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Evening. And the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. You. Just lived my nightmare. I know. This was going to come out while i was live on the air. Your staff had a betting pool on it. We did. Whoever won the betting pool was supposed to get tacos. You got tacos anyway. We got tacos for everybody at 8 00 anyway. I couldnt wait any more. It worked, because i got it. We brought the tacos, we did not bring your staff any tacos, well make that up to you tomorrow. Usually when i start this show at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, i have a script that i have written because there are things in the news that i wo...

By january 26th, the justice department, hair on fire, is up at the white house with the acting attorney general in person meeting with the white house counsel, saying, your national security adviser is compromised by the russians. this is a counterintelligence emergency. you need to do something. part of the basis for that warning was the fact that the fbi had come in and interviewed mike flynn about his contacts with the russian government. the u.s. government, law enforcement, intelligence agencies were well aware of what flynn had been saying to the russian government. the russian governme...

Kind of emergency. with this thing happened with flynn, we had to make new alarm bell, wait for them to cool and then start ringing them because nothing like that had ever happened before in our country. and one of the first mysteries about the mike flynn counterintelligence emergency in the white house was the response to that warning they got about him, or the lack thereof. after the white house received that incredibly disturbing absolutely unprecedented emergency warning about the national security adviser, the reaction inside the white house was nothing. no visible reaction at all for 18 ...

It's a bad thing. you have to answer for that at the end of the day, but lying isn't necessarily a counterintelligence emergency for the country. the reason why mike flynn was a counterintelligence emergency for the country right at the start of the trump administration was because he wasn't just lying about his contacts with russia in the abstract. he was lying about those contacts. he was denying those contacts while russia knew the truth. i mean, the russian government knew exactly what he had been talking to them about. russia knew that he was lying about those contacts publicly, that he w...

Hard, cold, incontrovertible evidence that the top national security official in the administration was compromised by a hostile foreign power, i mean, that's like -- bee boo, bee boo, flashing red lights and bells and whistles. as a country, we don't even have premade alarm bells for that kind of emergency. with this thing that happened with flynn, we had to make new alarm bells, wait for them to cool and then start ringing them because nothing like that had ever happened before in our country. and one of the first mysteries about the mike flynn counterintelligence emergency in the white hous...