good to have you here. happy friday. pulitzer prize winner reporter david fahrenthold will be here tonight with another jaw dropping scoop in what has been a couple years of jaw dropping scoops from him, particularly about this president and the president's business record. it's always amazing about david fahrenthold's series of scoops about president trump and bad behavior and misbehavior in the president's business it is whatever he newly reports about, whatever it is, and there have been a long series of these stories, whatever it is, the president's business, the president's family, the white house, itself, they never have

anything to say about it. they are always completely blindsided. they always have had no clue as to what it is that david fahrenthold is about to report about them next. he is going to be with us here live tonight to talk about his latest scoop, which again both the trump white house and the trump organization appear to have no response to whatsoever, at least thus far. today in el paso, texas authorities publicly released the affidavit filed by an el paso police detective about the arrest of the shooter, who killed 22 people this week in el paso after apparently posting online a diatribe about why he was doing it and how he wanted to stop what he saw as a hispanic invasion. he wanted to target immigrants. he wanted to target the hispanic community because he thought he was, you know, saving the white race or whatever. i say that man apparently posted that diatribe online because while it appears to be sort of

statement of purpose from this mass murderer, no law enforcement authorities have def dedefinitively said it was he who posted it online though it seems like it probably was. if there was any doubt as to the motivations of the el paso killer this police affidavit about his arrest that was released today would seem to lay any such doubts to rest. this is from the affidavit. agents and police officers at the intersection observed a male person, the defendant, to exit out of the vehicle with his hands raised in the air and stated out loud to the agents, i'm the shooter. the defendant was placed under arrest and transported to police headquarters. the affiant, meaning the detective filling out the affidavit, and another detective, met with the defendant inside interview room number four. they read him his miranda rights. he waived his right to remain silent. he agreed to speak about the incident. quote, the defendant stated he drove to the listed location in el paso from allen, texas which is like nine or ten hours away. he entered the store with an

assault rifle/ak-47 and multiple magazines. the defendant stated once inside the store he opened fire, using his ak-47 shooting multiple innocent victims. the defendant stated his target were mexicans. mexicans. there has been a little ripple you can start to see growing on the right. a little ripple of denialism about the el paso attack. anti-immigrant groups in particular have been sort of softly, softly suggesting that maybe race and immigration wasn't the motivation for the shooter at all. maybe he was just some crazy kid. i mean, beyond what appears to be the online statement from the shooter explaining his motives and now what the el paso detectives say he said to them as soon as he was arrested, having volunteered that he was the shooter, it does seem like his motive, the racially specific nature of his motive should now be considered a

settled issue. this weekend will mark the two-year anniversary of what is now just short handed in this country as charlottesville. the neo nazi, white supremacist gathering in charlottesville, virginia in august, 2017 during which neo nazi and white supremacist protesters marched around holding torches saying things like, you will not replace us. another paranoid white supremacist theory cited by the el paso gunman this weekend incidentally. the day after the torch lit anti-semitic white power rally in charlottesville, a self-proclaimed neo nazi who had driven to charlottesville from ohio specifically for this racist rally killed a counterprotester named heather higher and injured dozens more people when he deliberately drove his car at speed into a crowd of anti-racist protesters in charlottesville. this weekend being the anniversary of that murder and that big, proud racist white power display in an american

city, that anniversary coming this weekend so closely on the heels of our country's worst ever terrorist attack targeting latinos and immigrants. this self-proclaimed racist massacre in el paso just this week. you know, if the president of our country were so inclined, because of the anniversary and because of what just happened in el paso this week, this would be kind of the obvious moment. this would be a good time one might imagine for the president to finally take back what he said about charlottesville in the immediate wake of that riot and murder. as you no doubt recall the president described people on the neo nazi side of those protests in charlottesville two years ago as very fine people. if the president wanted to, this weekend might be a symbolically appropriate time if it is ever going to happen. this might be the symbolically

appropriate time for the president to say, he didn't mean to say that. he takes back what he said about there being very fine people on the neo nazi side in charlottesville. he could do that. it's interesting. as we head into this weekend, i have felt the charlottesville anniversary looming more than i do most things. and as that has been approaching, i have been stuck all week on something sort of big hearted and i think wise that was said by the congresswoman from el paso. the congresswoman whose district includes the site of the massacre this past weekend. it was said by veronica escobar, actually here on our air on msnbc, in the immediate aftermath of the el paso massacre, on monday night after the massacre happened on saturday. i didn't expect congresswoman escobar to say this at all or anything like it but since she said it on monday night i have to tell you, i have not been able to get this out of my mind all week long.

