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Friday. I have an allstar legal panel standing by to unpack this. How bill barr could affect the russia investigation if he becomes the next attorney general. We begin this afternoon with another major change to President Trumps cabinet staff. General john kelly is out. He will depart by years end. Lets go over to msnbc White House Reporter Geoff Bennett who is traveling with the president. How are you . Hey, philip, good to see you. The long resignation watch is over. Heres the thing that peopl...

Lets go first to doug mcelway covering on the partial shutdown. s live from the rotunda on capitol hill. Whats the latest. Good afternoon, molly. Both houses of congress convened two minutes ago, and dont expect anything to get done because theres nothing to do here. Whatever is done is behind the president s chief negotiationing people, vicepresident mike pence, soninlaw Jared Kushner, and Chuck Schumer. Nancy pelosi im told is not in town. And the whip steny hoyer told me. If theres progress, ...

Call, i will shut down the government. Okay, we disagree. I am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I am not going to blame you. He got his wish. The government is partially shut down days before christmas. Both the house and the senate adjourned late friday night but will return on saturday. I want to go to Brian Stelter and Phil Mattingly and hello to all of you. That sound that you hear which is crickets in wa...

A fast and furious few hours, everyone, with big developments and new reaction since a michigan congressman became the first republican to say the president committed impeachable offenses. The president lashing back on twitter with injustice in the past few hours calling justin amash, quote, a total lightweight who opposes me and some of our great republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there. He weighed in after he said he carefully read the Mueller Report. On tw...

I know nothing about your gout status and i dont think youre that old. I am as of this point goutless, and god bless you. And not in prison. And so thats a happy day, right . Not miserable. Not lonely. Right. And i dont even want to talk about the altarboy thing. Its weird. I was an atlar boy, and it was weird. Completely on the record, completely happy and positive experience. You have to say that now if you say you used to be an alter boy. You just have to. Growing up as a catholic kid in cali...

Know about whats happening now and whats coming next as this category 4 hurricane churns offshore. Plus the president posts a classified satellite photo on twitter to taunt iran while a new round of tariffs on china is set to hit this weekend. One of the president s vaunted generals gets ready to speak out. The 11th hour on a friday night starts right now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for Brian Williams who has the night off. Day 9...

About the bureau and has attacked the rule of law in his attempts to undermine the russia investigation. Comey, clearly fuming, after a second closeddoor hearing demanded by House Republicans before democrats take control. Once a registered republican, comey says gop lawmakers are being cowed into silence by the president , calling their failure to speak out an everlasting shame. Ill get reaction from Senate Democratic macy hrono. First, lets go to our senior Congressional Correspondent manu r r...

800,000 federal workers prepare to miss a second paycheck on friday. That is if a deal is not reached tonight at midnight which looks like is no chance. And 10 of the nations tsa agents are calling out sick. The president s new proposal will be part of a larger package that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is expected to introduce today. A Senate Democratic aide tells cnn the measure does not have the 60 votes it needs to advance. Mcconnell moving ahead anyway hoping to shift blame for the...

When nixon won that president ial election in 1968, he appointed that same John Mitchell, the guy who had run his campaign to be attorney general. Attorney general of the United States. Now John Mitchell would eventually be convicted on multiple felonies in conjunction with the watergate scandal and would serve 19 months in prison. Nixons second attorney general was a man named richard kleindeitz. His tenure as attorney general ended on the day when nixon tried to stop the watergate investigatio...

Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. And im laura jarrett. It is tuesday, january 22. President trump hopes to put the squeeze on democrats to end the h shutdown by offering them a plan they wont accept, as over 800,000 federal workers prepare to miss a second paycheck on friday. And 10 of the nations tsa agents are calling out sick. The president s new proposal will be part of a larger package that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is expected to introduce today. A Senate Democratic aid...