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
of national security. The reporter did not ask which law the president thinks
man who says he doesn t want to bear false witness, who literally we have email exchanges in which he s fabricating lies about hillary clinton s health in the context of the indictment and we know from jerome corsi himself, asked jerome corsi to wlie. or be punished physically by him. it s godfather stuff the way he threatened this witness. and called him a rat. jerome ocorsi and radio host about making contact with wikileaks. while at the same time he kept can in touch with people close to the campaign. stone wrote to a supporter involve would the trump campaign saying spoke to my frind london last night. the pay load is still coming. later that day a supporter asked tebst stone if he had heard anymore from london. sto
early 2019 and we ll see the outcome. already he s charged 33 people. three senior trump associates have pleaded guilty to various charges, paul manafort, michael flynn, michael cohen. roger stone may soon face his time in the barrel. the house intel committee voted anonymously to turn over a transcript to stone s testimony to mueller that might be a precursor to charging him with percentage. we wi perjury. clearly mueller and the southern district of new york probes pose peril to trump. james mattis resigned as defense secretary, the last adult in the room many say. will others follow him out the door? will there be unrest in the middle east? will some hostile power try to take advantage of mattis policy disagreements with the president? most perilous to the president, the markets, mueller, military, they re all valid, but the correct answer, in my view, is choice number four, the media.
we hope they are. another plea deal would be in the works as a result of the investigation into russian meddling in the presidential election. this involved this man. a conservative writer and associate of long-time trump ally, roger stone and in plea enegotiations and expected to be indicted for lying. hoowas a link between roger stone and wickey eleaks and if he etipped off the trichl campaign that wikileaks was planning to release stolen emails. sto stone. i have no idea what this is about other thantosay tosay that he knewen advanced that john podesta s emails were going
significance beyond that. it was a relatively minor plea agreement. so harry, let s talk about the roger stone and creditco part of this. it seemed mueller is zeroing in on stone. sto stone has said he expects to be indicted. my question to you having worked in the justice department, do you think today which is 60 days to the midterm, duke the idea the justice department can t bring anything in that 60 day window applies to anything with stronger stone? the short answer is no. no as we ve learned from giuliani s false assertions before, there s no strict policy and the guidelines such as exists has to do with the direct effect on an election. i think the argument is stronger that indicting stone doesn t have a direct effect on any particular election, though it s not good news for trump. now, we do know that when