joke. the president refuses to be questioned by the special counsel about obstruction of justice. the one area where his accuracies are so well-known they require little detective work. tweeting may be trump's impulsive choice of weapon that doesn't exempt him from the law. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starting now. >> tonight on all in. the mueller probe closes in on obstruction. >> did he fight back? you fight back. oh, it's obstruction. >> as the money man for the trump organization faces michael cohen's grand jury. >> i have spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up. >> tonight, the growing legal trouble for the president. >> he knows where all of the financial bodies are buried

within the trump organization. >> russian hackers target their first vulnerable democrat. then the congressman who moves to impeach rod rosenstein wants to run the house. and then, what we know about the fate of thousands of children the trump administration ripped away from their parents. >> you might want to talk to the department of homeland security if it is possible to reunite you with your daughter. >> good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. in the secretly recorded conversation between donald trump and michael cohen two months before election day, we were introduced to a new and fascinating character in the trump orbit. the man cohen said he turned to to help setting up a company for

a secret payment. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of the the info regarding our friend david. i am going to do that right away. i spoken to allen about how to set the whole thing up. >> he is a hugely important figure in the trump organization. once described as the most senior person in the organization that is not a trump. weisselberg has spent decades as chief financial officer. after he was elected he was giving up day-to-day control of his business. his lawyer said trump was handing control over to three people. business deals and finances

according to trump biography. he knows more about the trump history and finances than anyone. weisselberg has worked for the trump family since the 1970s. allen knows where all of the financial bodies are buried within the trump organization which is why today's news may have induced some serious panic in the president of the united states. because according to the "wall street journal," weisselberg has been subpoenaed. and to the $130,000 payment that cohen made to stormy daniels. in may "the new york times" reported that weisselberg has

known since last year the details of how mr. cohen was being reimbursed. all of that of course might be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what there is to be learned to a man that knows where the financial bodies are buried. robert mueller and his team are scrutinizing tweets as they look to build an obstruction case. telling nbc that mueller has almost everything he needs between the lester holt interview and the tweets, trump puts them on the five-yard line. what this could mean for the president, political analyst is david corn. and natasha.

>> i think you are right, he does speak to the two hush money payments that we know, already know about involving stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, the playboy model and he can address the core question. keeping these women quiet because of the election. in order to help donald trump's election chances. and they were and that was explicit, then they get into an area of campaign finance violations. and yes, he knows where all of the financial bodies are for dozens of years, scores of several decades, and the issue would be whether the southern district of new york attorneys start asking about things other than the hush money payments, other than things that just involve michael cohen. we know that trump nearly became under criminal investigation by

the manhattan da, the investigation was dropped. and the new yorker did a piece a year ago raising issues whether the trump organization violated the foreign act. that could be something that truly freaks out the president. >> as someone who is a stickler for the rules, and has neither committed any financial crimes, if my accountant was in front of a grand jury, i would be freaking out. we talk about flows of money, how opaque and byzantine it is. and the person has the rosetta stone for it, is the guy appearing before the grand jury.

>> this is a huge development because it indicates that it is expanded into trump's business dealings. his financial past and business real estate dealings over the last 30, 40 years, are in the cross hairs here. and that is something that trump said is a red line. this is an interesting roundabout way to get at it. especially since weisselberg has been subpoenaed. he is the guy. there are only two people who knew about every single deal. that was donald trump and alan weisselberg and he would have known about all of the dealings that trump had with russian oligarchs, whether or not there was russian money being laundered. he knows virtually everything. so it is a really big deal. >> that question, david, which is what is the economic

financial entanglements in the background. there are questions on it, trump on the record, we have a lot of money there. >> it seems like he would know everything. we know there are major loans in trump's business past including a gigantic one of deutsche bank. people trying to find out more about that. we don't know if there is anything illegal there, but miss ste -- mysterious. if the prosecutor wants to take a page of question from mueller and ask about, well, what did it mean, when your son, when eric trump said we are getting all of this money for our golf courses from russia. what did it mean when donald trump jr. said we are getting

