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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Summit was less than an hour and didnt have any follow through and that match is reporting the Trump Administration has no central policy for Election Security and no one is in charge. While were running through the facts, note that another appointee flagged that they dont have a key person minding the store in Cyber Security because the Trump Administration eliminated the job of Cyber Security coordinator. So thats a lot of fact...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. So that was the answer. Thats the tension on the intelligence. Then there is a separate tension about how do you investigate, indict and punish the people identified by that very intelligence for Attacking American Democracy . We all know, there is a busy Special Counsel that trump has denigrated and at sometimes lied about. So a question on that was posed to the fbi director who of course, lets not forget has this job because hi...

Its allies and secretly violated american policy against trafficking with terrorists. those charges are utterly false. >> he obfuscates and really misrepresents what he knows everything that we sold them could be put in one cargo plane and there would be plenty of room left over. >> sir, if i may, the polls show that a lot of american people just simply dont believe you. >> it was virtually pandemonium, everybody was scrambling to try to get the story straight. >> top officials in the reagan whi...

That the united states has shipped weapons to iran as ransom payment for the release of american hostages in lebanon. that the united states undercut its allies and secretly violated american policy against trafficking with terrorists. those charges are utterly false. >> he obfuscates and really misrepresents what he knows everything that we sold them could be put in one cargo plane and there would be plenty of room left over. >> sir, if i may, the polls show that a lot of american people just s...

In 2010, manafort seemed to be doing okay. he was bringing in a lot of money from this deal with viktor yanukovych. and the oligarchs supporting the party of regents. he spent $60 million in ukraine. even with a lavish lifestyle, you can manage to spend a few years on $60 million but it had begun to dry up in 2015 and 2016 and thats when the desperation set in. and the real question is, was that job at the top of the trump campaign a product of this desperation? was he going to go through the re...

Question that weve teed pup has come up before in reporting in "new york times," and your publication as well, that this was an unusual volunteer arrangement? >> there is no question about that. and at a particular moment. i think this case span as long period of time. from 2010 back to 2005 to 2016 and 2017 right into the heart of the campaign and beyond. in 2010, manafort seemed to be doing okay. he was bringing in a lot of money. and the oligarchs supporting the party of regents. he spent $60...

Seconds later, the engine starts up. >> once he got the plane going again, it was happy times with me. >> but the happy times dont last. before the brothers can relax, the motor cuts out again. >> you just keep hoping get it started. come on, man, just get it started. he looked a little frantic up there. >> this time, the pilot cant restart the engine. >> i can see the color of cars. i can see people walking on the sidewalk down there. get it started. desperation set in at that point. come on, g...

Up. >> once he got the plane going again, it was happy times with me. >> but the happy times dont last. before the brothers can relax, the motor cuts out again. >> you just keep hoping get it started, come on, man, just get it started. he looked a little frantic up there. >> this time, the pilot cant restart the engine. >> i can see the color car, i could see people walking on the sidewalk down there. get it started. desperation set in at that point. come on, get it going, get it going. >> like ...

Up. >> once he got the plane going again, it was happy times with me. >> but the happy times dont last. before the brothers can relax, the motor cuts out again. >> you just keep hoping get it started, come on, man, just get it started. he looked a little frantic up there. >> this time, the pilot cant restart the engine. >> i can see the color car, i could see people walking on the sidewalk down there. get it started. desperation set in at that point. come on, get it going, get it going. >> the p...

>> once he got the plane going again, it was happy times with me. >> but the happy times dont last. before the brothers can relax, the motor cuts out again. >> you just keep hoping get it started, come on, man, just get it started. he looked a little frantic up there. >> this time, the pilot cant restart the engine. >> i can see the color car, i could see people walking on the sidewalk down there. get it started. desperation set in at that point. come on, get it going, get it going. >> like on c...