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That is how they used to do it when he was in charge. Now that the white house has handpicked someone to take over that job, apparently we get the kushner forms 7 00 on a friday night. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again on monday. Now its time for the last word. Ari melber sitting in for lawrence tonight. Good evening, ari. Good evening, rachel. Sometimes the news breaks late and people ask why, and theres no reason. And then sometimes it feels like maybe theres a reason. Thats righ...

Movement with meadows, but meadows and bannon are not exactly the same when were looking at the facts were dealing with here. >> reporter: thats exactly why the committee has been grappling with the decision to move forward. some have believed that they would move forward, the referral for criminal contempt charges weeks ago. but because of the fact that mark meadows was in government at the time, he was a former chief of staff, at the time chief of staff to then president donald trump, that is ...

Addition. also, shes thinking about allowing an outside adviser, republican outside adviser to come in as well. former congressman denver wriggleman met with democratic leadership staff earlier today in speaker nancy pelosis office to talk about potentially serving in some sort of role on the january 6th investigative committee. well see if that happens. now at the same time kevin mccarthy himself side stepped questions when i asked him earlier today about whether or not why there was any concer...

Obviously not a member of the trump administration. he is very close with the president and i think you would be seeing him today at some point as his outside adviser and attorney here. if what is reported is correct, he says it doesnt make any difference because if the president says to somebody else, hey, investigate corruption in your own country that had a bearing on a 2016 election, isnt that what the president is supposed to do? >> if all the president was saying is just investigate corrup...

How much the napping has contributed to new heights of dysfunction at commerce. former outside adviser tells politico, "because he tends to fall asleep in meetings, they try not to put him in a position where that could happen. so theyre very careful and conscious about how they schedule certain meetings. theres a small window where hes able to focus and pay attention and not fall asleep." you know, i know how you feel, wilbur. im sleepy all the time. im sleepy right now. but theres a thought. y...

Slippers." nunn has ever really explained why the secretary of the department of commerce would need custom made proper slippers or why on earth he would wear them out in public, but, and heres thing two, maybe its because the guy is napping so much he just needs to always be in his p.j.s. ross was famously caught sleeping during trumps speech to muslim leaders in saudi arabia back in may of 2017. there are reports that trump was irritated by the secretary falling asleep in meetings in early 201...

Sanctions on iran. now we reached out to the whitehouse and asks what the president referenced. what about the imclaim? they have not gotten back to us. a administration told my colleague that they are considering additional sanctions but still none put in place yet. >> thank you very much katlyn. i want to get more on that. lets go outfront to the chairman of the armed services committee. dmat smith, who of course not only has a chairmanship but attended the meeting at the white house on iran l...

Garret haake and kelly odonell is joining me now. so whos the problem here? whos the president potentially listening to garret? who on capitol hill might have his ear telling him this is not a good deal? >> some of his most conservative allies in the house have been saying they dont think it is a good deal. even among that group they dont see a shutdown, largely his outside adviser whos been leaning on him to reject this deal. the republican senate lunch broke up over last half hour and talking ...

Roger stone have come under scrutiny with the special counsel. >> yes, thats right. even though stone left the trump campaign at the very beginning of the campaign, lee mained in the orbit and he at times had conversations with president trump throughout the campaign. he also was trying to win over trumps good graces. he was trying to make himself helpful to the campaign. he was commun dating to various campaign officials and trying to be a supportive outside adviser. hes part of the presidents ...

Hold hearings. they can do all the things the republican led house have not been doing when it comes to the russia investigation. when you talk about the perfect storm, brooke, one of the things is the mueller investigation is not wrapped up or issued a so-called report rudy giuliani is talking about and the president wants to see. one thing this republican congressional aide was saying earlier today, what happens if muellers team issues the report close to the midterm election, in the weeks bef...