because people have questions about the ethics and morals and character not only of cabinet appointees but the president himself and i think it does a great disservice to the american people, also, a disservice to the republican party when we are or proclaim to be the party of values and morals. >> that is "all in" for this evening. >> good evening, chris, thanks man. where do you want to start tonight? this is like you're used to having like an entree and two sides for dinner. no, tonight is poopoo platter. tonight you can choose from everything we have to offer. this has been another one of those days with one breaking news story after another. each one of them a big enough deal that in any other administration it would be the focus of months of attention and scandal and congressional investigation but in this administration it's all you can do to finish reading one of the

huge scoops that broke this afternoon and this evening before another one comes flying down the barrel behind it. just in no particular order today, today the head of the national security agency has not been authorized to disrupt russian cyber attacks targeting russian elections. the head of the nsa said we're absolutely not doing enough. russia sen courais encouraged t but his hands are tied because the president hasn't given him or his agency the day to day authority to disrupt russia's on going cyber attacks against us. that's a big story. also today, the president announced his reelection campaign which is strange enough since he's only been in office for a year but then he also chose to name his campaign manager for his reelection effort in 2020. can't use the old campaign chairman obviously. he's got 23 felony counts pending against him, so no, not

him. the new campaign chief instead will be the guy that served as trump's digital media guru brad parscale. as we wait if there will be indictments in the russia investigation with the data side of the presidential election in 2016, donald trump has just named his digital media guru from 2016 as the chief of his whole 2020 effort. that seems like a big story. but wait, as soon as that was announced, the associated press said a few months ago, brad parscale just named campaign manager a few months ago, he signed a $10 million business deal with a super shady penny stock company that has recently been investigated for pumping its stock price online. this is a company famous for one of its top executives offering to pay a million dollar bribe to

some hedge fund investors supposed hedge fund investors to get them to illegally pump up the company's penny stock price. those hedge fund investors were fbi agents and it was a sting that executive ended up pleading guilty to commit securities fraud. he flipped and became a cooperating witness for prosecutors and now brad just joined the board of that company and did a $10 million deal with them while he's been announced as the trump campaign manager for 2020. all the while trump's deputy campaign chair from the last campaign pled guilty to two felonies and he's a formentioned campaign chairman from the last campaign is due to be arraigned in federal court tomorrow and will be arraigned again in a different federal court two days later in both cases on multiple felonies. that seems like a big story, too. i can tell you there is some beautiful historical symmetry in

the fact the president announced his reelection campaign today on the same day that the russia legal defense fund for trump 2016 campaign staffers was formally incorporated into law. we'll have more on that coming up later on this hour. the atlantic magazine tonight released direct messages between trump campaign associate roger stone and wikileaks. these are direct messages between stone and wikileaks from before the election even though roger stone denied he had direct contact with wikileaks. this means roger stone now admits being in direct contact during the campaign with a russian cutout that released e-mails stolen by the russian governmentbelatedly admits to being involved while they had e-mails stolen by the russian government. those in addition to the direct contact during the campaign

between wikileaks and donald trump junior. which the campaign first denied but now they have been forced to admit, as well. all of these news stories breaking in the same afternoon, this is all one day of news. let's keep going. today the white house communications director was called to testify under oath to the house intelligence come hit ty and white house communications direct refused to testify and about anything and nobody is asserting executive privilege here. she's refusing to testify. okay. conveniently that means hope hicks drafting a false and misleading statement and the true nature and meeting during the campaign that involved

kushner and claiming they had dirt on hillary clinton that had been collected and they wanted to deliver to the trump campaign. also today, another white house official is reportedly talking about the false statements about the trump tower meeting, josh raffle. he quit the white house today. josh raffle had kind of a strange job. he was technically deputy communications director at the white house though that title was never formally announced before he quit today. okay. and real life what his job actually was was that he was the spokesman for the president's children, for the president's children given ser yonior white house jobs. it's a strange thing to have the president's children and senior white house jobs and also a strange thing that we the taxpayers were paying the salary for the president's daughter and their husband to have their own dedicated communications

