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secretary of defense here tonight. we know last week he made a surprise announcement at his first thank you rally saying yes he s indeed choosing general james mattis for defense secretary. but the fact that two will be up on stage together, certainly notable, especially given that is the military friendly town. so donald trump hoping to cash in on the energy here almost to validate his pick for secretary of defense. and we know trump has many thank you tours and rallies ahead. just two this week alone and thursday he ll be in iowa and friday in michigan. you heard him taking credit for what he said is a $50 billion investment by softbank. what are you learning about this? reporter: i have to say not a lot of detail coming from the trump transition team or the company tonight. but certainly a little showmanship on the part of the president elect today really trotting out on the ceo of the company and trump towers there before cameras gathered. contours of the deal are $50 ....
like global warming. we can t do that if people feel embarrassed to be associated with the united states. you combine that with the fact that the state department has essentially been neutered, e s eviscerated by this administration thus far and watching in real time as america and america s image withdraws from the world. do you know any republican senator or member of the house who s a republican, any party member of any party who believes the president believes he was wiretapped, who even believes he believes it? i don t think anybody knows exactly what donald trump believes and what he doesn t believe. i think what s scary to many republicans is that they ve had the opportunity to walk this back and they re putting not only the presidency and the reputation of the presidency, but the reputation of the entire country at risk, the longer that this floats out there. the reality is is congress can ask the department of justice as to whether there s a wiretap, bul but if there ....
so what have you learned? reporter: well, anderson, u.s. officials tell cnn that last year the u.s. intelligence used a dossier as part of a justification to get a warrant to secretly monitor carl as one of the sources of information that the bureau has used to defend or to support its investigation. this includes approval from the secret court that oversees the foreign intelligence surveillance act known as fisa, to monitor page s communications. the fbi and the justice department would have had to present probable cause that he was acting as an agent of a foreign power, mobile engaging in foreign intelligence gathering for a foreign government. comey and other fbi officials would have had to sign off on russian spies. pai page denies he knew these were russian agents. page says he took a trip independently, that he expressed his own views and overall, he has disputed anything was illegal in his interactions with the russians. he sent us a statement that reads in part, i ....
wbr id= wbr0 /> wbr id= wbr0 /> this evening, the rachel maddow show starts now. early for a change. i have something to spend this time doing. exactly. thanks, my friend, appreciate it. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. very happy to have you here tonight. who here is old enough to have ever used a typewriter? i took typing class and it was on a typewriter. i m that old. typewriters started off with a mechanism that looked like this. you pressed a button on a keyboard for a specific letter, but then a little arm, a little bar would swing up from the guts of the keyboard and smack that letter into the inked typewriter ribbon, and thereby pressed the imprint of that letter on to the paper, right? so that was the mechanism. each keystroke on the typewriter would cause a piece of metal to fling itself up toward the paper. a different little bar with a different letter on it for each keystroke. that was how they started out. but then in 1961, ibm changed all of ....
nbc news, a source close to cohn said the decision to resign was abrupt. entirely due to irreconcilable differences based on trump s tariff plan. the white house said today the president will sign the plan by the end of this week. both democrats and republicans have warned of the risk of a trade war. axios reports cohn considered the announcement a personal embarrassment. he had boasted to his wall street and hamptons buddies he had kept the president on the right track on trade. there s growing alarm now of a potential brain drain at the white house coordinating to the associated press. cohn s departure sparked fears of a larger exodus. the president tried to preempt the concerns yesterday. let s watch. the white house has tremendous energy, tremendous spirit. it is a great place to be working. many, many people want every single job. i read where, gee, maybe people times. the times is reporting president trump spoke to witnesses about matters they discussed with sp ....