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Welcome to welcome to primetime weekend. Im rachel maddow. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. The past 24 hours have been a microcosm of the race. Kamala harris and tim walz doing the standard campaign work for a major party candidate. They kept an even keel at the sitdown interview last night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. While they are doing that, trump is out there, honestly stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps stepping in ma...

People taking in the actual facts and discussing it as a country and we will see what the jury decides. Keep it locked right here on msnbc. Tonight on all in the thing that was effective was the repetition over and over and over that Michael Cohen is a liar. Michael cohen back on the stand and under fire. Once he connected up to the text, i thought we are in for something here. It casts doubt on the veracity of a ton of his testimony. The expresident s former fixer runs into trouble under cross ...

Down. Sounds seedy and weird, of course it is. Still not the strangest thing happening in washington right now. Tonight we have more on the ongoing saga of the trump dossier. Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham have launched a probe into former National Security advisor susan rice. In the very final minutes of the obama administration, just afternoon on Inauguration Day 2017, rice sent herself an email on the white house computer system. In it she describes a meeting she had attended just...

Do they ever explain that? >> its... >> if somebody attacks you and you dont like it, youre fragile? >> basically a way of disregarding any white persons opinions about racial matters, essentially. but... theres also just growing acceptance at every level of the coordinates of the black lives matter movement and really uncritical adoption of those tenants and they would bring, you know, black lives matter activist to educate employees about racial issues. it was just sort of a general acceptance...

Because it shows that in realtime, on january six, they knew that there was a problem. they tried to protect and advise trump to address that problem in realtime. and then after january six, they ran cover for him, and then to this day continued to rewrite history. and the second reason is that we actually have their words that they were saying on air-- >> ok. >>--at the same time they were sending these messages. >> angelo, im going to jump in because you said we have their words on air. and no...

Words are unacceptable and they incited an insurrection on january 6th. >> the core claim of democrats impeachment article is that trumps speech incited the january 6th riot. his speech on january 6th. >> fight like hell. >> well, its language that theyve used, that republicans have used, big deal. shows nothing. >> there is a word for what we just saw. it is gas lighting. now thanks to the texts we have the clear evidence for that gas lighting. >> thats right. on january 6th itself the same day...

Thankfully for the justice jussie smollett want that decision was reversed. now in the trial we are goth new information about the extent of the scram. on the same day he cried with robin roberts he texted one of the people who claims beat him up because he is back and gay. heres what he said: -- these are the people he paid to put a news around his tape. on the videotape he conducted a dry run the day before it happened. were not hearing about this in the media. it undermines the core claim the...

Against jussie smollett dismissed. so finally this week, the trial is on the way. and we have some pretty information about the scam. for example, the same day he cried with robin roberts he texted one of the people who claims beat him up because he is back and gay. heres what he said: "brother, i love you. i stand with you. i know 100% you and your brother did nothing wrong. these are the people that paid to put a noose around your neck. these are the people he paid to put a news around his tap...

Hes a central figure in this whole thing. assange released the stolen emails at the heart of russia gate. yet mueller had no entry speaking with him. that is a very curious decision. >> tucker: whats interesting is the core claim that russia had a meaningful effect on the election outcome, that it was the russian government running this operation in order to aid donald trump, that claim has been bought completely, i would say, by both parties. republicans are mad about the russia hoax and all th...

Strange. assange released the stolen emails at the heart of russia gate. mueller had no entry speaking with him. >> tucker: whats interesting is the core claim that russia had a meaningful effect on the election outcome, that it was the russian government running this operation in order to aid donald trump, that claim has been brought completely, i would say, by both parties. republicans are mad about the russia hoax and all that, but they still repeat that line again and again, we know that thi...