plus the president s latest hard right turn to try and sell trumpcare 2.0. nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. and from selling your internet browser history what the heck are you thinking? to rolling back protections for women. how trump s america is taking shape faster than you know. would you like to make a change, folks? when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. amid a steady drip of news about trump world s connections to russia and under the shadow of an unprecedented federal probe into possible collusion between a foreign adversary and the sitting president s campaign, the white house and the gop is in full change the subject mode. the scandal is not what we know, it s how we know it. in a throw back to the benghazi days, they ve got a familiar scapegoat. former national security adviser
susan rice. i believe susan rice abused the system, and she did it for political purposes. she needs to be brought in
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mueller outlining their defenses of the president on obstruction of justice. the key element of their defense was that president trump did not know that his national security adviser michael flynn was being investigated by the fbi when the president talked to fbi director james comey about letting flynn go. james comey quotes the president as having told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let it go. the trump defense team has said that it is impossible for that conversation to constitute obstruction of justice because the president did not know that the fbi was then investigating michael flynn. but murray waas s reporting that the white house memo that he read is a timeline prepared by white house counsel don mcg
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and we already know that robert mueller has found links and coordination between the russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of donald trump. the meeting with russians at trump tower during the campaign shows there are links between the russian government and the campaign. we already know that when the russian government offered to coordinate with donald trump jr. to provide dirt on hillary clinton donald trump jr. said i love it. now, we have no idea what other links and coordination robert mueller has found between the russian government and the trump campaign. and we don t know whether any of those links and coordination constitute criminal conduct by anyone named trump. we ve watched donald trump on the campaign stage publicly try to link with the russian governme
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that decision still has not been made. they have been delaying this time line here and stretching it out to some great length. although rudy giuliani s comments yesterday campaigning for house candidate of all things in new hampshire were interesting. essentially trying to call robert mueller s bluff. saying if you ve got the goods, now is the time. here s some of giuliani extending that poker metaphor a bit. we believe that the investigation should be brought to a close. we think we re at the end of it. they should render their report. put up i mean, i guess playing poker, we say put up or shut up, what do you got. we have every reason to believe they don t have anything. chris, we play aed a lot of that sound yesterday. let me make a small distinction here i think is notable. what i am starting to hear from congressional republica
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like the president is referring to the hoax as any allegation of collusion against him, his campaign, those around him. he doesn t make clear that interference is continuing to happen right now in this election when voters are being asked to go to the polls in a matter of weeks for those who vote early and in the 95 days that you ve outlined. the president is out there campaigning for republicans at the same time there s interference happening. it s one that s not surprising when we look back at the history. thank you for that. with us now from washington, msnbc national security analyst ned price. a former cia officer who served as special assistant to president obama on the national security council. we have andy card, former white house chief of staff and now an msnbc political analyst. onset two veteran political reporters. i think all of us saw what
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we re talking about men s suits, andrea. men s suits at $25,000 a pop. i don t know. peter alexander, you know more about men s suits than i do. you can also tell me about donald trump s tweets, because this has been a storm of tweets today and it s been a rather creative one. he is also tweeting about al capone. he wrote, looking back on history, who is treated worse, alphonse capone, legendary mob boss, killer, and public enemy number one, or paul manafort, political operative and reagan/dole darling, now serving solitary confinement although convicted of nothing. where is the russian collusion? i m not sure who his target is there. reporter: andrea, the president has a series of targets today, one that s clear is attorney general jeff sessions in some of those earlier tweets when the president went further than he has been, more explicit than he has been at any point, basically calling on sessions to stop the russia investig
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opportunity for a politician s challenger. in this case it is a democrat named nate mcmurray. i reached out to him a couple of hours ago and got this statement. he says this. it is absolutely true that chris collins should not be running for this or any other seat, a fact that the local republican party knew full well when they endorsed and celebrated him while he was under investigation for securities fraud. so the question now is, if this seat, this safe republican seat is now in jeopardy, can the democrat, nate mcmurray, raise enough money, secure enough outside support, and then win over enough right-leaning voters to pick up this seat and unseat any republican challenger, if it is chris collins or someone else? we have to see if that will be the case. one thing we know for sure is that democrats know all too well they only have to flip about two dozen seats to take back control of the hous
the president of the united states has just fired his national security adviser john bolton on twitter. this is by my count the third time a top national security official has been fired on twitter on social media. the first time of course was rex tillerson. the second time was dan coats, the national intelligence director. the tweet i am now seeing says i have asked john for his resignation. i thanked i don t know for his service. i will be selecting a new national security adviser next week. i disagreed strongly with his decisions and ever there continued to say i asked john for his resignation today. msnbc political analyst, we re going to speak shortly with peter baker who is on the phone reporting at the new york times as we speak.
jim joins me now, manager of president obama s campaign. this is pretty extraordinary. we re in a middle of a controversy over the camp david proposed meeting. john bolton objected to it very strongly, and we understand according to our reporting t
including at the top of the hour. you mentioned his meeting with the leader of venezuela, this is one of several one on ones that the president has today. msnbc happens to be able to be in the room, interacting with the president. one of our team s producers is there. i ll be in the room for the meeting with the president and the leader of ukraine in just a bit. it is now 10:00 and we re going to get to breaking news. as this moment is trump administration is releasing what the president describes as the transcript of that phone call that launched the democrats impeachment investigation. what we now know, it was a 30-minute call with the president of ukraine two months ago. we ve got a team of reporters covering the story and let s get to julia at the justice department. what are we learning so far? we went over the transcript of the call and we also went over why the justice department is not going to release the whistle-blower complaint. what stood out to me about the transcri
anybody else. i m going to read from the transcript here. why didn t you go to your direct report, mr. morrison, your response, because mr. eisenberg had told me to take my concerns to him. and then i asked you, did mr. eisenberg tell you not to report, to go around mr. morrison? and you said, actually, he did say that, i shouldn t talk to any other people. is that right? yes, but there s a whole there s a period of time in there between when i spoke to him and when he circled back around. it wasn t that long a period of time, but it was enough time for me to enough time for you to go to talk to someone who you won t tell us who it is, right? i ve been instructed not to, representative jordan. here s what i m getting. the lawyer told you not talk to any other people, and you interpret that as not talking to your boss, but you talk to your brother, you talk to the lawyers, you talk to scare keec kent and talk to the one guy schiff won t let us tell you who it is. repre