>> we need the president to accept responsibility, apologize, and take back those words. so that his followers, the people who cling to his every word, who follow his rallies, who get riled up and excited about the bigotry that comes from his speeches at those rallies, they need to hear that the president acknowledges that he was wrong and that his words were wrong and that every human being has value. >> that was congresswoman veronica escobar on monday. the congresswoman from el paso. so soon after the el paso massacre in her district and community. she was answering a question there about why she said she didn't think it was appropriate for president trump to come to el paso in the wake of the massacre given his own words about an invasion at the border, words that were echoed if not quoted by the shooter. the way he had talked about

immigrants. the way he has talked about people from mexico in particular. the way he has talked about border communities including el paso. she was asked to explain why she thought given the president's remarks of those kinds he shouldn't come to el paso after the shooting. but that idea that she expressed in sforesponse to that question that the president actually could do something here, that he could help, that he could redress some of what's wrong, that he could apologize for his hurtful words, he could take them back, he could say he knows those words are wrong and they caused harm and here's why they're wrong and here's why i take them back. i mean, that is not a huge and unimaginable thing to ask for from a national leader at a time like this. especially if you are in a position of moral -- if you're in the kind of moral position that the congresswoman from el paso is in after what just happened in her town. i don't know that congresswoman escobar expects that from president trump. you know, that he'll, you know, take back the things he said

about el paso, that he'll take back the things he said against immigrants. but this weekend on the anniversary of charlottesville, on the two-year anniversary of charlottesville, on the one-week anniversary of el paso, if the president wanted to, this would be his chance to take back his words, to apologize, to express he understands the hurt caused by, among other things, his compliments to the very fine neo nazis who among other things killed someone in charlottesville immediately before he made those praising remarks. not holding my breath. i'm just saying. one of the things we have been keeping an eye on this week as we approach this charlottesville anniversary this weekend is an effort by the victims of the neo nazis and white supremacists in charlottesville to try to get justice for what was done to them. ten people who were hurt by these violent, white supremacists in charlottesville two years ago including three

people who were hit by the car that killed heather heier are now plaintiffs in a lawsuit designed to go further than the individual criminal charges that were brought against individual rioters and killers among the white supremacists from that weekend. this lawsuit by the victims from charlottesville targets the leaders of white supremacist organizations and, in fact, targets the organizations, themselves, and the websites that they run, basically to try to dismantle them, hold them to account for not having just organized that white power event but specifically for having planned and organized the violence that took place at that white power event. so we've been watching that suit by the charlottesville victims really closely. and today, as we head into this weekend's anniversary of charlottesville today a federal judge decided to hand down a little bit of an anniversary present. today a federal judge ordered sanctions against some of the primary organizers of the white power violence that took place

in charlottesville two years ago. one organization, a group called vanguard america, the guy who killed heather heier was seen at the charlottesville riots holding a shield that had the vanguard america logo on it. that organization and two other white supremacist leaders who took part in organizing the violence in charlottesville, today they were all -- that organization and those two people were ordered by a federal judge to pay the attorney's fees of the plaintiffs. to pay the attorney's fees of these ten victims who were injured by the violent white supremacists in charlottesville. that organization and these two white supremacist leaders are among two dozen individuals and groups who are defendants in the charlottesville lawsuit. they have been flouting court orders and ignoring the judge in this case from the very beginning. well, today the federal judge hearing the case had had enough, saying, quote, defendants have continually failed to fulfill even their most basic obligations to this court. their behavior has, quote, stalled the litigation's

progress for months on end. the judge said today, quote, this behavior is unacceptable and will be sanctioned. quote, ordinary defendants must participate in the ordinary process of litigation. even if they do not want to. according to the nonprofit group that is supporting this litigation against the neo nazi groups and the white supremacist groups that organized the violence in charlottesville, they're called integrity first for america, they see these sanctions today as basically a wholly appropriate way to mark the anniversary of what happened two years ago in virginia. quote, excuse me. quote, over and over again these defendants have defied court orders in an attempt to avoid accountability for the racist violence they planned and caused in charlottesville. these sanctions make clear that time is up. today marks one more important step forward in holding these neo nazis, white supremacists, and hate groups accountable for their actions.

