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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...

Russia. >> neil: when you talk about pushing to become a member of the european union, president zelensky held out earlier this week that nato wasnt sort of a be all and end all. that he seemed to offer that to vladimir putin, something that he would not put as a priority ending all of this. how do you feel about that? how do you feel about ending this but any hope of ever joining nato is not part of it? >> sandra: look, president zelensky uses a lot of arguments in his negotiations. the fact is...

Raises for me is that if gabby actually lived with them for a period of time, this wasnt sort of a weekend adventure that -- that she went away. and then, she didnt come back on. she lived there. this was her home. and she wasnt just a few miles away. she was 2,000 miles away when last seen. so this is a very serious missing-person case. and they did nothing, it seems, to try to find her or alert her family that she could be in danger. thats a real, real problem for me. and it raises all sorts o...

Ballot program. and apparently he got what he paid for because mark harris didnt just hire this felon, he actually recommended his services to other. >> in terms of mr. harris, you -- before today, before you announced that you were rescinding your concession you had not been making public comments about the results of the race. mr. harris has not made any comments either, including about these pointed allegations like the one you just made that this wasnt sort of externality in your election bu...

Part of the manafort case that may endangerle a big d.c. law firm and two big d.c. pr firms. prosecutors from the southern district of new york now aggressively pure pursuing that. the new york times reports today a different set of federal prosecutors in the eastern district of virginia are also moving ahead with a case that relates to the michael flynn matter. "the times" reports today that a senior federal prosecutor in the eastern district of virginia has empanelled a grand jury and is looki...

Abandon an earlier effort they had been pursuing to subpoena documents and records from the university shed been attending as part of her defense. but then interestingly, after that court hearing wrap ped up today. some of it happened in public. a whole bunch under seal, and then it ended. after it ended the judge in butinas appointed a new public defender to join butinas defense team as kount counsel. i dont know what that means. she already has lawyers. i dont know why, but the judge just gave...

He thinks is most central to his brand as a politician and as president. him repeatedly, even systematically hiring illegal immigrants himself, including to work in his own home, and these two women being strong enough and brave enough and angry enough to endanger themselves about coming out about their immigration status, about having worked for trump while undocumented we have no idea how the white house and the president specifically are going to respond to something like this. but given the ...

Prison press conference or anything, but i suppose anything is possible. but there are other shoes were expecting to drop soon, even in addition to those matters that we know are all going to happen tomorrow. the case of maria butina, for example. she is charged with being a secret agent of the russian government, operating in this country to influence the 2016 election and the republican party, in part through her involvement in the nra. today the judge in the butina case convened a phone confe...