. she's been on the receiving end of the hate and has a republican party in west virginia saying she's a terrorist and have an advisor going on fox and calling her fifth. the idea she should be targeted is absurd and i'd say everything she said about israel, she's pretty much said about saudi arabia. she must be islamic phobia. >> that picture was in the west virginia capital put up by the republican party. thanks for joining us. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thanks, my friend. >> you bet. >> thanks to you for joining us this hour. happy tuesday. this is the top federal prosecutors in washington d.c., herb name is jessie liu and briefly served and the trump administration. president trump name the jessie liu to be the u.s. attorney for

d.c. and that is a -- all u.s. attorney jobs are important. being u.s. attorney for d.c. is a particularly important prosecutor's job. the d.c. u.s. attorney's office is the largest u.s. attorney's office in the country. prosecutors from that office have jurisdiction overall sorts of things that have national residence including all sorts of juicy stuff involving the federal government. in the trump administration, the u.s. attorney's office in d.c. has been particularly high profile because of the role of that office in either handling or taking part in the investigations and the prosecutions of a whole bunch of people who have been caught up in various trump administration scandals including the russia scandal. jessie liu's office in d.c. has been involved in the criminal cases against sam patton, who is now cooperating with investigators among other things. patton has links to cambridge and prosecutors say he helped

funnel foreign donations into the trump inaugural. the u.s. attorney's office in d.c. pursued the maria butina case. she's cooperating with federal prosecutors after charged as acting as a secret agent of the russian government. she was charged as working here in this country to infiltrate the american conservative movement and republican party ahead of the 2016 presidential election. she was working according to prosecutors as an unregistered undeclared secret agent of the russian federation when she was enacting that plan. jessie liu's office, the u.s. attorney's office in d.c. has taken the lead on the criminal case involving the president's long-time political advisor roger stone. jessie liu's office has been involved in the d.c. prosecutions of the president's campaign chair, paul manafort and there may be others, as well. those i can do off the top of my head. and obviously, all of those cases i just mentioned, they are all on going in one way or

another. but as of tonight, that u.s. attorney in d.c., the u.s. attorney heading up that key office that's been involved in all of those cases related to the president as of tonight, that u.s. attorney, jessie li us out. the "wall street journal" first to report tonight u.s. attorney jessie li us being moved out of the u.s. is being moved to main justice. they will try to give her the number three job in the whole justice department. it's a job that has been vacant now under the trump administration for more than a year. if irksliu is confirmed to that position, she'll be working primarily on anti trust and civil issues and i'm sure that's great but that will mean she will have nothing more to do with any criminal cases of any kind let alone the kinds of national security criminal cases that she has been involved in at the u.s. attorney's office in

d.c. including all of those multiple high-profile cases she's been running or been involved in all this time against these people directly related to the president and/or his campaign and/or the russia investigation. by moving jessie liu out of the top prosecutor job in d.c., the president of course, will also get the opportunity to pick a new person to take overall of those now on going cases while they are in process plus any other cases that derive from the various scandals in this administration and from the russia investigation that might reasonably be taken up by that key u.s. attorney's office in d.c. moving jessie liu out of there means he takes out the top prosecutor but gets to pick somebody new to be in charge of all of that stuff. gulp. sadie got that scoop about jessie liu being moved out. credit to her and the journal for being first on the story but boy, this seems like a big deal.

at least potentially a big deal since the journal first broke that news today, i should tell you it has been confirmed by nbc news and by other news outlets and now as of tonight, as of a short while ago, it has just been formally announced by the white house. so it looks like this is in fact happening. meanwhile, the president's campaign chairman paul manafort is due to be sentenced in d.c. federal court as of next week before he even gets to that sentencing in d.c. next week, though, paul manafort is going to be sentenced first in the other federal jurisdiction where he was charged with multiple felonies. manafort's sentencing in federal court in the eastern district of virginia takes place the day after tomorrow and tonight, prosecutors from mueller's office submitted this filing to the judge in manafort's case in virginia basically telling the judge that he should throw the back at paul manafort 67. quote, the government opposes