so like i said right at the top there, happy friday. just a little something to hold in your heart this weekend. literally, the neo nazis and the white supremacists who did what they did in charlottesville, not only are they being sued by the people who got hurt there, but those white supremacists have just been ordered by a judge to pay the victims' attorneys fees which means the neo nazis are now being ordered by a court to pay for the privilege of themselves being sued and to pay the costs of the attorneys who are suing them. hold that in your heart a little bit. let that keep you warm this weekend. because of president trump's attitude toward this particular type of violent ek tremism, because of his public indifference or even indulgence of this type of extremism and even this type of violent extremism, there is now this super unsettling prospect we're confronting now as a country particularly in the wake of el paso that the federal government

which donald trump controls might not be the best place to turn to for our country to try to address this specific type of terrorism. because of that, because of the president's alliance with white nationalism in this country, it has been interesting to look at these civil cases where it's not the justice department. it's the victims, themselves, taking it upon themselves to try to identify the terrorist groups that encouraged and organized this violence, finding them out, identifying their role in promoting this stuff, and through these lawsuits disrupting them as organizations, potentially bankrupting them as organizations. it is a really interesting tactic right now in large part because it doesn't depend on donald trump's justice department doing the right thing about these kinds of crimes and this kind of organized terrorism. and as we head into this weekend and this anniversary, i think it's worth noting that these types of cases are really on a roll right now. it's not just the charlottesville case where they got that bang up order just

today from that federal judge. it's also a new ruling today from a different federal judge involving the country's most long standing and frankly most putrid online neo nazi gathering place. it's a website called the daily stormer. it's named as an homage to a nazi newspaper from the third reich. you might have heard over the last couple months that the daily stormer has been on the receiving end of some really expensive lightning bolts thrown at them in court by some of their past victims. in june, it was comedian and commentator dean obeidallah. a couple years ago he wrote a column for the daily beast in which he described a bunch of murders committed in the first year of donald trump's presidency by killers who expressed white supremacist beliefs or motives. the column said in part, quote, trump refuses to call these acts what they are -- white supremacist terrorism. well, the neo nazis at the daily stormer, a website that should

be noted endorsed donald trump for president, they did not like that criticism against president trump and that column and they responded the following day by making up some fake tweets that they attributed to mr. obeidallah and published those online which made it look like mr. obeldallah was actually a terrorist, these fake tweets where he appeared to be taking credit for various violent terrorist attacks around the globe using this false information they put online. they then directed white supremacist trolls and neo nazis arountd wor around the world to go get mr. obeidallah and threaten him. you can't necessarily do that. in june a federal judge handed down a $4.1 million judgment against the daily stormer, that neo nazi website and the guy who runs it ordering the webb site and publisher to pay

$4.1 million to dean obeidallah. it is a good question as to if they'll get the money and how but he told the "new york times" in response to the judge's ruling he full on plans to pursue all of their assets in the united states. quote, we want to collect some money because that's a more powerful message than just a judgment on paper. we're going to give their money to organizations that fight white supremacy, run by the very people these guys hate, like muslims, african-americans, jewish americans, and the lgbtq community. that was june. then in july, last month, happened again. the same neo nazi outfit and its same publisher was hit this time with a $14 million judgment for having directed an anti-semitic terror campaign against a jewish woman in montana who ran a business in the hometown of white supremacist leader richard spencer. that $14 million judgment was ordered by a magistrate judge. it is now being reviewed by a

federal district court judge. but you're starting to get a sense of how these things are going. if you are ever motivated in your life, god forbid, to make a donation to the daily stormer, your donation will now be garnished, will now be taken by the court and instead given to these victims of online racist and anti-semitic attacks waged by the daily stormer and its adherents. it's nice. and now today, again, happy friday, it's happened again. there is a new one. again, this just happened today. been kind of a bang up day. this time it concerns this young woman, seen here in this footage we're about to show you in a very happy moment after winning an election. this is footage from the on campus tv station at her school. >> president taylor -- >> crowds cheered when taylor's name was announced. we caught up with taylor and here's what she had to say.

