And july ended up being quite busy. I swear they saved this up for when i went on vacation in part of july. In july they lost the deputy chief of staff of the National Security who was a breitbart person named tara doll, then the White House Press secretary sean spicer. Assistant White House Press secretary, michael short, then reince priebus, white house chief of staff, and then they lost White House Communications director number two, anthony scaramucci. And then we rolled into the lazy days of august and in washington nothing happens in august, but in this one, august meant it was time to fire or accept the resignation of the senior director for intelligence of the National Security council as wattnick nobody was sure why he was there in the first place, but he was gone as of august. But in the same day, white house chief strategist steve bannon and a special assistant to the president named julia hahn, and a director of public liaison, the director of the Public Liaison Office at the white house. He was also out. And then the special adviser on regulatory reform, carl icon, he was out that same day. He appears to have Law Enforcement follow him home from that job. Then a week later, sebastian gorka. All gone. I mean, this is just like the people who have knowable titles. Right . All gone. This administration isnt that old. This doesnt show a revolving door. This is like somebody turning the carousel motor up to a hundred miles an hour and people just fling off the thing with force into the night. Right . Of course, thats not counting the nonotice firings of dozens of federal prosecutors and the firing of the acting attorney general and firing of the fbi director. This is all just white house. Last night the New York Times broke the news that on the day Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel to investigate the russia matter, President Trump reportedly lost his mind at the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, because sessions had recused himself from anything related to russia. Quote, when the phone call informing him about the Mueller Appointment ended, White House Counsel Don Mcgahn relayed the news to the president and his aides. Almost immediately mr. Trump lobbied a volley of insults at mr. Sessions. Telling him the attorney general it was his fault they were in the current situation. He did resign. He wrote a Resignation Letter to the president but the president would not september not accept it. Quote, trump ended up rejecting sessions Resignation Letter after senior members of his administration dismissing the ag would create more problems for a president who already fired an fbi director and National Security advisor. So his senior advisers told him that accepting mr. Sessions resignation would only sew more chaos inside the administration. Really . The idea this administration didnt want to let anybody go would attract too much attention. They were afraid of shedding anyone as of may . They took drastic steps even against the president s wishes to stop losing key and high profile staff as of may because that would be too much chaos . Really . They stopped letting people go how does that square with their actual behavior . It doesnt make sense that senior white house advisors wouldnt let the president fire anyone too high profile as of may because in reality as of may they were just Getting Started with the flinging off the people from the carousel into the good night and now it has continued into the fall. The times further reports that President Trump asked again if he could please fire Jeff Sessions in july. And again, the answer was reportedly no. No, that would be too disruptive. Too disruptive to fire somebody in july . Why . Because Jeff Sessions might clog up the outdoor they were using to fire these other people and there might be a pileup . He was going to block the fire exit . Honestly, that explanation for why the president couldnt fire Jeff Sessions when he wanted to honestly makes no sense given the number of people fired from this white house. This situation with the president and the attorney general supposedly having this standoff, it will end weirdly, i can assure you, but something about the way that conflict between the president and the attorney general, something about the way that palace intrigue is being described, is off. When you put it in context against the way the white house was otherwise behaving at the time these supposed conflicts really came to a head. Regardless of Jeff Sessions, today there is one new name to add to the list of people being flung off the carousel in washington. Today we got the resignation of the press secretary to the Vice President. A man named mark lotter. Mike pences press secretary gone as of today. Mike pence lost his chief of staff back in june. Lost his press secretary today. And for all the turmoil in this white house and all of the scandals about various people and quitting and disappearances of these senior staff, Vice President mike pence has been caught out in way more of these scandals than his bland Beltway Press coverage would have you believe. Going back to the first dramatic departure from this white house, going all the way back to mike flynn, right . Mike pence was the head of the transition. This is a letter