This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Breaking news tonight on the investigation into emails sent to Hillary Clintons private server when she was secretary of state. A multiyear investigation finds no deliberate mishandling of classified information. Well have more on that coming up. Also in the hour ahead well take a look at the week in the impeachment inquiry. All the biggest headlines and major developments. A cnn exclusive. Rudy giuliani tried to bypass the state department to get a visa for former ukrainian prosecutor. Who giuliani says promised to reveal dirt on democrats. The fall out from acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admitting there was quid pro quo with ukraine. President trump said to be angry with him. The president is not happy that a parade of current and former government officials have testified about the ukraine scandal. Or are set to testify next week. President trump having what the House Speaker calls a melt down in the oval office during a meeting to
I can tell you, don. Of all the weeks its quite a week and things keep happening quickly and quickly. You cannot turn away, can you . You cant turn away. I cant believe that we talked about, the Somali Refugees is coming out of the president s mouth, what he says at those rallies on the white house lawn and on and on and the people he surrounds himself with, laura, all the best people. He knows lots of great words too. Thats not really the point. Today were talking about so many things about what is at stake for the president of the United States Going Forward and surrounds himself with people who says the best people. Tonight were focusing on somebody he is surrounded himself for quite some time. And were wondering if hes going to have that 10 foot pole come out now, the distancing himself. Weve seen this before. Michael cohen has got to be sitting asking himself why didnt anyone see this sooner . Why me . Hes saying why saying a lot of things. Probably watching now. Why me . Lets get
Anyway, its very fun. Now its time for the last word with lawrence oodonnell. What is your characters name . Vesper fairchild. Im using that from now. On thats my favorite name ever to appear in fiction. It is a classic comic book character. What are you doing tonight . I am not that busy. Do you want to come over . Because ive got some pages marked here. Im still on crutches so it will take me a minute. Ill be there as soon as i can crutch over. If you can get here by the time we finish one of these commercial breaks, well just bring you right on to the tv show. Okay. So rachel will be joining us later in the hour to help us assess where we are at the end of week two in the impeachment investigation of donald trump. Well discuss her amazing book which i am just going to rave about. It is also very much related to this weeks news. And later in the hour, we will look at the ray of hope sent by mitt romney today indicating that at least one republican senator is capable of speaking the t
In that iranian attack on iraq bases housing u. S. Troops despite at the time saying there were no injuries. Why did it take so long to correct the initial assessment and evelyn yang speaking out publicly revealing painful allegations of being assaulted by her doctor, obgyn. What happened to me should have never happened. He was arrested in his office and he was let back to work. That is what is very painful, knowing that actually what happened to me could have been prevented. You are going to hear an unbelievable story, evelyn yangs story later on. I want to get right to todays historic news, the impeachment trial of President Trump underway. Joining me now is pamela brown, Amanda Carpenter and frank brune. Do you think the seriousness and the gravity of the moment is sinking in for the senators, they will have to sit in silence for six days a week. Can you believe that . Yeah. I think it is or i sure hope that it is. It is hard to believe they wouldnt when they took an oath. The chie
Ukraine scandal. And tax documents belonging to the trump organization, that on two properties, the documents show they appear more profitable to lenders and less profitable to tax officials. Were going to get to all of that in just a moment but i want to focus now on the big picture here. Lets start with that. That chaotic meeting between the president and Democratic Leaders. Joining me is charlie dent, michael sheer. Good evening. Thank you so much. We got a lot of ground to cover. First off, michael, i want you to listen to how nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer described the meeting with the president. Still the part of the president was a meltdown. Sad to say. He called her a third grade politician. This was not a dialogue. It was sort of a diatribe, a nasty diatribe not focused on the facts. Michael, ive got to ask you, is the president s meltdown a reflection of the chaos hes facing on two fronts, impeachment and syria . Yeah, i think thats right. This president has shown a propensi