any credit or mitigation for manafort's alleged cooperation and contends that consideration of his lies to the government and the grand jury are aggravating factors and additional basis for the denial of any reduction for acceptance of responsibility. that's prosecutor speak for lock him up, judge. prosecutors are arguing in this filing tonight that manafort is a a risk to offend again. part of the way they can tell that is manafort was still committing crimes as recently as october, which would be not only after his indictment, it would be after his conviction, it would be after his guilty plea on other charges and after he supposedly became a cooperating witness they say after all that as recently as october, he was still criming more. so this is mueller's office arguing in virginia, they are arguing the judge should not be persuaded that manafort is an

old and washed up criminal no longer actively seeking to commit crimes and are saying he's still in the game. the prosecutors are brushing aside concerns about manafort's health because those concerns have been raised by manafort's defense team. prosecutors from mueller's office tell that judge tonight that whether it's manafort's gout or anything else that's physically bugging him, they are telling the judge tonight that the burro of prisons is more than capable of treating any such maladies while manafort serves his years behind bars and they do mean years. remember, this is the jurisdiction where paul manafort is looking at 19 to 24 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines. and the judge can depart up or down as he sees fit. this is the interesting judge that you might remember was a bit of a character in overseeing the manafort trial so we may expect yet more fireworks from the judge when it comes to sentencing the day after tomorrow. that said, this filing tonight from mueller's office we think

it's the last thing well get in the manafort case before we find out manafort's fate on thursday from that judge. meanwhile, today the d.c. federal judge who is overseeing the case of manafort in d.c., that is also the same judge overseeing the case in d.c. that involves president trump's long-time political advisor roger stone and that judge, judge amy berman jackson came that much closer to the end of her rope when it comes to roger stone and stone's on going public statements about his case. i mean, it is one thing to generally be known as a blurter, somebody who has a tendency to blurt things as a person who is unavoidable for comment on pretty much any subject especially when it comes to himself but it is quite another thing when you apparently can't shut off that propensity in yourself even upon getting direct orders to do so from a

federal judge, a federal judge who has told you in no uncertain terms that you must shut it. shortly after roger stone was arrested in january, the federal judge overseeing his case established a limited gag order for stone that basically said that stone was essentially banned from making public pronouncements about his case from the courthouse steps. and i say that specifically because the judge's order was geographically specific in terms of where roger stone could say what about his case at least in the initial order. but then, mr. stone decided it would be a good idea to post online a picture of the judge in his case with a cross hairs next to her head. and so the judge's initially limited gag order got way more strict. a lot of people observing the stone case thought stone would end up in jail right away because of the stunt with the threatening statements about the judge and the cross hairs. the judge did not jail roger stone and revoke his bail immediately after he did that. she instead decided to make the

gag order significantly more strict anded aed admonish him a ban roger stone from making any public statement about his case or the overall investigation it derived from. since then, since the newly strict gag order was imposed on roger stone and he definitely understood it because she explained it to him face-to-face in court while he sat on the witness stand, since then, it is almost unbelievable to say but since then, mr. stone has gone ahead and posted this image online who framed roger stone and within the last few days, he and his defense team have notified the judge in his case of his new book introduction that's just now being published and by this point in the story, you'll not be surprised to hear the character of this book introduction that mr. stone is publishing in this new thing. he describes himself as being on

the quote hit list of crooked special prosecutor robert mueller. and you know, it's one thing to say stuff like that if you are florida man, you know. on social media or on fox news tv show but in this case, the guy spouting about the crooked prosecutor and being on the hit list, he's a defendant in the serious felony trial about which the judge said he's banned from making public statements. so today, the judge in d.c. federal court in roger stone's case, she was nothing if not clear in response to the news of this new book introduction that is being published for mr. stone. the judge said today in court, quote, there is no question that the gag order prohibited and continues to prohibit the defendant from making any public statements using any medium concerning the investigation. it does not matter when the defendant may have first formulated the opinions

expressed or put them into words. he may no longer share his views on these particular subjects with the world. can we -- would you like it on a pillow? would that help? so it may only be a matter of time but at this point in time, roger stone still has not had his bail revoked. he is still at liberty. that said, the judge has yet to weigh in on his additional public claim this weekend that he's being framed. cnbc did report late today that a couple of websites associated with roger stone today were taken down. maybe that's an effort to remedy that problem, too. but for now roger stone remains out on bond and not in jail and the matter will be back before the judge on monday. as i say, observers of the roger stone case have been surprised that he has not yet had his bail revoked given how much he appears to be yanking the judge's chain over and over again in this case but we'll see. he is at least at liberty for