that he received as head of the transition notifying him in writing about concerns soon to be National Security advisor mike flynn appeared to be on the payroll of foreign governments. In addition to this notification in congress, mike flynns lawyers said they, too, notified the transition in person telling them that flynn was on the payroll of foreign governments. Vice president mike pence was running the transition when all those warnings about mike flynn came in. He nevertheless claims he never heard, no idea. As head of the transition, no idea nobody could have any idea that mike flynn could have been on the payroll of foreign governments. Thats plainly not true. Vice president mike pence also solemnly intoned to the American People, there is no way mike flynn had discussions about russian sanctions during the transition. Despite the fact he said it very solemnly, that was also not true. Vice president mike pence also insisted that there were no contacts at all between the Trump Campaign and russian officials during the campaign. That of course, was not true, either. Vice president mike pence insisted that james comey was fired as fbi director because of age internal process at the department of justice. Had nothing at all to do with the white houses needs or desires, certainly nothing to do about the president s feelings about the russia investigation. Although, thats what mike pence told the American People about the firing of james comey. We now know President Trump gave pence a letter that outlined his rational for wanting to fire james comey the day before the department of justice ever produced their rationale for why the Justice Department might want him fired too. So, mike pences comey firing explanation was not only not true, we can tell based on the timeline that he knew it was not true at the time he said it. But wait, there is more. This week, mike flynns son, mike flynn junior was described by nbc news as being a subject of the investigation by Robert Mueller and the special counsels office. Mike pence has a good run about mike flynn junior, as well. Controversy emerged during the campaign and also during the transition about toxic conspiracy theories that had circulated during the campaign. And controversy around mike flynn junior continuing to depend some of the most odious conspiracy theories from the Campaign Even after a disturbed young man showed up at a d. C. Pizza parlor and started shooting. Mike jr. Was fired from the trump transition. Again mike pence was head of the transition. His explanation for what happened is mike flynn junior wasnt really being fired because he was never actually part of it. That was not true. Mike flynn jr. Was part of the transition. We have evidence for this until in the form that mike flynn jr. Had been happily emailing conspiracy theories to reporters from his official trump transition email address for quite some time before mike pence tried to get away with lying about that too. Mike pence has a real problem in the russia investigation and in some of these white house scandals. Again and again and again mike pence made untrue Public Statements about some of the most controversial elements of the administration and russia scandal specifically. Now, Vice President pence having already lost his chief of staff today he lost his press secretary, Vice President pence has himself hired a highpowered washington d. C. Lawyer to represent him on the trump russia scandal. After the Vice President took the unprecedented step of setting up his own Political Action committee, something no Vice President has done at this point in a new administration ever, after he set up that pact, pac, team pence initially floated the idea that this pac might be used as a fundraising vehicle to raise money to pay for mike pences legal fees in the russia scandal. After they got pushing press inquiries, the Vice President backed off the plans and say the pac wont be used to fund his Legal Defense. We dont know how the Vice President is planning to pay for his legal representation on the russia matter, but hes not a man of trumplevel means. Its figure to be a real issue for him and his family. Its gotta be on their minds. In july, the head of the office of government ethics, walter schaub, left that job in frustration. You probably remember, it was a very high profile resignation. As he left, he warned that one of the things we should watch for at the Government Ethics Office now that he was leaving, he said watch for who the Trump Administration would appoint as his successor. Walter schaub warned us that the administration might try to pass over the most senior person who would have been in line for the job. He said that person is highly qualified and would do an excellent job with the Ethics Office and said it should send red flags for everybody if they bypass that senior person. If they bypass that senior official who is next in line to be the acting director and instead, he warned us watch to see if they instead want to pick this one other particular guy that works at the office. The Trump Administration did that and walter warned should be expected to have a more pliable attitude on ethics towards this white house. That is the guy in charge of the Ethics Office now and hes revised the rules