this russian money back in the 2008 period. he can answer those questions. >> you made allusion to this. you have the mueller team preparing to go to trial against paul manafort. there is another trial for paul manafort in d.c. you have a federal grand jury and the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york has the grand jury of michael cohen which is distinct but perhaps related to the mueller team. >> and the thing this has in common is money laundering, tax evasion. it is a follow the money on all sides. a follow the money investigation. and that is always how mueller was going to get to the heart of this. you see who is leveraged to who. who owes this debt and why does he feel compelled to do that. so many threads coming together now.

being investigated. and it is a matter of time when those dots are being connected. >> don't forget that there is a guy named michael cohen out there who looks like he is moving to full cooperation with the u.s. attorneys and southern district in new york and with robert mueller. so you have this movement here of being able to question weisselberg and michael cohen. and for michael cohen to survive, he is going to have to tell all. i am surprised that the president has been as moderate in his tweeting today as he has been. >> and remember that our friend david pecker ami, they ran a hit piece on michael cohen. the drudge report posted it as a rat. >> what people are not clear

about is the strategy. a lawyer can explain this better than i can. presumably doing it behind closed doors. perhaps he is signaling for some type of pardon. >> i have no idea what michael cohen is doing and i have no idea what lanny davis are doing. thank you both for being with me. legal analyst jill wine banks. and attorney ali mistal. jill, let me start with you. a quote from the new york times that rudy giuliani is talking about. in response to the idea that the special prosecutor is looking at various public statements by the president, tweets and other things. he says if you are going to

obstruct justice, you do it quietly. >> most kinds of obstruction is behind closed doors. but we live in a modern world where you can communicate easily through social media. and send messages by publicly announcing a pardon by a case that involves contempt of court. i will pardon you, you don't have to cooperate anyboin the s way you can threaten a witness against you in the public media and it will count just as much as if you had done it behind closed doors. in this case, we have testimony that he did it behind closed doors and then repeated it because it didn't get through. we wanted it to happen and he did it again. he has been trying to obstruct this investigation from the very first day of it. done everything he could and partly public.

who would have thought he would say to nbc lester holt, i did it because i wanted to get through -- >> just to be clear. >> giuliani is making no sense. you caught the client breaking into the bank in broad daylight, and rudy giuliani says most people break into the bank at night. okay, your client is dumb. with cohen, and the tweets now, for the obstruction case at least. it is like watching a terrible pre quell. we know what happened here. so it is like robert mueller is -- yes, we know. the tweets, for instance, they are already public information. that already gets us to the five-yard line. we have the lester holt

interview and the tweets. mueller's team keeps trying to say, donald, if you have an explanation for this, you need to sit down and talk to me. >> we are talking about the case for obstruction as if we are talking about a normal client in the normal legal system. you are seeing these legal arguments being made by the president's defenders and the president's lawyers saying it is not obstruction if he does it in the course of official duties. none of that matters, because obstruction doesn't matter but for impeachment. there is not going to be any trial for obstructions of justice. they could return a report that says we believe the president obstructed justice. but they are not going to indict him for it. >> but they say they are going to follow the rule which is the president cannot be indicted. i didn't agree with that

decision. we did issue a report which was given to the house in order to have a road map for impeachment. the difference between then and now is that this house will do nothing with it. they will ignore any road map. they will ignore the evidence that is in their face. right now, it is obstruction in plain sight. it has been obstruction in plain sight since the very, very beginning. so it's got to happen that something will be done. i think there will be a blue wave in november and the house will treat it differently. >> and that is when we say impeachment is a political question. there are stronger or weaker cases. this idea that you can't, it is not obstructing if you are doing things within the president's power. and the president can tweet and talk about things and fire the fbi director. and that is clearly the case he is making.

