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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...

Is that we keep learning new things. things that we didnt know a week ago, six months ago. so on all of these investigations involving michael cohen, trump/russia, and of course the nra investigation. but it was, as you noted, it was very puzzling when the nra went through this leadership change. i remember getting the press release and it was weirdly put. oliver north is poised to become nra president. not that hes been chosen nra president, but hes poised to become nra president. and as he put...

Things that we didnt know a week ago, six months ago. so on all of these investigations involving michael cohen, trump/russia, and of course the nra investigation. but it was, as you noted, it was very puzzling when the nra went through this leadership change. i remember getting the press release and it was weirdly put. oliver north is poised to become nra president. not that hes been chosen nra president, but hes poised to become nra president. and as he put it, it was "news to me." and no one ...

Was a guy named paul erickson, who was an nra activist. and he had been working with her to infiltrate, penetrate, make connections with people in the nra and other conservative groups. so if she were raided, as she was, one would expect him to know about it and word to start filtering out. which could have caused a tremendous panic within the nra and might have -- and might have led to anyone being connected with butina, to be scared, im not sure about an indictment, but to be scared of being c...

We do the same thing and value the same kind of things and we need to work together. >> "there are no more peoples more alike than americans and russians." i mean, its fine if you want to bring people together with commonality, but thats not usually what you hear from conservative political operatives in america, certainly not back then, 2013. fast forward to december 2015. the middle of what is, of course, the pre-presidential campaign season. keene as well as other nra leaders include pete bro...

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...

Nra board member, was now, quote, poised to become the new president. this changing of the guard and how it happened was odd, he writes. earlier that day, peter brownhome finishing his first term announced he would not seek a second annual term for 15 years. the nra leadership followed a pretty specific pattern. were getting deep into the bylines. but an officer elected by the board to serve two consecutive annual terms as executive vice president, and two as first vice president, and finally tw...

Masterminding this, whether it was torshin or somebody else, they had a pretty good insight into american politics. if you want to work your way into, you know, influencing republicans and conservatives who are now, you know, controlling all arms of government, do it through the nra. and they tried -- >> right. what decade warren zivon say? bring lawyers, guns, and money. >> yeah, the you know what has hit the fan. >> family show. family show, david! >> but i give them credit. >> youre saying --...