>> i don't have words for this. i just don't have any words. i am shocked. i'm so ecstatic. honestly, i can't help but thank god for this. >> her name is taylor dumpson and in the spring of 2017 she won. march, 2017 she was elected student body president at american university in washington, d.c. the first african-american woman to ever be elected to that position. great day. the day after she actually took office as student body president, though, somebody on campus took it upon himself to tie up a bunch of little nooses to hang up all over the american university campus. there were nooses made out of black cord and they were holding bananas in case the racial implications weren't quite clear enough. also on some of them were written the initials a.k.a. for alpha kappa alpha which is the sorority to which au president

dumpson belonged. there was this shocking racist incident at american university in washington. it got some news pickup when it happened. what happened after that is what brings us to the judge's ruling today. because when news articles appeared about this racist taunting at this college, these nooses and bananas posted on campus in response to this young woman's election as president, when those news articles started circulating, they were seized on by this neo nazi online hub, by this daily stormer website, where the founder of the website thought this racist harassment campaign against the new university president was excellent news and he thought that all the neo nazis and white supremacists on his website should in response ramp up their own kinds of harassment and attacks on her as much as they could. they posted personal information about her. they explicitly encouraged their members to attack her. and that unleashed a torrent of neo nazi abuse and violent

threats against this kid, right? against this young woman who had done nothing whatsoever other than to be an african-american woman and to be recognized by her peers, by her fellow students, by the student body of american university as the one best suited among them for the top leadership role that they had. well, today, a federal judge in the united states district court for the district of columbia awarded that young woman, taylor dumpson more than $700,000 in damages and attorneys fees to be paid by the nazis. to be paid by the daily stormer. and its founder that directed this tirade of abuse and violent threats against her. that case was brought on taylor dumpson's behalf by the lawyers committee for civil rights under law. the lawyer who led that case joins us next. stay with us. hmm. exactly.

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the national lawyers committee for civil rights under law made a lot of people's day. their lawsuit resulted in a federal judge ordering a neo nazi website publisher to pay more than $700,000 to an african-american college student body president who had been attacked by those same neo nazis. joining us now is kristen clark president and executive director for the lawyers committee for civil rights under law. thank you so much for being

here. >> thanks for having me. >> let me first ask you. i tried to summarize the case, what happened to your client and what happened today in court. did i basically get that right? >> you did. let me just say that taylor is a remarkable young woman. she is a courageous young woman. she suffered tremendously because of the incidents that you described. the noose that was hung on campus, the banana peels, the racist trolling. and the daily stormer indeed unleashed people on her and instructed them to go out and racially harass her and they did. she suffered from post traumatic stress disorder. she suffered tremendous weight loss. anxiety. depression. she was fearful walking around campus. she feared for her life. so she truly suffered but she found the courage in her to fight back and that's why we filed this lawsuit on her behalf. so today is indeed a good day. a federal judge found that the daily stormer violated the law and violated her rights and in

particular found that by unleashing this racist troll storm they essentially denied her the right to enjoy equal access to her campus, american university. so it's a groundbreaking win. no federal court has issued such a ruling before. and so this essentially provides a road map that can now be used by other litigators across the country who want to fight back and find other ways to hold white supremacists accountable. >> part of what is obviously so compelling about this case is the story of your client, who is this remarkable and blameless young woman who had this brought down on her for absolutely nothing that anybody could ever have associated with her, nothing imaginable. part of it is that story and her getting this redress and the story as you describe it of her strength in deciding to pursue it in this way. it is also fascinating as a civil rights tactic and as an antiterrorism tactic. and we are seeing, i've been sort of following over the course of this week looking at different civil suits and other

ways activists and attorneys and civil rights organizations and people trying to get justice for these victims have basically been trying to dismantle the groups that are the pillars of the white supremacist terrorist movements in this country. i don't know that you're ever going to get this money from these guys. >> so that's right. he is on the run. look, if he steps foot in this country his lawyer claims he is out of the country and on the run. if he steps foot on u.s. soil, he cannot resurrect this operation again because we now have a judgment that's been issued by a federal court that he has to pay up. so it is all about kind of ripping the heart out of these operations and dismantling this infrastructure of white supremacy that is unleashing terror on people like taylor dumpson all across our country. i am really proud of the work that we are doing here. online hate i think is a crisis in our country right now. we have white supremacists who are marching hoodless in the

