Candid views of this president. You talk to them one on one, theyre pretty up front about the fact that they dont take all the president s words to heart. That they are kind of getting used to how he conducts himself and his disregard for the facts. And thats a remarkable thing for an american president , members of his own party, in the congress to say. Its where we are. And im kind of used to it too now, because you talk to members of the congress. And in private, they dont even bother offering a defense of this president. They acknowledge he says things that are not true. Look at what bob corker told us a few months ago in that interview, where he really broke with the president. He said the president tweets things that are not true, you know it, i know it, he knows it,
damage to the fabric of american democracy, and thats an extraordinary thing for them to say. Yeah. But yet they wont say it publicly. Heres what i have to ask you, and one of the main reasons im asking you. In are o
General. Here is the president campaigning for Luther Strange in september by telling Republican Voters they could vote for the other guy. And by the way, both good men. Both good men. And you know what . And i told luther, i have to say this, if his opponent wins, im going to be here campaigning like hell for him. Donald trumps endorsement did not help Luther Strange who lost in the primary to Steve Bannons chosen candidate roy moore and roy moore accused of sexually assaulting a girl when she was 14 years old and trying to date other girls while they were still in high school and roy moore was a 32yearold assistant district attorney. Republican senator Richard Shelby withdrew his support of the republican ticket and voted for someone else, the republican the Senate Republican Political Action committee stopped funding roy moores campaign. Mitch mcconnell, leader of the
senate, said an Ethics Investigation of roy moore would begin immediately if he was elected to the senate. What did
Told that National Security adviser Michael Flynn was susceptible to blackmail by russia. That warning was issued by acting Attorney General sally yates, who told White House Counsel Don Mcgahn that flynn was vulnerable because he misled the Vice President and others about the nature of his conversation with Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. Despite her warning, President Trump chose to keep flynn on the job as top National Security post for 18 more days, according to the report. Muellers goal in part is to determine whether there was a deliberate effort to cover up the information that yates had provided the white house. As nbc reports, multiple sources say that during interviews, muellers investigators have asked witnesses, including White House Counsel Don Mcgahn himself and others who have worked in the west wing to go through each day that flynn remained as National Security adviser and describe in detail what they knew was happening inside the white house as it related to
flynn.
Were going to start with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. The United States at that point had long been flying High Altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. Its interesting. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very precisely identified in all the history books as having started on october 16th. Two days after that u2 spy plane captured those images in cuba. But the crisis didnt start on october 16th because something happened that day, because there was some overt act by cuba, there was some provocation there or some announcement by them, it didnt start because on october 16th there was some act by the
soviet union or some announcement by the soviets that kicked off this crisis. The reason we can be so specific about when the Cuban Missile Cris
Necessary, yes. The president had effectively an extramarital affair slush fund. Then Scott Pruitts luxury trip to rome on the public dime. Lets have no illusions about what was really going on here. And what primary night in america looks like in the era of trump. Im basically trumpier than trump. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president and his lawyer are applying the same strategy that got the president elected, to his rapidly multiplying legal threats. Overwhelm the public with enough noise to drown out the facts and muddle the issues. Whether it can work this time is still an open question. The president today spent his morning executive time, as he so often does, tweeting about the criminal investigation into his campaign, his allies and his Family Members and himself. And this comes after the president s new personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, claimed in an interview over the weekend that the mueller team might try to set up the preside