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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 trump s 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. i m chris hayes. amid a steady drip of news about trump world s 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, it s how we know it. in a throw back to the benghazi days, they ve 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 broug ....
night last week we were talking on the show about the siberian energy group on the right and we accidentally showed the website of the siberian energy group on the left. i m sorry about that. you can understand why we might mix those up. the live siberian energy group versus the dead siberian energy group. interesting. the reason we even know we made that mistake and put up the website is this article on politico.com concerning the murky origins of half a million dollars paid to former security advisor mike flynn. the siberian group is the only publicly traded gas and exploration company in the u.s. that has 100% of its assets in russia. siberian energy group. part of what politico talked about last week and we told you on the show, there is a link between the ceo of that now defunct siberian energy group and the guy who paid mike flynn more than half a million dollars mike flynn did not disclose on his security clearance application in washington. this is the money that ....
americans protesting the president of turkey and his visit to the white house. men in suits moving in. the bloody clash. good evening. and it s great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. and we begin with that breaking headline the white house blindsided tonight as the department of justice reveals that they will appoint a special counsel to now oversee the fbi investigation into russian meddling and any possible collusion. former fbi director robert mueller will now lead the investigation. democrats and some republicans had been calling for this move, the news coming just 24 hours after we learned that former fbi director james comey, who was fired by president trump, kept notes about his meetings with the president. the department of justice saying just moments ago, a special counsel is necessary for the american people to have full confidence in the outcome. abc s senior justice correspondent pierre thomas leading us off. reporter: tonight, a bombshell announc ....
and tonight, a u.s. senator, marco rubio, has called his death murder. back on american soil, inka pass tated after 17 months in a north korean prison. his father s first words to his son. what did i say to my son? i knelt down by his side and i hugged him and i told him i missed him and i was so glad he made it home. reporter: but the 22-year-old was in a state of unresponsiveness waitfulness, damaged throughout his brain, rendering him able to brink and at times move, but there was nothing left of the adventurous young than that had departed nearly two years earlier. otto, i love you and i m so crazy about you, and i m so glad you re home. you are such a great guy. reporter: the north korean government claimed that warmbier contracted botulism, took a sleeping pill and fell into what they call a coma. a north korean mri confirmed the he was accused and tried for hostile acts after the north korean government claimed he took down a propaganda poster in the hotel where ....
event and they were keeping it separate. with some prodding from the press, they decided to allow a few reporters in and one camera. two hours later, they changed their minds. so there s no press inside this event right now. we have no idea what the president is saying to donors, and we likely won t find out unless one of the donors tells us. how much is the trump hotel getting paid to host this? i know you were asking some questions about that. reporter: that s a great question. we have no idea who is paying for this event tonight that the president is attending. we reached out for comment, and our requests have not been answered. so it could be the rnc. it could be the re-election campaign, and it could be that the hotel donated the space. we don t know. is it normal for a president to hold a fund raiser for rhis re-election five months after taking office? presidents obama and bush didn t unprecedented and remarkable in and of itself. put it all together and once agai ....