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this is what we do. we protest when we disagree and i don t think there s any reason for people to be told to come together and support this if they don t believe in it. i m not suggesting support tonight s nominee but don t plan the protest before you know who the nominee is. and that is where we are. we re at the point of transparent obstruction on both sides, olivia nuzzi and david jolly, thank you. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening. thanks, my friend. thank you for joining us at this hour. this is a big important historic news day. good to have you here. thank you for watching the news on a night like this and thank you for watching it here. antonin scalia, nino to his friends, he was beloved by his fellow supreme court justices. even the justices who disagreed with h the most, perhaps escially the justices who disagreed with him the most in terms of their day jobs. they loved his company. justice scalia and justice ruth ....
himself for possible investigation. he was saying he survived this, but we did see gop lawmakers say that jeff sessions should recuse himself. let me ask you this. how much of a wedge will this drive between the white house and the gop? do you see that down the road? it has potential to. this is scandal after scandal. russia, we need a full independent investigation as to what degree russia was involved in influencing or attempting to influence our elections here in the united states. they are doing it in france and around the world and have been doing it for a long time. it s shocking that republicans would be refusing to investigate that. i don t care if it s a democrat or republican. when a foreign power is attempting to influence our elections. i want you to to follow-up on shawn a point. jeff sessions made a mistake and owned up to it. nothing to see here. it is not a mistake. this is a man who has been live and breathing and speaking the language of law since he gr ....
and take on whatever comes next. find out how american express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open.com. so the wheels are coming off a little bit. if the wheels are not yet off you are starting to hear the start of lug nuts stripping their threads and pinging across lanes of traffic while the wheels start to wobble. there s a bit of a freakout in washington and we re seeing it on two big stories developing tonight. why is it always friday night? one of these two stories tonight, developing tonight that shows this freakout, one of them is about the administration itself, the other one breaking tonight appears to be about the prospect of investigation into the administration. press, we the citizens of the united states know about the content of communications with the russian government? michael flynn was reportedly exposed as having lied about the content of his calls to the russian government because u.s. law enforcement or u.s. intelligence agencies w ....
they continued to talk on twitter. he wrote iran is playing with firement firement. here is what sean spicer today. i think today s action speaks for itself in terms of the sanctions. he made it clear the deal they struck was a bad deal. they going to continue to be tough on iran in a way that was notice done in the last eight years. in the way the associated press notes the new sanctions represent continueuation limited punishment for iran ballistic activity over nuclear deal itself. it was drawn up before obama left office. the new president sounds a lot like the last one. according to the times this is a quote, barack obama embracing key pillars including warning israel to curve settlement in the west bank and threatening sanctions for ballistic tests. i m glad we have heavy weights because i m nervous. we have had a number of presidency destroyed about that issue. whether iran contraon hostage why is he pushing them on this ballistic tests? their words are ....
hackers were targeting the dnc and other democratic operations. by the way, as candidate trump was publicly calling on the russians to publicly hack hillary clinton s e-mails. we don t know the contact or motive before the conversations, but the word they happened is a big real development. we should note the kremlin and donald trump this morning are calling it fake news. cnn s jim sciutto has been working sources all day, all night on this story. jim, bring us up to speed on where we are right now at 9:01 eastern time. i should knnote calling it fe news without the president or the white house responding to the substance of the reporting which we ve asked them to do. let s get to what the reporting is. one, two things caused alarm, raised red flags in u.s. law enforcement and intelligence. first, the volume and frequency of the communications between trump advisers and the russians. communications happen during campaigns, typically at a much lower level and much less frequent t ....