almost another week before the judge takes up this matter again on monday. so as we have been watching, you know, the stone case and manafort case and all of the -- the butina case and patton case and ericsson case, as we've been watching these cases proceed through the courts, they are all interesting. they are all potentially going interesting cases. it will be interesting to see the fate and how they fit into the overall narrative and how the special counsel spells out that narrative in a readable way but while we watch those cases, there are new factors for us now as observers of this part of the news about this administration. one of the new factors we have to keep an eye on as we watch all these cases is the new leadership with the justice department, right? there are unanswered questions about how the new attorney general william barr may or may not influence things and may or may not influence anything having to do with the on going cases run by robert mueller and

prosecutions that have been farmed out to other u.s. attorneys. on going questions about how mueller is being handled by the new attorney general and how william barr is approaching the cases that touch on the trump administration in general, i think that's in part why there is a lot of questions asked over the next few days about this new reporting about jesse l irus je. the decision to take her out of the u.s. attorney's office where she's been in command of a bunch of cases that relate to the russia investigation. there will be questions about that in part because it's presumably, it is william barr tapping her to leave that u.s. attorney's office and move to main justice. there will be questions before we understand more about how barr is approaching these things to whether or not these will have implications for on going cases. that's one factor that's new that we're watching having to do

with these cases. an x factor. the other new factor we had to map onto the cases as we watch them go through the court system is congress. the newly energized congressional investigations that exist in parallel alongside all of these criminal matters in the courts. for example, today the white house rejected the request for documents that had come in from the democratic controlled oversight committee about security clearances and processes in the trump white house and particularly these recent reports that the president personally intervened to order the issuing of a clearance, security clearance to his son-in-law despite some adverse material that turned up in kushner's background investigation at both the fbi and cia. which lead career national security officials to recommend that jared kushner shouldn't be given a clearance. i should tell you that cnn tonight is reporting that the president also interveneed to get his daughter ivanka trump a security clearance.

nbc news has not yet verified but cnn has run with that this evening. the oversight committee had asked the white house for documents about their security clearance processes last month. they got no response at all. last week they reupped those requests you are kwenlt urgentl white house flouting all president for house security clearances being handled. today the white house counsel finally responded to those requests from the oversight committee and responded with this refusal. a refusal to hand over any of the documents that that committee is demanding. now in terms of those two lanes that we're watching, courts, the courts and congress, and these new questions we have to ask how the lanes function alongside one another and all of these various investigations and confrontations between administration and law and administration and congressional

oversight, this refusal today from the white house to hand over documents requested by congress, this is new, right? this will presumably lead to congress issuing subpoenas that to get the documents. that will presumably lead to not just a political fight but legal fight over the subpoenas that and what the congress is able to get from the white house and what the white house is legally able to hold back. that's a new area of fighting we haven't had to deal with before. we're about to start that area of fighting, too. and here are just a couple of things to keep an eye on as we watch the lanes, the courts and congress and start to see the newly aggressive investigations and these on going court proceedings, sort of not only proceed on parallel tracks but in some cases, sort of starting to touch and one of the things you should be watching for right now concerns wikileaks. right? the roger stone -- i know you're thinking wikileaks, oh my god,

if i never hear another thing about wikileaks in my life. this is a really specific thing that looks like it's starting to happen. what the roger stone case is about, really, i mean, separate and apart from that personal circus stuff that surrounding roger stone. all right. what that criminal case about roger stone really about is his contacts with wikileaks, right? it lays out seven felony charges that pertain to lying to congress or witness tampering to his contacts with wikileaks at the time when wikileak was staging and releasing the stolen documents that had been hacked by russian intelligence. staging them and releasing them in a way designed to cause maximum damage to the clinton campaign and maximum benefit to the trump campaign. in that massive pile of document requests that were sent out yesterday by the judiciary committee, wikileaks and julian assange and stone were asked for documents and communications that relate to that issue, that relate to wikileaks and their role in dumping russian

intelligences' stolen material during the presidential campaign. and you know we will see what kind of response the judiciary committee gets from wikileaks and julian assange and stone. if the committee doesn't get responses, those requests will become say peubpoenas that and have fights about those two. it's not just those entities who are being asked by the judiciary committee about wikileaks. we've been going through all of those document requests and a ton of people, yeah, a ton of people in trump's orbit have been formally asked by the judiciary committee now for then any documents or communications they have regarding wikileaks. everyone from, you know, reince priebus to the current trump e reelection campaign manager to

