Greg thanks, joe. Thats the smartest thing you have said in eight years. [applause] [applause] greg all right, the u. S. Intel report released friday directly accuse russian president Vladimir Putin of ordering a campaign to influence the election. I wish they told us this thursday we could have skipped listening to this. First we cannot say they did not change in the vote tallies or anything of that sort. We have no way of gauging the impact that certainly the Intelligence Community cant gauge the impact it had on choices the electorate made. Greg what is with this guy over here . Its like he just saw one of my nudes on snapchat. [laughter]
this is serious. And its on tv. Friday President Elect trump met with experts to discuss the findings. What does russia really to . For one, they had to John Podestas email. How did they do it . First they found one of his passwords. What was one of his passwords . Password. [laughter] this may be the greatest achievement in espionage history. Righ
Praise, you talked only about taxes. You said essentially that you have pushed this item for local Property Taxpayers for the region that albany was very proactive in pushing Thistaxpay Faso only talked about the environment. This is to eliminate and save new york 19 Property Taxpayers millions of dollars. If this is about reforming medicaid, why are and you your colleagues only talking about tax cuts . Youre praising tax cuts. I wholly support john faso and mr. Collins amendment. Here in western new york, people are leaving in droves because they cant pay their bills and take care of their homes. What we should do is put the burden on the State Capitol because they control how this program is delivered at the local level. New york is one of the only states that puts it on the taxpayers to foot the bill. From my perspective, this is a great amendment that needs to be supported and reduce the 145 million in my low income areas across this district are going to be relieved. Thats the rig
With the russian story and found zero proof, so now they go for Obstruction Of Justice on the phony story. Nice. Thats trump in tweet. Joining me now are three National Security reporters, charlie savage, adam entous and shane harris. Shane, youve got the story which follows up on what we had last night, that the Special Counsel is looking at the president for Obstruction Of Justice. My question is how do you have to add to that . What you have now is you have the president both trying to convince Director Rogers of the nsa to come out and shoot down these issues of collusion, but also privately still continuing to doubt the very intelligence that the nsa collected that led to the conclusion that russia interfered in the election. Weve seen trump publicly talk about the fact he thinks theyre nothing to russia, but to know that hes now saying this privately and continuing to argue with one of his intelligence chiefs about that, i think really reveals the degree to which this has
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That they know bad things about him. Good reason to keep really really really good files. You never no who will end up being president of the large western country. Adam davidson, reporter for the new yorker. Now time for last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening. Good evening, rachel. Boy am i glad ive never done business in russia. Doesnt that all sound obvious when you hear it that of course it would work that way. Well and the fact the thing i have learned from adam davidsons reporting at the new yorker is you dont have to be perfect but you do have to look to see if you are really obviously doing dirty business with people who Everybody Knows are dirty. And it doesnt matter if thats okay in their country. It is not okay in the united
states if youre an American Company or american businessman doing that. Just willful refusal to look and recognize dirt you are wallowing in, thats enough to get nailed in this country under our lawes. And it is absolutely not okay if youre a Bus
Back. Overnight weve seen the president evolve his thinking to now advocate for the Death Penalty and, regardless, both of these statements are somewhat inappropriate and unprecedented just in terms of what a president traditionally would say, which is to restrain from offering this sort of commentary. It is in keep with the kind of public persona that donald trump has cultivated over many, many years in public life of trying to show himself to be strong and tough and have this steely resolve. But hes not a commentator anymore. Hes the president of the United States. So theres a different standard, and his words carry a different weight. Theres an obliviousness to the fact that he sits atop the federal government. A federal government whose Justice System he described yesterday as a Laughing Stock and a joke. Well, the comment to first it just shows his total lack of rigor in making any
pronouncements. This is someone who revels in his unpreparedness. Its an improvisational act. Theres