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Evening. And the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. You. Just lived my nightmare. I know. This was going to come out while i was live on the air. Your staff had a betting pool on it. We did. Whoever won the betting pool was supposed to get tacos. You got tacos anyway. We got tacos for everybody at 8 00 anyway. I couldnt wait any more. It worked, because i got it. We brought the tacos, we did not bring your staff any tacos, well make that up to you tomorrow. Usually when i start this show at 9 ...

Putin never having elections. we dont have a free press over there. so we need to make sure that ukraine doesnt become another one of them and part of that is that military might, making sure that russia knows they shouldnt be messing with ukraine and that $250 million is more of this nativism withdrawing from the national stage that weve seen whether its in central america, europe or other areas like africa that president trump just is defying what congress has allocated and hes withdrawing fro...

The defendants actions violated the logan act which prohibits u.s. citizens from core responding with a foreign government with the intent to influence the foreign government. subsequent to the publication of the post article, members of president-elect trumps transition team publicly stated they had spoken to the defendant and he denied speaking to the russian ambassador about the sanctions. all right, so thats what the fbi is facing, in the first week of the trump administration, its reported ...

Its reported in the washington post, during the transition, when the u.s. government was sanctioning russia, mike flynn called them and was like, dont worry about those sanctions. david questions whether 245ez kind of illegal or at least improper. mike flynn then a private citizen, shouldnt be messing with this dispute that the u.s. and russia have over russia interfering with our election. thereafter, flynn and other people within trumps transition team say that flynn told them that flynn didnt...

And was formerly very involved on the ag side of things. i think its always been safe when you talk to district leaders, theyre very comfortable with him and thats why hes favored right now. yes, hes juiced his own fundraisin fundraising, but the fundraising on the d side is major as well. they are raising cash for one of the cabinet seats that in some years would be considered out of the realm compared to some of the pickup opportunities there. theyre raising money, theyve got outside support, ...

Some independence from president trump, but hes also not really rubbed the presidents nose in it. i think its a good confirmation strategy for him but its also probably what he thinks. and thats, you know, a pretty good deal. >> attorney general cuccinelli, do you think theres any reason for president trump or his allies to push back on the comments or does it help the judge get confirmed and -- >> oh, god, no. >> what the white house wants? >> a lot of what you guys talk about in the media, doe...

Reason for president trump or his allies to push back or does it help the judge get confirmed and therefore get what he wants? >> does it make sense to tango with this person or that person? the one person on earth that donald trump shouldnt be messing around with is judge gorsuch. in part because he is his own selection to be the next supreme court justice. judge gorsuch appropriately and in a dignified fashion if senators come in stated his beliefs. i agree with jeffrey tobin. i think he belie...

With that regime, and hes been pushing it that way the whole way. >> harris, were looking at an alliance with iran to go after isis, a deal that will be deeply, deeply troubling to the united states. were betting on the wrong horse. thats for sure. >> all right, quickly, senator lindsey graham is talking at apac earlier today. he told the members he will move with others to cut u.n. funding and derail irans negotiations. so, youve got republicans that are looking at how do we combat this, how do...

With that regime and hes been pushing it that way the whole way. >> harris, were looking at an alliance with iran to go after isis, a deal that will be deeply, deeply troubling to the united states. were betting on the wrong horse. thats for sure. >> all right quickly senator lindsey graham is talking at apac earlier today. he told the members he will move with others to cut u.n. funding and derail irans negotiations. so, youve got republicans that are looking at how do we combat this, how do we...

One step ahead of the guy that youre trying to best and weve been one step behind the entire time. were going to wait for them to make moves. were going to wait for putin to make his next move before we ratchet it up. i think theres a place for soft military power, for a show force, to show them he shouldnt be messing with nato countries. >> and about weapons to ukraine, thats not a -- not in the cards? >> what i heard today was its nowhere near the cards, and, again, because the white house per...