The senate says kushner withheld emails about a, quote, russian back door over tour. And House Republicans pass the trump tax plan. I dont benefit. New Analysis Finds that the plan saves trumps family over 1 billion. I pay as little as possible. I fight like hell to pay as little as possible. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The same president who has weighed in on everything from Meryl Streeps acting to Social Media Policies of espn tonight has no opinion whatsoever on the voracity of the allegations that his partys nominee for u. S. Senate in alabama pursued and sexually assaulted between age girls when he was an adult. Reporte reporters today his Press Secretary studiously avoided taking a position on whether the
white house refusing to take a stand on roy moore is the same white house that claims that every single one of those women, every single one of the president s accusers, is lying. Obviously, Sexual Harassment has been in the news, at
A look at the days top news and headlines. Mean . I will boil it down to immunity is cooperation like. This is how immunity comes around. Feds want to talk to a witness. That witness then takes the fifth amendment, which means they have some potential criminal exposure of some nature or other. Then it is back in the feds court. What the fed can do is apply to get a program through immunity, and that is a lengthy process, prosecutors are not very generous with immunity, you have to ask, is this a person who i want to give a pass to and be, need to get the testimony . If the answer is yes you have to send an application to had to doj headquarters, immunity is a significant thing to give out. And what it tells me is that the Southern District really wants the testimony of the two people. Ed lets talk about weisselberg, somebody very close to the president. And he told the new york times, if the separate probe, ever gets into my Business Dealings, that is a redline, and that might be
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we need to respect the rule of law and the process. we need to be very careful about doing things that might even appear to be political. ed: two quick questions very briefly, one, in fairness to the attorney general, he named to that u.s. attorney out in utah s somebody who would be outside of politics, outside the beltway to look at clinton and all the rest, fair enough. we have not heard from them. we ll be here from john humor? i do not have any insight on what he is doing right now, but i would assume that he is working hard and diligently in tandem with the inspector general, you have to remember that the inspector general prode report on the clinton investigation. but he is currently looking at what happened with the beginning of the investigations in the president s campaign. so we will see what happens. i cannot tell you when that is going to happen. i do know that they will do a diligent and thorough job. ed: the other thing that the president said was that why did the
nevada. this is a danger zone as one republican operative put it to me. the latest polling, we should say this is a really remarkable poll, this is out of alabama from fox news. it has doug jones up by eight points. that s the democrat in alabama, doug jones, up by eight points, 50-42. sabrina, it was a very interesting moment in the presser today when huckabee sanders was asked about roy moore repeatedly and asked about al franken. and the al franken question in normal circumstances would be red meat for the white house to go right after. and you could tell she wanted no part of it. why do you think that is? well, it s two-fold. one is because they re refuse to go take a position on roy moore. how are you going to take a position on roy moore, who has been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, including those who are saying he preyed upon them when they were teenagers. so how can you not take a position on that, and then in the same breath or the next breath, i should sa
and the al franken question in normal circumstances would be red meat for the white house to go right after. and you could tell she wanted no part of it. why do you think that is? well, it s two-fold. one is because they re refuse to go take a position on roy moore. how are you going to take a position on roy moore, who has been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, including those who are saying he preyed upon them when they were teenagers. so how can you not take a position on that, and then in the same breath or the next breath, i should say, denounce al franken and make a big deal of the story that came out today. the other issue is, as you noted in your own monologue, this is a president who himself has been accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women. those access hollywood tapes heard around the world where he bragged about groping and kissing women without their consent. and republicans on capitol hill have been unable to say why roy moore accusers are so