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Charged with an illegal campaign finance in which they are said to have funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars at least some of which was from a secret russian source that the indictment doesnt spell out. those donations were directed to the main superpac supporting president trumps reelection campaign and lots and lots of republican politicians and campaign groups. as spelled out in the indictment of lev and igor, one of the things they leveraged with those illegal campaign donations was an ...

Going to love this conversation. tickets are available now, msnbc.com with pod tour. rachel maddow starts right now. good evening. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so lev and igor have been freed from jail. it was a dramatic twist in the impeachment proceedings against president trump last week on thursday morning when we learned that these two gentlemen had been indicted by a grand jury and arrested wednesday night at dulles airport as they attempted to board an international f...

I want to bring ryan in. ryan, jack mentioned what the president said to lester hot. lets bring that back, play that and then well discuss. here it is. >> regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey, knowing there was a real good time to do it. in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story, its an excuse by the democrats having lost an election that they should have won. >> ike, ryan, your turn. ru...

That on the one hand might. [ gunfire ] you a appe give you a policy but then dehuman you. >> when hes a nationalist doesnt seem like he can get beyond campaign mode. and if he could get down to real issues and also learn the history of african-americans voting in this country. it could make a difference. i dont know if its too farfetched. what do you think? >> historys important. this president traveled to the african-american history museum on culture. he had an abbreviated tour. he needs to h...

These nfl owners, when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now. out. hes fired. hes fired. >> that is pure racism. the president is using that racism to appeal to his base. were learning tonight that in a phone call last fall with dallas cowboys owner, jerry jones, the president said, quote, this is a very winning strong issue for me. that is according to the wall street journal. another example of this president framing everything in terms of whe...

African-americans and also learn the history of african-americans voting in this country. it could make a difference. i dont know if its too farfetched. what do you think? >> historys important. this president traveled to the african-american history museum on culture. he had an abbreviated tour. he needs to have someone in his camp to understand the nuances of the black community. its not just cut and dry. its not just i see it and thats it. its hundreds of years from the times when blacks were...

Point where trump very specifically told someone he was taking this action because of russia. we dont know a lot more than russia, the "times" report doesnt spell out, it doesnt go further than that. but the word russia was mentioned to rosenstein according to this report. we had giuliani recently saying it was about russia. we have trump telling lester holt it was about russia. we have trump telling the russian officials in the oval office that it was about russia. >> but it wasnt about russia....

These nfl owners, when somebody disrespect our flag, to say get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now. out, hes fired. the poor guy, you got to see this guy, oh, i dont know what i said, i dont remember. hes going i dont remember, maybe thats what i said. hes a war hero that was captured. when mexico sends its people theyre not sending their best. theyre bringing drugs, theyre bringing crime, theyre rapist and some i assume are good people. >> the medias saying mean thing about -- but ...

People who dont normally have a voice, her tweet dont speak for majority of americans and we should condemn it, get this out of the the way. >> done. >> why make it all about him? >> it would have been happened under any other circumstance. as i was listening to david talk, i was thinking about the definition of insanity. its to do thing over and over and expect a different result. in this case, to watch something over and over again and expect a different result. i think in that way were kind o...

Doesnt spell out, it doesnt go further than that. we had giuliani recently saying it was about russia. we have trump telling hot it was about russia. we have trump telling the officials in the roe value office that it was about russia. >> but it wasnt about russia. requests and still the official reason was that that comey was too fine to hillary clinton in a 2016 election. its laughable whether you say it like that but that was what the rosenstein memo was. he said comey abused his office by be...