It will hit with unequal force. Our interest is for american elections to be decided by americans. One side is attached to facts in the way the other side just is not anymore. Join chris hayes in front of a live studio audience. Welcome, everybody to 30 rock. All in with chris hayes. L s so knowing that i can get in touch with them at any time is really comforting. Grandma, youre on tv grandma wow what channel . vo the network more people rely on, gives you more. Like plans your family can mix and match starting at just 35. So everyone gets the plan they need. And disney on us. Plus, one of our best phones when you buy one. Thats verizon. Welcome back, everybody. Weve had a bit of a technical difficulty. Youre joining us on this friday morning. Ayman is going to be joining us in just a moment here. We begin with what appears to be another instance of quid pro quo by the president. The same issue that got him impeached in the first place. Before meeting with new York Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday President Trump put out a tweet that appeared to link his administrations decision to freeze new yorks access to the trusted Traveler Program with the demand that the state drop a myriad of lawsuits against him. He wrote im seeing Governor Cuomo at the white house, he must understand that National Security far exceeds politics. New york must stop all of its unnecessary lawsuits and harassment, cleaning itself out and lowering taxes. Leticia james has filed a subpoena and a number of lawsuits against the trump organization. She responded to the president s tweets writing in part this, when you stop violating the rights and liberties of all new yorkers, we will stand down. Until then, we have a duty and a responsibility to defend the constitution and the rule of law. By the way, i filed the lawsuits, not the governor. House judiciary chair, jerry nadler drew a link between trumps tweet and a quid pro quo writing this, dear senate gop, this is what another quid pro quo by the president of the United States looks like. And President Trump has now attacked the lead juror in the case that ended with his friend roger stones conviction, trump tweeted this in part, now it looks like the four person in the jury in the roger stone case had significant bias. Add that to Everything Else and this is not looking good for the quote Justice Department. The attack came a day after former Memphis School board president tamika hart identified herself as the lead juror in a facebook post. Hart says she has been silenced out of concern for her safety but decided to speak out in defense of the four prosecutors quit the case after the department of justice overwrote her recommendations. Hart posted to facebook this, as foreperson, i made sure we went through every element of every charge, matching the evidence presented in the case that led us to return a conviction of guilty on all seven counts. Since identifying herself, president s allies in the media have dredged up old social media posts they claim post bias. Hart did run for congress as a democrat in 2012 but stones defense team knew that when they cleared her to serve on the jury. Meanwhile, in a new interview with abc news, the attorney general says the president s comments and tweets make it quote impossible for him to do his job. Bill barr insists he was not asked by the president or anybody else from the white house to intervene in the stone case. Barr says he spoke to the u. S. Attorney before the sentencing memo was turned in and advised him not to recommend a seven to nineyear prison sentence but to instead defer to the judge. Heres what the attorney general says happened after claiming the u. S. Attorney defied him. Watch this. On monday night when i first saw the news reports i said, gee, the news is spinning this, this is not what we were going to do. So you were surprised . I was very surprised and once i confirmed that thats actually what we filed i said that night to my staff that we had to get ready because we had to do something in the morning to amend that and clarify what our position was. I had made a decision what i thought was fair and reasonable in this particular case, and once the tweet occurred, the question is, well, now what do i do, and do you go forward with what you think is the right decision or do you pull back because of the tweet and that illustrates how disruptive these tweets can be. Youre saying you have a problem with the tweets . Yes. Well, i have a problem with some of the tweets. Im happy to say that, in fact, the president has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case. However, to have public statements and tweets made about the department, about people in the department, or men and women here, about cases pending in the department, and about judges before whom we have cases make it impossible for me to do my job. And the White House Press secretary released the following statement in response to bill barrs interview. The president was not bothered by the comments at all as he has the right just like any american citizen to publicly offer his opinions. President trump uses social media very effectively to fight for the American People against injustices in our country including the fake news. The president has full faith and confidence in attorney general barr to do his job and uphold the law. Joining us from washington congressional reporter for politico, andrew desidario. Thank you for joining us. That was quite an astounding interview. I think a lot of people were surprised to hear the attorney general