You can take a look. I will be on the daily show with trevor noah, if all my travel goes okay including the many flights ive been taking just about every single day. Im looki ing forward to being back on trevors show. If youre in the area, it would be great if you could come by. I might see some of you in a little bit in seattle. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show does not start right now apparently. So she is there. There you are. I am here, sorry. It was actually me and a member of our ground crew both here about to start the show together. Perfect. Go to it, then. Thank you very much. Thanks to everybody who works here who has such patient with me arriving at the set usually four seconds before this camera turns on, tonight, arriving four seconds after the camera turned on. Very sorry about that. As you might imagine, as you might be able to tell from my composure right now we have a big show tonight. We have here tonight live the former Secretary General of nato. Very much looking forward to that interview and discussion. We have congressman adam schiff tonight the top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. We will be talking to him tonight as it is intersecticrea becoming the wisdom in the House Intelligence Committee into trump in russia is over, not that its over because its complete but its over because it has blown up. In facty the whole House Intelligence Committee seems to have ceased to function entirely even beyond doing that investigation. Theyre apparently no longer meeting as a committee to do Business Other than the trumprussia investigation. They apparently stopped all together. It appears like the investigation itself is done. That probe from going forward. It seems clear honestly the administration would have nothing to fear from the chairman of that committee who after all was part of the Trump Campaign and trump transition official himself. I dont think theyre worried about devin nunes. That means if the white house has played a role in shutting down or trying 0 shut down the House Intelligence Committee investigation of this matter, then the reason they were so afraid of it, the man they were so afraid of in that investigation wasnt devin nunes, it was the other senior person running that investigation, who didnt work for them, who was not part of the Trump Campaign. That would be the top democrat on that committee, adam schiff, if the white house really did shut this thing down, if the common beltway wisdom is correct and the House Investigation Committee into russia is over and shut down if the white house had any role in achieving that outcome, its because they were afraid what adam schiff was
going to do. Adam schiff is here tonight live. Its a big show tonight. Meanwhile, today was the start of the biggest rupture in europe, since the end of world war ii. The british people voted narrowly last summer to leave the European Union. Today, britains represent tich at the eu presented the formal paperwork that starts the process of the uk getting out of europe, getting out of the European Union. The president of the European Union ended with a statement that included these four words, we already miss you. It will take britain four years to fully extract itself from europe financially and legally. Its an unprecedented process. Nobody knows how it will end up in the details. We know the bottom line result. It will result in a smaller europe and a question whether
that puts more pressure than ever before of this Centrifical Process of scotland breaking away becoming its own kingdom. Then Northern Ireland. As you know, its divided in two. Most is the independent nation of ireland happily staying part of the European Union. And the six counties that make up Northern Ireland those six counties are part of the uk and like scottish voters wanted to stay in the eu, voters in Northern Ireland wanted to stay in the eu, too, but outvoted. If Northern Ireland stays part of the uk they will be forced out of europe against their will and out of the eu against their will. The border between ireland and the six counties in the north will require that border to be fortified or built up to whatever extent is required by a border between the european
union and nonEuropean Union country. Im sure the building up of that border will be great in Northern Ireland. Im sure that wont be controversial at all. What britain did today in y prying themselves off europe and splitting up the European Union that is adding a whole new impetus, dynamic to the ageold bloody question whether Northern Ireland should stay part of the uk or six counties in the north should be part of the united front. Troubles anyone . He two National Institutions that was part of that so we wouldnt have another world war ii that followed world war i, the two multiNational Institutions that were created And Staved In Fighting Off World War Iii thus far the two
organizations that have done the work in stopping World War Iii are nato and the European Union. All things considered, forever you factor in Military Power and economic power and international influence, i think its fair to say the uk is the strongest and most important cornerstone member of the European Union. Now, as of today they are starting the process of getting out. Its happening. That alone is profoundly D Disstabilizing in lots of way to the uk itself probably our greatest ally on earth. We are also about to have two hugely important elections in other cornerstones of europe. Both germany and france are heading towards very very Important National elections that will not just determine the immediate short term future of politics in those countries, determine whether or not europe splits apart entirely. The strongest antieuropean
candidate in france is mauer ren lapin, the head of a party called the National Front founded by her father in the early 1970s. For decades the Front National ale has been the fascist party in france. He denies the holocaust, made a career accusing his political opponents eing secret jews. And about muslims being allowed to immigrant to france a position his daughter shares as she campaigns to be president of france now. Part of her campaigning to be president of france last week resulted in her taking a detour to the kremlin. A weird day. Nobody quite knew where Mauer Ren Lepin had gone for the day and suddenly turned up without warning for this meeting with vladamir putin, oneonone. The russian government is
essentially openly supporting the far right candidacy of her as she runs for president in france. Russian banks have made loans of millions of euros during this campaign. Today at their Press Conference on the senate Intelligence Committee investigation in the trumprussia. And senator burr said there was no doubt russia after interfe interfering in our election was interfering in russia and france. And this fascist candidate in france, it is possible the reason russia likes her so much cause of her domestic politics and so right wing and forgivee ra racist. Vladamir putin, i dont know how he thinks. He might see that as a feature
not a bug. In st. Petersburg, russia will be hosting something called the rush shall International Conservative forum and want to promote the establishment of a Common Constant Acting Russian European Conservative Elite Group uniting the political and economic call elites in europe. One of these russian conservative forums russia has hosted in 2015 sponsored by a branch of his Political Party and in st. Petersburg. That one attracted american far right racist fringe right characters like jared taylor a prolific su do economic white supremacist. You might remember him from the altright gathering in washington, d. C. Where everybody did the nazi salute and shouted heil trump. You know, they said it was hail