specialist on tap. but today that communications guy announced he is quitting. we contacted the white house and josh raffle himself today to ask if he's been interviewed by special counsel robert mueller. we also asked about whether he's been questioned about his alleged role in crafting the trump tower meeting statement or anything else. we asked if mr. raffle secured legal representation for hi himself. we got a polite decline to comment on both matters. but that, all of those things happened before the big news broke at "the washington post." we'll have shane harris, the lead reporter, we'll have shane harris here in a minute to go through it. basically, here is the scoop. last month in what was then the biggest story of the year, they

gave a stark warning a member of the president's family was targeted by a chinese influence operation. in the same article, evan and adam reported jared kushner had basically been blowing off the national security propowe calwph meetings including meeting alone on at least one occasion from the chinese ambassador. further reported on u.s. intelligence intercepts that turned up some worrying discussions about kushner's dealings with the chinese. quote, u.s. intelligence agencies aggressively target chinese government communications including the ambassador's reports about meetings in the u.s. according to current and former officials briefed about chinese communications, chinese officials said that in meetings to prepare for the chinese

president summit at mar-a-lago, the chinese ambassador and jared kushner discussed the business interests along with u.s. government policy. if jared kushner is bringing up his own personal business interest alongside, that's a serious national security breach that was the first time we learned jared kushner was given access to the presidents' daily brief every day. frankly strange about that revelati revelation. jared kushner was given access despite the fact he doesn't have a full security clearance or hasn't been able to get one for the year he's been in the white house so that new yorker report

was last month. since then, as you know, the whole issue of security clearances has blown up into a full scale disaster for the trump white house. following revelations about rob porter, the white house staff secretary who lost that job following news reports about serious domestic violence allegations against him from both of his ex wives. those news reports about those domestic violation allegations, those were revelations to all of us and the public but it turned out the white house had known for a long time. the ex wives had been interviewed by the fbi as part of rob porter's background process for him trying to get a security clearance. the fbi wouldn't clear him to get a full security clearance because of the allegations against him which they described to the white house chief of staff and the white house counsel. despite that, white house chief of staff john kelly kept rob porter in that job. he even recommended rob porter for big promotions and he kept

giving himming ing access to th classified materials despite rob porter not able to get a clearance. so the furry over rob porter and white house handling of those allegations, the white house inexplicable lack of concern over security clearance problems, that led to sustained controversy for a white house that otherwise sheds controversy like water off a duck, it also led to a policy change at the white house. as of this past friday, white house chief of staff john kelly announced with this memo that the white house would no longer allow access to highly classified material for staffers that couldn't get a full security clearance and once we got the policy announced, we saw people feeling off out of white house jobs. a speech writer couldn't get a fall clearance. four appointees in the commerce department as reported tonight in "the washington post" by c l

carol. we asked josh raffle if him leaving tonight had something to do with the security clearance issue having to do with him. no answer from him, either. there is this fraught question looming over this security clearance controversy because the most high profile people in the white house who we know haven't been able to get full security clearances are these two. the president's daughter ivanka and her husband jared kushner are each titled as senior white house advisors. jared is in charge of middle east peace and china and mexico and all trade policy. ivanka just got back from briefing the president of south korea on the new north korea sanctions. how on earth can they do these senior jobs if this policy from chief of staff john kelly means that the two of them will no longer be allowed to see classified materials? tough question.

poll l politico.com reporting tonight the new policy is in effect. it did go into effect on friday a few days ago. politico first to report this means jared kushner at least no longer has access to highly classified information. he has lost his access to the highest level of classified material including the presidents' daily brief. we also assume that these changes will restrict access to information for the president's daughter but who knows, we're in brand-new ground there so wefur job. all that is unfolding and meanwhile tonight, "the washington post" just dropped the hammer when it comes to jared kushner specifically. headline here is quote, kushner's overseas contacts raise concerns as foreign officials seek leverage.