streets. but then there are the white supremacists operating behind their computer screens and that's how they are fundraising and recruiting new members and going after victims and unleashing troll campaigns like what happened to taylor dumpson here. we are using the law to say we're going to hold you accountable. you are not above the law. we are going to paralyze your operations and bring them to a grinding halt. we're not going to wait on the justice department that in, you know, it is simply not doing enough. we're going to use every tool in our arsenal to fight back and let victims of hate crimes across our country know that there are civil rights lawyers who are prepared to stand up for them and fight back. >> let me just also ask you as a last question, how is your client doing? i mean, you opened by talking about what she went through here. it has to be heartening to her to be affirmed in her fight here by this judge. obviously she is in a different place in her life now. this has been a very difficult couple years. how does she feel about this? >> she feels good.

the court found that what she experienced was based on her race and gender and that was important to her. she is in law school now. and wants to fight for justice some day. we're tremendously proud of her. >> that is a per feskt coday to thto -- that is a perfect coda to this story tonight. keep us apprised. i am really interested in this as a tactic and this success. thank you for coming in. >> thank you so much. much more to get to. pulitzer prize winning reporter david fahrenthold will be here in a moment with his latest scoop which the white house has zero answer for. stay with us. us you're going to be seeing a lot more of him now. -i'm not calling him "dad." -oh, n-no. -look, [sighs] i get it. some new guy comes in helping your mom bundle and save with progressive, but hey, we're all in this together. right, champ? -i'm getting more nuggets.

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immigration and customs enforcement handcuffed hundreds of immigrant workers and loaded them on to buses as co-workers and family members watched in disbelief. kids left not knowing where parents were being taken. this 11-year-old says her father was among those detained. >> i need my dad. >> after the chaos and the visceral upset of the huge anti-immigrant raids the trump administration carried out in mississippi this week, stranding little kids without their parents, stranding families, it was interesting to see this report last night in "the washington post." u.s. defends secretive mississippi i.c.e. raids as

local, state officials decry effect on children. but it was amazing to see way down in that story the reporting that officials at i.c.e. specifically and deliberately did not tell the president before they carried out that raid. right? of course you can't tell him. if you tell him, what will he do? he'll tweet about it in advance like he's done before. apparently they did not want that to happen this time. then on top of all of that it was super amazing to see this in "the washington post." which has spent months uncovering the trump organizations, the president's businesses' own hiring of undocumented employees across all of trump's properties. along with his colleagues at "the washington post," reporter david fahrenthold has spent the last several months interviewing more than 40 undocumented immigrants who have been employed by the president at his various clubs. that reporting turned up at least eight different trump properties where the president is employing undocumented

workers. even as he travels around the country talking about how terrible they are. this reporting in "the post" has already ashamed the trump business into saying that they'll stop hiring and stop using undocumented immigrants at trump properties, but according to fahrenthold's latest reporting which is just out this afternoon the trump organization is still going on with hiring undocumented immigrants. here is the lead to fahrenthold's latest story. quote, for nearly two decades the trump organization has relied on a roving crew of latin american employees to build fountains and waterfalls, sidewalks, and rock walls at the company's winery and its golf courses from new york to florida. other employees at trump clubs were so impressed by the laborers who did strenuous work with heavy stone that they nick named them the spanish word for the flintstones. their ranks have included workers who entered the u.s. illegally. another employee still with the company said that remains true

today. that remains true today. despite the trump organization's promises that they wouldn't do that anymore. and today's report is not just that trump's golf clubs are continuing to employ undocumented workers even as the president makes his vitriol and hatred of undocumented immigrants the center piece of his re-election campaign, the center piece of this reporting today is that the managers at trump's clubs not only hired people who were undocumented immigrants they explicitly told these employees, these undocumented immigrants, that they should get illegal papers to fake their status. one undocumented worker told the post that his manager a man named frank sanzo, quote, instructed the crew to buy fake social security numbers and green cards in new york so they would have something to put in the trump organization files. the employee said he bought his papers for $50 in 2002. frank said, you can go buy a