they are not denying anything. >> they don't understand the word abuse of power. there are legitimate exercises and there are abuses of power. and as jill says, it comes down to politics. one of the interesting things that we have learned is the republicans know how to spell impeachment, going for the wrong guy. they get the concept of impeachment. so maybe that is an indication that we are moving forward. >> and jill, there is a weird way this has been reported and talked about, which is the separate things, collusion and obstruction. unrelated or loosely relates. it trikes me that the whole thing about nixon, the cover up, not the crime is about obstruction. the whole point of that was that he knew what they were doing, he knew about it after the fact particularly and tried to cover

it up. it is possible the president didn't know about collusion at the time but still tried to obstruct and that is still very serious if that were to be the case. >> that is exactly correct. everybody keeps saying well you can't have a case for obstruction if you don't have an under lying crime and that is not true. no evidence that nixon knew about the break in until the day after the break in. and as soon as he did, he started working to cover it up and all of the actions he took was illegal obstruction of justice. >> that is exactly right. to extend the collusion metaphor, let's say there was collusion. i don't know if there was, but the president didn't know about it while it was happening. nixon didn't know it was happening. >> we don't need evidence of a crime, we need evidence of criminal intent. intended to do something wrong. whether or not he was actually factually did he know.

if he intended to do something wrong, you can call it obstruction. >> that point, which is he didn't know until the day after. transition part is going to be a key part in all of this. there is a lot going down in the transition. a lot looking at the transition which is after the fact, of what do we do now. my eyes continue to be plastered to that. >> i just -- >> go ahead. >> i wanted to say the issue of whether he knew or didn't know, he clearly had actions that followed his knowing it. and those actions are definitely culpable. >> jill wine banks and ellie mistal. thank you both. >> using the same criminal methods how the vulnerable democratic senator responded. and the reporter that broke that

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appears to be the first identified case of russian interference. the daily beast reporting the russian intelligence agency behind the 2016 election cyber attacks targeted senator clare mccaskill. missouri democrat is in a tight race for her seat and has been a critic of both russia and donald trump. she said i will not be intimidated. i've said it before and i will say it again, putin is a thug and a bully. >> andrew desi derrio joins me tonight. what happened? >> the main intelligence director in moscow ordered more cyber attacks. this is the exact same tactic

that they used in 2016 that they were indicted for. they used what is called a fishi fishi fishing operation. that leads them to a page that changes their password. we saw it happen to john podesta when his e-mails were released. the exact same tactics they used. >> podesta gets hacked and he says this is from gmail, you need to change your password. he puts in his password. >> the exact thing happened here? >> that's correct. and we traced it back to the russian gru. >> when did this happen?

>> the first known incident was late last year. we have a screen cap from a saved page that microsoft captured from september 26. had clicked the link and went to change his pass warword. in august, the president traveled to missouri. and specifically said vote her out of office. so we are not sure what initiated. but they occurred around the same time that the president was in missouri and using his perch to campaign against mccaskill. you have september 26 a senior policy adviser is a victim of this. and clicks on the link. >> we don't have evidence to believe this was successful.

but that is basically what happened. >> it sounds from the reporting and i read the story a number of times, it sounds like microsoft because rather than gmail, and they were sort of putting up an imposter website that looked like it. and microsoft figured this out. >> microsoft executives spoke at the aspen security forum and mentioned that they pinpointed three candidates that they had sort of found that this was happening for and that led us to track down who those candidates were. and the first instance we found so far was that clare mccaskill was the first one. >> so he gets up and says we have found three attempts of three candidates. and you guys heard that. and you go to work, forensically tracked it down.

there are two more at least? >> that is right. and what microsoft was able to do was create what is called a sink hole server where they get it themselves. they knew it was happening and caught it in its tracks and no evidence to believe the hack was successful. >> this is literally the exact same game plan they are running. >> exactly. they did it to john podesta. and not only did they do this but indicted for this two weeks ago by the mueller probe. >> thank you so much for your great work. appreciates it. >> coming up. announces his bid for speaker of the house. need a change of scenery? the kayak explore tool shows you the places you can fly on your budget. so you can be confident you're getting the most bang for your buck. alo-ha.

