Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Spent an entire week at one of his golf course. It should not be that hard to find out whose interest the president is serving if own the congressional leaders would say subpoena his tax returns. More likely to support a candidate who promises to be a check on the president. Fresh off another round of encouraging Election Results on tuesday, democrats have a message of their own, they are in the words of nancy pelosi clean up corruption. What does that mean . Cleaning up corruption. How do you do it . We have to make sure that we can get big money out of politics. What we have seen is dark money
risk of not getting kavanaugh confirmed. It is not a matter it is a matter of timing. That sounds like they support in impeaching Rod Rosenstein but not doing it now. The plot which is to go after Rod Rosenstein but allow the senate to jam the Supreme Court justice. Do that work and then return after the midterm elections to try to jam up Rod Rosenstein. Most people can remember that the Clinton Impeachment took place in the aftermath of the midterm election. It appears they want to go out and do the same thing. It was in 1998 midterms breaking with history. A stunning rebuke of republicans who lost seats in congress and continued in that lame duck
session. Do you think that is what they would do . It wouldnt shock me. If they lose the house and well, a few months left, lets impeach rosenstein. Of course, that is what they do. The socalled chairman of the Intelligence Committee is a complete embarrassment. What is worse is that you have the number fourperson signing off on this and we cant believe what the leadership is saying. When we know what donald trump wants to do is get rid of Rod Rosenstein because he wants to get rid of the investigation. Nunes is a special case in terms of the extraordinary lengths he has gone to. That is basically most of the way the republicans feel about this. Significant members of House Republicans are what i call the
cover up caucus. Their sole objective of life is to deny the fact that we have a criminal conspiracy that appears to have taken place to sell out our democracy. They want to turn a blind eye to that and distract the American People in part by doing things like going after Rod Rosenstein. They are not spending a ton of time legislating. We want to lower Prescription Drug prices and raise pay. For more on the mounting Corruption Scandals joined by chris lew and former u. S. Attorney harry litman. Is it surprising to you that
how little investigative work the oversight has done. It is about ferreting out waste, fraud and abuse. Scott pruitt, only one of them being done by the House Oversight committee. Any one of those things would have tripped him up. There was no issue that was small enough that the republicans would not investigate an obama cabinet member for. I remember back in 2011, this thing about 16 muffins used at a Department Of Justice conference. That was an issue. That was a threeday story. I remember it. Now talking about 120 million with wilbur ross that likely would never be investigated. One of the things that comes through with the tapes is the control of the house is everything in terms of what happens, what is exposed and what we could get to the bottom of independent of the mueller investigation. Totally right, as chris says a sea change and it is not simply that the shoe is on the other foot. Much stronger bipartisan tradition among both the house and the Senate Committees that Nunes In Particular has demolished. Remember, that fundraiser is for a member of the leadership of the house who is going along with the whole kind of program. It is clear that they placed themselves as vessels to the white house as protective for to
them and one corollary is that it makes them important that one force in town going after truth without fear in favor Robert Mueller be allowed to do his job. Particularly bad not only trying to protect the president but demonize mueller. Weird broken government. Working in concert with the white house against a part of the executive. I want to get your response to giuliani talking about this back and forth with the mueller which again, take it with a grain of salt. I have no idea what is going on and this is his concern about why he doesnt want his client to testify about a perjury trap. He knows the answer to every question that he wants to ask. He is going it ask him did you tell comey to go easy on flynn. The president is going to say no i didnt. Hey, bob, you know it. Why do you want to get him under oath . Do you think we are fools . You want to trap him into perjury. We are not going to let you do that. How great is this . And the other one, chris, is even better. The other question that giuliani says is a paradigm of a perjury trap is why did you fire comey. As to that, we have heard eight different answers from the president of the united states. They have shifting and inconsistent and seven of them are lies. The Gotcha Strategy by the prosecution to want to hear the truth on this question on which criminal liability and the sort of integrity of the government rests is ludicrous this is exactly the opposite of a perjury trap. This is mr. President , what were you doing and why. What was your State Of Mind which by the way we do not know Contra Giuliani and dont know
what he is going to say. He said so many Different Things so far. This is down the center of what a legitimate prosecutor wants to find out. Not just for criminal conduct but for the country and history. Can you imagine pressure on the president from congress for him to actually talk to mueller . No. Not under this current environment and that will be the issue coming down the road as to having the Democratic Congress that conducts oversight and doesnt impede a lawful investigation. I find the giuliani statement is amazing. And one of the favorite tweets today, tweeting it is only a perjury trap if you are a liar. There is no perjury trap if you tell the truth. I find giuliani slightly hard to follow and i will confess, and maybe that is me. The president is going to lie, the premise of that thing is the president is going to lie. And lie about important material things not about was it a tuesday or wednesday which is what a perjury trap would be about. Thank you both. Thank you, chris. The manafort trial, day eight why the judge had to apologize to the mueller team. And how desperate Paul Manafort was when he entered the trump team. With drivewise. It lets you know when you go too fast. And brake too hard. With feedback to help you drive safer. Giving you the power to actually lower your cost. Unfortunately, it cant do anything about that. Now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . Heres a trip tip when you Search Hotels on tripadvisor. Enter your destination and the dates of your stay. Tripadvisor searches over 200 Booking Sites. To find the best deal on the right hotel for you. Tripadvisor. I do. Check out the new united explorer card. Saving on this saving on this saving in here. Rewarded learn more at theexplorercard. Com
