Pattern. Plus the president is demanding that congress do something, keep their promises for once, build of the southern border wall. Also tonight, the russia Collision Hoax continues to unravel. The house and talk house until Committee Chairman devin nunes is now saying there was never credible evidence for the fbi to even launch an investigation into drum camping associates. Also brandnew tonight, more monumental setbacks for Robert Muellers Imploding Witch Hunt and new evidence that the doj is in fact installing it stonewalling even further. Meeting with devin nunes and trey gowdy to review classified material is no longer happening tomorrow. It has been rescheduled for next week. Mara obstructionism. Another major win for the trump administration. The american hearer, gina haspel, secure the votes needed. She will become the new cia director and will call out the mainstream medias lies about what is happening between israel
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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
By his thinking, why deprive good friday visitors of a good visit to an iconic irish pub. Submit ted without judgment. That is our program for a friday nig night. Whatever your persuasion, we wish you a good weekend. Good night from our headquarters here in new york. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Icing is in and public criticism of russia is still very much out. Nbc news with extraordinary reporting about Donald Trumps quote, president Donald Trumps National Security advisor spent months trying to convince him to sign off on a plan to supply new u. S. Weapons to ukraine to aid in the countrys fight against russianbacked separatists. When the president finally authorized the major policy shift, he told his aides not to publicly tell his decision because doing so might agitate russian president Vladimir Putin. Quote, he doesnt want to bring it up, one white house official tells nbc news. It is not something he wants to talk about, this source says. This new reporting helps fill in
Interview. We have a lot of questions for her. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. Thats it for this special report. Fair, balanced and unafraid. The story hosted by Martha Maccallum starts right now. Did you see that video . Martha i love that video. You might see it again and this hour i love it so much. Thank you, good to see you tonight. Breaking tonight, an exclusive interview with the man urging the president to strip topsecret Security Clearances from formal officials who are now some of his largest, loudest critics on tv. I use the terms that this is nothing sort of treasonous. I really question his fitness to be in this office. I know we are not nazi germany but theres a commonality. They have assumed Vladimir Putin interest. Lies, person not fit to be president of the United States. Martha six officials who wants held highranking postat the fbi, the cia, the nsa. They politicize and in some cases monetize their Public Service and Security Clearances, making baseles
It took place. Did you know at the time about that meet something. No, i didnt know anything about it. It must have been a very important meeting, because i never even heard that. No one told you a word, nothing . I know we talked about this on the plane a bit. No, nobody told me. Sounded like a very unimportant meeting. Deep cuts there from haberman and schmidt. Thats not what Michael Cohen claims, alleging that he and several others were present when thencandidate donald trump gave his nod of approval for the meeting to move forward. That contradicts repeated denials from donald trump jr. And others in Donald Trumps orbit. Did you tell your father anything about this . No. It was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. I wouldnt have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. The president said he became aware of it very recently, right before this came out, and thats when he was notified. Joining me now is jeff
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