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The Rachel Maddow Show

thank you for taking the time. i'm sorry for what you are going through. >> you know what? it is okay. it is for democracy so it is worth it. >> let me ask you first how you are feeling. i know that you said publicly that you were fully vaccinated so this is a breakthrough infection. obviously everybody is hoping that you are fine. technically if you get a breakthrough infection once you are vaccinated you are must less likely to have a serious bout of the illness, but how are you tonight? >> you know, rachel, it is a little surprising. i tested positive on sunday morning. i woke up early, had my routine. i exercised. i drank coffee, i read my newspaper, and then right before a staff meeting i took a rapid test and had a positive result. i couldn't believe it. like i actually waited 15 minutes and tested again because i felt terrific and, in fact, you know, in the days since i've been quarantining i'm dealing with a low-grade fever, maybe, you know, a little sinus from time to time, but it really goes to show you that this vaccine has really gotten in front of this variant. and even though i'm positive,

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times" as the social media manipulator, he denied it all, too. but today we can add an interesting new data point. we learned from today's indictment of the donald trump inaugural -- inaugural chairman, we learned that tom barrack was allegedly working with the uae at that time to influence both the trump campaign and u.s. policy. according to the indictment tom barrack flew to morocco on august 3rd, 2016, to present this major proposal to his friends in the uae in terms of a new strategic alignment between that country and the united states. that date ends up being sort of important in retrospect because on that exact same date, that trump tower meeting was under way where a representative from the united arab emirates was offering to help donald trump get elected with a multi-million dollar covert social media campaign on his behalf. what was going on there between

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elected the firm that had come to trump tower that day to offer to mess with the election on trump's behalf, that firm was paid millions of dollars by the guy who represented the uae in that meeting. we're never going to escape this guy, are we? i've got more ahead. stay with us. with us what do we want for dinner? burger... i want a sugar cookie... wait... i want a bucket of chicken... i want... ♪♪

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"the times" reported it was never clear if that election interference campaign that was being offered to the trump campaign in that meeting, it's never been clear whether or not it happened, but we now know from today's indictment from tom barrack that on the same day that meeting was happening in trump tower with donald trump jr., that same day tom barrack was overseas meeting with senior officials from the united arab 'em rattles about what prosecutors now say was their scheme for him to serve as their secret foreign agent within the trump campaign, doing the bidding of that foreign country at the top echelons of the republican nominee for president of the united states and presumably in the administration of that candidate if and when he was elected president. the same day he was meeting with them about that scheme, united arab emirates sent an emissary to trump tower to offer them an interference campaign to get trump elected, and we do know that after trump was actually

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barrack flew to morocco on august 3rd, 2016, to present this major proposal to his friends in the uae in terms of a new strategic alignment between that country and the united states. that date ends up being sort of important in retrospect because on that exact same date, that trump tower meeting was under way where a representative from the united arab emirates was offering to help donald trump get elected with a multi-million dollar covert social media campaign on his behalf. what was going on there between the trump campaign and his advisers and the united arab emirates? yet another trump adviser now indicted as a secret foreign agent. tom barrack accused by prosecutors of working on the uae payroll to affect foreign policy and the behavior of the campaign. but does today's indictment get us closer with how we were messed with by foreign countries, both in terms of secret foreign agents but also interference in our electoral affairs in 2016 and beyond. joining us is david kirkpatrick,

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between the trump campaign and the russians. so mbz and george nader were setting up a meeting for erik prince to meet with an emissary from putin around the same time which is one of the elements that have drawn it into the scope of the mueller campaign. if you are putting it under the umbrella of foreign countries trying to influence the trump administration, you have to look at uae paths and there was an overlap between what the emirates were doing and the russians were doing. sorry it is confusing, but i didn't make it up. >> it is confusing enough to give me lots of follow-up questions to ask you. it has stuck out for me -- if you just say, let's only look at the bipartisan senate intelligence committee, even if you don't want to look at what mueller did, that the u.s. government has unequivocally and

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has done business with trump and also with these persian gulf princes. then there's another one which is george nader, an emissary from the uae who subsequently has been convicted of pedophilia who was in there, in trump tower trying to set up the social media manipulation scheme. you got to add to that another leg in this, which is it turns out that the prince who was working through barrack and nader was also working with nader to try to play match maker between the trump campaign and the russians. so mbz and george nader were setting up a meeting for erik prince to meet with an emissary from putin around the same time which is one of the elements that have drawn it into the scope of the mueller campaign. if you are putting it under the umbrella of foreign countries trying to influence the trump

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it has been eight days since texas democratic legislators walked out of their state capital and walked out of their beloved home state as a last-ditch effort to block republicans back home in texas from passing draconian new voting restrictions. the texas democratic legislators have been in washington ever since. they've been taking every meeting they can get with federal lawmakers, with white house officials. they're pleading for national voting rights legislation to block what republicans are trying to do in their state and other states around the country. it has been eight days for them in washington thus far and probably weeks still to go before they can go home again. but this week that battle over voting rights crashed head first into america's battle against the coronavirus. several of the texas democrats have now tested positive for covid-19 in washington. last night just as we were

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the same thing. we know the russian operation happened. in the years that have passed have we ever gotten close to figuring out if the other operation that was offered at that trump tower meeting, that maybe the air air and the saudis were going to figure out, have we got close to figure out if that happened? >> i don't have any information that it did. all we know as you suggested before is that money was still changing hands between george nader who was working for the emirates, money was still changing hands between him and zamal who was the social media expert from israel who was involved in the pitch all the way up through the campaign. joe zamal was in during the transition showing some kind of slides or powerpoint presentation to the trump team,

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when i was diagnosed with dupuytren's contracture, i waited to get treated. thought surgery was my only option. but then i found out about nonsurgical treatments. it was a total game changer. learn more about the condition at factsonhand.com it has been eight days since texas democratic legislators walked out of their state capital and walked out of their beloved home state as a last-ditch effort to block republicans back home in texas from passing draconian new voting restrictions. the texas democratic legislators have been in washington ever since. they've been taking every meeting they can get with federal lawmakers, with white

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