this story takes the concerns first reported in the new yorker last month and it turns them up to 11 siting former and current u.s. officials familiar with intelligence reports on the matter, shane harris and his colleagues report tonight quote officials in at least four countries united air of lack of foreign policy experience. national security advisor h.r. mcelderry ma mcmast mcmas mcmaster learned he did not official report them. the meetings with kushner and vulnerabilities was a subject raised in mceldermaster's meeti

and he was naive and being tricked with officials some of whom said they wanted to deal only with jared kushner directly and not with more experienced personnel. so this is operating at a could feel levels. the personal drama here is that it's not just that jared kushner can't past the background check to get a full clearance. there is some hangup at the fbi in terms of clearing him through. that's no longer the story. the personal drama here is with this breaking news tonight in the washington post, this means that the problem is inside the house, right? this is the president's national security advisor and white house officials more generally who have these concerns about jared kushner and that's why he won't get a full clearance. quote, kushner's contacts with certain government officials have raised concerns inside the white house and are a reason he's been unable to obtain a

permanent security clearance. so again, this is not the white house fighting with the fbi over whether or not it's okay to clear jared. this is the white house itself not being okay to clear jared. which is one thing if jared were a normal employee. if you're going to end up firing a rob porter or a mike flynn, that's one thing. but what happens when the guy in question, the guy about whom there are serious national security concerns is the president's son-in-law? happens when the president's own top level staff takes a stand against his family? who wins that fight with the president who gives his family top level white house jobs? and then there is the legal and scandal issues here, too. quote, special counsel robert mueller has asked people about the protocols kushner used when he set up conversations with foreign leaders. now it is previously been

reported that robert mueller's team of prosecutors expanded their interest in jared kushner to include his efforts to secure financing for his company from foreign investors during the presidential transition. well, tonight "the washington post" put some meat on those bones, again, siting u.s. intelligence intercepts. officials from the uruae identified kushner as discousining financing with a russian banker. he met in december 2016 with sergey with a bank called veb subject to u.s. sanctions. the bank said they talked about promising business lines and sectors with jared kushner at that meeting but kushner himself told congress that meeting didn't involve any discussions about his family's company.

uae. russia. it's china, too. before trump took office kushner met to discuss options for a kushner's investment in a new york office building at 666 fifth avenue. that company were just taken over this weekend by the chinese government. that's who kushner was negotiating with during the transition for like a $400 million investment in his family's company building. so this in the washington post tonight. this is a bombshell for a couple reasons. one, there is the unprecedented and bizarre personal drama where we can't predict the outcome because we've never had anything like this before. this bizarre personal drama that derives from nepotism which is why there are anti nepotism rules. bizarre drama from the white house including the security advisor and chief of staff

drawing a line and saying no to the president over his son-in-law. saying that on national security grounds and there are concerns about the behavior of a white house senior advisor and cont t contacts with multiple foreign countries, serious concerns they would rank among the biggest scandals in any modern presidency even if there weren't bizarre and complicated nepotism concerns layered in the middle of this same scandal. joining us now is shane harris of the washington post, one of four reporters that broke this big story tonight. mr. harris, congratulations on this very big story. thanks for joining us tonight. >> thanks, rachel. >> let me ask you about h. h.r.mcmaster. there is discussions about white house concerns and specificity about mcmaster learning about

kushner's worrying contacts which he didn't officially report and coordinate through the national security counsel. why is mcmaster the person in line to be monitoring this behavior by a white house official? are the daily intelligence briefings that he's receiving where he was getting reports about these concerns? >> well, h.r. mcmaster came in to replace michael flynn after he was forced out of the white house with his own russia related issues sits at the center of national security policy making that goes on in the white house and also his job to make sure the state department, the defense department and intelligence community their views are all represented and all of that information is brought in so the white house has a co-her rent forei -- cohaerent policy. when he came into his job he discovered and quite taken aback to find out jared kushner was having his own policy discussions with foreign officials and not reporting that

through the normal channels of people in the white house. that was a problem because jared kushner is a senior advisor to the president with a lot of foreign policy issues and if he's not reporting in those conversations he's having, that means the white house doesn't know what was said in those conversations. the white house also doesn't have the chance to brief kushner ahead of time to say you'll be talking to the foreign minister of china. here are the things we know. here are the things he might have tried to tell you. don't believe him. this is what the truth is. these prebriefings after the fact they are standard and done really to make sure that the people in those discussions have the full benefit of information that the government has and that the white house has a cohaerent policy. so mcmaster surprised to find out took steps to make sure he was notified when jared would be having those discussions. >> in terms of mr. kushner and his security clearance, of

