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Starts right now. Good evening from new york on this Martin Luther king jr. Day. Im chris hayes. There are now just four days until donald trump is sworn in as this nations 45th president. Right now, he is poised to enter office amid a swirling and growing tornado of controversy that at least for any other political figure would widely be seen as creating a major legitimacy crisis. Trump, of course, will become president despite Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote. The widest margin of any ...

If you dont focus your entire career on the economy, i suppose that sends up a lot of red flags as well. It just seems weird. Yeah. Well, its also strange that its undisclosed this far into this investigation, and this far into all the public scrutiny that Paul Manafort has had. One of the interesting things in this reporting from Richard Engel tonight is not just the size of the financial relationship between this putinlinked oligarch and Paul Manafort its that the manafort spokesman withdraw p...

For 60 million from a Russian Oligarch as an economy guy that sends up red flags. If you dont focus your entire career on the economy, i suppose that sends up a lot of red flags as well. It just seems weird. Yeah. Well, its also strange that its undisclosed this far into this investigation, and this far into all the public scrutiny that Paul Manafort has had. One of the interesting things in this reporting from Richard Engel tonight is not just the size of the financial relationship between this...

Iran and america would look like. well, that was an article elon goldenberg wrote for foreign affairs. he is the director of the middle east security program at the center for a new american security and he joins us now. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> in your article you try to explain what this kind of war would look like. explain to us, lay out what you see the most likely scenario for both the american strike but as importantly, the iranian response. >> sure. you start with a very limit...

Joining us now, steve clemons editor at large at "the atlantic" and msnbc contributor and elon goldenberg, senior fellow and director of the middle east security program at the center for new american security. gentlemen, good to see you. steve i talked to you shortly after the iran deal. i was in tehran while it was being negotiated and no one in tehran, america or anywhere else where the deal was being talked about was under any impression that iran was suddenly going to become a friend of the...

Football to congress was reportedly a compromise between the president and senior administration officials. the "washington post" reported this week that president trump was, quote, incensed by arguments from his secretary of state and secretary of defense that the agreement, while flawed, offered benefits. he didnt want to certify to congress that iran was complying with the deal, even though the evidence is that iran is complying with the deal. quote, he threw a fit, said one person familiar w...

Has put a whole bunch of people around who are ideological. obviously flynn and the things hes tweeted on, mattis, hes got a lot of ability to do things on his own as a secretary of defense. he can move a lot of assets around. unless trump tells him differently, i think what youre going to have with mattis is somebody whos essentially at the same time were pulling away from nato via trump, maybe pulling closer to our defense commitments. >> elon goldenberg, i appreciate your time. coming up, w...