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georgia, where the former president lives just ahead. but first tonight to east palestine, ohio, where a train derailment and toxic chemical spill have residents and lawmakers demanding answers about the safety of the air and drinking water. garrett tenney is live in that small ohio town near the pennsylvania border. garrett. >> reporter: yeah, jon, it's now been more than two weeks since that train derailment, and a lot of people here are still feeling sick despite officials saying the data shows the air and water are safe. and these are just the short-term symptoms from chemical ...

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 general matter of embarrassment, make him look weak and out of the loop about a decision that was already ...

Year? >> it's a lot. she's getting paid a lot, and i, i'm not going to say that this district doesn't have its challenges, but what i'm saying is you're getting paid for this, now where's the performance. i feel like she's been in this system long enough that we should be seeing some type of change. somebody needs to be held accountable, and i even look at our elected officials in saying, you know, at what point are we going to hold somebody accountable for what's going on. it shouldn't continue to be like this. and i think that we need answers, and i think that we need people to stop with the...

He said about elijah cummings, about baltimore, about it being disgusting and again rat infested. he used the word infested. what do you make of all that? >> i think the words of our colleague victor blackwell this past weekend spoke loudly about individuals from baltimore who grew up in baltimore who were hard-working american citizens. just because they live in elijah cummings' district doesn't mean they're any less american. the president of the united states is racist. i knew for a period of time we were saying he uses racism as a political currency or to divide people. i think it's fair t...

From a real estate transaction in western arkansas to linda tripp to monica lewinsky. this is what happens in a special counsel investigation. but the company you keep argument, that's a damning indictment of this president. even if there's no collusion? >> that's why what mark is describing in terms of the related investigations to the extent we heard from trump surrogates friday night that there was sort of an end zone dance going on regarding the fact there would be no more indictments from the special counsel's office is premature. because there still -- we still know there were referrals ...