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Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Collusion and it appears to be an effort to silence or punish the president s supporters and their advocates. Washington post reporting the Special Counsel is offering to limit questions to the president. And submit some questions in writing. A parade of administration heavy hitters today saying russia is still trying to attack u. S. Elections. Even as Key Administration officials admit they dont know the relationship between donald trump and vladimir put...

Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Beforehand. Rudy giulianis answer to that was, nobody can be sure of anything. With Defense Lawyers like that, who needs prosecutors . So why Hasnt Donald Trump replaced his weak, Tv Defense Lawyer who is doing a terrible job of defending donald trump . Well, there are a few real possibilities and rational possibilities for that. One is that donald trump doesnt know what good lawyering looks like and so...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Whether a person is too close to the subject of the probe, whether Jeff Sessions would beak be more of a Trump Campaign surrogate who happened to be Attorney General rather than acting as an independent Law Enforcement officer. If sessions didnt recuse after that statement, it would have made him look even more like he was doing trumps bidding. And trump apparently didnt know that making that statement would also as just a genera...

Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Publication insisting that gucifer had nothing to do with russia. He was bolstering a Russian Disinformation Campaign designed to cover up a russian attack on the United States. That is what roger stone was doing in the summer of 2016. To be the status of mueller and agalarov. They are his business partners. It is emins idea to bring ms. Universe to moscow. And a deal is cut. And agalarov. Leverage. Agalarov has leverage here. Emin wants something. He has...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Their way to keep trump out of the trial. Abc news reports that prosecutors have been coaching their witnesses not to mention trumps name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. The judge in the case has warned that bringing up manaforts ties to trump could unduly influence jurors. There is at least one thing about this trial that is important to the relationship between Paul Manafort and donald trump. The first witness today...

Catch me every day at 4 00 p. M. Eastern in this very studio. Brian will be back here at this time tomorrow night. Thank you for being with us and good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. All of that red, started get red, republican. It started getting red, red. A tiny dot of blue along the ocean. His hand starts shaking. Oh, my god, another state came. Oh, my god. Whats going on . Fake news. So bob casey doesnt mind ms13 coming in. These are the slicers. They slice people up. They wan...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. James comey. It also only mize if the case in question is closely connected to politics. Thats whats important about the big new development. The Wall Street Journal was first on report in detail on the type of charges that federal prosecutors may be considering against the president s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. If it is kregt, the charges he is facing from prosecutors are not related to politics at all. At least not at face...

Statement, meaning at one point the president told the country the Trump Tower Meeting was about adoptions yet today hes tweeting to the world that it was to get dirt on his opponent, and that theres nothing wrong with that and theres nothing to hide. So why the changing sortories fm trumps story . Here is what that same lawyer, jay sekulow, said about it today. I had Bad Information at that time. I made a mistake in my statement. I talked about that before. That happens when you have cases like...

Manafort. The defense is going to go on offense to attack gates credibility. All of that is part of the drama today. The nuts and bolts of this case are still in the numbers, in the tax fraud, bank fraud, alleged deals for these clients allied with the putin regime. Now, Paul Manafort faces 18 fraud charges from a time before he ever joined the trump campaign. This was all the ukrainian consulting work, which means theres a ton of paper and prosecutors are arguing to this jury whatever happens w...

Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. Zeldin. This is a very serious allegation. He misunderstands, i think, that his failure to directly sell his own shares is whats at issue. Whats at issue is his provision of nonpublic information to his son and another so that they could cut their losses in their sales. That violates the mail fraud statutes, securities fraud statutes, and there is not really much of a defense if in fact the facts in the allegation are true. Michael, this is ...