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You may have heard i was invited to another event tonight, the white house Correspondents Dinner. [crowd boos] but i would much rather be in washington, michigan than in washington dc right now. Greg a very clever. Just in case something happened at the Correspondents Dinner we had someone here monitoring the event. Poor guy. This was a great week, one of the best weeks ever. Its right up there with the miracle on ice or when the wall fell or when lou dobbs woke up in my basement. [laughter] tha...

Good evening from our nbc headquarters in new york. The president kicked off with the nato summit with the attack on the alliance. Just as few hours ago after midnight in brussels, he wrote this. Billions of additional dollars are being spent by nato countries since my visit last year at my request. It is not enough. U. S. Spends too much. Europes borders are bad. Pipeline dollars to russia are not acceptable. Germany buys natural gas from russ russia. It is very sad when germany makes a massive...

His attacks on his own attorney general. He never took control of the Justice Department, Jeff Sessions. Never took control of the Justice Department. With new support from certain republican senators. After the election, i think there will be some serious discussions about a new attorney general. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Today donald trump sounding more like some sort of mafia copo than the president of the United States went on television and ra...

Donald trump openly addressing impeachment. I think impeachment would be totally horrible. And the president redoubles his attacks on his own attorney general. He never took control of the Justice Department, Jeff Sessions. Never took control of the Justice Department. With new support from certain republican senators. After the election, i think there will be some serious discussions about a new attorney general. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Today do...

You have really interesting color and reporting from a number of key lawmakers that are involved in these hearings this week, namely Elijah Cummings and chairs the Oversight Committee who will host that public hearing tomorrow. What is his goal . I thought his response was interesting to the republican criticism of this whole thing. Reporter i spoke to him last night about this public hearing that is going to happen tomorrow which we expect to cover a whole range of issues and whether the presid...

Due process under the law. Take a close look at todays news. Who exactly is threatening those freedoms . Is it donald trump . Whatever his fault, it is not donald trump. It is the left and they are doing it more aggressively than they ever have before. As usual critique of trumps pure projection. If you want to know what the leftist actually doing, listen to the way they attacked other people. Start with foundational freedom, speech, if they can tell you what to say, you are not free. There is n...

Intelligence communitys inspector general. This person were told has first hand knowledge about the original complaint about what was said with President Trumps phone call with the ukrainian president. Republicans are strug tolling come up with a defense strategy. Senator, im asking about exactly why President Trump is upset and why his supporters are upset with the news media. This not about the media. Senator johnson. Senator johnson, please. Can you please answer the question i asked you inst...

We dont have the facts yet, but were going to initiate proper investigations. Its our job b to protect the re of law. Thats our core function and to do that, we are going to initiate investigations into abuses of power, into corruption, and into obstruction of justice. Manu is on capitol hill. What more do we know about what specifically the committee is seek something. Theyre asking information from 81 individuals tied to the president and entities over the next two week. They want the answers ...

An nsa government contractor. The question is what he was doing with them. We have never gotten a very clear answer to that. In the initial suspicion in the part of the fbi, the nsa, and the rest of the Intelligence Community is that he must have been a spy, but no intelligence charges were charged against him. He is only charged with illegally taking and storing classified documents, but the government found extremely sensitive material, the names of covert officials, overt operatives serving o...

Behalf telling the judge youre a nice person and very sorry and other than that youre great and the judge should be nice to you in the sentencing. And i dont know if all federal judges take these letters seriously when theyre submitted in conjunction with somebodys sentencing but some of them clearly do. And in the case of president Trumps Deputy Campaign Chair who was also the number two official on his inaugural committee, rick gates, it appears the federal judge who sents rick gates today did...