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the courtroom. I was probably wrong in that. Thats big of him. The judge had in fact been wrong. Told the prosecution at the beginning of the trial, an Expert Witness could attend a trial unlike most witnesses allowed in the trial and yesterday lambasted the prosecution for doing that. I dont care what the transcript says, maybe i made a mistake. I am joined by National Security and justice reporter julie ainsley. And judge nancy gertner. Nancy let me start with you. You have run trials and lots of people reacting to judge elliss disposition. What is your read on this . This particular one is interesting. The trial begins with a
government saying can we have this expert in the courtroom. The judge says yes, and puts him on the stand. The judge goes on and essentially criticizing the government in front of the judge for having welch in the courtroom during the testimony of other witnesses. The government did Something Interesting which they havent done about other comments. Literally filed a motion in front of him overnight showing him a transcript of what he had said and the motion he had approved. When the judge gave this curative instruction, it wasnt ambiguous, he was flat out wrong, wrong to admonish the government. Never clear what impact that has on the jury. Ordinarily, the judge looks to the judge as their representative in a way. He is the one who is the neutral in the case and so when the
judge leans on one side in a critical way, that could wind up hurting that side. Sometimes it has the opposite effect. Sometimes it could be that the jurors would look at the judge and saying you are going to hard on one side. Cant really tell. But from what i understand from the reporting, this Wasnt The First example of his. No. Of his criticizing the government. Julie, you were in the courtroom today, what was it like . That is exactly right. There were times when there were Light Heartedness from the prosecution. She had to read an emoji, the jury laugh and the judge stayed stone face and any time the defense wasnt ready, a lot of times when they were shuffling pages and he would say go ahead take all the time you need. So there is clearly a heavy handedness here in One Direction and that is against the prosecution. I think it would be hard for the jury not to pick up on that and have that opposite reaction that we just laid out here. It seems to be definitely onesided. Let me ask you about the testify was today. Focused on the bank fraud stuff, financial documents, property owned in soho. Early 2016, is that right . This was right when Paul Manafort was in his biggest financial crunch and starting to lie on loan applications, trying to refinance his mortgages and take out another loan for 5 million out of a bank in california with his soninlaw at the time. That was eventually written down to 1 million when it was find they couldnt use a house in Bridge Hampton because it was in
his wifes name. Took investigation on account of the bank to figure it out. To figure out that Paul Manafort wasnt being forth coming. In some cases they couldnt figure it out because Paul Manafort had people lying for him and that was one person, cindy laporta. She has immunity. It was one of the dryer days being in the court because the prosecution really did go over a lot of the same evidence they have done before particularly on this Howard Street residence in new york. You could see the jury yawning and stretching in their chairs the psychology of a District Trial Judge in a case that you know was a huge deal. The nation is watching this and also from an appeals perspective, you know there is going to be appeals. How does that affect how you run a courtroom when you are dealing
with high stakes, high profile trial. It is hard to say in general, but what you would do, if you were concerned if one side was going too slowly or concerned about the scope of the evidence, what you would do is wait until the jury leaves the room and then admonish one side or the other. What you dont do is do this in front of the jury. But let me put the shoe on the other foot. I have no doubt and this is for after my years as a lawyer and my years as a judge. That if the defense was the focus of these kinds of comments they would be moved for a mistrial in a nano second. You avoid that by making comments if you have to and have to control the proceeding out of the presence of the jury. I understand today that he also said he thought attempted bank fraud wasnt very important. And that is a direct comment on
the evidence which you are not allowed to do. Yeah. You are just not allowed to do that. That is a point that i would love to go back to. A part where the prosecution just finished questioning a witness and the defense just got up for cross examination, and he says i hope you focus on a loan that was actually approve. In other words, why did we just waste our time listening to that witness and whole 25, 30 questions that the prosecution laid out. Essentially discrediting the case they made. Yes . It is not just a question of doing whatever you are going to do, dont do it in front of the jury, number one. And what you do has to do with legal issues and not comments on the evidence. And this sounded like comments on the evidence. He should get anonymous
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back the house majority. She doesnt share our values. What do you say . Well, i definitely would say that you know, having really seen so much opportunity in my life because of the shird distri shird district, i started out at Johnson College community college, going from there to co cornell for law school. To say that i dont know the Third District or kansas is laughable. You have an interesting bio. You were in mma for a while, is that right . Yeah, i have been a martial artist for a number of years
since i was 19 and i did compete in mixed martial arts. It has been a big part of my life. And then you went to cornell, you were in the obama administration. What prompted you to run for congress . It was about that i dont feel like the Third District has been represented well in do. C. And i want to see someone represent our voice and have a Decision Maker who wants to listen to people in the Third District and not just the special interests that he is making sure he stays in office. If you win, what are you going to do when you get there. You get to work on three things your first day if congress, lets say you have a democratic majority, what do you want to do . The key thing that i am hearing over and over every time i talk to people, is the people
in the Third District are concerned about access to Affordable Quality Health care and that is the number one thing that i constantly hear from folks here on the ground. So definitely that has to be part of what i work on. And you know, education, education. Public education has one, given me a Great Foundation and then two, it has for so long in this district been the reason that we have been able to thrive. I think that is something of course all of ckansas is concerned about. And secondly education. And the third one, there are quite a few things that people are concerned about. The environment is one. Certainly, tax, you know, the Tax Implications of the last bill are another thing. And then immigration issues consistently come up. Do you see yourself, they are
going it try to make this race about nancy pelosi, already made that clear. What is your response to you are going to be a proxy f