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representative jim jordan has chosen a curious time to launch his bid for speaker of the house. he mentioned the need to do the right thing on nondiscretionary spending. in the midst of a scandal of turning a blind eye to numerous sexual allegations. he says the men accusing him are

lying. for more on impeachment i am joined by congressman nerold. >> they are absurd. it is a desperation attack. >> the article of impeachment is shoddy. >> and nonimpeachable. they say. some house republicans want to impeach rod rosenstein for something six months before he

took office. >> they point out that on the third renewal on the fisa application for page, he signed off on the third renewal when he was in office. and it had a lot of material in it that the first three didn't showing that they had hit pay dirt information with respect to being a russian agent. without which he wouldn't have gotten a renewal and saying he shouldn't have signed off on it. because in the first one, not the fourth one which is the one he signed off on. they say that the steele dossier was used part of the application that was true and they didn't tell the judge, the judges that the steele document was compiled by somebody who was paid for it by an alternative campaign, except that they did tell them specifically and nunes and this

point jordan is lying about it. >> paul ryan says he doesn't favor this. and the house republican leadership want nothing to do with this. >> that's right. >> why? >> because it is absurd. it is an attack on the special counsel. i don't know that they want to have that attack on the special counsel. they have been trying to attack the special counsel with everything that is going on with strzok and everything else. and this is an absurd it is and realize how it is looking it is. >> jim jordan is running for house speaker. are you satisfied that he has been truthful about everything with respect to allegations while wrestling coach at ohio state that he did know of a doctor there accused of molesting. >> i don't know whether he has been truthful or not.

i don't know the facts. all i know is there are quite a few accusers. and that gives you pause. >> we should say not accusers of him. accusers of the doctor. >> hundreds of accusers of the doctor. there are seven former wrestlers who say he knew, jordan knew and didn't do anything about it. >> does that concern you? >> of course it concerns me. >> should someone in the house investigate it? >> probably, yeah. >> impeachment would be something in your bali wick. what do you think about this argument, this is an abstracted

argument. obstructing justice is impossible if he is doing it loudly and publicly. >> that is absurd. to make that argument is to say the president is a king and cannot do wrong. if the president does something within his power cannot be a crime is what they are saying. and it is nonsense. if the president decides to increase agricultural subsidies that may be in his power. if he decides to do that because someone wrote him a check, that is bribery. if they do it for an improper motive, it is a crime. >> i have been wondering about exactly what a house in democratic control would have access to. and one thing that i have wondered to, could the house get

the president's tax return? >> absolutely. could subpoena the president's tax returns. for example, if the judiciary committee were looking into the question of the president's violation of the em mollument issue. if there is reason to believe that he hadn't paid taxes properly, or perhaps something interesting about his tax policy that might be reflected. >> it strikes me, you know, one thing during the campaign and the president refused to release his tax returning and yada-yada his way through. and then was sworn in. and then he said he is filing for an extension. it is crazy to me that we haven't seen his taxes while president. >> it is crazy.

and if you ask him about it, sarah sanders says nobody cares about it, it is over. but it is not over. it is crucial. one thing for example, the big elephant in the room fr, from t campaign, the president is nasty. nasty to the prime minister of australia. and the only person he is obsequious to is president putin. we know from his son saying so, much of his money came from russia from the last 15 or so years and we certainly would want to look and see maybe putin has something over him.

