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Baroque. bear with me. a meeting organized by his boss that nader attended in january of last year before trump is sworn in with a russian investor and blackwater founder erik prince who was informally advising the trump transition team. one of the reporters who broke the story, mark maseti joins me now. who is this individual first? lets start there. >> george nader has been sort of an international man of histories for some time. he as you said worked for blackwater. he did back channel negoti...

Which means democrats might have a shot maybe at electing one of their own to statewide office in texas for the first time in a generation. one of the big seats they are eyeing belongs to ted cruz. he will likely be facing democratic challenger, a 45-year-old congressman from el paso in november. he joins me tonight. ted cruz had words about you tonight that i wanted to read to you and get your reaction. he says congressman orourke is a left wing liberal dep cat. he is running like bernie sander...

For with painful cuts. one suggested medicaid. still, for the teachers of west virginia today marks a big success. they went on strike and had demands met. its the thing that might give ideas to other under paid teachers like oh, say, the teachers in oklahoma who havent gotten a raise in a decade and the lowest paid in the nation. some of them are teaching in the dozens of schools across the state that have cut back to four days a week. a lot of those teachers now saying they are going to follow...

There is a new witness in the mueller investigation. "new york times" reporting george nader, a lebanese american who represents the saudi crown prince who is essentially runs the united arab emirates is cooperating with the special counsel and gave testimony last week to a grand jury. according to times," mueller appears to be examining the influence of foreign money on trumps political activities has asked witnesses about the possibility that nader funneled money from the emirates to the presi...

The governor signing a bill today giving teachers and all state workers a 5% pay raise. and 5% raise was part of a deal teachers struck with the governor last week but the teachers crucially stayed on strike after the deal was struck because they didnt trust republican control legislature to actually pass it and that turned out to be a totally valid concern when the state senate balked and passed a 4% raise this week. although republicans got on board with the 5% raise today, they say it will ha...

Way and daniel i katrina abernathy both born in 24. coming up, how did the times square bomber make it on the plane in the first place? were going to focus on security breakdowns that happened in the 53 hours it took to apprehend faisal shahzad. mark maseti and roger cressey joins us next. first, the white house soup of the day. its neighbor bean. youre watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. my name is chef michael. and when i come home from my restaurant, i love showing bailey how specia...

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