he not only has a campaign chairman who s sitting in federal prison, his deputy campaign chairman is currently awaiting sentencing after also pleading guilty to felony charges. in the fewnewly released fbi interview notes from president trump s deputy campaign chairman rick gates, we learned a couple things i m absolutely flummoxed by. the first has to do with the national republican party, the rnc. rick gates told the fbi the rnc was energized by the announcement from wikileaks in junethey plan to release more stolen emails from hillary clinton. according to rick gates the folks at the rnc were not just energized by these announcements from wikileaks, they were also in the know. from the interview notes, the rnc indicated they knew the timing of the upcoming releases. hmm. according to gates, the timing was, the only nonpublic information the rnc had about upcoming releases but he apparently said republicans did have enough of a heads-up to
president trump is a very singular president. he not only has a campaign chairman who s sitting in federal prison, his deputy campaign chairman is currently awaiting sentencing after also pleading guilty to felony charges. in the newly released fbi interview notes from president trump s deputy campaign chairman rick gates, we learned a couple things i m absolutely flummoxed by. the first has to do with the national republican party, the rnc. rick gates told the fbi the rnc was energized by the announcement from wikileaks in june 2016 that they plan to release more stolen emails from hillary clinton. according to rick gates the folks at the rnc were not just energized by these announcements from wikileaks, they were also in the know. from the interview notes, the
. a newly released document give insight into the mueller report and president trump s 2016 presidential campaign. cnn obtained pages, highly redacted from robert mueller s investigative notes. it is the first publicly released behind-the-scenes look at the investigation and it outlines the high-level pursuit within the trump campaign to get dirt on hillary clinton and her missing e-mails, even of course things stolen by russia. our jessica schneider is all over it. jes, let s begin here. the e-mails are referenced several times throughout the documents. what does this tell us? this was a consistent topic of conversation we re learning within the trump campaign leading up to the election. the president and other top campaign officials repeat lid discussing how they could get that access to the stolen democratic e-mails that wikileaks had. that s all according to the interview notes from rick gate, the deputy campaign chairman and gates was cooperating with
all for joining us. that does it for us on all in this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. thanks, my friend, much appreciated. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you with us. what a time to be alive. right? you will always be able to look back at this time in your life and say, you know, i was alive during that presidency. i remember how crazy it was. the campaign chairman for the sitting president of the united states is currently in jail. specifically, he s in federal prison serving a seven-plus-year sentence for multiple felony convictions. while he is simultaneously awaiting the start of his state trial on similar charges. that s the president s campaign chairman. the president s deputy campaign chairman today just got happy news from the federal judge overseeing his case. when he let him know that while he is awaiting his own sentencing on federal felony charges, from here on out after today, he no longer needs
your time tonight, appreciate it. that s our broadcast tonight. thank you for being with us. good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. happy to have you with us. what a time to be alive. you will always be able to look back at this time in your life, i was alive during that presidency. i remember how crazy it was. the campaign chairman for the sitting president of the united states is currently in jail. spec specifically he s serving a seven plus years sentence for multiple felony convictions while he s awaiting for state trial on similar charges. that s the president s campaign chairman. the president s deputy campaign chairman got happy news from the frar jud federal judge overseeing his