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Talking to the special counsel about obstruction of justice. I said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story. It is an excuse. Then, new dangers in texas as the floodwaters cause explosions at a major Chemical Plant, and how to get rich in Donald Trumps washington. The story of how the man who promised to drain the swamp created an entire new ecosystem. Drain the swamp all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We have a lot...

Investigation, including a report by the washington street journal that the president s attorneys have been making the case to special Counsel Robert Mueller that the president did not commit obstruction of justice when he fired former fbi director james comey. Much more on that coming up. Get this, daily beast reporting mueller enlisted help from the irs for his investigation which could give him access to the president s tax returns. First, the exclusive reporting from nbc news that notes take...

Russia, quote, worse than its ever been. Jim mattis said the u. S. Stands ready to act on the president s orders. Were still assessing the intelligence ourselves, and our allies. Were still working on this. Is the u. S. Military right now to launch a counter military strike . We stand ready to exercise military options if theyre open as the president determined. Are there any good options on the table for a u. S. Strike on syria . Weve got a team of reporters and analysts ready to talk about tha...

Testifying about everything from the president s infamous phone call with ukraine to the shadow of the president , Rudy Giuliani, the president s personal attorney. Lets go to manu raju on capitol hill. I know youve been looking over vindmans transcript right now. What are you learning so far . Reporter its a significant transcript because this is a person who was on that july phone call, someone who serves on the National Council and is involved with the ukranian policy but someone who has seri...

He is making an endorsement in the president ial race now that he has left it himself. Im not sure anybody saw this coming. Most candidates who drop out, especially if like secretary castro they are considered to still be strong contenders for a potential Vice President ial nod, most contenders of that order, youd expect them to maybe, you know, stay out of the fray during the rest of the primary, keep every iron in the fire, dont burn any bridges. Dont hurt your chances for any potential nomine...

And we are watching the markets this monday in the asiapacific region. They are taking a tumble. It is the First Response weve seen since friday the u. S. President announced tariffs on china and confusing signals coming from the g7 summit. Yeah, the markets are plummeting. You see the arrows pointing down there. Heres how the asia markets look this hour. Hang seng down nearly 3 there in hong kong. And japans nikkei over 2 loss for them. Foreign leaders blamed the trade war for dragging down the...

Bridges. Dont hurt your chances for any potential nominee down the road picking you to be their running mate. But today, despite that common wisdom political science, Julian Castro endorsed Elizabeth Warren for president , which is super interesting. Im looking forward to asking Elizabeth Warren about that. The latest polling within the past day is from cbs news and ugov. Those polls put senator warren at 16 in iowa and at 18 in new hampshire. That puts her behind this interesting trio of sander...

November. Video, bloomberg made his First Campaign stop here in virginia this afternoon. His debut was fairly small, plenty of locala, state and local media. In terms of supporters, only a handful of people made their way out, the campaign is expected to roll out over the next several weeks, weve seen ads launched as well as the campaign website. We heard from the former new york city mayor in the last hour. He had plenty to say. He wants to make it clear, he is in it to win it. I know how to wi...

Good morning. Im jo ling kent. Its 7 00 in the east. 4 00 a. M. Out west. Day 48 of the impeachment inquiry. We begin with a fastmoving series of events in the past 24 hours. First the republicans releasing their list of witnesses they want to call this week including the whistleblower and joe bidens son hunter. Next a sharp reaction from the democrats. Adam schiff saying the committee will not carry out a sham investigation into biden or facilitate the president s efforts to threaten or retalia...

State department employee. Adam schiff in the intelligence Chairman Committee more than nine names that they want to see testify including the whistleblower who started this whole thing off, hunter biden, devon archer who was a fellow board member. He was also copartner. She was a former contractor for Opposition Research for fusing gps. Remember them from the dossier. Former senior europe and russia expert. Aid to can train was contingent on them lasting investigations. Kurt volker. And all of ...