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$20 million for what he. had eminent indictment watch. trump attorney makes their case directly to jack smith in washington. the exact same thing happened in manhattan. chancellor is making an argument and they see. charges tonight on the show than what it could mean for charges. he could be wearing an ankle brace it well accepting the nomination. plus, former cia director john brennan on the national security concerns. then, a roundtable of white house insiders kate bedingfield, robert gibbs and me. there is an awful lot of really good republicans. that s the maga republicans are difference again. and the republican field shrinks by one. that is the strategy. every candidate needs to understand the responsibility of getting out, and getting out. quickly new hampshire governor christened in a joint and we live when all this starts, right now. good evening from new york. i am jen psaki for chris hayes tonight. as many of you know, i have experience work ....
Erin melber, msnbc chief legal correspondent and the host of the beat. so, are you, you have given the been spending a lot of time focusing on these cases and washing them. what is your take on this media that happened today between trump s lawyers and the special counsel? well, jen. number one, trump lost his request effort to get a meeting with a attorney general eric garland, as you alluded to. number two, what is the significance of trump to not get that meeting? i just think it shows that he is out of power and running out of options. you know as well as anyone than in politics you do project power and he looks at this as a public fight. so asking for something in public and not getting it is not good. number two, i think that we are seeing that the trump team on their side is very concerned that the doj is approaching a possible indictment of donald trump. yeah. in their letter to merrick garland, a couple of weeks ago trump s lawyers accused the special counsel of pros ....
Future committees in congress down the road. they knew that they couldn t force the department of justice to act. that this was something prosecutors would make the final decision on. ultimately, this became a unanimous decision. everyone in this committee in agreement this was the step they needed to take because of all the evidence they believe they ve uncovered. thank you very much. back with us is our panel. we re also joined by msnbc chief legal correspondent and host of the beat, ari. he has a new breakdown of the coup conspiracy. so, ari, this committee didn t mince words here. they re throwing insurrection at donald trump. they re throwing conspiracy at donald trump. they re throwing obstruction at donald trump. what do you make of them going full on? i think it s a great question. you ve been discussing these referrals this morning, katy. ....
and joining the conversation, msnbc chief legal correspondent and host of the beat on msnbc where everything happens, ari melberg. great name for a show. former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and msnbc contributor joyce vance. former justice department spokesperson now an msnbc justice and security analyst matthew miller is with us as well. matthew, let me start with you quickly. why not? for front page of the washington post, i have it somewhere here but i can t finds it. i m going to thank you, willie. new sanctions on russia, they re significant sanctions, aren t they? isn t this what people have been waiting for trump administration to do for some time? they have been. i think these sanctions are important but by themselves they re not sufficient. there are two categories, one are sanctions against the same people that mueller indicted for the social media activity in the middle of the election. if there was probable cause to ....
News national political reporter heidi przybyla and joining the table we have msnbc chief legal correspondent and host of the beat on msnbc ari melber. the white house is preparing to release that controversial memo authored by house republicans that accuses the fbi and justice department of abusing its surveillance powers particularly against an associate of president trump. a senior administration official told nbc news late last night that the white house counsel and security officials will review the memo and decide on additional redactions. they have five days to decide. republicans on the house intelligence committee voted to release the memo which, according to reports, alleges research bankrolled by anti-trump republicans and democrats during the 2016 campaign was used in a fisa application to surveil trump foreign policy adviser carter page. a memo written by committee ....