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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Many months later, thats after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. By that time, the fbi had also initiated a separate but related investigation and that has now been broken much into public view, much more, because the break came with this very curious indictment of a woman named maria butina. Now, she was suspe...

With sergei lavrov, russias minister of foreign affairs and dimitri rigosin. after she sent a message to the russian central bank official to whom she allegedly reported as part of this foreign the agent scheme. her message had two translations in the plea agreement. the first translation about these nra officials going to moscow in december 2015 said, quote, we should let them express their gratitude now. we will put pressure on them quietly later. the second translation, the alternate translat...

And alexander torchins group doesnt do anything to support gun rights in russia, at all. what they have done is make lots and lots of connections to the american nra. this official, torchin and his protege maria butina started attending the nras yearly conferences every year in the usa. at the start of the 2016 campaign, torchin and butina hosted that delegation in moscow, december, 2015. then, during the campaign, butina was flying around the country, showing up at events for various republican...

Copping a plea and cooperating with the fbi now, can it? now today we apparently got his alleged agent, maria butina, reportedly agreeing to cop a plea and agreeing to cooperate with the fbi and federal prosecutors. so, heres my question. maria butina has been in jail since she got arrested. she has been denied bail. we have very little window into whats been going on with her case. there is a gag order on the case. we had very little transparency there. if she in fact is going to plead, does th...

Operation being run by aleksandr torshin. the affidavits submitted by prosecutors in conjunction with the charges in her case, there is maria butina at 3:00 a.m., the night of the election, just after donald trump has won the election, e-mailing aleksandr torshin in moscow, quote, i am ready for further orders. what was the nra doing tied up with these guys? and now just in the last week, things are moving fast for both maria butina and for aleksandr torshin. last week, aleksandr torshin more or...

If this abc and cnn reporting is correct, that means that on wednesday afternoon, the judge will be hearing maria butinas guilty plea, and we presumably will have some public-facing indication of the kind of cooperation deal she is making in conjunction with that plea. i should tell you, "the daily beast" has just matched that reporting from abc news and cnn, and in their report, theyre adding some sort of incredible details that they say are quotes from the plea agreement. and again, nbc news h...

The charges in her case, there is maria butina at 3:00 a.m., the night of the election, just after donald trump has won the election, e-mailing torshin in moscow, quote, i am ready for further orders. what was the nra doing tied up with these guys? and now, just in the last week, things are moving fast for both maria butina and for torshin. last week, torshin more or less evaporated in moscow. the russian central bank where he had been a deputy governor in a very high profile official announced ...

Daily beast reporter in just a moment whose been all over this story. but this is a big keel, right? this is the first russian to plead guilty to a prime that has anything to do with influencing american politics or the 20 san francisco elections. so this is a big deal. but can we also just consider for a second what might be going on here with the nra, right? national rifle association, the nra. is thought of and has long been thought of as a powerhouse in washington and american politics when ...

Another report in "mother jones" magazine shows that evidence, hundreds of pages of federal campaign records appears to show the nra and the trump campaign overtly coordinating their messaging strategy and their ad buying through the same person. reporters showed those records to the former chair of the federal election commission, and the ex-chair told "mother jones," quote, i dont think ive ever seen a situation where illegal coordination seems more obvious. its so blatant that it doesnt even ...

Position is so dire it may soon, quote, be unable to exist. the nra had started a digital tv network to expand its reach and influence. that digital tv network appears to be imploding as we speak with some of their biggest nra tv stars getting their shows shut down, even just tonight. so what explains this gigantic seesaw, biggest spending ever in 2016 by a mile, and then what appears to be financial ruin, certainly financial atrophy just within a couple of years. the nra money in the 2016 campa...