social, meaning a social security number, in queens. they sell them in queens. then come back to work. it's no problem said mr. morocho. he knew. in a phone interview this week with "the post" frank sanzo the manager said he didn't remember morocho when asked whether he told employees to buy fake documents sanzo said, quote, they can get them on the street, too. he did not directly address the question. joining us now is "the washington post" reporter david fahrenthold who shares the by line today with his colleague. thank you very much for joining us tonight. i appreciate you being here. >> great to be here. >> what is the trump organization's response or the trump white house's response to your reporting at this point? >> the white house's response was nothing. we sent them some questions asking how much contact has president trump had with his company? has he had contact with i.c.e. to push them away from enforcing the immigration laws at his company? the response was nothing. they declined to comment. the president's company responded very briefly. we had sent them a lot of questions about this.

as you can imagine there are lots of complexities and we wanted to be sure we understood their side of the story. the trump organization sent back a paragraph saying we're doing our best to identify any workers who have given us false documents. if we find them we'll terminate them. >> is there any difference in terms of potential liability for the president and his business here that there are these allegations? we've now seen repeated allegations from multiple trump properties that trump employees, trump managers, trump supervisors, didn't just hire people who they knew to be undocumented. they explicitly directed those undocumented immigrants that they should go get fake papers. is that a different type of misbehavior? is that a different level of potential liability for the president or the business that he owns? >> well, it certainly is a different level of liability potentially for his company. as you said, this is not just -- it is a step beyond just looking the other way which they seem to have been doing on a pretty broad scale. in those cases and you're right there's been more than one we've

documented, they actually, the trump supervisors said go get a social security or social security number or this document you gave me is bad. go get a better one. that is taking in the knowledge that their workers are here illegally and asking the workers to sort of go out and further the fraud. if this ever becomes a legal liability, if the trump organization, the question will then be who knew about that? how high up the chain did it go? did it go to the president? >> one of the other developments that seems important to me is that after previous reporting by you and your colleagues at "the post" the trump organization having been exposed publicly for all of the undocumented workers they have been using on all of their properties for so many years they have made a sort of quasi-public affirmation that they don't want to do this anymore. they maybe did this in the past but now they'll stop or they'll try to get a handle on it. this new reporting from you, though, about what they're now calling the mobile payroll construction firm, this company that trump is operating that is using these undocumented workers, this seems to be not only current but it seems to

post date the affirmations from the trump organizations in the past that they wouldn't do this anymore. >> it does. you're right. in january, which again was three to four years after president trump had sort of built a political career on the idea that undocumented immigrants were a threat to american jobs, american lives, the trump organization at that point three or four years later undertook an effort to sort of purge their ranks of undocumented workers. they found a lot of them many of whom had been working for them ten years or more. they said at the time, look at us. we're now doing the right thing, we're auditing their documents and getting rid of folks that shouldn't be here. what we learned with this story was that was not a complete purge. for these folks who work for this in house construction crew, mind you, these are very valuable workers. they know how to build stone rock walls. they know how to build everything to the trump organization specifications. these valuable workers, to them it was like nothing happened. workers are being purged at

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>> they kept the horse in the house. i gave the horse a fake address so i could get the dime because i otherwise wouldn't count as a stable and had to be a house and a stable. the horse was right there in the house. that was the late great wnbc correspondent gabe pressman, my friend, gabe, interviewing a u.s. census worker back in 1960. that employee lamenting the fact that he no longer got paid for counting horses. as part of his census work. whether they were in the house or in the stable. not like the good ole days in 1910 when we got paid for counting the horses. decades from now when we are looking back on old news packages about this census, the 2020 census, one of the big takeaways will be about this census, that the trump administration tried to rejigger it. they tried to hot wire it basically. they tried to turn this year's census into a political weapon by changing it in ways that would undercount latinos and immigrants which would undermine their voting power.

