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Ultimately reach a plea deal. If Elliott Broidy does reach a plea deal, if he agrees to testify about other peoples crimes that he knows about in order to get lenience for himself, i have to tell you this could get fairly nutty fairly quickly because of all the Different Things that Elliott Broidy has been involved in in the trump era. And this news from the Washington Post tonight comes at a remarkable time. I mean we are two months out from the election now. In less than five months, were goin...

And Donald Trumps emergency visit to texas to help ted cruz. I call him lyin ted. Donald, youre a sniveling coward. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. There is a reason that the president of the United States has been waging an allout public war against an obscure career civil sevrvant because h reportedly had information in the summer of 2016 that russian intelligence believed, quote, they had trump over a barrel. The Civil Servant in question is Longtime Justice Department lawyer name...

Flynn, rick gates, George Papadopoulos that what the president calls a rigged witchhunt continues to bear fruit, which may explain the president s tweet storm on the subject the last several days, his attack on the attorney general, and his threat which he restated on the stump last night. All i can say this, our Justice Department and our fbi at the top of it, because inside they have incredible people, but our Justice Department and our fbi have to start doing their job and doing it right and ...

Youve got a friend in jesus youve got a friend in jesus you have been watching Aretha Franklins funeral, a glorious tribute to her life. We will be keeping an eye on it for you and bringing you all of the highlights as they unfold. The late senator john mccain lying in state today at the capitol where it almost felt he was watching with a smile, snickering at those of us reporters who were caught in the downpour that just opened as his casket was being carried up the capitol steps. In choreograp...

Court on the Legal Defense team thats repmag representing maria buttina. To try on influence the 2016 election on behalf of the russian government. Maria butinas lawyer has done lots of interviews and made lots of appearances. Prosecutors are asking for the judge to put a gag order on her lawyer so he will be restricted to only pleading her case in court rather than on tv. She of course remains in jail tonight awaiting trial. The judge in her case refused to allow her out on bail after prosecuto...

Trump campaign. And paying tribute to the late, great aretha franklin. The 11th hour begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams. Day 589 of the trump administration. President trump is heading into this Labor Day Weekend and ending his summer after another very rocky week. He began it by pointedly not participating in the nations tributes to the late senator john mccain, who of course had been a frequent trump crit...

Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams. Day 589 of the trump administration. President trump is heading into this Labor Day Weekend and ending his summer after another very rocky week. He began it by pointedly not participating in the nations tributes to the late senator john mccain, who of course had been a frequent trump critic. Monday there was trumps reported resistance to putting out a statement by the white house. Af...

Today another manafort associate, this one with ties to russia and Cambridge Analytica pled guilty and is cooperating with muellers investigation. We know that one of trumps longtime aides, roger stone, who had a back channel with wikileaks during the campaign is himself expecting to be charged by mueller. Stone says he thinks donald trump jr. Is going to be charged as well. Based on the long trail of muellers indictments and guilty pleas so far, it seems like some of the folks associated with t...

Inauguration committee knew about it. With me nbc Investigative Reporter kennedy lanian, evelyn farkas, Deputy Defense secretary kim lee, associate counsel during Whitewater Association and former u. S. Attorney guy lewis. Great to have you with us this friday. Ken, let me start with you. Tell us about this guilty plea and what unfolded. Ayman, this case appears to have come out of the investigation of Paul Manafort, Donald Trumps former campaign chairman, running this massive lobbying on behalf...

Now. The investigation around at 2016 election nets another guilty plea, this time from a washington lobbyist funneling russian money into the trump inaugural committee. In federal court friday, Samuel Patten admitted that he helped to steer money into the committee from a prorussian ukranian oligarch. These charges were not brought by the special counsel Robert Mueller, it is however the first time that the Justice Department has publicly charged someone with helping a foreigner funnel money in...