Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Order simply disrespecting the flag, but about social injustice, a dispute about the Justice System and police brutality. Whats notable here is that though President Trump argues that his players have a difficult time defining exactly what theyre protesting, he revealed earlier this year that he clearly understands their motives. I want you to listen to this sound bite from President Trump in june. We have a great country you. Should stand for our National Anthem. You shouldnt go in a locker room when our National Anthem playing. Im going ask all of those people to recommend to me, because thats what theyre proegt, people that they think were unfairly treated by the Justice System. And i understand that. And im going ask them to recommend to me people that were unfairly treated, friends of theirs or people that they know about, and im going to take a look at those applications. And if i find a
Growing on the presidency. Dire warning from a man who would know On The Last Day of the kavanaugh hearing. There is now a cancer on the presidency . Yes, i would agree with that. All in starts now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. 60 days from the midterm election. Danger threatens Donald Trumps presidency from both within and without. 4 including tonight a report that his private business empire, a thing that defines him above all else is in the cross hairs of a federal probe. Inside the white house the president and closest aides are reportedly turning the west wing upside down to try to identify the anonymous author of the Op Ed Claiming to be part of the resistance inside the Trump Administration protecting the country from an unfit president. Asked by a reporter if he thinks the Attorney General should investigate who wrote it, the president responded he does. Claiming the oped is a matter
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showtime. and also the author of impeachment and american history. good evening, gentlemen. i want to start by taking a look at part of this indictment where roger stone is talking to person two, randy creditco about giving false testimony and pleading the fifth. stonewall it, plead the fifth, anything to save the plan. what is more interesting is this, the watergate tapes talking to hr mitchell. watch this. [ inaudible ] stone was literally quoting richard nixon when he was talking to people about this. i mean, you can t make this stuff up, can you? no, he admires richard nixon. i mean he has spent over 40 years trying to replicate the
released the hacked e-mails in a manner quote consistent with the methods and motivations of russian-directed efforts. the special counsel also indicted stone for witness tampering. this for allegedly attempting to sway radio host randy creditco, allegedly, a go-between before he testified to congress. the indictment alleges that stone said creditco should do a frank frantangeli. he said he e-mailed them to say are you a rat, a stoolie. stone then said he would quote take that dog away from you, referring from his pet. stone and president trump have been friends since the 1980s when stone first encouraged trump to run for president. trump is someone through the 80s who took enormous risks and succeeded. as exploerd in the documentary, get me roger stone. stone once again expressed his
keep trying to call steve bannon and he won t call me back. i m sure bannon is glad for that reference. if i could just talk about one thing about roger stone that i think all of us who maggie and all of us who covered him for a long time know. he talks with this tremendous bravado and likes to talk like a gangster even though he s not a gangster. there are references to the godfather in here, frank petrangeli. and the exchanges with randy creditco where they are having a dispute through the texts and he says i m going to kill your dog effectively. that sounds funny when talking with roger stone. in black and white it s ugly and he has to defend it in front of a jury and say, well, when i