around Legal Defense funds for administration personnel. Under the new interpretation of ethics rules, mike pence and any other white house staffer that needs to fund their Legal Defense will be able to accept unlimited anonymous donations from lobbyists to defray any legal bills that arise out of these white house scandals. Oh, good. What could possibly go wrong . If theres one thing i want lobbyists to be able to anonymously fund, its the Legal Defense for white house officials facing the russia inquiry. Tonight the administration announced that they do not want this to be seen as a change in policy. Im sure they dont. But the outgoing director at the Ethics Office has been banging the drum over this for the last couple of days since they made this change, warning that it really is a turn for the worse. Today for the second time, we learned of a witness being called to testify before one of what we believe are the two grand juries convened by special counsel Robert Mueller. First person to have testified to the grand jury is ren at ahmed shin, soviet born naturalized u. S. Citizen part of the trump tower meeting last june during the campaign. He is known to have ties to Russian Military intelligence. The first person we know who spoken to the mueller grand jury. The second person we now know who has spoken to the mueller grand jury was today. Jason maloney, the spokesperson for Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort. Its a little bit weird to think about a spokesperson being called to testify before a grand jury, but presumably that reasoning will all become clear in the end. Paul manafort has a real bulls eye on him in terms of what is happening in congress and in terms of the mueller part of it. The top democrat in the Senate Diane Feinstein was asked by reporters why there is such a delay in getting Paul Manafort to come in and give testimony to the Committee Weeks and weeks and weeks after it had been announced he had been asked to come in. She responded by attributing the delay in part to the committees own need to up its game when it comes to investigating complex financial matters. Diane feinstein announced her committee has just hired two new investigative financial staffers to, quote, trace the money. Now that those investigative financial staffers are in place, senator feinstein suggested that that interview with Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort might go ahead. What that means for potential liability or money trails, we dont know. Paul manafort is long gone from trump world. He resigned from the Trump Campaign more than a year ago now, but even since theyve been in the white house, we are starting to realize that in trump world, the way this works, theres going to be a lot of people left behind. There are going to be a lot of people involved in lots of interesting things who are long gone by the time we realize what they know and what they might have been up to before they left. When it comes to a scandal, the fact somebody resigned or had been fired is not enough to get their smell off you. The very first guy they shed from the new administration didnt make it four weeks in, mike flynn is still ricochetting around this white house, breaking stuff. 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And a perfectly inconspicuous suv. You must become invisible. [hero] ill take my chances. Reporters have just published this new report at buzzfeed news. And what theyre reporting in the first instance is a new addition to the exceedingly long list of secret meetings with foreign officials that the Trump Campaign and the trump transition didnt disclose until after that meeting ended up in the press. Buzzfeed today reporting on a previously secret meeting held in january in new york, that involved mike flynn, steve bannon, Jared Kushner, and the king of jordan. Now there is nothing inherently scandalous about the king of jordan. There is nothing inherently scandalous about the members of the president ial Transition Team meeting any foreign leaders. It happens all the time. It is unusual they didnt disclose it. Jared kushner initially left the meeting off his security clearance application and mike flynn left it off his security application. Steve bannon, we dont know about his security application yet, but trust me, were working on it. Beyond the secrecy about this, the fact it has not been disclosed until now, here is another really acute problem about what buzzfeed has just reported. Democrats on the House Oversight and Foreign Affairs committee reported on wednesday morning this week that another thing mike flynn failed to initially disclose was that he was a paid agent working to advance a business proposition to partner with, among other companies, Russian Nuclear and Security Companies in order to do this gigantic multi hundreds of millions of dollars project that would build Nuclear Reactors in the middle east. Most of them would be in saudi arabia, which yes, floats on the sea of oil. So question mark about Nuclear Power anyway, but also in the nation of jordan. So Congressional Democrats on wednesday released this information they said shows that mike flynn was involved in that project, he was being paid to advance that nuclear project, including taking a trip to