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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...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. By the letters, chs. Confidential human source. Now, the trove of documents detail reports of payments to steele, mostly redacted. You can see there, thats a lot of white space. There are two exceptions. The final page is information from a document, from february 2016. Of course, thats long before the russia probe began. It says steele was, quote, verbally admonished by the fbi and that steele acknowledged the admonishment and e...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. They are known as the steele dossier. They allege, among other things, that the Trump Campaign had organized collusion with the kremlin. Quote, this is something of huge significance. Way above party politics, that Intelligence Officer told corn, that would be steele. Quote, i think trumps own party should be aware of this stuff, as well. The official confirmation of the fbi investigation into the Trump Campaigns contacts with ru...

Comment tonight. same for brownwell. corn reports hes not taking calls. im joined now by the reporter at the center of the action, david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones. david, we always learn a lot from you. i appreciate you joining me this friday night. >> thanks for having me on the weekend. >> heading into the weekend. you have a lot on this story. as you know, rachel has been on many pieces of this story for quite some time. what has advanced through whats happened with the n...

Going to be happening at this annual meeting, but as soon as i get everything in order in my family, because this was very sudden, ill be back to take that gavel. >> those kind of on-camera interviews are useful. may have sounded like a basic question, but we learned from oliver norths own mouth, this was unexpected. this was sudden. he was getting ready to adjust at the last minute. and then you have a true state secret that was unknown, at least to the public at that time. two weeks earlier in...

It even puzzled the incoming president of the nra himself. >> colonel north, whats your reaction to being elected as president of the national rifle association? >> well, its an unexpected privilege. im grateful for the unanimous support of the board. i did not expect that this was going to be happening at this annual meeting, but as soon as i get everything in order in my family, because this was very sudden, ill be back to take that gavel. >> those kind of on-camera interviews are useful. may ...

Decision in the words of oliver north to suddenly step down? he had, of course, interacted with butina in moscow three years earlier, and the nra could shed light on this. we would love to bring you their side of the story. any comment, with anything vague, anything. but they are declining to comment tonight. same for brownwell. corn reports hes not taking calls. im joined now by the reporter at the center of the action, david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones. david, we always lear...

Vague, anything. but they are declining to comment tonight. same for brownwell. corn reports hes not taking calls. im joined now by the reporter at the center of the action, david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones. david, we always learn a lot from you. i appreciate you joining me this friday night. >> thanks for having me on the weekend. >> heading into the weekend. you have a lot on this story. as you know, rachel has been on many pieces of this story for quite some time. what has...

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