and take on whatever comes next. find out how american express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open.com. so the wheels are coming off a little bit. if the wheels are not yet off you are starting to hear the start of lug nuts stripping their threads and pinging across lanes of traffic while the wheels start to wobble. there s a bit of a freakout in washington and we re seeing it on two big stories developing tonight. why is it always friday night? one of these two stories tonight, developing tonight that shows this freakout, one of them is about the administration itself, the other one breaking tonight appears to be about the prospect of investigation into the administration.
press, we the citizens of the united states know about the content of communications with the russian government? michael flynn was reportedly exposed as having lied about the content of his calls to the russian government because u.s. law enforcement or u.s. intelligence agencies were li
he is a heck no on trump care. i m a heck no on this. i think they ve got problems with the vote. i ve personally spoken to 29 of my conservative colleagues who are no on this as of today and we re not even counting the moderate republicans who are a no. i think they ve got a lot of arm twisting to do between now and thursday if they re going to pass this bill in the house. does he sound scared to you? because congressman massey was in the room today when donald trump came to the house of representatives to urge republicans to vote for the bill. here is how congressman massey describes tough guy donald trump. threatening and pushing around all those republicans who oppose the bill. he was very charming. there was some light-hearted jabs at his opponents in the room but it was all in good fun. light-hearted jabs. that ought to do it. that s what tough guy trump is delivering to republican opponents of his bill. thomas massey doesn t claim to
be a tough guy the way donald trum
that is how they used to do it when he was in charge. now that the white house has hand-picked someone to take over that job, apparently we get the kushner forms 7:00 on a friday night. that does it for us tonight. we ll see you again on monday. now it s 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 there s no reason. and then sometimes it feels like maybe there s a reason. that s right. and, you know, some of these things, i just feel like it s because we re all cursed, and we don t get real weekends. so fridays just end up being a busy day. but there are some things in the news tonight that feel like legit, deliberate friday night news dumps that are supposed to be burying these things. right. and your reporting on what outgoing former director shaub said adds context to that. i am ari melber in for lawrence o donnell this evening. it seems attorney genera
phil mattingly, thank you so much. dana bash who used to run up and down those halls for years and years and years. phil has talked to folks on both sides of the aisle. confident that the house will get to this and nancy pelosi was so key in brokering this deal why is she standing there now for four-plus hours and saying no? i saw you write that down and because you re you, is why you picked up what you did about nancy pelosi. to people at home, it makes no sense. not at all. because she s getting attention for the issue she s upset is not in there. she understood because she is as sort of seasoned and tough as a legislator as they come, that at the end of the day, we saw what happened in the senate a few weeks ago.
they tried to use the immigration issue as leverage for keeping the government open and it didn t work. shut the government down. it didn t work out so politically, at least in the short term, for democrats. nancy pelosi is making using the megaphone that s
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disconnect with trump and the national security team on the subject of russia meddling. president ranting about the russian hoax hours after his top intel officials called out the kremlin for interfering in the upcoming 2018 midterms. at the rally in pennsylvania, he ta touted about the helsinki summit. we got along really well. by the way, that s a good thing. not a bad thing. that s a really good thing. now we re being hindered by the russian hoax. everybody said that was great. a couple of hours later, i started hearing reports that, you know, they wanted me to walk up. they wanted me to walk up and go like this. son of a hours earlier, key members of the national security team appeared in the white house
briefing room to warn the country the russian election interference is ongoing. in regards to the russian involvement in the midte-term electio elections, we continue to see a pervasive messaging campai