Replacement in sight. Repeal and replace is going great. And racial bias, Excessive Force and reckless shootings. Todays doj report on the Chicago Police department when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. There is just one week to go until donald trump becomes the president of the United States. He has not even taken office yet and already trump is historically unpopular. His transition, arguably clouded by more serious scandals and controversy than all eight years of the Obama Administration combined. As questions mount about the circumstances of trumps election and his alleged ties to a foreign adversary. Democrats appear to be reaching a breaking point. In an interview with chuck todd, georgia congressman, Civil Rights Icon john lewis became the first to declare openly what i believe many lawmakers have until now only suggested. I dont see this
President Elect as a legitimate president. You do not consider him a legitimate president . Why is that .
And page. They have conveniently disappeared. I dont make this up. The messages the fbi claims to have lost. Theyre from a critical, crucial time in the Russia Investigation. Here is what happened. During that five months this. Is from december 14th, 2016 to may 17, 2017. President trump claimed he was wiretapped at trump towers. We dont have what they were gossiping about at that point. January 11th buzzfeed. The russian phony dossier to get the filing against the trump campaign. January 24th now Lieutenant General Michael Flynn is interviewed by the fbi. I hope flynns attorneys are watching tonight. There was one person in the room, peter strzok, who made it clear he despises all things
destroy evidence . That doesnt make sense. According to the same reporting of the plea deal the fbi wasnt allowed to search emails after the server was public. So the fbi couldnt look at possible Obstruction Of Justice by clinton and aides. Its obvious that happened. Then here, the Washington Post rep
Wasnt plausible, Wasnt Believable but it was at least relatively co teernt. To recap, Michael Cohen and his surrogates on tv had been claiming for months that Michael Cohen, the president s attorney, facilitated as cohen put it 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels who says she had an affair with the president 12 years ago. Now, the money came out of cohens pocket allegedly taken from a Home Equity Line of credit we were told. The president had not repaid it. In fact, mr. Trump knew nothing about it they claimed and despite coming as it did in the closing days of the campaign the payment supposedly had absolutely nothing to do with the election. Nothing to do with skel change an embarrassing story 11 days before the election. On wednesday night Rudy Guiliani went on fox and said this to sean hannity about the daniels payoff. Its not Campaign Money. No Campaign Finance violation. They funneled it through a law firm. Funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. Oh, i didnt know h
Both sides and the president s side, the Special Counsel side had a facetoface meeting last week. A rare facetoface meeting after weeks of informal discussions and were told by a source familiar myself, my colleague that Robert Muellers Team Provided more granularity on the topics they would like to discuss with the president in a possible interview under the umbrella of the firing of james comey as well as the firing of the former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. The specifics include the Attorney General Jeff Sessions role in the firing of james comey as well as what the president knew about his National Security adviser Michael Flynn and his conversation he had had with former Russian Ambassador Sergei Kizlyback about the actions. There is possible collusion, possible Obstruction Of Justice and what the president knew. Im told by a source familiar that legal team has taking the
topics and created questions possible questions that could be asked in an interview on a memo. But
Enormous turn and that brought us to 24,265. These trade tariffs are widening a lot. It started with steel and aluminum. Its affecting a variety of products, everything from televisions and cigarettes to plastics. You name it. Porkrelated, beef products. Soy beans, an area that they didnt want to get into that theyre into. All of this was a big stepback moment to say its bad, its coming but maybe its not coming at all. This was crazy. Youre right. Boy, just as the opening bell rang this morning at 9 30, it was looking like we were going to have one of the worst days you could see on wall street. We were down 500 points like this. A couple of things happened after that. The aforementioned larry kudlow did an interview and he shade we
wouldnt see a trade war. The markets started to come back after that. There were technical factors at play. People in support levels, held up meaning that at a certain level in a market, whether its the Dow Jones Industrial average, maybe the nasdaq or the