Misdemeanor Entry News Today

Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Deliberating three days after this. I think its very sad what theyve done to paul manafort. Thank you very much. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. The president appears to be terrified he has a quote rat in his midst. Inside the white house. That i should be clear, thats his word. Rat. Its not the kind of language we are used to hearing from the president of the United States who is, of course, entrusted by our cons...

Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. So im going to be a little contrary here, chris, say i see where the president is coming from when he says this is a bit old news, my colleague, bob costa and i wrote in november when don mcgahn went before bob muellers interview team, sat down with verdicts two days straight so people have known for a long time that don mcgahn was cooperating with the investigation, that everyone who was in the white house was encouraged to voluntarily be engaged in thes...

Ironically calling someone a rat. then i am a law and order president. what do people like yourself think of that who work in the fbi. >> certain laws and certain orders, not all of them. public corruption, white collar, these sorts of things are not where he tends to focus. >> a misdemeanor entry into the country, we take your child away. >> a blue wave by the way, someone might tell him its synonymous with loads of cops showing up at your door. thats another blue wave. he apparently has not he...

Lay off my campaign manager who is a good guy, calling john dean a rat. like i dont know people that refer to people as a rat. i honestly have not heard it used as a part of a schtick, ironically calling someone a rat. then i am a law and order president. what do people like yourself think of that who work in the fbi. >> certain laws and certain orders, not all of them. public corruption, white collar, these sorts of things are not where he tends to focus. >> a misdemeanor entry into the country...

Is a president who has claimed to be a law and order president. obviously thats been true of the republican party for a while. nothing could be further from the truth. i mean, first of all, what he did at the border made us less safe, what hes doing at the border. the diversion of resources to prosecute people criminally for misdemeanor entry -- illegal entry crimes, when you could be investigating terrorism, drug cases, we already have a u.s. attorneys office in california come out and say they...

Saw, 60 to 70 defendants sitting waiting to enter their plea of guilty and be sentenced. that backlog, that bursting docket is the result of strict enforcement of the misdemeanor entry into the cup. when you enforce that crime strictly, what you end up with is a huge list of defendants being prosecuted then lets say the judge sentences them to time serves, ten days or 30 days after which what are we doing? exactly what we would have done had we not referred them for criminal prosecution, which i...

Not trust the trump administration at all. they are trying to get answers. they say theyre not going do leave until they get some answers. they do say there are again -- stressing, there are only boys here. they are trying to find out where the girls are being held. >> danny, youve been outside of an immigration court. tell me about whats going on down there. have they cleared up some of the confusion that we saw yesterday? >> we were actually at federal criminal court today. immigration court i...

Challenges these folks are facing. talk about confusion in the abstract. whats it look like inside that courtroom? >> reporter: this is a federal courthouse and its only federal criminal matters heard. this is not immigration court, but as someone who handles federal criminal defense cases, this is unlike any courtroom that you normally will see in a federal courthouse. because somewhere between 60 and 70 defendants cases were heard today. you might see that in state court. you dont see it in fe...

Spot. a very unusual circumstance in federal court. you dont normally have 60 to 70 defendants waiting for their case in federal court. thats something that happens in state court. you dont normally have the initial appearance, the plea, and the sentencing all combined in to one day at conducting conveyor belt style. how do you plead? how do you plead? how do you plead? yet thats exactly what this magistrate judge did, and had to do because there was simply so many defendants in the room today t...