usualyouls obviously there is a question about the classified material but a question what is holding up his clearance. one of the big advances in your reporting is we've previously been told the fbi was having problems for a background check for a security clearance application and the department attorney general contacted the white house and said there were serious remaining concerns about mr. kushner in terms of his background check but what you're describing tonight is separate and apart from whatever is going on at doj and fbi with the question of his background check, there are concerns within the white house itself about his behavior as a white house official that themselves might be enough to block him from getting a clearance. that's how i'm reading it. is that a fair reading of what you've reported? >> yeah, it is. i think that you're right to zero in on this. we haven't really precisely known up until now what was it

the fbi was finding or his background check that was causing the problem and it had gone on for more than a year. hen't fully forthcoming. these contacts he was having, the conversations he was having, ones mceldermaster doesn't know about, there is something that becomes major impediment to him getting a clearance and what's become clear in this is that he is not going to get a top secret security clearance through the normal channels. it would take the president intervening to give him the clearance. we still don't know precisely everything said in those conversations but the fact of that was singled out to us by sources as a hurdle, as something keeping him from getting that clearance that is very significant. >> washington post reporter shane harris, one of four on this scoop tonight from "the washington post." thank you very much for joining us tonight.

appreciate it. congratulations again. >> thanks. >> based on this reporting, i know everything is unprecedented. it's impossible to imagine that white house senior advisor jared kushner keeps his job and national security advisor h.r. mcelderry ma mcmaster keeps his job all together now given what has been reported about the serious conflicts among them and the suspicions of the white house officials toward the president's son-in-law including stripping his clearance. i can't imagine this sustains. can it? hold that thought. ♪ ♪ ♪ (vo) you can pass down a subaru forester. but you get to keep the memories.

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as we continue to cover this breaking news tunnel aboonight . mcmaster and security concerns about the president's son-in-law striped to access about classified information, we're joined by somebody that understands these things if anyone does because she's been there. nicole wallace, former white

house communications director hosts deadline white house right here on msnbc the single smartest show on cable news right now. hi, nicole, how are you? >> i can't believe you said that. you threw me. i forgot everything i learned. >> in the washington post tonight, this shane harris was the lead story is the lead reporter, this strikes me as a big scoop among big scoops. >> yeah. >> one of the things he says is that mcmaster was taken aback to learn jared kushner was taking meetings without cord naordinat then and reporting he was taking the meetings. now is there -- having worked in the white house, that's weird, right? >> beyond weird. we'll find through the mueller probe if crimes were committed and it's been the radar since the earliest days of the transition. before there was a transition, the times of the post broke the story about the back channel he tried to set up with russia.

he's been having interactions with foreign government at best were inappropriate and unprecedented and at worst may have involved criminal actions. >> now we got last month from the new yorker had that encre t incredible piece about china, what leapt out is people familiar with u.s. intelligence intercepts said chinese officials discussed meetings that happened with jared kushner at which he reportedly brought up his own personal business interests alongside u.s. policy interests. that's a serious allegation. we've got other u.s. intelligence intercepts described in the washington post to believe t tonight where four different countries describes what makes him vulnerable including personal financial difficulties, business interests and pursuit of foreign investors for his family's business interest while he's been associated with the trump campaign and administration. here is my question, why is it

so dangerous for a senior u.s. official to be mixing his own personal business interests and financial needs with government policy? >> so it's not about what you think it was about. the background check isn't about the fbi looking at your answers on a form, going into the field to vet them out and deciding if you have the sufficient character or leadership skills to be a white house aid. that's up to the staff to decide. they go out with a single purpose. the reason for your fbi field investigation, the reason they go out and check the answers they give on the initial form or more advanced one is to see if you're a potential target for blackmail. jared kushner as of today has not proven he's not a potential target for blackmail. >> you are a target if you've done anything that you would take great measures to assure didn't become public or wasn't made known to your home government or law enforcement. >> that's right.

