Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. It is now under way. The director of National Intelligence said in a recent speech that the Warning Lights are blinking red and the Digital Infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. And here we see the incursions coming. Russian hackers have now already targeted at least three candidates in this years 2018 midterms. Reports one of the targets is missouri democratic senator Claire Mccaskill. So highway donald trump doubts much of this is even occurring, his pentagon chief does say there are secret actions now underway to combat it. What is the government doing to halt russian interference in the next elections . Yeah, im not at liberty to explain what were doing in that regard. Just rest assured there are actions under way to protect our elections or to exposeness
now the question is whether trump lied about the worst possible thing, not the pr afterward, but whether donald trump took actions or
Trump got updates on the whole of government approach his administration is implementing to safeguard our nations elections. The president has made it clear that his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections from any nation state or other malicious actors. That kind of Paper Statement is a contrast to trumps actual words in helsinki where trump sided with the russian president over his own Intelligence Agencies on the question of whether russia interfered in the u. S. Election. That was the Press Conference where putin brought back an idea these two leaders had apparently talked about, a joint u. S. russian Cyber Security group to investigate Russian Election meddling. Sort of like having el chapo join up with the dea to fight drug trafficking. Now this quite absurd plan to team up with the only country whose own agents have been charged for 2016 interference first came up you may remember all the way last summer when trump wrote that he and putin discussed
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door. what options afghanistan as a nation will have been a long run. but before any of those long runs concern, in the near short run it raises a concrete question about the promises our government and our military made to afghans who helped u.s. forces fight the war, and whether america is keeping those promises. during the long u.s. war in afghanistan, u.s. troops enlisted the help of thousands of afghan interpreters who insisted the u.s. mission at great personal risk to themselves. those interpreters and other people who served in support roles for u.s. forces, they are now in very acute danger. very severe danger of being targeted by the taliban as the taliban rushes to overtake the country. they took risks to support u.s. forces. the question is whether the u.s. can make good on its promise to take care of them. in this case, that means to evacuate them out of the country in very short order.
but we know there are essentially back door rogue channels in otheris plas as well, saudi arabia and turkey to name two. is it your job in your committee to get to whether ukraine is one point in a pattern? there s a lot because this is a cesspool. if you look at every angle of this administration from the day that they took office actually, you can see i can tell you how you can see it because everybody s going to jail. everybody around them is being indicted and going to jail, and i predict some more will. sondland decided he had to change his testimony because he didn t want to go to jail, and i think other folks will be stepping up as we move forward because, you know, you see what the mob boss is doing now. he s throwing giuliani under the bus. but a more concrete question. there s going to be a report sent from intel to judiciary committee. they i guess my question is do you foresee oversight on a broader set of issues relating to the president s use and abuse of foreign p