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Joy. Travel back with me to just under a year ago. When the word that was on everyone republican oos mind and every block of tv and fox news was unmasking. It all started in late march when nunez, the california congressman leading the russia investigation orchestrated a media spectacle with a press conference on the white house lawn. It was around the same time that donald trump had concocted a bogus story about president obama wiretapping him at trump tower. And that day he provided crucial ba...

Party threw absolutely everything at last nights special election in an effort to keep a deep red district from turning blue. And they failed. Pennsylvanias 18th district is in the heart of what we like to call trump country. The kind of place reporters would go to write their profiles of the working class donors, assembling at diners rallying behind the president a rust Belt Community where nearly 94 of the population is white. Donald trump won the district by nearly 20 points, a huge margin. W...

When all in starts right now. Enough is enough. Enough is enough. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. President donald trump and his party threw absolutely everything at last nights special election in an effort to keep a deep red district from turning blue. And they failed. Pennsylvanias 18th district is in the heart of what we like to call trump country. The kind of place reporters would go to write their profiles of the working class donors, assembling at diners rallying behind the pr...

Protect those willing to remain loyal to him opposed to the rule of law. In a surprise move, he issued a pardon to the former top aide to Vice President dick cheney, Scooter Libby convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in 2007. Speaking before the pardon this morning, white house adviser Kellyanne Conway insisted the move was not intended to send a message. Howeversley did draw a clear parallel to Robert Mueller suggesting libby was the victim of an overzealous special counsel. Critics ...

Former senior MI6 officer Christopher Steele explains what Vladimir Putin got wrong on Ukraine, and how long he believes the war will go on. Israel, he says, should reconsider its Russia policy

Former senior MI6 officer Christopher Steele believes Russia’s war in Ukraine will not be over imminently, but it could mark the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin. Israel, he says, should reconsider its Russia policy

To everybody including committees of congress about the fact that he was there. and then, chris, heres the interesting thing. you know, ive sat for six months now hearing the defenders of the president build their entire case around the idea that the steele dossier, you know, what carter page calls the dodgy dossier which the president neg guys as having any bearing on reality, their whole point has been to attack this dossier. if it turns out that in fact, this individual was in prague, thats a...

He denied it. >> when the steele dossier was first released in january of 17, michael cohen adamantly denied the allegation he was ever in prague. in fact, he tweeted a paragraph of his passport saying i have never been to prague in my life, fake news. as mcclatchy reports investigators traced evidence that he entered through germany apparently during august or early september of 2016 as the ex-spy reported. he wouldnt have needed a passport for such a trip. both countries operate with open bord...

A chief contention in the steele dossier that there was a meeting, an important meeting with russians there. now, we dont know yet that the russians he discussed in the does yaf koci jev, who is a powerful legislator and ally of putin was at the meeting as the dossier alleged. weve not confirmed that part yet. there are other parts unconfirmed. but it does appear to be a significant break through for the mueller probe as they look at potential collusion between the trump campaign and moscow. >> ...

Rationale reasonable people would tlooul absolutely do that, but devin unhas not conducted his investigation or himself that way. >> i think hes become a toldie. thank you, joaquin castro. a member of the house intelligence committee. david cornyn. david, paint the context of this now. mcclatchy has this story apparently got it from the u.s. prosecutor from the special counsel, mr. muellers office. they do have evidence now there was in fact a contradiction fromming what mr. cohen had said i was...