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Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. And that may not be the end of it. New york republican Chris Collins was just indicted for Insider Trading and today, in a story we dont have time for tonight, the Second Congress to endorse him, California Republican Duncan Hunter was also indicted for Campaign Finance violations. Noticeably did not mention Michael Cohen by name. I feel badly for both. I must tell you that Paul Manafort is a good man. He was with ronald reagan. He was with a lot of diffe...

Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Cohen as the guy who made problems go away. And they just barely pulled it off. Trump winning the electoral college. Remarkably, they are not the first felons among the president s circle. The man charged has surrounded himself with criminals. Deputy Campaign Chairman. Campaign Foreign Policy aide, National Security advisor inside the white house. And that may not be the end of it. New york republican Chris Collins was just indicted for Insider Trading an...

>> all right. bring in retired brigadier general kevin ryan, former attache to russia and a senior fellow for the harvard kennedy school. good morning. thanks for being with us bright and early today. lets talk first, we heard a little about it in that interview just showed. the bulk of russias invasion forces is now about 15 miles outside of kyiv. at this point do you believe russia is still aiming to encircling capital and cutoff or a full advance still in the cards, do you think? >> i think b...

Always. thank you all for starting the day off with us. as always, we appreciate it. i want to bring in new jersey congresswoman to talk more about this. congresswoman, thanks for joining us on this. we really appreciate it. lets talk first -- >> thanks for having me. >> absolutely. >> lets talk first about the debt limit, going to the house next week for a vote. any concerns this thing wont pass? >> no, this should pass the house. its just ridiculous that the american people even have to be h...

Broke the law when he held up military aid to ukraine. this in the wake of newly released documents that reveal the efforts to freeze the aid began about 90 minutes after the july 25th call between president trump and ukrainian president zelensky. lets bring in democratic senator chris van holland of maryland. hes a member of the budget and appropriations committee. hes the one who sent that letter to the gao. senator, thank you so much for being here. we appreciate it. lets talk first -- >> goo...

Doughnut because were here for an hour together. lets talk first, matt, ill go with you. lets talk about what we heard from john kelly here and ill start with the biggest headline, its not actually a wall. >> yeah, this would be a great way for trump to pivot and make this thing stop. right? hes given donald trump an out. >> right. >> trump has hinted at this talking about slats and drawing diagrams of a fence thats -- that no one has ever seen the plans for apparently earlier. the thing that im...

Violations of law. now it is up to the department of justice to hold powcohen accountability. >> thanks to you both. to examine todays guilty verdict, i am joined by senior fellow at witkins. and elizabeth de la vega. >> lets talk first, i have not gotten to it today, but before we get to it, the significance of the mueller investigation. >> well, which federal court? the answer in both cases is that we dont know. because we dont know, a, how much paul manafort or michael cohen really knows abou...

To examine todays guilty verdict, i am joined by senior fellow at witkins. and elizabeth de la vega. >> lets talk first, i have not gotten to it today, but before we get to it, the significance of the mueller investigation. >> well, which federal court? the answer in both cases is that we dont know. because we dont know, a, how much paul manafort or michael cohen really knows about the matters that are core to the mueller investigation. we kind of suspect that they may know something important. ...

To see what they might do next any day now. we see all of the preparations and if it is more bluster or if they will really test. as we continue to wait for the president to leave the hill, i want to bring in david cohen who was in charge of sanctions against iran and russia in the ukraine crisis. lets talk first, we have a situation on capitol hill evolving as we speak where mike flynn, the national security advisor who had a top current clearance, and applied for and received security clearanc...

I had to work so i wasnt able to be there. >> im so sorry. we had a great time. >> i heard it was really great. lets talk first -- im going to get back to the russia stuff but i first want to talk about tax day protest. what do you think can come out of this. donald trump made it pretty clear hes never going to release his tax returns. do you think public pressure can change that? >> absolutely. i do believe in the power of the people. i think its very important for us to resist and to demand. h...