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what he says in private conversations. he thinks this is an unfair attack against his presidency. but that these probes have expanded, mushroomed to different veins, different associates of him. there hasn t been any wrongdoing proven, of course, so far, but it s kind of gotten hotter and hotter over the past few months and that frustrated the president. he also gets frustrated when these senators are trying to take some of his autonomy away. he wanted to determine the bill on russian sanctions and exactly what would happen. he wants to be able to fire mueller if he chooses to do so. he says he doesn t want to, but he says if i have that option, i might want to take it. and he says he doesn t like being backed in a corner. so you see him really getting frustrated by these different measures. the latter point about mueller, there s a sanctions argument, we ll get to sanctions in a moment. the latter point about mueller, the president said he s not going to fire mueller and there ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories. summit was less than an hour and didn t have any follow through and that match is reporting the trump administration has no central policy for election security and no one is in charge. while we re running through the facts, note that another appointee flagged that they don t have a key person minding the store in cyber security because the trump administration eliminated the job of cyber security coordinator. so that s a lot of facts. that is the current policy baseline. experts noting the trump approach looks more like cyber lackadaisical than cyber secure. that is the framework for what happened today. a list of intelligence vips, marching into the white house briefing room. and you can see it there. they were rolling deep. you see the leaders of intel announcing that contrary to what their boss says, the recent reports in the news of russian mid-term meddling are true. that russian interference and u.s. po ....
A weeknight look at the news, featuring interviews, analysis and panel discussions hosted by Bret Baier. ahead but there are about 8,000 provisional votes that need to be counted. can you believe how close this is? [cheers and applause] we are in a tied a ball game. for democrat danny o connor to be in a race this tight in the district, no democrat has won this in 38 years and that had him delivering wet sure sounded like a victory speech last night. you believed in us in a race that the pond and said we had no chance even being in. you proved them wrong. by getting close won t be enough to help democrats retake the house this november. they have come close and for other special elections in reliably red districts, but they have only 11 of those. they are banking on a wave of energy. do you believe that president trump s support is the reason you wanted? i don t believe it s the full reason i want but it was deftly helpful. our numbers really surged. presiden ....
Interviews with political figures and news updates. will he offer paul manafort a pardon? that remains to be seen when our own peter alexander asked him that question last week. he said he s not really thinking about the. but he didn t dismiss that it s on the table. i would also point out, andrea, it was striking to hear the president last night at that campaign rally in west virginia. yes, he referred to the witch hunt. yes, he took aim at the media, some of his familiar targets. but he really largely stayed on message. and you have to ask the question, if some of the wind has been taken out of his sails when to comes to attacking the special counsel, andrea. on his way to west virginia as he was arriving, he said he felt badly for both manafort and cohen, clearly he was asked about both, he said he feels badly for both. that s before the transcript from the court was released. once the transcript was released and it was very clear that michael cohen had very explicitly im ....
details about payments mr. cohen arranged with woman who alleged sexual encounters with president trump, including mr. trump s knowledge of those deals. the journal report which cited people close to cohen and others familiar with prosecutors discussions posted late last night. it preceded a tweet from the president at 1:10 in the morning washington time, trump writing in all caps, no collusion, rigged witch hunt. and republican leaders remain silent but the rank and file did weigh in. former presidential candidate mitt romney tweeted yesterday, the events of the last 24 hours confirm that conduct by high-placed individuals was both dishonorable and illegal. also confirmed is my faith is our justice system and my conviction that we are a nation committed to the rule of law. senator ben sasse released a statement writing, quote, paul manafort is a founding member of the dc swamp and michael cohen is the goth am version of the Updates of the day s news. manafort, well, th ....