Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. As has peter baker, correspondent for the New York Times thanks to all three of you for staying up late. Congressman, again, just a civics and kind of a Physical Plant question. The winner gets to be an incumbent member of congress. The winner will go, will get really bad office space. Theyll be on the bottom of the seniority list. Hell get his predecessors office. You do inherit the office space . How does that work . I replaced the most Senior Member of congress. For eight months as a freshman, i had the best office on capital little. You had a beautiful view of the dome. Then reality sets in. But they cant move in. They cant feel as much as anyone can move in with a twoyear term. Lets say its 12 weeks before the next election. House is out till labor day. Because it is an election day, theyll be in for about three
weeks. Whoever the incumbent is, they will be an incumbent for all of about three weeks. What they will
News coverage is provided. News coverage is provided. For dhs s decision to rescind daca, it fails to elaborate meaningfully on the agencies primary rationale for the decision. The judgment that the policy was unlawful and unconstitutional. He goes on to say while the memo offers several additional Policy Grounds for daca rescission, most of these simply repackage legal arguments previously made. And insufficiently independent from the Agencies Evaluation of daca legality to preclude review work to support the agencies decision. An earlier opinion the court did not say dhs lacks the Constitutional Authority to rescind the program and he says it is not with this ruling either but if dhs wants to rescind the program, they have to give a rational explanation for their decision. Saying, the last guy did it wrong is in in adequate. Doing so probably amounted to criminal activity. She admitted she had a sense that manafort lied to her about where money be transferred into his Political Consu
The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. And then actually never really does do it. Like release his taxes, right. Then theres other cases where it overrides all common sense, all of his advice and everybody else and does do it. The big question is, is he going to do it in this case . We dont know what donald trump were fog to get on that particular day. Although his staff does say and his attorneys do say that his tweets, in effect, and his public statements amount to his own testimony so far and you can just read his tweets and read his mind and thats something muler is doing, to see if theres any condemning statements hes made in those tweets. Hes been warned about that for a very long time. The president continues, you know, to tweet. Whether he is saying disparaging things about the process, his own intel community, all of that. How will mueller use these tweets to his advantage . Even if they never get direct q a from the president . Yes, well, the twe
The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Giving this story way, way, way too much oxygen. Okay. The tweets that hes been doing brooke on mueller, on the witchhunt, on, you know, the democrats working for robert mueller, which is by the way not it is a red herring, that is not something the people working around the president on strategy are concerned with. This crossed the line. Specifically on the piece regarding getting dirt on a political opponent, this to you. The president saying its politics, everyone does it but federal law makes it a crime for any person to solicit accept a contribution for a u. S. Political campaign or for the purpose of influencing any action for federal office. What is the trump Tower Meeting peter against the law even though as they say they didnt actually get anything on her, the fact that that was the
intent. I would say they are all, everyone who participated in that meeting has a great deal of legality jeopardy. And certainly in t
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Undoubtedly, hes going to confirm all the suspicions mounting for the past year that hes been using his chairmanship to protect the president. We recall last year when he viewed some things he viewed as problematic in those intelligence reports. He rushed to the white house, briefed the president about it before even briefing his committee. He was forced to step aside from the Russia Investigation on his Committee Last year, but he still wielded considerable influence from the outside. He stopped democratic attempts to subpoena witnesses, to get more records, to schedule witness interviews. Behind the scenes, he mounted his own investigation to try to sew doubt on the fbi, the Russia Investigation, the mueller probe. That led to the release of the nunes memo from earlier this year, criticizing how that fisa warrant was obtained to monitor carter page. Democrats say this is all part of this effort by devin nunes to