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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 suspected as an unregistered agent of the russian government. That she was trying to mount this covert in...

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 even signed a document noting it. Now, from this excerpt, which obviously is tantalizing, we dont hav...

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 russia was not confirmed for many more months. Its even easy to forget that, because its the kind of b...

With the court, the government described a different person who was involved in the scheme. the person named by prosecutors as u.s. person one. if you piece it together through various documents and reporting, u.s. person one in the butina case is her american boyfriend, who according to the government, worked closely with her throughout the duration of her influence operation to try to influence the republican party in a way that would advance the interests of the russian federation. there also has been a ton of report being maria butina and her american boyfriend, including this seminole "ne...

Be a russian spy and to push her interest. >> i think mueller is probably looking at the nra as a conduit. there are two kinds of conduits, one for political influence. that's what we saw in the butina case. s they used her as a spy, an unregistered foreign agent. and she used with some success the nra as a vehicle to get access to powerful policy makers. i think there's probably questions about was that done on a more broad scale. was the nra similarly exploited to gain influence with the trump campaign and administration. and there's also possibility it was used as a vehicle to funnel money....