the middle east in 2015 to pursue that project. He was doing all that without ever disclosing that trip, without disclosing any of the foreign meetings with foreign leaders, he took in conjunction with that project and certainly without disclosing the payment that he received for doing that work. He didnt disclose any of that on his security clearance application. House democrats say theyre forwarding that information to Robert Mueller so he can decide if thats a prosecutable offense. That was wednesday morning. By wednesday afternoon the wall street journal said once mike flynn was National Security adviser working in the trump white house, he continued to advance that Russian Nuclear business proposal, up to and including telling National Security Council Staff members that they had to take meetings with the companies who were involved in that business plan. Well, now what buzzfeed reports is not just mike flynn but steve bannon and Jared Kushner who does still work in the white house, buzzfeed reports that the three of them were in on a meeting, a previously undisclosed meeting with the king of jordan, during the transition, at which they talked about that nuclear deal. Again, this is Chris Mcdaniel and the reporters at buzzfeed, and its really interesting. They get denials. I love the way they source this. They get denials from three individuals, one close to flynn. One close to kushner. And one close to bannon. And each of those three people close to each of those guys, denies that flynns Nuclear Reactor business deal thing was discussed at this secret meeting with the king of jordan. Now check this out. Check out this wording. Quote, people close to the three trump advisors say that the nuclear deal was not discussed but a federal official with access to a document created by a Law Enforcement agency about the meeting said that the Nuclear Proposal was one of the topics the group talked about. So a federal official with access to a document created by a Law Enforcement agency about the meeting. Law Enforcement Agency . Why was a Law Enforcement agency aware of that meeting . How did they know what was discussed at that meeting and if that Law Enforcement agency is right about what was discussed at that secret meeting, what would it mean if kushner and flynn and bannon are lying about it . Remember, put that panel back up. Yeah. A lot of people are gone from this white house. Flynn is gone. Bannon is gone. Kushner is still there. Joining us now is anthony, pulitzer prizewinning reporter for buzzfeed news. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. The way i stacked that up, there is a few things youve broken that add to reporting. Previously undisclosed meeting, a second meeting that seems to involve this flynn nuclear deal, and the question about whether or not these guys are telling the truth about what the content was of that meeting. Right. Okay. In terms of the undisclosed meeting, there is nothing inherently scandalous about that. Not at all. They should have let them know the head of state is in the United States and probably should have reported it on their security disclosures. We know mr. Flynn did not. We know jared did not on his initial disclosure. He did subsequently. We dont know what mr. Bannon did. Weve been trying hard to get that document out of the white house. They have so far refused. The people around mr. Bannon have refused to give us any indication of what he put down. There are a lot of meetings between members of the Trump Campaign, trump transition with foreign officials that did not get disclosed until after the fact. Interesting reporting this week about the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates turning up at trump tower in december, meeting with flynn the same group. The same group . Yep. Same group, kushner, bannon, in that case, it appears u. S. Intelligence agencies were aware in part because they were weirded out that the crown prince from the United Arab Emirates was in the United States without telling the United States. Is there any indication the king of jordan took that meeting without telling we really would like to know that. Okay. We have not been able to figure it out yet and no one will tell us. Its a rather simple question. Did you tell our National Security apparatus that a foreign head of state was not was in the United States, in a bar in Lower Manhattan . Its a fairly simple question. Were a little bit weirded out that no one will answer it, or no one will give us a straight shot at it. I cant answer it. I wish we could. The king of jordan, should be noted, has incredibly warm relations with the United States especially on security and intelligence matters. So do we know anything about from his side of this in terms of whether he is willing to answer questions from investigators, reporters, willing to talk about these things . Might be willing to talk to investigators but not talking to journalists. Weve tried to reach desperately out to the embassy. The only thing that we found rather obscurely on their website is a brief message saying the king has returned home from a foreign visit. Of a private nature. Which is this visit. Thats the only Public Statement from anyone involved that the king of jordan was in the United States at the Four