The senate says kushner withheld emails about a, quote, russian back door over tour. And House Republicans pass the trump tax plan. I dont benefit. New Analysis Finds that the plan saves trumps family over 1 billion. I pay as little as possible. I fight like hell to pay as little as possible. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The same president who has weighed in on everything from Meryl Streeps acting to Social Media Policies of espn tonight has no opinion whatsoever on the voracity of the allegations that his partys nominee for u. S. Senate in alabama pursued and sexually assaulted between age girls when he was an adult. Reporte reporters today his Press Secretary studiously avoided taking a position on whether the
white house refusing to take a stand on roy moore is the same white house that claims that every single one of those women, every single one of the president s accusers, is lying. Obviously, Sexual Harassment has been in the news, at
what donald trump does. i still think that just having this even though it s a false equivalency, you know, kind of having now this thing hanging over the democrats, even though i think that al franken has been such a good senator, i thought he should run for president before this. but i just this idea of kind of slogging it out in an ethics investigation and then waiting to see what kind of penalty they re able to concoct. and also what kind of investigation. i mean, does the senate now do an investigation into his presenate sex life? right. what does that even we don t even know what that looks like. well, it also strikes me that part of the issue here, and we keep seeing this, where there s two, there s 20. that it has been the case that one allegation, it has not been often that there is simply one allegation. right. so my what i and i don t say this lightly, and i m not convinced that i m right. i can hear you working through. but i do think that maybe the be
presenate sex life? right. what does that even we don t even know what that looks like. well, it also strikes me that part of the issue here, and we keep seeing this, where there s two, there s 20. that it has been the case that one allegation, it has not been often that there is simply one allegation. right. so my what i and i don t say this lightly, and i m not convinced that i m right. i can hear you working through. but i do think that maybe the best thing he could do is just say, i m resigning. we have to have a zero tolerance policy for this. you know. and draw a real clear distinction between how the republicans handled this, rather than letting it trickle out and trickle out and trickle out. and then resigning after that and forcing everybody to take a stand and decide whether or not to defend him. i mean, it s just it s such a painful process. the other option is just to bowl through. and we have seen roy moore do it. i don t know if you saw that press co
presenate tenure. i had completely forgotten vitter. it is is much easier for folks like chuck schumer or kirsten gillibrand knowing it might not produce much and even if it does, he will just be released by a democrat. excellent summary. stay right there. we will be back with the most important person not named donald this week.