Think . I think you have a very challenging decision ahead of you. And the truth about latenight gibberish tweeting. The the the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant. When all in starts right now. Good ening from w york. Im ris hayes. As soon as next weekthe American Public will get a chance to hear directly from james comey. The former fbi director fired by the president earlier this month in the midst of the russia investigation, a source close to comey tells nbc news comey has been cleared for takeoff by special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify in an open session of the Senate Intelligence committee. It would be comeys first public appearance since his abrupt dismissal on may 9th. Multiple reports indicate the former fbi director plans to address his interactions with the president over the russia probe, which we now know comey documented in a series of contemporaneous memos. According to one of those memos, the president asked comey to end the fbi inves
Well be right back. Well make a decision. The high stakes of treating the planets fate like an apprentice finale. So, ivanka, what do you think . I think you have a very challenging decision ahead of you. And the truth about latenight gibberish tweeting. The the the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. As soon as next week, the American Public will get a chance to hear directly from james comey. The former fbi director fired by the president earlier this month in the midst of the russia investigation, a source close to comey tells nbc news comey has been cleared for takeoff by special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify in an open session of the Senate Intelligence committee. It would be comeys first public appearance since his abrupt dismissal on may 9th. Multiple reports indicate the former fbi director plans to address his interactions with the president over the russia probe, which
Year. Trying to justify and explain away the meeting. Most politicians would have gone to a meeting to get information on a opponent. Thats politics. Never mind the idea he ran on being a nonpolitician after draining the swamp of politics. What makes the statement even stranger that later today, during another no cameras a i lou allowed press conference. Sean spicer gaifr an explanation. Thats flat out false. The president made it clear through his tweet, and there was nothing that as far as we know that would lead anyone to believe there was anything except adoption of the magnitsky act. To discuss russian adoption and sanctions. That answer it ignores the chain of emails na donald trump jr. Himself released under pressure saying the meeting was about information on Hillary Clinton provided by the russian government. As if all the revelations this past week about who was at the meeting and what was said simply never happened at all. That defense didnt even work two saturdays ago. It s
Man. He took a meeting with a russian lawyer, not a government lawyer, but a russian lawyer. It was a short meeting. It was a meeting that went very, very quickly, very fast, two other people in the room, they, i guess one of them left almost immediately and the other one was not really focused on the meeting. I do think this. I think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. Its called Opposition Research or Even Research into your opponent. Ive had many people i have only been in politics for two years, but ive had many people call occupy, up, oh, gee, we ha information on this factor or this person or, frankly, hillary. Thats very standard in politics. Politics is not the nicest business in the world, but its very standard where they have information and you take the information. In the case of don, he listened. I guess they talked about, as i see it, they talked about adoption and some things. Adoption wasnt even a part of the campaign. But Nothing Hap
Keep it quiet . Plus the gop plan to repeal obamacare down for the count. And trumpcare let healthcare millions of americans rely on let it fail. Lets get right to cnns chief National Security correspondent, jim schuitto. Nika anderson, and mika philips. Jim lets start with that second meeting were learning about between Vladimir Putin and President Trump at the g20, what happened . Lets be clear at International Sum mits you have pull asides, handshakes and conversations in addition to formal one on ones. In addition to the the putin tru slsh putin trump one on one at the table were seeing it now. Whats interesting about this is that the other people present at the g20 dinner, u. S. Allies, leaders of u. S. Allies in europe theyre the one that is found it unusual, strange at this dinner for the president to stand up, go sit down to the russian president and speak at that length of time. Unusual to them, american allies. And then not disclose it until and this is in a series of meeting