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we ll see. thank to you phillip, zerlina, john. thank you for being with us. all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in. i don t want to talk about pardons for michael flynn yet. a new york times bombshell. can you say unequivocally no one here has discussed pardons in this case? the president s lawyer reportedly floated pardons for flynn and plfrt before they were charged. i ve always found paul manafort to be a very decent man. tonight it the reporter who broke the story and what this means for the obstruction case against the president. then, did the special counsel just file evidence of trump campaign collusion with russia? that s what he said. that s what i said. that s obviously what our position is. plus, the president announces the firing of the v.a. secretary on twitter. and apple ceo tim cook on mark zuckerberg s current predicament. i wouldn t be in this situation. okay. more from kara swisher and my exclusive intervi ....
people. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics. i m john king. to our viewers around the united states and the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. president trump s inner circle under scrutiny by the feds. the long-time aide who knows the most about the money and the long-time fixer no longer willing to take a bullet for the boss. this man has come to a moment in his life and i won t talk about what he did in the past for donald trump other than being a loyal defender as an attorney, but i will tell you my own personal view. this man has turned a corner in his life, has hit a reset button and he s now dedicated to telling the truth. plus new evidence the american economy is booming, low unemployment, high growth. is the timing just right or will the president s trade war stall the boone times? this is the time to straighten out the worst trade deals ever made by any country on earth ever in history ....
that s the combining of the denial with the collusion is not a crime narrative. the president was focusing on just the straight up no collusion point. you see it in all the tweets. now it is roaring back because of the thursday night bombshell that the president s own former lawyer and fixer cohen is claiming despite all the denials, the president did know about the russia trump tower meeting in advance. when that report drop, you know what happens next, they picked it up and whipped it around and began running with it again. it s hard to see the point of all of this hysteria. what would the crime be? it is not illegal to talk to foreigners. nobody is claiming that any information changed hands. even if did it, so what? i don t think it is bad if campaigns are turning to foreign governments for dirt. it s not collusion. it is not something that s impeachable. as they today? hacking. donald trump famously doesn t pay his own contractors and his own long time lawyers? even ....
meeting. that trump s own son took it explicitly being promised damaging information on clinton and then the times gave the actual information. the meeting, if it is what you say, i love it. if you did that, you might need a wider defense than denial. in october came the multiple denials. october 30, the special counsel announcing the indictments against paul manafort who goes on trial tomorrow, plus his deputy, campaign manager rick gates. mueller also announced guilty pleas of george papadopoulos who admitted contacts with who? russian nationals. who he thought were tied to the russian government. who offered him what? yes. information about the possible release of hillary clinton s e-mails. so following those indictments we then saw allies of the president including now and this is key, the president s own lawyers, picking up the argument like go pro camera, collusion is it went away for a few months. the president was focusing on just the straight up no collusion point. ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories. summit was less than an hour and didn t have any follow through and that match is reporting the trump administration has no central policy for election security and no one is in charge. while we re running through the facts, note that another appointee flagged that they don t have a key person minding the store in cyber security because the trump administration eliminated the job of cyber security coordinator. so that s a lot of facts. that is the current policy baseline. experts noting the trump approach looks more like cyber lackadaisical than cyber secure. that is the framework for what happened today. a list of intelligence vips, marching into the white house briefing room. and you can see it there. they were rolling deep. you see the leaders of intel announcing that contrary to what their boss says, the recent reports in the news of russian mid-term meddling are true. that russian interference and u.s. po ....