I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump Campaign. That statement by the Attorney General On Thursday came after the Washington Post revealed that sessions met twice last year with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. Sessions scrambled to clarify. In retrospect i should have slowed down, but i did meet one russian official a couple of times and that would be the ambassador. Sessions met with kislyak on july 18th, after speaking with a group of ambassadors in the Republican Convention and he met again with the Russian Ambassador at his office on september 8th, just three days after President Obama took a hard line on russian sanctions in a g20 meeting with vladimir putin. Since the election, trump and his surrogates have repeatedly denied any contacted between the campaign and russian officials. Im telling you its all phony, baloney garbage. All of the contact by the Trump Campaign and the associates was with the American People. You are not aware of any contacts dur
The delusion that they have just latched themselves to trump and to this presidency. So frankly, i would be surprised if they ever get off the ship. Its going to be an issue in 2018. The voters have a say. Jennifer rubin, great to have you. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, thank you, my friend. A bunch of news has broken late today and into this evening, stories were continuing to follow as developing news stories. That includes the federal court in washington, d. C. , unsealing a new batch of documents in the Special Counsels criminal case against Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump Campaign official rick gates. The 12count Felony Indictment against them was unsealed yesterday alongside a guilty plea from a more junior Campaign Official who now admits he lied to the fbi about his russia contacts during the campaign. That was all yesterday. This new filing Unsealed Tonight
by the Federal Court In Washington Lays Out the first overt russia connections t
Donald trump jr. Released a string of is these during the president ial campaign. This follows a report about these exchanges. Though most of the communications were one sided, trump junior did interact on a number of occasions. Wikileaks told him, quote, a the r. A. C. Is a recycled proiraq war pac. We have guessed the password, it is putintrump. Done responded, off the record, i dont know who that is boo but ill ask around, according to te atlantic he did ask around, including trumps soninlaw jared kushner, telling them wikileaks had reached out. We dont know in what context he was saying that, but kushner forwarded that email onto hope hicks. In a separate exchange, done junior reached out october 23rd
asking wikileaks about an impending release writing whats behind the wednesday leak i keep reading about . Wikileaks didnt respond, but just four days later it released John Podestas emails on the same day as youll recall the u. S. Intelligence community condemned russia for using wik
Chance to be briefed by the u. S. Pacific command and made his way over to the Pearl Harbor Memorial with the first lady. It will be interesting to see what that conversation was like after they had a chance to sort of absorb all that. Now, at the top of the agenda, of course, is lots that the president is going to try to get done here as he makes his way through asia. A number of important stops along the way and north korea and the threats theyre posing, and south korea. The president will be in search of a united front before going to china where hell try to get president xi to get together on pyongyang. Ivanka trump batting leadoff, giving a speech in tokyo on friday before having dinner with the Prime Minister of this country shinzo abe. Thats before the president s visit and the stops wont overlap, but white house officials acknowledge that hers is a value added element to the trip especially as she keeps the focus on women in business. Now, elizabeth. You made an important point
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