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So enjoy this giant two-night, 20-candidate debate, because the next one after it may end up looking like -- well, it may end up looking like a normal debate. thats "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. chris matthews will be back on monday, and "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. tonight on "all in" -- >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did commit a crime, we would have said so. >> if youre the president, they let you do it. >> can you say whether the olc m...

Special counsel robert mueller had to say not even two months ago about his decision not to bring obstruction charges against president trump. . >> and i set forth in the report after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. under long-standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional. even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from publ...

Personal experience in this area. i remember growing up, they used to call many of the facilities correction facilities. now its detention facilities. youre kind of turning that around, bringing it back to where we can reform those that can be reformed. we accept some cannot be, but many can. and what has been the reaction of other mayors and people to what you are doing so dramatically in atlanta? >> what struck me is in talking with two very well-known entertainers, with john legend, and with ...

Behavior of mohammed bin salman, the crown prince, cannot be ignored. now is not the time to do business as usual with saudi arabia. im also concerned about the precedent these arms sales would set by having the administration go around legitimate concerns of the congress. you have members who essentially do not want to reward the kingdom of saudi arabia with these arms sales. frankly, these resolutions of disapproval, theyre not much more than that. its not clear what these senators can do to e...

Khashoggi. the ranking member foreign relations committee bob menendez joined by lindsey graham to essential essentially putting out 22 joint resolutions of disapproval, one each for 22 different arms sales valued at $8.1 billion to both saudi arabia and the united arab of emirates. bob menendez called this a run-around congress. congress has to approve arms sales. while i understand that saudi arabia is a strategic ally the behavior of the crown prince cannot be ignored. we are seeing republica...

Road only impeachment. he called it a thousand stabs to try to keep the president off balance. the feud is continuing because earlier today, nancy pelosi doubled down on her comments yesterday about the president engaging in a cover-up and obstructing justice. that whole thing taken according might be impeachable. listen to what she said in her weekly news conference. >> the things that he is doing is clear, in plain sight. cannot be denied. obstruction of justice. yes, these co be impeachable o...

I can fire people, he can end criminal investigations. i mean, ultimately thats where their argument is going even if all of this is true, it could not be obstruction of justice. thats why attorney general barr was hired because he wrote this 18-page single spaced memo which said the president cannot be found guilty of obstructing justice because he sits atop the law enforcement machinery like a king. now our colleagues in congress unfortunately are going along with that on the republican side. ...

Republicans in congress. theyre trying to resib it now and say lets get back to the real business of congress going after peter strzok and lisa page, avoid all of the corruption, avoid all of the obstruction, avoid the emoluments claus, lets talk about the deep state conspiracy theory and theyre the ones advancing this is extreme interpretation of the constitution which is the president can do whatever he wants with respect to the xwb branch. i can fire people, he can end criminal investigations...

>> speaking of this afternoon, jerry nadler, the recipient summed up why the behavior of the trump white house is so dangerous. >> the white house is making the out ragious claim that a president cannot be held accountable in any way through the american people. the justice department cant hold him accountable since a sitting president cannot be indicted and congress cannot hold a president accountable. this would make the president above the law. we of course totally reject it. >> a member of t...

Summed up why the behavior of re the trump white house is so dangerous.it >> the white house is making the outragious claim that a president cannot be held accountable in any way through the american people. a the justice department cant hold him accountable since a me sitting president cannot be indicted and now theyre saying congress cannot hold a presidens accountable. this would make the president above the law.th we of course totally reject it. >> a member of two committees trying to conduc...