Seasons Hotel and ultimately meeting with three of, you know, three of the Incoming White House officials. According to your source, with access to this Law Enforcement document, that private visit was talking to Jared Kushner, mike flynn, and steve bannon, about a potential nuclear deal involving the russians . That doesnt sound like a fun private visit. Thats your words, not mine. Anthony, this is a really interesting scoop and as you can tell from this discussion, i have a feeling it will lead to a lot more interesting information. Thank you very much. Thanks. Much more to come. Busy night tonight. Stay with us. Discover card. Hey. What can you tell me about your new Social Security alerts . Oh well alert you if we find your Social Security number on any one of thousands of risky sites, so youll be in the know. Ooh. Sushi. Ugh. Being in the know is a good thing. 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First, there is new video tonight from inside this nursing home in hollywood, florida, it was taken by a concerned relative just a few hours before patients started dying there. A tray came down and hit the power, the ac was not hooked up to a backup generator. They resorted to fans and portable and keep them cool but clearly, it wasnt enough. Eight. That nursing home in hollywood, florida is closed and its a crime scene. Criminal investigation granted a search warrant this morning. Teams were inside photographing evidence. In terms of potential charges, the nursing home operators could be facing up to manslaughter charges if the state Attorneys Office concludes that employees, administrators, or the owner of the center aktded with culpable negligence, acted with an utter disregard for the safety of the residents. Could carry a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. One retired homicide investigator whose 94yearold motherinlaw was inside the miami herald, they should have called 911, somebody should go to jail for this. Tonight were learning the nursing home says they did place emergency calls for help. They say they called Florida Governor rick scott. Investigative reporter of cbs foreign miami reports this tonight. Quote, 36 hours prior to the first death, officials at the facility called on three separate occasions an emergency number that governor rick scott had given to health care institutions, including nursing homes, so they could have a direct line to the top of the State Government if they were in need of help. Nursing home Officials Say they called that number three times asking for help. They say they placed the first call to Governor Scott six hours after the hurricane made landfall on sunday. They say they called again the next day on monday. Then they say they called again the next day on tuesday. They say those calls went unanswered. Now nbc news is reporting with some specificity about the calls, according to nbc news the first call at 5 34 p. M. On september 11th and another call at 5 59 september 12th and a final call for help at 12 41 p. M. Later on september 12th. So weve got specificity in terms of what the nursing home says they did. And we do know the Florida Governor gave out that number for medical facilities, Health Care Facilities to get help. That said, tonight, the state of florida and the governor are refuting the account for the nursing home. The Governors Office says quote every call made to the governor was referred to the agency for Health Care Administration and Florida Department of health and quickly returned. The nursing home says they made three calls for help to the emergency number that was supposed to get them to the governor and help. They say they never got a response. 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I mean, usually when a host country summons the top diplomat of some other country, especially when you know it happens in some big public way, usually that means that people are mad, usually that is to voice a complaint, usually that means somebodys getting in trouble for something. So when the cuban president raul castro summoned the top american env envoy to cuba to discuss these weird things breaking out against u. S. Diplomats in havana, seemed it wouldnt go well. But its been reported that rare facetofa facetoface with our top diplomat, it wasnt because anybody was mad. He did it to express his concern, and according to the u. S. Officials familiar with what happened at this meeting, president castro seemed baffled by the attacks, as baffled as the United States has been. He denied responsibility for whatever has been happening to u. S. Diplomats in havana. U. S. Officials were taken aback by the way he addressed the matter. Cuba reportedly offered to let fbi agents come to havana to investigate this thing. Cuba is not usually psyched about inviting fbi agents anywhere. Nbc news can confirm tonight that the fbi did send additional fbi personnel to cuba to investigate the sonic attacks. But its unclear whether theyre still there now. Cuban sources tell nbc news the cuban government allegedly sent a diplomatic note that they would help investigate the incident, part of a bilateral investigation with the United States into this matter. Cuban sources tell nbc news they sent this note to the u. S. State department, never got a response