speaking so frankly, and making basically a public rebuke of the president saying its making it impossible for him to do his job at the department of justice. What was your initial reaction hearing this from the attorney general . My first reaction is this is a reaffirmation of what every republican in washington believes whether they say it publicly or not which is that the president s tweets and, you know, not just his tweets, what he says from the white house, from the oval office, from the south lawn, before he gets ready to depart for a trip, everything like that, you know, makes their jobs harder and for the attorney general, i think thats even more true than a republican senator, for example. The question is, of course, whether this was a genuine rebuke of the president or it was more of an effort to sort of take the pressure off of the president. During a week when hes being accused of improperly interfering in a Justice Department criminal case involving one of his long time allies and friends. I do want to stick with this for a moment because i also think the sometimitiming is sus all of this and hearing from the attorney general in this way. Do you think he was getting enough pressure from it seems the media and anybody outside that was looking in on this roger stone case, the four prosecutors that basically stepped down from the case because it seemed like the doj was, you know, rescinding what their recommendations were for the sentencing. Do you think that he felt enough pressure that he felt like he had to speak out at this moment . I think the pressure came when those four prosecutors stepped down, whether they, you know, stepped down from the department all together or from their specific role. That was, you know, the most public sort of rebuke of what the higher ups at the Justice Department were doing in stepping in and essentially saying, wait, this is not the sentencing recommendation we want to put forward for someone like roger stone in this specific case. That was the tipping point, and i think its what caused at least on capitol hill, you know, a lot of angst among in particular democrats about what had happened at the Justice Department. What do you make also of the president s attack on the lead juror on the roger stone case . We also have basically served jury duty at one point or another. We know how the process works and we know most of the time, both the defense and the prosecution know exactly what the make up is of each one of these jurors. Yeah, thats exactly right. Look, i mean, one of the defining features of this presidency has been sort of the president s willingness to use his megaphone to defend his allies that have been ensnared as part of the mueller investigation, whether its roger stone or Michael Flynn or paul manafort, for example, that has been really a defining feature of Donald Trumps presidency, and he has sort of, you know, taken to his grievances via twitter to sort of vent about that, and what you saw from attorney general bar was that exact mentality, according to his words in this interview, that sort of makes his job a lot harder as hes trying to lead the Justice Department. So its no surprise that he has been doing what he has been doing. Andrew, thank you so much, stay close, were going to talk to you again in just a little bit. Thank you. President trump and former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg getting into a twitter spat yesterday trading insults. First, the president mocked bloombergs hype by tweeting a photo shopped image of the billionaire president ial candidate initially posted by the white houses social media director. President trump called bloomberg a loser who has money but cant debate. The president tied bloombergs physical stature to the president ial debate saying that the former mayor quote does not want to be on the debate stage with these professional politicians. No boxes please. Bloomberg swung back at the president tweeting in this part this, we know many of the same people in new york. Behind your back, they laugh at you and call you a carnival barking clown. During a Campaign Event in north carolina, bloomberg mentioned the president s attacks against him. Listen to this. Somebody said, you know, that hes taller than me, calls me little mike. And the answer is donald, we measure your height from your neck up. I am not afraid of donald trump. Donald trump is afraid of us and thats why he keeps tweeting all the time. If he doesnt mention you, you got a big problem. So along with that, former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg also apologized again for the citys stop and frisk policy at a Campaign Event in houston while announcing mike for policewomblack america. At last nights event, bloomberg did not specifically bring up the 2015 audio clip of him bluntly discussing minorities but said he did regret defending stop and frisk. Watch this. I wanted to save lives and respond with urgency the crisis that was plaguing our communities, and while many of the ways we tried to reduce gun violence and invest in communities were right, and reduced murder by 50 , there is one aspect, approach, that i deeply regret, the abuse of a Police Practice called stop and frisk. I defended it, looking back, for too long because i didnt understand, then, the unintended pain it was causing to young black and brown families and their kids. I should have acted sooner and faster to stop it. I didnt and for that i apologize. A day after the 2015 audio clip resurfaced, the Bloomberg Campaign had announced three endorsements from the congressional black caucus. Still ahead, Michael Bloomberg wasnt the only person President Trump was lashing out at yesterday, he also had words for his former chief of staff john kelly. Thats coming up next. Ats comi. Ats comi. My body is truly powerful. I have the power to lower my blood sugar and a1c. Because i can still make my own insulin. And trulicity activates my body to release it like its supposed to. Trulicity is for people with type 2 diabetes. Its not insulin. I take it once a week. It starts acting in my body from the first dose. Trulicity isnt for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. Dont take trulicity if youre allergic to it, you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. 