes in the witness protection program. Thats my fathers brother youre talking about. Now the president is assuring
the country not that he has obeyed and upheld the law but that he does not hire snitchs. Tweeting the naming Nort
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. So im going to be a little contrary here, chris, say i see where the president is coming from when he says this is a bit old news, my colleague, bob costa and i wrote in november when don mcgahn went before bob muellers interview team, sat down with verdicts two days straight so people have known for a long time that don mcgahn was cooperating with the investigation, that everyone who was in the white house was encouraged to voluntarily be engaged in these interviews. Now what we do know now is that after the week stories, by the times don mcgahns attorney has alerted and assured trumps own legal team that don mcgahn provided no information that was incriminating to the president , did not incriminate him. In fact, don mcgahns lawyer was putting tear mind to ease, sent them information saying my guy does not incriminate your guy. Are you serving the office of the presidency and you are serving the american public. Youve got to balance those two
where are we headed right now? to see one of our clients a dad separate fareed his son. reporter: the executive director of the immigrant law center. today most of her time is separating families. it turns out many ended up in the los angeles area. some parents still behind bars. ? we are going to the ottowa detention facility about 90 miles outside of l.a. we have attorneys up here almost every day of the week. reporter: lindsay and other lawyers head out here on a regular basis to push back on the government s contention that parents of 154 kids didn t want to be reunited and intentionally signed documents giving up that right. you represent ten people in this facility alone or fathers separate fareed their kids and signed papers that basically said i don t want to be reunited with my kid? yeah. so this guy his name is hos kins young. yeah. did he want to give up his
today most of her time is separating families. it turns out many ended up in the los angeles area. some parents still behind bars. we are going to the ottowa detention facility about 90 miles outside of l.a. we have attorneys up here almost every day of the week. reporter: lindsay and other lawyers head out here on a regular basis to push back on the government s contention that parents of 154 kids didn t want to be reunited and intentionally signed documents giving up that right. you represent ten people in this facility alone or fathers separate fareed their kids and signed papers that basically said i don t want to be reunited with my kid? yeah. so this guy his name is hos kins young. yeah. did he want to give up his right to be unified with his son? actually not. he refers to him signing this document that he didn t understand as a sin. a sin? yes.