and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will continue to do our jobs free from political influence, and we will not back down from defending democracy. attorney general merrick garland facing a republican party hell bent on doing everything it can to push conspiracy theories and attack the rule of law in the wake of donald trump s felony conviction in new york. plus, president biden making bold and controversial moves today on immigration and on his rhetoric towards israel. but we begin tonight with the rule of law. in our democrat, system it is the principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are supposed to be accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated. in a perfect world, the idea is to protect the rights of all people in our society. it hasn t always worked out perfectly, to say the least, in this country s long and difficult history, but that is the idea. donald trump and his maga
The senate says kushner withheld emails about a, quote, russian back door over tour. And House Republicans pass the trump tax plan. I dont benefit. New Analysis Finds that the plan saves trumps family over 1 billion. I pay as little as possible. I fight like hell to pay as little as possible. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The same president who has weighed in on everything from Meryl Streeps acting to Social Media Policies of espn tonight has no opinion whatsoever on the voracity of the allegations that his partys nominee for u. S. Senate in alabama pursued and sexually assaulted between age girls when he was an adult. Reporte reporters today his Press Secretary studiously avoided taking a position on whether the
white house refusing to take a stand on roy moore is the same white house that claims that every single one of those women, every single one of the president s accusers, is lying. Obviously, Sexual Harassment has been in the news, at
That is president who just recently, for example, called a reporters question racist, another question stupid, told a third female reporter he didnt know what she was thinking because shes never thinking and paraphrasing here and the next question to ask is whether the dero couple, in fact, and if the rules are put in place goes both ways. The president says hes directed the staff to walk out of briefings if need be, if they feel like they need to. And need to point out there have been fewer briefings than i can count on one hand as the white house notably pulled back with the press secretary in lieu of moments like the ones youre seeing. The president talking with reporters in that kind of setting. Stay with me for a second. I want to reset. 1 00 now. Expecting the president to make a live appearance in this hour to part of the ceremony for the president ial medal of freedom ceremony to come. Well bring that live but as we were talking and going back to this impromptu if you want to c
The Mueller Investigation close in. Trum happp has slammed the investigation as a total mess, but on friday he said he finished wroting answers to muellers questions, a feat he did all by himself. My lawyers are not working on that. I write answers. My lawyers dont write answers. I write answers. I was asked a series of questions. I answered them easily. You always have to be careful when you answer questions from people with probably bad inen it shup intentions. The questions were routinely answered by me. Joining me are malcolm nance and Jill Winebanks and paul butler and scynthia oxney. Cynth cynthia, what does it say to you that you have this information that was secretly released. Does it mean its related to the russia investigation . You would assume so. Mueller already has the building block. Hes indicted the russian government basically for hacking the election. The second block is assange, the top block is are americans helping assange. Were at level two right now if assange i
Should be coming out any moment now, where he will be honoring seven people with the nations highest civilian honor, the medal of freedom, including one of the longestserving senators in American History, republican orrin hatch. A posthumous honor will also be granted to Elvis Presley, babe ruth, and the Late Supreme Court justice antonin scalia. We will bring it to you live as soon as it happens. A fox news alert, floridas results are still up in the air as the senate race moves to a hand count. Hundreds of thousands of votes counted by hand. Welcome to outnumbered overtime, and julie banderas, in for harris faulkner. The manual recount is on after the revised machine total showed it rick scott up by less than a quarter of a percent over democratic incumbent bill nelson. This as a scotts team is accusing the Broward County election supervisor of intentionally missing yesterdays deadline by 2 minutes because nelson lost votes in that recount. It also appears the floridas governor race