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Beschloss, buz prentinbc news pl hiorian. michael nice tsee you here. >> thanks, nice to see you, rachel. >> we are getting the sort of one-two punches. >> we are. >> yeah. its -- and on the one hand it feels like maybe its too much, maybe its hard to keep up with, on the other hand i feel like these stories are proceeding linearly. that we keep getting new information about troubling ties between the president and his associates in his campaign and russia and increasingly with each new day we k...

It is a flashing red light siren that the trump folks are directing intelligence agencies to produce material that fits the need of the white house. so thats one. if you havent seen this, we will post this online at maddowblog.com so you can read this assessment by the intelligence agency within homeland security about why trumps muslim ban isnt justified on national security grounds. again, this report was spiked by senior administration officials after the white house told homeland security th...

Have generally paid for our gas and oil all along and im sure we will continue to do so in the future. were not in iraq to seize anybodys oil. >> this keeps happening. other countries -- even just us american citizens, if you are told something by this government, it is important to now ask "with whom am i speaking? can i have your name? can i have your supervisors name?" that was before the "washington post" broke this news tonight that the white house secretly enlisted senior people at the int...

And the generals suborn insistence there was a link reminded some officials at the agency of how the bush administration once relentlessly sought to connect saddam hussein in iraq to the 9/11 attacks. i remember when the "new york times" put that lead on the sunday paper about michael flynn i remember that dread. theres been an iraq, prove its iran. hey, intelligence agency, prove this for me. ive decided in advance, find me the proof. michael flynn was not just your average retired general when...

Scandal. that the contacts between the trump campaign and russia, theres nothing there. the white house apparently asked these committee chairman to call reporters and say that is and these committee chairmen did it. wh? "the tmp administration has enlisted senior members of the intelligen communi and congress in efforts to counter news stories about trump associates ties to russia. acting at the behest of the white house, the officials made calls to news organizations last week. the calls were ...

Get to the point that it was prove for a reasonable reason. >> its one thing for the white house, for the administration, the government to make up their argument for why banning people from those seven countries is a rational thing. its one thing to state that case to cite their evidence and persuade the court that those people from those seven countries have to be banned from coming to our country. its one thing for them to make that argument. its another for them to go to the office of analys...

Administration. heres another example. yesterday the president told visiting business leaders at the white house that his crackdown on immigrants, detaining and deporting people all over the country, yesterday he called that a "military operation." just a couple of hours later in mexico city this was his secretary of homeland security. >> listen to this. no, repeat no use of military force in immigrant operations. none. >> dont pay attention to what -- i mean it, listen to this. none. at a sweat...

Telling an intelligence agency to come up with a report that concludes x when given the answer when you give them the assignment, thats fleshing red lights bells and whistles danger will robinson. this is resign in protest stuff. this is something we have gone through before as a country. it went very badly. we are never supposed to go there again, no matter what the topic is. in this case, what the topic is is the muslim ban. the federalourts as you know, theyve blocked tugee ban and muslim ban...

Justice are working on intelligence report that will demonstrate that the security threat for these seven countries is substantial." oh, really, are you sure thats what its going to say in this intelligence report is not done yet but you know what it will say already? thats not the way it works, cnns reporting last night was this declaration from the white house. this order from the white house was going over very poorly with actual intelligence folks. this is an assignment that caused concern a...

Intelligence agency and dhs didnt follow instructions, they produced an independent report that said quite the opposite of that. it appears as we piece together this reporting from a.p. and "washington post" that the trump officials inside dhs spiked that report, wanted not to release it and now these intelligence analysts or somebody who had access to their work released it to the press instead in order to get around administration officials trying to disappear that report. does that make you f...