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Now from the fallout from white house chief of staff john kelly who uncharacteristically eviscerated President Trump on foreign and domestic issues. According to the atlantic, kelly unleashed his misgivings about trumps behavior, sounding at times like the antitrump, on topics of immigration, a Key Initiative in which he was responsible for advancing, kelly says trumps border wall doesnt need to extend quote from sea to shining sea and disapproved of trumps language about migrants, explaining most are merely looking for jobs. In fact, they are overwhelmingly good people. They are not all rapists and murders, its wrong to characterize them that way. I disagreed with the president a number of times. The retired marine corps general faulted trump for meddling in the case of eddie gallagher, a navy seal convicted of posing with a corpse. The commander in chief intervened there in my opinion was exactly the wrong thing to do. Had i been there, i think i could have prevented it. On north korea, kelly said the countrys rogue leader will never give his Nuclear Weapons up. President trump tried, thats one way to put it, but it didnt work. I didnt think kim would do anything other than play us for a while, and he did that fairly effectively. President trump responded to the barrage of criticisms from his former cabinet member tweeting when i terminated john kelly, which i couldnt do fast enough, he knew he was way over head. Being chief of staff wasnt for him. Came in with a bang, went out with a whimper, like so many exs, he misses the action and cant keep his mouth shot. His incredible wife karen once pulled me aside and said strongly this, john respects you greatly. When we are no longer here, we will only speak well of you. Wrong, but former National Security adviser john bolton who has recently spoken out about his time in the white house to kellys defense, tweeting john kelly is an honorable man. John and i have disagreed at times which is common place at senior levels but he has always served his country faithfully. Conservatives have a responsibility to reject baseless attacks upon him. Lets switch gears bring in msnbc meteorologist bill karins with an update on your weather. An arctic blast has moved in through the great lakes and heading into the northeast during the day today, so if youre outside this morning, its going to be a little chilly, and gets colder as the day goes on. One of the days especially in many areas that you want to start the car up before you have to get in, and then you have a nice warm ride to work or school. The snow showers last night, there was a couple of them here and there. Many areas are snow free, though, and as far as the windchills go, the worst of it is now in areas of iowa and also all the way back through minnesota. Yesterday we were about negative 30 to negative 40. Windchill advisories for 26 Million People. Minneapolis right now feels like negative 22, st. Louis at negative 16. The cold moved to the south. Northern mississippi, feels like 17. Little rock, 17. Were still pretty mild in the mid atlantic where yesterday we had record highs in the areas like savannah, georgia. That will move in during the day. Burlington, vermont, at negative 13. The forecast for today, chicago only 16, but its sunny. At least, you know, as long as its sunny or never feels too bad. New york city will only be 32. Boston around 24, and as far as the weekend outlook goes, saturday morning will be the coldest of the winter for many areas of the northeast. Its a cold start but with a lot of sunshine. The afternoon will be okay. Maybe some snow showers in the great lakes, and then by the time we get to sunday, the map is pretty clear, not many problems at all. As long as you can deal with 24 hours of cold, then its going to warm right up next week. I was hoping it was going to be a little bit rainy so i didnt have an excuse to go out for valentines day. Thanks bill. Not off the hook. Always looking for excuses. Im coming back to you, by the way, ayman. Come on over. Ill be there soon. Much more from attorney general bill barrs interview, and what Senate MajorityMitch Mcconnell is saying about it. The shake up in the white house following President Trumps impeachment acquittal. Those stories and more coming up next. Peachment acquittal. Those stories and more coming up next powerful, soothing relief to defeat your worst cold and flu symptoms fast. Device sneezes theraflu. The power is in your hands. Still fresh. Unstopables inwash scent booster downy unstopables burke weve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. Even a gold medal grizzly. sports announcer what an unlikely field in this final heat. burke not exactly a skinny dipper, but we covered it. 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