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Good day. Im Chris Jansing live at msnbc headquarters in New York City. Could the war in gaza break what had long been considered unbreakable. The alliance between the u. S. And israel being tested as never before with Prime Minister netanyahu openly defying President Biden and pressing ahead with plans to invade the Southern City of rafah. Biden called it a red line. So what happens if netanyahu crosses it . New jersey senator robert men den dez and his wife back in court today pleading not gui...

>> good evening from new york. im in for chris hayes. we are still waiting for the january 6th committees report on donald trumps attempted coup. but today, ahead of the final product, the committee has released a brand-new batch of transcripts from its closed-door interviews. those transcripts providing new insight into the inner workings of the trump administration, both in the days leading up to january 6th and as trumps inner circle scrambled to respond to the committee, the commit...

Paid for by sources they werent ready to disclose to the witnesses. people are told, hey, the boss is going to be watching this. hes going to read the transcripts. he will know what you have to say. you are a team player. things like that are absolutely designed to influence testimony. whether that is a prosecutable offense, you know, i think some of the statements that you related to us earlier where the witnesses said -- i do recall things, the attorney says thats just fine. i agree, that cros...

Most damaging statements were not things that she witnessed herself. we have to weed out what representative kinzinger accurately says is very dangerous in terms of statements that didnt sway the public, but what prosecutors have is firsthand information. so she becomes a somewhat different kind of witness. and still an important one, but not necessarily somebody whose statements were damning of donald trump. what we know of the investments, the mar-a-lago case to joyces point earlier is moving ...

Incompetent and where is he going to go? >> martha: heres what we see you are doing online, i need to look around your house and we need to make sure you dont have anything thats going to hurt anybody. >> absolutely. they could get a search warrant based on that statement. if it rises to the level of a criminal threat which is a prosecutable offense, but what about the parents, martha? when that kid was 18 and under, parents need to monitor social media. my god. can you imagine if they had seen ...

It may be time to cut a deal or they may stand pat and say, im good to go. weve heard that from one of the other named involved, carter page recently where hes been on tv repeatedly defending his position. maybe he can hold to that. bob muller im confident will get to the truth. >> you know, michael, everyone is talking about how fair he is, and im sure he is fair and im sure hes going to do his best to be fair. but fairness is one of those things thats seen differently by different people. youv...

Decision? >> sure. nbc news has confirmed the report that sally yates did warn the white house. why didnt they correct the record earlier. very few experts that weve talked to think there was a prosecutable offense under the logan act. >> pretty obscure. >> that law has never been prosecuted. the issue amounted to the blanket denial in the face of a transcript that said something completely the opposite and a really significant item, which is discussing sanctions on the day they were levied. the...

Akia had an outpouring just like this. people will buy more and look at us. were talking about cheerios. that ad buy, you know what they can multiply that because its not news every single day because that small minority who popped it up to the top of the front page, voiced their concerns in social media? just ridiculous. >> you can legislate against certain things, if you make threats online, that should be a prosecutable offense, but where do you draw the line between free speech and hate spee...

Know, whether or not something is a prosecutable offense, the politics of any possible criminal or even shade owe y ac michael cohen shines light on could be damaging. spiro agnew was forced to resign his office. >> danny, talk about why michael cohen is even talking right now. he has had some changes, he has a different lawyer involved. >> he does. i think this is a really clever tactic, this interview, because if you look at it, if you sift through it, he didnt admit anything of substance. he ...

Report notes that criticizing individuals for conduct does not warrant prosecution. its something that the department doesnt do. as a former prosecutor, as a citizen, a director of the fbi, do you agree that when director comey concluded that the conduct did not to a prosecutable offense that he should have refrained from commentary? >> senator, the policies of the department has governing commently about uncharged conduct are there nor a good reason. having been a prosecutor, ive been a defense...