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Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. What the president and his attorneys are up to, devlin barrett. They really moved quickly to get out there, the notion that there is no directive or order behind this tweet. No other set of instructions going to the justice department. And while they say, you know, this is just his opinion, the truth is that the president does sometimes announce or carry out Executive Decisions via tweet. You can ask rex tillerson, the former secretary of state about that...

Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Of these things is still playing out. One of the things that has happened is we have seen an escalation against mueller. This was crossing a line he has not crossed before. This is the closest he has come to a direct order to stop an investigation into himself and the campaign. And not only that, he is doing it as an fbi agent is on the stand testifying. It is still amazing and i dont think we should lose track of either of those things, they are both rem...

Justify the president tweet. it is not an exercise of his first amendment rights. not a statement of his opinions, it is a direction to his attorney general. >> thank you for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> democratic congress member of the house intelligence committee joins me now. i want to play something about what senator blumenthal had to say about this today. >> these tweets adding to each other amount to evidence of criminal intent. there is now right now, a clearly credible case ...

History would have a press secretary who engages in this sort of word salad trying to justify the president tweet. it is not an exercise of his first amendment rights. not a statement of his opinions, it is a direction to his attorney general. >> thank you for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> democratic congress member of the house intelligence committee joins me now. i want to play something about what senator blumenthal had to say about this today. >> these tweets adding to each other a...