>> anything you've done that you would be embarrassed by or you would get in trouble for is something that would make you vulnerable to blackmail manipulation. >> we talk about them so they are in the past and we're in the process of unpacking it. there is no evidence jared kushner's actions that prevented him from getting a clearance and you have to keep in mind, we only know that he couldn't get a clearance. nbc news broke the story but we only got access to this information about the people with clearances because of the rob porter scandal. so because of the audacity of the white house to leave an accused wife beater in a position where he was handling incredibly sensitive informat n information, he would have been the person putting it on the president's desk. we learned the numbers of people on interim status. all the reporting tonight bears out not only had it been something he couldn't achieve,

it might have been something he would never achieve. what i heard from sources is that jared's sort of deliberatio deliberations, do i stay or go, it's not sustainable for h. h.r. mcmaster, john kelly, not a stretch to describe it as a snake pit. this move was a consolidation of power by kelly. he's reached out to corey lewandowski. >> to get lewandowski on his side. >> to have his back because lewandowski remains close to jared and ivanka. they can spin it however they want. they sent a senior administration official to say jared is a good boy and does lots of work and you hear the president say over and over he doesn't make money here. not a good talking point. >> all right. >> we know how that worked out for others that didn't make money on the campaign. the problem jared has now is that his wife has a portfolio

she enjoys. there is no natural, graceful exit. i share your theory that mcmaster might not be where he is for awhile. th thanks to incredible reporting and the operating clearance and that he probably never would have gotten. >> yeah, this is kelly taking a stand and saying we're drawing a line. got to go. >> it's mcmaster and kelly saying there is a national security reason he has to take the downgrade in clearance. i have not heard them say he has to leave the white house. being publicly embarrassed. >> getting your clearance stripped and access information stripped. >> the reporting in the new yorker is not an anomaly. he flew over and met with the saudi leaders and that wasn't on

the list. it was a known unknown the ways that he's mixed foreign policy discussions with his own sort of just people could just say, you know, and they are experienced in doing this, he is not. how is your family's business? tell us about your family's industry. it's as easy as that to mix the policy advisor. >> you got something to use against them and say show us some of this classified information. >> because those conversations are on going, how do you clear them? >> nicole wallace and person who has been transformed by the experience of covering the trump administration. >> transformed. people like you miss my old boss. >> there you're wrong. there you're wrong. >> it was normal. i was normal lines of debate. >> we'll fight about this over a drink. we have a little mini scoop tonight still coming up. a scoop mini. that's coming up in just a second. stay with us. uncertainties of hep c.

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groups of security guards. a visit by police officers and a triumph piano performance. the conflict took place in a room that contains servers that control the bill's fire alarms, fiberoptic communications. they posted guards at the room and bard everyone else from entering for days. at one point staff who work for the owner cut the power to that room. this video obtained by "the washington post" shows what happened this morning when several of the owner's staffers were finally able to enter that room. a chaotic room of shoving and shouting ensued as trump guards tried to evict them. quote, someone grab me by the neck and wrestled me down. at least five panamanian police officers arrived at the hotel and broke up the fight between the rival groups. i think the technical business term here is nuts.

but here is the kicker. quote, the panamanian labor ministry is now investigating whether there were violations of the national labor code at the hotel. the public prosecutor is examining whether trump employees have disregarded lawful orders from their employer. which means if you boil it down, that means the president's private company is now under investigation by a foreign government and foreign prosecutors. and david farenthold continues to write sentences that no one ever thought would be written about a serving american president. such as, quote, the white house didn't respond when asked whether the president had been briefed on this fight at one of his company's 12 luxury hotels. joining us is david farenthold, pulitzer prize winning "washington post" reporter, and as of today, yay, msnbc political analyst. congratulations on this new reporting. and thank you for joining us here at msnbc. we're so glad to have you here. >> thank you. it is great to be here. >> great. tell me about this panamanian dispute.

what are they fighting about? >> basically, there is a guy who owns the hotel. the hotel is as you said not owned by trump, it's run by trump. the owner of the hotel has decided it's losing too much money and he blames mismanagement by the trump organization and also blames the trump brand which is toxic in latin america for the fact that the rooms are basically empty. he is trying to fire the organization, even though the contract as far as i can tell didn't allow them to fire them. he is trying to do this by sort of showing up, going to panama, handing out letters of termination and hoping the panamanian government will help him. >> and what about these investigations by the panamanian government? you described interest by the prosecutor, interest by the labor ministry. are these serious investigations? are these -- is this petty harassment of the trump organization on behalf of a competing business interest? or is this serious stuff from that government? >> it seems to be serious. it's actually moving quite fast. so the majority owner has basically asked the government's help in getting to the hotel,