trump. But with the stuff arm it was hard to read their lips and get that sitle subtleties. Regardless whether they like the racist part, whether or not he likes that faction, russia likes mauer ren le pen, and one thing they like is if she gets france she will do her damndest to pry france outside as well. Russia supports anything pulling apart institutions of the west. Russias overall global strategy is to knock the United States down as many pegs as it can in terms of our global standing. They want to disrupt and divide and hopefully split apart russian alliances institutions that serve as a counterweight in the world and serve as definine
ing any sort of democratic liberal values western order. All stinstitutions that support that russia sees them as the enemy. They will do anything to undermine them as best they can and when they have the momentum and advantage they will take it. That russian idea by defeating your adversaries by splitting them up, promoting divisions among them and within them, it seems almost ridiculous to think about it. That strategy extends to us in america in a very specific way. You may have heard about the newly energized Current Federation of Thealifornia Paratist Movement . There have been lowkey low profile california in Sur Reksus Insurrectionsist movements for year, conservative parts of california that say california should split up and the liberal
and urban and minority heavy part of the state should be its own thing and the conservative rural white part of california should become a Southern Idaho thing or something. That kind of thing has existed a long time. Whats new in california is the surprisingly slick online organized Progressive Seaming Effort that california as a whole should secede from the United States of america. Im from california, my whole family lives in california. I know lots of people in california who have talked to me half joking or not about how appealing this calexit idea is since donald trump was elected president. The leader of the organization that spearheaded that movement, the leader of yes california, he really does live in russia. He lives in siberia. Last september, the yes California Guy who conveniently lives in russia, the calexit guy
and right ring separatists got invited to moscow for a kremlin funded event called the globalization of russia. Look it up. You will signed links to the independent republic of california, with a link. And the calexited founder that the separatists office space is being loaned to him in moscow free of charge. He said he doesnt actually know who owns the office space, privately owned who can tell but nice to have Free Office Space for his California Separatist Movement hes running from russia. That is a ridiculous story, right . It is a ridiculous idea, cart n
cartoonish. But its real. Imagine if your goal was to take the United States down a few g pegs in the esteem of the world in terms of Global Leadership and the way they looked up to the United States for help or advisor conceivably as exemsplar of democracy and power, imagine if your goal was to hurt all of that, erode all of that, if you had a chance, even a slim chance hilarious cartoonish tiny chance of splitting off from the United States, one of its 50 states on its own terms is the sixth largest economy in the world. You pry california off the United States, california has a bigger economy than france does. It would be nice to pry germany out of the eu. Pry france out of the eu. The eu is splitting apart on its
own. Well do what we can to help but lets think big. T theresa may is the british Prime Minister tasked with Managing Britain pulling out of the European Union she is not the politics credited with the leaving. That goes to nigel, who spearheaded the Brexit Campaign and he has become famous for his frequent appearances alongside donald trump and trump tower at the white house. O oddly, the day wikileaks held its Press Conference to crow about the fact they were rele e releasing a devastating Document Dump Experts say essentially exposed the entire cyber arsenal of the cia, on that same day, nigel farraj was at the embassy of ecuador where wikileaks founder jul yan assange lives and gave his Press Conference that day. A Buzzfeed Director said he saw
him and asked him what he had been doing . He said he couldnt remember what he had been doing inside that building. Recently this past week nigel f farage has been in california to promote the effort to california splitting from the United States or at least splitting itself in two. Today, the republican and democratic senior members of that senate Intelligence Committee announced they have 20 people on their list they want to talk to for their investigation of trump and russia. They hinted former security advisor Michael Flynn and sally yates are among those 20 people. They confirmed his soninlaw will be one of the people they speak to. And On The House Side the house Investigation May or may not be blowing up. Well hear more on that from Congressman Schiff. The senate is going ahead,
tomorrow, not something you want to miss if youre interested in this issue. One point about that, the last point i want to make. Confirming in no uncertain terms, there is one thing the committee will not be looking at, the question of whether or not the russian attack is over, whether russia is still doing their thing, whether they are in fact collecting their payment from the Trump Administration now in exchange in their part throwing the election trumps way, that the committee is not going be looking at. It changes the Republican Platform Convention or the way the president refuses to criticize vladamir putin. Thats not in the scope of the investigation. Ill leave that up to you guys to report. Yes, maam. Yes, maam, next question. Senate Intelligence Committee will not be looking whether or not this russian attack, Russian Campaign is over. In terms of what that committee is going to investigate, we all fully expect what the russian attack on our election was. I think our country doesnt necessarily expect but at least hopes that it will look whether russia had help pulling off that attack on our election, whether the Trump Campaign or any other american confederates helped them in their attack. We hope they will look at that, too, they say they will. They made explicitly clear today they will not look and not even consider questions whether russias attack on the United States is still under way. Whether anybody who might have help them in that attack last year might still be helping them today to get what they want. As richard burr said today, he hopes the press will follow that question. That part is all on us now. Congressman adam schiff is here tonight, the former secretary of nato is here tonight. Stay with us. [ di nour roar ] onboard cameras and radar detect danger all around you. Driver assist systems pull you back into your lane if drifting. Bye chief. Bye bobby. And will even help you brake, if necessary. It makes driving less of a production. Lease the gle350 for 579 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. Doctors recommend taking claritin every day distracting you . Of your allergy season for continuous relief. Claritin provides powerful, nondrowsy, 24hour relief. For fewer interruptions from the Amazing Things you do every day. Live claritin clear. Every day. You get to do the dishes. Ed. Bring em on. Dawn ultra has 3 times more greasecleaning power. A dr