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Lawyers and those of us watching this case so raptly, not just because we care about this policy but also because we care about our country more broadly and were wondering what this new administration is going to be like, we wonder what theyre going to do, were interested in this as the first big fight between the Judicial Branch of government and this new executive branch of government coming to power with President Trump. For those of us who have been watching it because of those bigger dynamics, not just stuff specific to this policy, i want to bring to the table two things tonight. That i ...

Right now irma is about twice the size. It could be andrewlike but bigger. A lot of the northern islands, we still have this horrendous video, barbuda, they say 65 of the homes cant be occupied. This is before the eye went over the turks and caicos for four straight hours. Were still waiting for reports and at daylight we can find out just how bad ffs as they went through the northern eye wall. Heres the latest on the storm. Theres the clear eye. The thing that developed last night is it was start to develop an eye wall replacement sickle. There as a nashville is starting to take over. That ha...

Prosecute his political point. That would be illegal. Thats where we begin tonight. President trumps first reaction to the indictment of his former aides was to downplay their links to him. Now he is doing in public what Richard Nixon would only do in secret. He is openly musing about pushing the doj to investigate or prosecute political opponents. I am really not involved with the Justice Department. I would like to let it run itself. But honestly, they should be looking at the democrats. They should be looking at podesta and all that dishonesty. They should be looking at a lot of things and ...

Matter told New York Times that quote trump ordered his chief of staff to grant security clearance. Over ruling concerns flagged by officials and the top lawyer. It was so alarming to chief of, john kelly that he wrote a memo about how he had been oordered to give his clearance. And mcgahn outlined concerns the krr cia had as well as his own recommendation it be rejected. Kushner was granted permanent clearance after the completion of the fbi background check with no involvement from the president. Earlier that year john kelly had limited kushners access to the most snsative secrets because ac...

Good evening, i am steve cornacki in for chris matthews. Chris will be back for his vacation on monday night. Tonight though we continue to follow the explosive news that President Trump lied about how Jared Kushner received his security clearance. Four people briefed on the manner told New York Times that President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his soninlaw top secret security clearance. The decision was so alarming that john kelly, he wrote a con testimo contemporaneous memo. Al also, don mcgahn, wrote an outline the cia had of his recommendation that it would be reje rejected. K...