Plus the president s latest hard right turn to try and sell trumpcare 2. 0. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. And from selling your Internet Browser history what the heck are you thinking . To rolling back protections for women. How trumps america is taking shape faster than you know. Would you like to make a change, folks . When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Amid a steady drip of news about trump worlds connections to russia and under the shadow of an unprecedented federal probe into possible collusion between a foreign adversary and the sitting president s campaign, the white house and the gop is in full change the subject mode. The scandal is not what we know, its how we know it. In a throw back to the benghazi days, theyve got a familiar scapegoat. Former National Security adviser
susan rice. I believe susan rice abused the system, and she did it for political purposes. She needs to be brought in and questioned under oath.
knowledge, that is traitorous conduct because the russians attacked the fundamental institutions of our country, trying to delegitimize and change the outcome of our election and conspiring with a foreign power to attack the foundation of our democratic republic that is traitorous conduct. that was senator jeff merkley moments ago in his opposition. the confirmation of supreme court nominee neil gorsuch while the white house is under investigation. merkley is still speaking, plans to hold the floor all night. meanwhile another trump pick, jeff sessions, is making his mark as attorney general. the man who once criticized the doj s report on the chicago police even though he said he didn t read it has now, through his justice department, gone to court to seek a 90-day delay in a consent decree to overhaul baltimore s embattled police department. that kind of action by the nation s attorney general is remarkable considering that baltimore s mayor and its police commissioner strongly s
if president trump worked to conspire with the russians or his team conspired with the russians at his direction or his knowledge, that is traitorous conduct because the russians attacked the fundamental institutions of our country, trying to delegitimize and change the outcome of our election and conspiring with a foreign power to attack the foundation of our democratic republic that is traitorous conduct. that was senator jeff merkley moments ago in his opposition to the confirmation of supreme court nominee neil gorsuch while the white house is under investigation. merkley is still speaking, plans to hold the floor all night. meanwhile another trump pick, jeff sessions, is making his mark as attorney general. the man who once criticized the doj s report on the chicago
that over the next four years, while president trump is in office, he nominated, let s say this one goes down, neil gorsuch goes down. you re going to oppose anyone he nominates? you know he s going to nominate a conservative judge. there is absolutely no revenge in this. this is about saving the integrity of the court from here on through the next generation. and certainly, if one doesn t care about the integrity of the court and you just want to look at this nominee from a judicial perspective, we have two other significant problems with him. the first is that the president s team is under investigation for having potentially interfered in the uss presidential election. if that turns out to be true, that is traitorous conduct. that means this conversation should be set aside till that is cleared up. the second is gorsuch is way out of the mainstream. he hates class action lawsuits. he doesn t want the lgbt community to be able to use the