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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. It is now under way. The director of National Intelligence said in a recent speech that the Warning Lights are blinking red and the Digital Infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. And here we see the incursions coming. Russian hackers have now already targeted at least three candidates in this years 2018 midterms. Reports one of the targets is missouri democratic senator Claire Mccaskill. So highway donald trump doubts much of this is even occurring, his pentagon chief does say there are secret action...

That and whether he can help prove it, thats an open question. We also know on the day that donald trump junior formally accepted that meeting, candidate trump touted the big upcoming speech about hillary clinton. I am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week, and were going to be discussing all the things that have taken place with the clintons. I think you will find it very informative and very, very interesting. Candidate trump did not make that monday speech. As trump now repeats his denials about any advance knowledge of the meeting, it is critical to note this is a me...

Trump got updates on the whole of government approach his administration is implementing to safeguard our nations elections. The president has made it clear that his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections from any nation state or other malicious actors. That kind of Paper Statement is a contrast to trumps actual words in helsinki where trump sided with the russian president over his own Intelligence Agencies on the question of whether russia interfered in the u. S. Election. That was the Press Conference where putin brought back an idea these two leaders had app...

About how wary they are of impeachment. >> they're emboldened by that, but they're also emboldened by the president's behavior and the defense he's making for himself. his defense has largely been to gaslight the public, saying what you saw in this transcript didn't happen, it was a perfect call, it wasn't pressuring a foreign leader. instead of gaslighting, now he's trying to move the goal posts and say, now it's acceptable to pressure a foreign leader. the problem is that is it's an overwhelming overwhelmingly unattractive move for the american public. he could have said, maybe i went too fa...

Because he talked about bringing the u.s.-russia relationship back to normal. >> that's what happened in the room. but after the summit, the official white house transcript didn't have it which meant in the official government record there was no mention that putin expressly said in front of everybody he wanted trump to win. that was flagged by the atlan c atlantic. the white house transcript and video of the event both had that part missing. you can see her point. in general, you want to have a real word of what happens between two world leaders especially when the president said the russians...