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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 trump s 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 op-ed is a matter of national security. the reporter did not ask which law t ....
Into these potential crimes. what do you i mean, i know from being in the government, the conspiracies are sometimes unlikely. what do you make as a potential explanation for why no charges were brought from sdmy, enforcement action from the irs, what s a working theory for why there s been nothing? usually when you re a federal agency or federal prosecutor and somebody gift wraps a prosecution and hands it to you, you re real happy to open the presence. i think that makes the tax situation here difficult to understand but typically when prosecutors decide not to move forward in one of these high profile cases, they do it because they see a problem with the case. they believe that there s insufficient evidence to obtain a verdict, to convince a jury of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. maybe they think there s a legal component. it s very tough to assess these ....
The smallest of people, most of them related to the president. yeah, and mueller knows. not just related to the president. the organization is related to the president. this really puts the screws to them in a serious way without having to deal with the authority questions of criminal liability. if between mueller and sdny and new york da and new york ad they re coming at the financial empire, possible civil rico charges, that s serious pressure even though it s not criminal. and that persists regardless of what happens to mueller. that s right. in parallel right now. that s part of the significance of that report today. it didn t end with michael cohen and sdmy is still on the case. got to make you think hard. great to have you both. thank you. thanks. for more on today s developments and the president s bad week, i m joined by ....