Stenographer Taking News Today

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...

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Remind folks what that means . Yeah. Theres a question about the status of the ballot. Maybe a question about the status of the voter. They tend to be, i keep saying, they tend to be democratic ballots. They tend to be voters, especially in franklin county, from delaware county. Oftentimes, you find that sometimes in...

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Will not be counted. If it is received tomorrow, lost in the mail, if that ballot gets in, it will be counted. So some are going to be counted terms of Absentee Ballots favored oconnor. You would expect that whatever comes out of this would give him a little boost. And there are going to be a couple hundred, we would think, a small number of military ballots. It may be a bigger wedge the provisions and all...

The room at a long table, a stenographer taking down what was said. you could hear a pin drop, literally, as the ambassador laid out his opening statement. im going to leave it to our chairman to characterize the testimony when the hearing concludes. >> do you get the sense from these diplomats that they wish they had raised concerns before this came to a whistleblower bringing this all to light? have they indicated, even, that they felt they had the ability to do that? >> again, i dont want to ...

From the man or woman who is act congress acting as the stenographer taking everything down. >> thats why you would want the best evidence. at the trial you want to introduce the stenographer, the person who took the notes. >> its been suggested by indicting roger stone and stone has said he expects to be indicted and those who have been ber viewed by the special counsel that i have spoken with said stone was major part of the questioning. they felt like stone was one of their targets. its been ...

Under oath. theres a stenographer taking down every word he says and no lawyer, no defense lawyer allowed in that room. can you imagine the carnage if you unleash mueller or one of his attorneys on trump with no lawyer there. >> david jolly, a friend who is a lifelong new yorker and known donald trump for decades always says the following reminder to me. this guy was on the payroll of the network in this building for 14 years. he is used to being kind of the entertainer figure in whatever room h...

Ultimately -- >> does he have any leverage? >> minimal. >> theyve got the client everybody wants. >> right. i think giuliani knows the things hes demanding are outrageous. youll agree to certain concessions maybe more for the president of the united states. hes way out of line for what hes demanding, time limits. >> in obstruction. >> i wonder why. if they dont agree, mueller i believe will crop a subpoena. you end up in the courts and trump is going to argue executive privilege. it didnt work f...

It didnt work for bill clinton in the 90s. its not going to work for donald trump. its nor national security and military secrets. nightmare scenario for trump is if he loses in the courts and has to go in a grand jury, hes under oath. theres a stenographer taking down every word he says and no lawyer, no defense lawyer allowed in that room. can you imagine the carnage if you unleash mueller or one of his attorneys on trump with no lawyer there. >> david jolly, a friend who is a lifelong new yor...