back. I understand they are having staffing issues at the state department. They didnt get a response. We first learned about these strange attacks, these strange symptoms with u. S. Personnel in accounting. Cbs radio first to report american diplomats were reporting incidents which caused a variety of physical symptoms. Super vague in the initial reporting that was very unclear what types of incidents were happening here. The state department was totally bafflingly vague and confusing on the subject. We now thanks to good reporting on the subject, we now know its as scary and weird as it seemed before we knew the details. We now know there are 21 medically confirmed cases, some involve permanent hearing loss or traumatic brain injury. Yesterday the Associated Press published some scary details on the attacks. Let me read to you straight from the a. P. Story. Quote, the blaring, grinding noise jolted the american diplomat from his bed in a havana hotel. He moved just a few feet and there was silence. Quote he climbed back into bed, the agonizing sound hit him again. It was as if he walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room. Quote n several episodes recounted by u. S. Officials, victims knew it was happening in realtime and there were strong indications of a sonic attack. We really dont know what is going on. Yesterday the state Department Spokesperson said theres an aggressive investigation under way but shes offered no more information than she did a month ago. The state departments most recent line is the reality is we dont know who or what has caused this. We also now know the state department is not responding to the cuban government when they have been offering to bilaterally investigate whats happening. Joining us is Josh Letterman wro has been reporting about this terrifying story. Mr. Letterman, thank you very much for your reporting and thanks for being here tonight. Hi, rachel. So the thing that i dont the thing i cant get my head around with this story, i dont understand if we believe there to be a type of weapon or some sort of electronic device, or some sort of tactic that could cause the kinds of injuries that have been seen in these diplomats. Do we know there is Something Like this and we dont know who has been deploying it . Thats really what made this puzzle impossible for u. S. Investigators to solve. There are devices or technologies that could explain parts of what were seeing. They could explain the noises people are hearing, maybe the vibrations. There are devices that could splape explain some of the symptoms that people are hearing and feeling and experiencing, but then not others. And none of it has been consistent. And investigators havent been able to find a theory that fits what they are seeing among the 21 americans confirmed to have been affected by this. The targeting part of it you explained is beyond spy movie in terms of thinking about this and in terms of how scary it must have been for these people to go through it. Can you clarify what these people reported in some instances is a palpable sensation or a noise, something thats causing discomfort or disturbance, and it exists in parts of a room but not others. You can literally move in and out of the zone of interference . Right, like there was an invisible wall splitting through the room and you walk through it and then you couldnt hear what you could hear on the other side of it. Except people were just two or three feet away from the bed where they had been before when they were hearing that. There are some devices that can do that. Electro magnetic waves can be targeted narrowly like lasers for instance and also, ultra sonic waves can also be targeted. There are these devices called lrads used sometimes to disperse crowds or to try to prevent pirates from boarding ships, but dont explain the symptoms. Almost a year after americans started getting sick. Josh, weve got 21 americans who have been identified has having been affected by this more or less. Some symptoms, possibly permanent in terms of permanent hearing loss and you have some interesting reporting this may not have just been confined to american residences or workplaces. This may have included a hotel. Thats right. The ap first reported that at least one hotel was hit. There was an incident that took place in the hotel capri, thats a spanishrun hotel in downtown havana, near all of the big sites and the famous boardwalk. We now can confirm today that there were several other hotels where this seems to have taken place. Wow. Josh letterman, absolutely confounding story and youre your reporting on it is clarifying and scary. Thanks for helping us understand it. Thanks, rachel. Weve been watching this story unfold. One thing is that this appears not to be over. When the state department started talking about this, they made it seem like it happened long in the past and this was resolved and they were retro actively trying to investigate it. It seems as recently as less than a month ago, there was at least one additional attack. The geographic nonspecificity of this in terms of hitting people in their office, homes and multiple hotels is confounding. 