don mcgahn who is white house counsel and mathey got requests specifically from wikileaks, all of the people on the list and there may be more. there may be 81 different requests to go through. we might have missed some. that's what we got. all of these other characters are being asked about the wikileaks communications. because of that and the criminal case against roger stone, you should know today in federal court in virginia a little drama. today in federal court in virginia, the u.s. attorney himself, the top of that prosecutor's office and u.s. attorney himself personally turned up in court for a sealed hearing today that appears to be about some sort of legal case potentially involving wikileaks and/or julian assange. you might remember back in november right after the election, there was a little flurry of news stories about

what seemed to be a weird even slightly surreal error in a federal court filing. one of the federal prosecutors who works in the u.s. attorney's office in e.d.v.a. inexplicably in the middle of a filing and a totally unrelated case somehow randomly popped in this language in a whole different case that referenced julian assange. it was very weird. this was this unexpected insert in a random case which said that julian assange from wikileaks had been charged in an american federal indictment and that fact needed to remain under seal until after julian asasange had been arrested and everyone was like this case isn't about that and julian assange has been charged and he's going to be arrested and what? that was back in november. it was such a random way to learn that information and the u.s. attorney's office came out quickly and had their spokesperson say that was in error. that was not supposed to be

there. that was just a mistake just a typo, fat finger kind of --. "the washington post" reported at the time that although that language about julian assange was unintentionally disclosed in that unrelated case according to people familiar with the matter that language about julian assange was quote true. oh. well, if so, that was a weird way to learn about it. today's news makes it seem like maybe it was true. today that same assistant u.s. attorney, that same federal prosecutor blamed for making that weird mistake and putting that language about julian assange and that unrelated case today was spotted in court for the sealed hearing. that assistant u.s. attorney was spotted in court alongside the u.s. attorney himself for the eastern district of virginia and then, chelsea manning of all people also appeared at that same courthouse walking out at the end of the day to tell

reporters that she was there to fight a grand jury subpoena to testify in a sealed case. chelsea manning of course went to prison for her role in sup pry -- supplying documents. so if there is a new criminal case involving wikileaks and julian assange, you can draw a dotted line to chelsea manning as somebody that might face a grand jury subpoena to testify in congestion with such a case and that came after another wikileaks volunteer this weekend announced publicly he is cooperating with federal prosecutors in a case related to ri wikileaks and said he's seeking an immunity deal in connection with the testimony in a case involving wikileaks so all of this to say between that court filing error in november, the reporting around that error that suggested it was weird he was in that case and a mistake but the information was true and then what we saw today in virginia, something appears to be happening in federal court that pertains to wikileaks and julian assange. and this is happening as the

president's long-time advisor roger stone goes to trial for lying to congress and witness tampering allegedly about his supposed communications with wikileaks during the campaign. it happens potentially as he's going to jail for violating l gag order in the case and tons of people associated with the president and his campaign are being asked detailed questions but the judiciary committee about their interactions including during the campaign and it happens within a week of the long-time personal lawyer michael cohen testifying in congress that the president himself was personally notified by phone in advance about wikileaks' plans to dump stolen material that russia hacked from the democrats during the campaign. now, i will warn you, if you are an interested news consumer who is interested in following this part of the story, i'll warn you just about everything that pertains to wikileaks and julian assange and roger stone is basically googleble for the

online trash. put your virus protection on but something does appear to be happening there in federal court. and so that is worth watching, particularly as we are looking at the intersections between the court cases and what is going on in congress. and there is just one more thing to watch that came up today, came as a surprise to me when the news crossed late this afternoon in the "new york times." we're going to talk about this right after the break. the most important thing about this new story that broke today is i think it calls to question as to whether or not the president will be able to disappear some elements of these new investigations through pressure on the justice department or through use of the pardon process. that story is next. pardon process that story is next live from the starlite lounge. ♪ one plus one equals too little too late ♪ ♪ a sock-a-bam-boom ♪ who's in the room? ♪ love is dangerous ♪ but driving safe means you pay less ♪

