Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. What the president and his attorneys are up to, devlin barrett. They really moved quickly to get out there, the notion that there is no directive or order behind this tweet. No other set of instructions going to the justice department. And while they say, you know, this is just his opinion, the truth is that the president does sometimes announce or carry out Executive Decisions via tweet. You can ask rex tillerson, the former secretary of state about that who was essentially fired by a tweet. This is an amazing day. I think there were incredible things that happened today. But how it all plays out and what the ultimate consequences of these things is still playing
on it great point. Thanks for your time. Here to help me joyce vance. We already know that the mueller team was looking at pronouncements by the president by tweets. An interesting debates about the status of those legally. What do you make of what he said today . Today look loose i ca
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Of these things is still playing out. One of the things that has happened is we have seen an escalation against mueller. This was crossing a line he has not crossed before. This is the closest he has come to a direct order to stop an investigation into himself and the campaign. And not only that, he is doing it as an fbi agent is on the stand testifying. It is still amazing and i dont think we should lose track of either of those things, they are both remarkable and both frankly what we have seen before. It has been hard. And we are looking through the Mueller Investigation through a straw and we get the king of unreliable narrators. What do we know in terms of the back and forth. A lot of today was about
gam gamesmanship. They dont want to say absolutely not we will not do an interview. So this is part of the gamesmanship. Mueller is saying, okay, we will take some of the questions off the table. Would you please sit down with us. And frankly i
in infant and maternal mortality rates, these are issues and health care and education that these women care deeply about and let s not forget that the women have always been practical voters, voting in their own interests and that s what we ll see. shelby county, many first-time candidates and see from all accounts they re hunkered down. they re mission driven in the era of me too and kavanaugh and stepping up for leadership role. stacy abrams, all about education. says it all over and over. yesterday oprah said in her lead-up to her discussion with stacy abrams, if we come out and vote in numbers too large to tamper with, this is kind of interesting, african-american women in the south where we are seeing a resurgence of voter suppression activity like we haven t seen before a lot of people say one way to fight this is in the courts or stacy abrams running as someone fighting voter suppression or flood the zone! exactly. they re already taking leadership roles in the church
he raided the offices of organizations to stop them from registering voters. that type of voter suppression needs the narrative. voter suppression isn t only about blocking the vote. it s also about creating an atmosphere of fear, making people worry their votes won t count. today in georgia an election that is effectively deadlocked. stacy abrams running to become the first african-american female governor in american history faced off in a debate with republican secretary brian kemp. abrams is suing kemp for suppressing votes in the election he s both running and overseeing. kemp, is aware that african-american and minority turnout is a problem for him. he voiced concerns over abram s voters outreach to donors. the recording was given to rolling stone reporter who posted it hours before tonight s debate. as worried as we were going into the start of early voting with the literally tens of millions of dollars that they are putting behind to get out and vote efforts for their base,
arrested for helping her blind father cast a ballot. he raided the offices of organizations to stop them from registering voters. that type of voter suppression needs the narrative. voter suppression isn t only about blocking the vote. it s also about creating an atmosphere of fear, making people worry their votes won t count. today in georgia an election that is effectively deadlocked. stacy abrams running to become the first african-american female governor in american history faced off in a debate with republican secretary brian kemp. abrams is suing kemp for suppressing votes in the election he s both running and overseeing. kemp, is aware that african-american and minority turnout is a problem for him. he voiced concerns over abram s voters outreach to donors. the recording was given to rolling stone reporter who posted it hours before tonight s debate. as worried as we were going into the start of early voting with the literally tens of