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this is what we do. we protest when we disagree and i don t think there s any reason for people to be told to come together and support this if they don t believe in it. i m not suggesting support tonight s nominee but don t plan the protest before you know who the nominee is. and that is where we are. we re at the point of transparent obstruction on both sides, olivia nuzzi and david jolly, thank you. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening. thanks, my friend. thank you for joining us at this hour. this is a big important historic news day. good to have you here. thank you for watching the news on a night like this and thank you for watching it here. antonin scalia, nino to his friends, he was beloved by his fellow supreme court justices. even the justices who disagreed with h the most, perhaps escially the justices who disagreed with him the most in terms of their day jobs. they loved his company. justice scalia and justice ruth ....
just moments prior. live in bridgewater new jersey near the president s golf club where he is expected sometime now. brian? reporter: hi, sandra. look. a rashable development just an hour ago with the president deciding to disban entirely two of his key economic councils. the manufacturing council, which was built entirely to help him keep american jobs here with 12 big time ceo s on that council. as well as disbanning the strategic and policy council really meant to help him forge a new economic policy. well, the president under pressure really sending out that tweet saying that he s essentially relieving pressure for all of these ceo s who are now forced to make a decision as to whether to stand by the president or not, given his comments on charlottesville. remember, nine ceo s out of the 12 in that manufacturing forum had resigned as of this afternoon. in fact, 20 minutes after the president sent that tweet in resigned. yesterday in a press conference, the president stru ....
tries to clean up trump s tweet, saying he knew general flynn lied to the fbi when he urged then-fbi director jim comey to drop the investigation into flynn. the president s tweet raising serious questions about whether the president obstructed justice. here s sarah sanders late today. look, the president knew that he lied to the vice president. that was the reason for his firing. the problem is, that is not at all what the president tweeted four days ago when he fired off this tweet. quote, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. the white house has made it very clear, president trump s tweets are, quote, official statements by the president of the united states. no matter who might draft, tweak, or actually type them. in this case, lawyer john dowd, the first person ever to take the blame for a presidential tweet. trump s tweet and sarah sanders explanation simply are not the same. they contradict each other. they also don t match cnn ....
answer academy, recited a garbled version of the claim made by his ally. it s a shame what s happened with the fbi. but we re going to rebuild the fbi. it will be bigger and better than ever. but it is very sad when you look at those documents and how they ve done that is really, really disgraceful. and you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it. they ve found tremendous things on the other side. when you look at the hillary clinton investigation, it was you know, i ve been saying it for a long time. that was a rigged system, folks. all right. in isolation, it s actually hard to figure out what he s even saying. but it s not hard to figure out where the president picked up those talking points that he was fumbling around with. those talking points have been airing around the clock on trump tv. it s also hearing them directly from people like congressman matt gaetz, a republican on the house judiciary committee who took a ride on air force one with the preside ....
over two weeks ago. and so the border patrol was arresting dozens and dozens of kids a day at that time, sometimes as many as 100 a day. and so the real total by the time the president changed his mind about this was about 3,000. new york governor andrew cuomo has visited facilities in new york state that are holding some of these children, and he does not believe the president s new task force will reunite parents and children. it s impossible legally to reunite the child and the parent. by law, they cannot put the child in a detention facility and what the administration is still doing is keeping the parents in a detention facility. so you cannot unite them with a parent. when they talk about reunification, they re talking about trying to find another family member in this country, an aunt, uncle or something, and see if that relative will take in the child. andrew cuomo knows how the federal bureaucracy works and doesn t work. he was the secretary of housing and urban d ....