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institution called deutsche bank. they expressed two areas of interest, one is the bank's history of doing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business with president trump even after all other major lenders had sworn him off. the secondary area is the ad mitt admitted involvement. ten days after president trump was sworn in, hit with a $425 million fine for its role in a multi billion-dollar russian money laundering scheme that they ran out of several of the b bank's offices. a $425 million fine was not l leveed by that. it was extracted from deutsche bank by new york state. by a powerful agency in new york state called the department of financial services. department of financial services is essentially the regulator of the banking and finance and

insurance industries in new york state. and although this department of financial services is a state agency and that means its jurisdiction extends as far as new york state, that doesn't limit it too much. given that new york satisfied national capital of the country and world. new york state's services is an incredible agency with worldwide reach because of new york's role as a financial capital. well, today, "the new york times" is first to report that that new york state agency, the department of financial services, the same agency with the $400 million plus fine against deutsche bank for their role in russian money laundering, that same agency late yesterday served an expansive subpoena on donald trump's insurance broker. quote, new york state regulators have issued an expansive

subpoena to the trump organization long-time insurance broker, the first step in insurance policies and claims involving president trump's family business. the subpoena was served late monday on one of the largest insurance bro insurance broke in the world and came days after michael cohen, president trump's former fixer and lawyer indicated in congressional testimony that the trump organization inflated the value of its assets to insurance companies. and michael cohen remember testified that they inflated assets to insurance companies but you'll remember he also handed over financial documents he said were given to insurance companies as part of the trump organization's efforts to reduce its premiums. even before michael cohen testified last week to congress, the times had previously reported that michael cohen was speaking to sdny prosecutors about insurance claims the trump organization had filed over the years. and we didn't really know what that line meant when "the times"

first reported that in late february but last week in open session in congress, michael cohen spelled it out and told members of congress and william lacey clay from missouri and alexandria cortez from new york the president's business and the president inflated the president's assets in financial statements to insurance companies in order to lower his insurance premiums which is illegal. and, you know, it sounds like garden variety financial crime but that's garden variety felony financial fraud. and now according to these new reports, the insurance endty th -- entity that would have handled the documents is cooperating with the new investigation by this powerful new york state agency that oversees the finance industry in this state and essentially by extension around the world and one of the reasons this is going to be fascinating to watch is because there is

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government approval from the trump administration, the next day after they announced the merger, nine top executives from t-mobile including the company's ceo booked themselves into stay at the trump hotel in washington. and then they kept coming back, one t-mobile executive came back and stayed at that trump hotel ten times in six weeks. i don't stay home ten times in six weeks. the t-mobile executives were all listed on the hotel's vip arrivals list distributed to hotel staff and while the executives were there, they were making sure they were visible walking around literally wearing bright neon clothing that had the t-mobile logo on it, greeting people, being noticed, having their pictures taken there. david farenthold found t-mobile executives booked dozens of nights at the trump hotel.

once it needed approval. but look, to be fair, maybe t-mobile executives have always just loved trump hotels and coming to washington to push the deal. they always love that place. nothing to do with curry favor or bribe somebody to get the merger approved, right? david farenthold pushed the touch of this story. quote, t-mobile acknowledges, and sharply announcement and question from the democratic lawmakers and the government approval. and had in august of 2017. t-mobile 195 and that is

195,000. and the united states will be allowed to go with the deal. and this will be called bribery in the fable version of this story that will be some day used to teach corruption of the government in american history. some day this will be variation of the bribery but today it breaking news. joining us is david foreiarenth >> good to be here. >> i get self-conscious when i do that but i feel like this is one of the most direct simple news arks that we've had about how this is working here. did i misanythis anything imporr fudge complications? >> very simple. you saw that they barely stayed at this hotel in the 16 months it had been open the day after

they announced this merger and show up and they keep coming back. $195,000 over ten months of hotel stays. it's a lot of money in a short time. >> now, i have to say that we contacted t-mobile for comment and a spokesman for the company declined to comment on the record but t-mobile in their letter to congress, they say that these trump hotel stays were a small portion of their hotel expenditures and stay other places, too. but i mean, for everything we've seen, i haven't seen any firm denial from the company that they may have been doing this at the trump hotel to try to curry favor with the president and administration. what is your reading of this? >> you're right about that. we found john, the ceo of t-mobile in the lobby of the trump hotel a few weeks ago, caught him there. he said at the time i stay here because it's convenient to the justice department where i lobby for my merger. it's not attempting to curry favor but if you notice in the

letter, they didn't make that claim we weren't doing it to curry favor. they are saying we trust that regulators will make a good decision and they will be a trustworthy decision despite this. >> i have to ask, i made the joke about bribery when this is told as a children's story some day. obviously there is concern about the president's potential violations of the clause in the constitution and accepting foreign gifts by continuing to do business while he's still serving in up mapublic office. is there potential legal liability by shareholders for a company if a company could be shown to curry favor by doing something like this and up manying monman putting money in the president's pocket. >> this is where i wish i went to law school. i don't know the law well enough to say there is certainly liability but people who oppose this merger e come pcompanies t