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You want to see how team trump is trying to turn it into a democratic scandal into definitely somebody elses problem, devin nunez is the guy you have to watch. When President Trump claimed falsely he had been wiretapped by president obama at trump tower, devin nunez was the guy what had that whole bizarre episode we ran off to the white house in the middle of the night to prove it. That got him kicked off the investigation and investigated by the ethics xhth committee. Devi nunez tried to turn it into an Obama Administration scandal about unmasking. That also blew up in his face. Not only did those intelligence intercepts and interviews with obama officials showed they didnt do anything wrong, they raised questions over whether Trump Associates took leaders with foreign leaders without disclosing them. Devin nunez latest attempt os to try to discred at this time trumprussia dossier that has gotten attention over the last nine months. When you think of the slaigs salacious stuff in the dossier, a bunch of key claims have turned out to be true the dossier claimed that the Trump Campaign had accepted damaging information from the kremlin on Hillary Clinton. Now thanks to the reporting about that trump tower meeting, we know that they did t. Dossier laid out various conversations between Trump Campaign officials and russians during campaign. Trump campaign denied that that ever happened, u. S. Intercepts have since corroborated many of those conversations took place between the same individuals on the same days as what was described in the dossier. The dossier says then candidate donald trump was actively exploring a real estate deal in moscow during the campaign. We also know that to be true. Trump tower moscow. This was supposed to be the big week where devin nunez was going to expose the fbi and upend this whole Mueller Investigation because of any releans he can prove on the trumprussia dossier. Thissals appears to be strike le for mr. Nunez. When the attorney general and the fbi director failed to response to these subpoenas he sent them, demanding they turn over fbi information about dossier, devin nunez got really mad and threatened to hold them in contempt. He sent a deadly letter with a deadline september 14ing, yesterday n. This letter he said if those documents on the dossier were not produced by september 14th, the attorney general and the director of the fbi shall appear before the committee at 9 00 a. M. Sharp on that day at an open hearing to explain under oath tear unwillingness to comply. That was yesterday. I dont know if we missed something. Those big showdown at the ok co coral. Nothing happened yesterday. We try contacting devin nunez office all week long, silence, but yesterday, 9 00 a. M. Came and went. I kind of was looking forward to seeing what devin nunez says next. Well be right back. [fbi agent] youre a brave man, mr. Stevens. 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They have a long way to go before they get to where they need to be in my opinion. Were going to make facebook own up to etching. That was Hillary Clinton on this show last knight making the case that facebook needs to show their work. They need own up to the fact that they let their platform with weaponized by russia. Facebook denied for months, russia used them at all. Now faye they reversed course and said they did. They wont figure out within they looked into it. Its been hard to figure out what exactly facebook turned up that made them change their tune on this story, all these months later, what made them finally admit they sold ads to russian interests. How many of them have been able figure out how they did it how they got to this conclusion . Until today we got this from for mark warner, top democrat on the Senate Intelligence committee. He retweeted a story about the russian ads thing. You can see he made an additional tweet. This is what he added. And they paid in rubles. Seriously. That was the sole tweet. Was that like a joke . What does that mean . Russia bought ads in the election. Russians buy things in rubles . Ha, ha, ha, mark warner is the top democrat on the intelligence committee. He doesnt say things about this investigation by mistake. It seemed unlikely he jumped on twitter to workshop his russian currency jokes. So we called senator warrens office, we ask what happened he meant when he fired off that tweet. His office told us, quote, its literally true, some of the ads were paid for if rubles. That was not him making a joke. According to top democrat on the Senate Intelligence committee, facebook sid accept rubles to sell those ads that were a part of russias hack on the elections. Thats what took facebooks investigators months an months to figure out. You would have authority, hey, did we get paid for rubles for political ads in the campaign . It took them months. That was the operational secret facebook didnt want us to know about how they were look nook this. Amazing. That will do it tonight. We will see you on monday. Now its time for the last word. Good evening. Ari. Good evening, rachel. I think we keep so much track of what is going for the grand jury, the names, the ages, why is the spokesman going . I think we will hear a lot more about the social media flampls. It will be easy to see from
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