Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Spent an entire week at one of his golf course. It should not be that hard to find out whose interest the president is serving if own the congressional leaders would say subpoena his tax returns. More likely to support a candidate who promises to be a check on the president. Fresh off another round of encouraging Election Results on tuesday, democrats have a message of their own, they are in the words of nancy pelosi clean up corruption. What does that mean . Cleaning up corruption. How do you do it . We have to make sure that we can get big money out of politics. What we have seen is dark money
risk of not getting kavanaugh confirmed. It is not a matter it is a matter of timing. That sounds like they support in impeaching Rod Rosenstein but not doing it now. The plot which is to go after Rod Rosenstein but allow the senate to jam the Supreme Court justice. Do that work and then return after the midterm elections to try to jam up Rod Rosenstein.
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Legislation that this congress has been pushing forward. The biggest example of it was the corrupt gop tax scam where 83 of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 . This was not done for the people. Thats what we stand for as democrats. It was done for the lobbyist, the wealthiest, the billionaires. This is corruption happening in plain sight. I would not disagree that is corrupt. But that is every day corruption. That is a system that is shot through with corruption. I dont want to minimize that. We are talking about specific corruption in that this president has a whole host of corrupt relationships to his business and things like that. That my question would, what would they do if they got the majority they are lying, cheating, stealing and doing it with impunity. And the reason is this congress has refused to do constitutional oversight responsibilities. The House Of Representatives doesnt work for donald trump. We work for the American Peopl
100%. i do want to ask you because there was news outside of the impeachment hearings today for the president in the court of appeals, denying yet another trump appeal in effect to block his tax returns being turned over to federal prosecutors here in new york. the significance of that, and do you believe that we, you, the american public will see the president s tax returns before the next election? i think if we if we have courts who are willing to uphold the law, ultimately we will. we have more than one case that deals with the president s tax returns. this particular case emanates out of a subpoena from the oversight and government reform committee. i served on the ways and means committee where we re seeking the tax returns in order to evaluate whether the president is being properly having the laws of the irs properly applied to him. that s a separate case. it ultimately likely goes to the supreme court, and i leave it to others to judge how this court might act on a m
dealings with ukraine. let s speak to manu raju on capitol hill with breaking news. we re getting a first look at ambassador sondland s opening statements here. tell us because it appears that he s defending the president s view of events here. this is very significant news. we have obtained the opening statement that gordon sondland is delivering to this committee, and it is quite revealing. in this statement, what he is testifying before these committees, determining whether to impeach the president of the united states is that the president of the united states put on hold an effort to strengthen relations with the ukrainian government until they were in contact, these u.s. officials were in contact with rudy giuliani, the president s personal attorney who at the time was pursuing investigations into the bidens and the 2016 campaign. now let s get into some of the particulars of this rather detailed opening statement. he said that in may 2019, after president zelensky of ukraine
about when that person called you? they also are going to want to know about what his conversation was with the president when he responded in that key text message that you noted at the beginning of this where he basically says there s no quid pro quo. you are misunderstanding the president s motivations for with holding that money. that s a big question still on capitol hill, poppy. why was that money withheld? why, after congressional democrats and republicans agreed to send it, why wasn t it appropriated? a key question for sondland this morning. and why did he have to go to the president? why was there that five-hour gap in those text messages. why did he have to go to the president for direction on how to respond to taylor. lauren, thank you. appreciate it. we re joined by democratic congressman from maryland, jamie raskin. he served alongside cummings on the oversight and government reform committee. he also from the state of maryland. thanks for taking the time this morning