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joined by my guests. all right. the status report we got, the hearing is tomorrow. what did we learn? >> so the numbers that you just laid out, what's weird is that the government is sort of changing the finish line. like you're running a race and then you decide you're at the end. it is really hard to keep track of what goal they're trying to meet here. a few today's ago they said they were trying to reunite children with 1632 parents and now they said that it is at six clog a.m. this morning, they were able to reunite children 1442 children. so we're changing what we're comparing. are we looking at the number children or parents? it is hard to figure out if they're getting there. and i asked that question and said what goal? what is the number you're trying to reach to say you've reunified all the eligible children? which we know is up for debate. the answer i got was the date is

dynamic. and that brings a lot of follow-up questions to ask. >> what we should say is that even by their own numbers, they're not reuniting everyone. they're saying there are 900 who don't qual zpi a big part of that is because the parents have been deported. what you've seen on the ground among clients of yours. >> exactly. it is a sign of how low this administration has sunk that we are right now talking and rounding off to the nearest 100 the number of families have been separated. if just one sfam separated by our administration, that's unacceptable. that's what we deal with on the ground. we're representing these people one by one. we're seeing families had large numbers start to sgocome into t family detection centers. people held if for profit prisons with their children. this could be a mother in the cell with her 16-year-old son. we're seeing and we know that

there are many families who have been deported. even for those getting released, we talk had weekend the a woman who we represent named darlin. in the days before she was to be reunified, the day she was supposed to be reunified, they mixed up the paperwork and they had her 13-year-old daughter in a car on the way to the detention center. because of the mix-up, they said, i'll sorry, your mother doesn't want you and doesn't want you. that will permanently scar that young girl. there are hundreds, thousands of people are young and going to be permanently traumatized by had a has happened to them and we did that to them. we have to opponent as an entire nation now. for the rest of my life, we are going to be that country that hurt so many children. >> there's a question, he makes a good point, each one of these is a human being, a cluster of families. if they were ours, or i or anyone would be in just utter

distress. these numbers, well, we're plus 200, down 200. it is important to keep that in mind. it seems like the end game is getting everyone out. renouncing asylum rights. we know they were trying get female sign papers. a lot of these people will be sent back to what they fled at great peril. >> that's right. and there's been a question over who exactly signed the rights away. they've only been able to tell us that about 85 of the deported parents signed waiver and we know there are about 431 children with deported parents. so it is a question of, how many of those were deported before they were even read their rights? even given the option to reunion white their children? and how many understood what they were signing? there were multiple affidavits of those who did not speak the language on the application.

parents who were told they were signing to release their child. not understanding they were waving away unification rights. and then there are numbers on call, how to get legal advice, but that form didn't go into effect until july 9th. all the forms said do you want to be deported with or without your children? it didn't say they may still have outstanding rights to asylum. >> over and above the separation issue. has the trump administration broken u.s. law and asylum in the way they've handled this? >> without a doubt. it is against both domestic and international law to refuse to allow individuals to apply for asylum. contrary to what many people have said on television, you cannot apply for asylum at the sim in your home country. there's no process and it would be a suicide mission to do that while you're still in a dangerous country. so without a doubt, what they have done is they have forcibly

removed children from their parents against their will. they've held them that confinement, they've kept them away from their parents and used that separation, the distress and the trauma of that to force hundreds of families on sign away their rights to asylum. a pro affection they dearly need. there are people who will die as a result of these deportations. it is just a fact. >> all right. thank you very much for taking some time this tonight. >> as always, do not forget on check out our podcast, why is this happening? we've covered preferring the family separation with the attorney on the aclu for that case we were just talking about. there will be a hearing tomorrow. to this week's episode about discriminatory housing policies, which yes, could easily be a boring topic but i promise it is a fascinating conversation. if you don't believe it, read what other people are saying searching our #with pod.

that's "all in" for this evening. >> chris, congratulations on your multiple emmy nominations. my single one, your double one. come organization, come organizati on, big guy. >> any excuse to send anybody tacos when it comes down to it. all right. thank you for joining us at home this hour. i thought today was going to be kind of a sleepy news day, right? at last. it started off as kind of a sleepy news day. then all h-e-double hockey sticks broke out this evening and tonight and now it has turned into another totally nuts news day. as of about 7:00 p.m. eastern tonight, buzz feed news was first to report that the chief strategist for the bernie sanders for president campaign in 2016, bernie sanders's chief