delivering these letters of termination and basically getting these trump organization employees out of the hotel. so far it seems like the government is sort of taking his side and making efforts to follow through on that. we won't know for a couple of days how far it goes. but it seems like he has sort of the advantage so far from the government. >> are there any additional complications that are going to arise internationally if these investigations do proceed to the point where they're a serious problem for the trump organization while the president still maintains his active interests as far as we can tell in the trump organization as a business? >> well, as you said, president trump has said he has given up day to day management of his business, but he still owns it. he still gets money out of it. the money that that panama hotel makes is still his money. the u.s. state department and the panamanian foreign ministry say look, this isn't a diplomatic matter. we don't know what the president's level of knowledge is about this case so. so far there hasn't been some sort of international incident coming out of this. but you are right to raise the

potential. what if this goes farther along and the government does eject trump from this property where he is making money? the government does arrest more of his employees? you can see the potential for more friction. >> what do you think is going to happen next here? what are you watching for next in this story? obviously, it's interesting in its own terms. it's interesting as an artifact of a president having a current private business. but there is also this prospect that this could become an unprecedented international complication for this government. >> that's right. i'm looking at two fronts. one, in this particular case in panama, does the owner of the hotel continue to have success using the panamanian government to kick out trump? and if that works, how long does it take? what are the consequences for trump's employees, and does trump try to do anything in the panamanian legal system to block it? trump has tried all these things in the u.s. legal system, but hasn't done anything successfully in pan map. does the trump organization make an appeal to panama's legal system. and then beyond that, say this does work and the trump name does come off that hotel, where does it come off next? we've already seen it come off

two hotels in toronto and in a new york soho neighborhood where. is the next place where trump isn't popular, and the owner of the hotel he runs tries to kick him out. >> right. and how do we expect the president to react as he sees consequences for his business from his new political life. david farenthold, "washington post" reporter, pulitzer prize winner and as of tonight msnbc contributor. i have to tell you, we are all super, super excited to have you here. >> thanks. >> thanks. there is late-breaking news tonight about the democrats making some surprising election pickups tonight in place yos wouldn't expect. that's next.

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some breaking election news for you tonight. democrats tonight flipped two more seats in special elections around the country in new hampshire, democrats flipped a seat in the state house. democrat in that race appears to have won by eight points. this is a district trump won by 13 points. so this isn't just a democratic pickup in new hampshire tonight. it's a 21-point swing in the democrats' direction. this is the fifth seat that new hampshire democrats have flipped from red to blue since the presidential election in 2016. there was also another flip tonight in connecticut. democrats clawed back a seat held by republicans in a district that hillary clinton had actually won in 2016. phil young won tonight in the house district 120 in connecticut. he'll be the first democrat to represent that district in connecticut in 44 years. so there were three special elections tonight. democratic pickup in new

hampshire, democratic pickup in connecticut. that i think makes 39 total democratic flips from red seats to blue seats since december 2016. but check out the result tonight in the third special election tonight. that happened in kentucky. now in this one the democrat lost. this is a kentucky special election for a house seat. but frankly, it's news here that the democrats even tried to contest this seat. this seat, house district 89 in kentucky is a district that donald trump won by a margin of 62 points. the democrat lost there tonight, but she still swung the district almost 30 points in the democrats' favor compared to 2016. so, again, tonight, there were three special elections. democrats flipped two seats tonight, two seats out of three from republican to democrat in new hampshire and connecticut. and in the third one in kentucky, they pulled off a 28-point swing. this is basically been the story

of special elections that we've seen across the country in red states and blue states since the november 2016 presidential election. democrats look at the special election results across the country, and they see stars in their eyes in terms of what is going to happen in november 2018. every election is its own local story you. can't predict what is going to happen eight months out from an election that's going to happen at the end of this year. be you look at the results nigh night after night. tuesday after the special elections, and you can see why democrats feel like they have the momentum that does it tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i have breaking news for you from "the new york times" about the color of lies. >> hmm. >> in the white house. and there is a hint in the name of the white house what color the lies are. stand by. i'm going to read it to you word for word hot of the press of