Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee weighingin earlier today. Im sorry the americans will become increasingly cynical about the justice system. It is something we cannot afford to have. This system, we do not trust and increasingly americans do not trust the department of justice. Dont trust the Law Enforcement agencies because they feel like they are politically selective in who they go after and what they tried to do to them. Garrett tenney is live from the washington bureau. What did we learn from these emails . We are still going through a lot of the emails. So far, most of the 2800 messages dealing with Hillary Clintons schedule and travel plans and notes of conversations with world leaders. Even the mundane emails are heavily redacted. As for the five emails that the state Department Later deemed to beclassified , four of them are almost entirely rejected. Based on the subject line, they appear to deal with talks between the palestinians and hamas. The email with the fewest re
Steve harrigan is reporting from West Palm Beach where the president is spending his holiday weekend. Steve, what else are we learning from this report . Molly, this New York Times article cites at least four unnamed sources, both u. S. And foreign officials that it says say that the one time unpaid Foreign Policy advisor to the Trump Campaign may have been the source for all of the fbi investigation into the 2016 president ial election. They claim that he in a london wine bar told an australian diplomat that the russians had hacked Hilary Clintons emails and that they had dirt on Hilary Clinton. President trump may have been responding to this article a short time ago when on twitter he posted the following the president was defending his own use of twitter against what he calls the fake news media. Molly . All right, what else is coming up on the white house agenda . A couple of key meetings coming up in the week ahead. First on wednesday, congressional leaders both democrats and rep
Is not like me rounding up to the nearest 17 to come up with a ridiculously large sounding number. What the Washington Post is reporting tonight is that they have literally just hired 17 new lawyers for the president at the white house. Here is the headline in this latebreaking story. Quote, a beefedup White House Legal Team prepares aggressive defense of trumps executive privilege as investigations loom large. Here is the lead. A beefed up White House Legal Team is gearing up to prevent President Trumps confidential discussions with top advisers from being disclosed to House Democratic investigators and revealed in the special counsels longawaited report, setting the stage for a potential clash between the branches of government. Quote, the strategy to strongly assert the president s executive privilege on both fronts is being developed under newly arrived white House Counsel pat cipollone, who has hired 17 lawyers in recent weeks to help in the effort. In preparation for these loomin
Large. Here is the lead. A beefed up White House Legal Team is gearing up to prevent President Trumps confidential discussions with top advisers from being disclosed to House Democratic investigators and revealed in the special counsels longawaited report, setting the stage for a potential clash between the branches of government. Quote, the strategy to strongly assert the president s executive privilege on both fronts is being developed under newly arrived white House Counsel pat cipollone, who has hired 17 lawyers in recent weeks to help in the effort. In preparation for these looming legal battles, cipollone has been beefing up the white House Counsels office since his arrival in december. Cipollone has increased the staff to roughly 35 lawyers and aims to further bolster the ranks up to 40 in coming weeks. Until now, it has been a sort of weird dichotomy in this presidency. I think its the sort of thing that historians when they look back at this presidency, they will end up noting
John tester on the growing fears of a full blown trade war with china. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. A big night of breaking news. We will be joined by four different u. S. Senators. Elizabeth warren, chris murphy, john tester and Chuck Schumer will all join me tonight. We also have breaking news moments ago from the New York Times about President Trumps massive and mean truly staggering financial losses as a business man. First, the president and his administration are currently attempting to destroy the capacity of congress to do what it needs to do to preserve american checks and balances. Think of it this way. In the chick of watergate, they had the majority newscast senate, we are going to power through and they backed the president when they said no, you are not turning over the tapes and no, no, no. Thats akin to where we are headed right now. The Nixon Administration fell apart because Political Support from republicans evaporated. If they