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completely give up nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival. >> its leaders view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survive. dan coats speaking january 29th. one more donald trump kim jong-un summit later we now know that dan coats and the intelligence committee were on to something there. nbc news reporting tonight that within two days of the president leaving his failed denuclearization summit with kim jong-un, the north koreans started preparations for a new missile launch at a previously dormant testing site. joining us now is chris murphy, a member of the committee. thanks for joining us. nice to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> have members of congress, senators been briefed on these developments, if so, is there anything you can share? >> we haven't. in fact, we had an off the record conversation today with

the president's primary negotiator with the north koreans and this did not come up. i seen the same reports you have. it's very worrying they are back working on a test site that was closed. there was an assumption that when the president at the end of this summit announced not with standing the fact they didn't get an agreement he was going to permanently shut down these joint exercises with the south koreans that maybe that had come in exchange for a promise from the north koreans to permanently stop these tests, as well. that may not be the case given the fact they look to be restarting one of the facilities and if we have decided to stop military exercises without any behavior given an exchange from the north koreans, then that's even worse than coming out of this summit without a deal. >> on this point of the president giving up the military exercises, there is a couple -- i mean, as far as i understand, this is one or the north korea's

major priorities dealing with the united states and one of the major international demands. i have been slightly unnerved about the president being so willing to trade away those joint military exercises not only because the military says they are important but the president himself told people that he got this idea from speaking to russian president vladimir putin who suggested this to him as something he ought to give away tort north koreans. that was reported a long time ago. that's very much stuck with me. i don't know if you have any take on that aspect of this. >> so much for the art of the deal. there were a small number of things other than the sanctions that really stuck with the north koreans. there were a small number of things we could give away in part of a confidence building deal if we didn't want to start loosening the sanctions and those exercises were one of the few we had. trump went into this negotiation thinking that, you know, these

lavioletters he eove letters w comprehensive agreement. he walked away with nothing. what he should have been doing is trying to work on some small preliminary deal that would lead to a bigger deal later on and we're now seeing that the stakes of failure were pretty high if the consequence is the north koreans will start again. one last thing i mentioned, we have not gotten confirmation but there are reports that sergei lavrov was in hanoi during the summit. >> what p hahappens next, i kno you're a dedicated student leader on foreign policy issues and i know you have strong ideas about negotiating with people with whom you disagree to get american's way in the world. with this president and the way he approached this, do you think there is a course correction that's available in terms of how

he's handle thing matter? this is a huge deal for not only the korean peninsula but the world. >> you're running out of time and of course, may be that this is all been simply a delay play by kim jong-un, that he has been working behind the scenes under ground on developing nuclear weapons capacity sitting across the table from us in a six-month period of time it will be too late. the problem, though, we could have used this last year to continue to build up crippling sanctions. instead, because trump was so eager to get this deal, he set aside the sanctions work and went right for the comprehensive agreement without having done any of the prep work ahead of time and so we've lost critical time to build up sanctions pressure. we now are at ground zero. we don't have even a preliminary agreement that could have been worked on in hen knanoi and we

find out as this nuclear site continues to be developed that it's too late. >> senator chris murphy, foreign relations appreciate your time. thanks a lot, sir. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. okay, max...time to help mrs. tyler

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thank you for being with us tonight. see you tomorrow. now "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> we have a member of the committee he'll question tomorrow joining us and his lawyer lanny davis will be joining us. >> very good. lanny davis made some news on our show earlier this week and what he has within the past week and he tends to have his finger on the pulse here. good luck with that. >> he's very good at that. that's why he's the lead guest tonight and might make news tonight. >> on the edge of my seat. >> michael cohen will be testifying once again tomorrow at a closed session of the house intelligence committee and michael cohen's lawyer l