now, that effort by the trump administration was of course stopped by the supreme court earlier this year when the court in part upheld a lower court ruling from the southern district of new york. that ruling had found that the trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the census to change the census was against the law. because the decision to add that question was, quote, arbitrary and capricious. basically the trump administration decided they were going to change the census and add that question for their own reasons only later they tried to shoe horn a false rationale on to it for why they needed to do it. the supreme court didn't buy it. well, now a similar situation seems to be playing out at the u.s. agriculture department. for the past few weeks, we've been covering the way the agriculture department under president trump has been trying to decimate science at that agency. presumably because scientists at that agency keep producing work that has inconvenient scientific

findings that this administration doesn't want to confront. scientists at usda were given a plongt month to decide whether they'd move half way across the country for no good reason or else be fired. about two-thirds of the scientists chose door b. well, today those employees started receiving their termination letters telling them they will officially be out of a job come close of business on september 27th. the union representing the workers at usda announced today they have won a few concessions from the agency for employees who have decided to accept this forced transfer. but at this point the move would seem to be a done deal. except for the fact that there are two important data points worth keeping an eye on here. the first is that on monday the usda inspector general released a report concluding that the agency didn't actually have the authority to pay for relocating the science departments without budgetary approval from congress

which they absolutely do not have and will not get. people like virginia congresswoman jennifer wexton have been waving the flag on this point calling into question the legality of the move. but then there's also this. from the white house chief of staff mick mulvany. >> you've heard about drain the swamp. what you probably haven't heard is what we are actually doing. i don't know if you saw the news the other day but the usda just tried to move or did move two offices out of washington, d.c. i think to kansas city, missouri. yes. you can applaud that one. that's what we've been talking about doing. guess what happened? guess what happened? more than half the people quit. now, it's nearly impossible to fire a federal worker. i know that because a lot of them work for me and i've tried and you can't do it. by simply saying to people you know what? we'll take you outside the bubble, outside the beltway, outside this liberal haven of washington, d.c. and move you out into the real part of the country and they quit. what a wonderful way to sort of streamline government and do what we haven't been able to do for a long time. >> it's nearly impossible to

fire a federal worker unless you pull a move like we just did. isn't this awesome? they're all quitting. this is how we're going to get them to quit. you just said that out loud. you got that big round of applause. you know what else you got? throughout this relocation, the agriculture department has stressed that it only wanted to do the sort of thing because it had the best interests of its staff in mind. they want to improve usda's ability to attract and retain highly qualified staff. they said the whole reason for moving was simply to move the federal workers closer to the farmers the agency serves. also they'd be saving money, an argument that has already been disproven. this is not saving money. but now the white house chief of stay trying to get a big round of applause at a conservative event has let the cat out of the bag. they did this not because they wanted to do anything about retaining their staff but because they wanted to make everybody quit. the question is now that

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the president's first choice to replace him was a rapidly pro texas republican named john ratcliffe. then it turned out he bragged about lots of things on his resume which were not things he had actually done. given the human illtation of what happened with ratcliffe, you think the president might be extra careful with his second choice for this job. hah! now actually one of the names they're floating for the job is a man named pete. remember him? his name started popping up in press accounts last week as a potential new director of national intelligence. this morning reporters asked about him from the white house transcript from the president said, quote, i like him a lot. i want to get somebody that everybody can come together with. i like pete a lot. he is great. it's possible there's a different pete than the one we're all thinking of. i hope so because the pete i'm thinking of, the one i think the president is talking about for

director of national intelligence is the man who earned himself the nickname the human sieve because of his terrible track record of leaking like a sieve and being unable to keep even the most basic secret. like the time in 2009 he went on a congressional delegation to iraq a trip that he was supposed to keep secret for operational security reasons, and he ended up live-tweeting it all in realtime. the pete i'm thinking of published an op ed in the new york post to complain that leaks to the news media have seriously undermined anti-terrorist intelligence programs. then two paragraphs later in the same essay he himself leaked classified information about that year's budget for human intelligence programs. in print. the pete i'm thinking of in 2006 convinced the bush administration to post a whole bunch of documents seized from iraq on the internet. turns out the documents included instructions in arabic for making an atomic bomb.

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federal prosecutors. that trial is going to start on monday. they had initially charged him with two felony counts. this judge this week threw out one of the two felony charges so he's just going forward on one felony count related to work. he did in conjunction with president trump's campaign chairman paul manafort should be a fascinating trial that's going to start on monday. we'll be watching that before we get back to you here on monday night. ♪ >> tonight on "all in." >> i want people to know that if they come into the united states illegally they're going to be brought out. and this serves as a very good deterrent. >> the president abasks in his raids. >> how scared are you right now? >> i'm really scared because i don't know what to do. >> tonight new reporting on how the president's own companies hire the very people he's demonizing. >> are you