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 actions now underway to combat it. What is the government doing to halt russian interference in the next elections . Yeah, im not at liberty to explain what were doing in that regard. Just rest assured there are actions under way to protect our elections or to exposeness
now the question is whether trump lied about the worst possible thing, not the pr afterward, but whether donald trump took actions or had intent about the meeting that could contribute to elements of a crime. Thats not a question posed by say a trump critic tonight or an investigator aggressively looking at these issues or posed by journalists digging into the story. This is now the key question facing the white house courtesy of one of trumps longest serving once most loyal aides, a man with him before most of his current political staff who documented and recorded their interactions. That may be why these new reports say this once loyal team, these two team mates are now dead to each other preparing to bury cohen is what the white house is leaking. Michael cohen used to be a loyal trump friend who gave privileged advice. But cohen is learning trumps return on than loyalty all depends on the situation. And trump certainly isnt taking
cohens counsel anymore. Its a stand i dont find captured by some words of wisdom from a famous song, jukebox joints that says it all depends with friends like you, who needs friends. Sometimes the best advice is no advice especially when its your advice. I turn now to former federal prosecutor joyce vance who has much experience here. I dont think theres any doubt that donald trump is not taking mike cohens advice and counsel anymore. How do you view the significance of this rupturen at types of leaking and back biting that were seeing tonight . This is potentially very significant, ari. You know, prosecutors are hardwired to be cautious. So its important to say that we havent heard this story in cohens own words yet. That will matter. It will also matter if he has any evidence, text pessages or emails that were sent Contemporarily Ha back him up. So far the reporting weve heard is there is no evidence of that nature. But this really is a bombshell. This idea that the president knew about this meeting before it happened and signed off on it, places him squarely inside of collusion with russia. When this kind of information goes public, obviously, prosecutors would rather they held it and no one else knew. How do you interpret that . Its interesting. We dont know the source of these leaks. And frankly, they dont make sense for mueller, certainly the leaks dont come from there. They dont make an awful lot of sense for cohen to be the leaker because as youve pointed out although it doesnt make it impossible for him to cooperate with the Southern District of new york, prosecutors dont like to have their cases being carried out in the media, but it also doesnt make a lot of sense for the president to put this forward unless he knew that this was coming inevitably and they believed it was so damaging that they had to somehow try to get
ahead of the story. Based on the idea that theres other people in the room which was in the original cnn report, what do you make of the possibility that some or even all of those people have already told this information to Special Counsel or is there potentially an effort to get peoples stories straight by talking about it in public . I think thats exactly it the right question. We know, for instance, that is mueller has already talked to hope hicks who would have likely been in the room, would be a strong candidate to be there. Trump junior has already testified up on the hill. So there has been a lot of opportunity for folks under oath to either tell the truth and perhaps already be unbeknownst to us cooperating with mueller or to have lied and subjected themselves to Criminal Charges which could possibly be used against them now to get them to finally reveal the truth. A lot of this looks very bad circumstantially for donald trump. The videos that weve played that might have had other
interpretations when people knew less. Now look more and more incriminating. But i wonder what you make of what trump allies point to that there was no speech given that donald trump may have even shown some what us lawyers would call requisite intent but if he didnt get the goods to give the speech, then was there not the finishing of the act, the over the acs thatted also be needed . What do you think of that defense . You know, at this point, we can speculate a lot of Different Directions about what happened. But the reality is, we dont know what happened in this meeting. We do know what it wasnt about. It wasnt a meeting that was exclusively about adoption. Was it a successful meeting where the russians came in and offered trump something . We dont know that. Was it a meeting where the russians came in and didnt make a full offer and it sort of ended on unfortunate terms and they all left, we dont know that either. But one of the strong
possibilities here is that there was a conversation of some form of future collaboration and then we hear this incredibly awkward moment with trump on july 27th, two years ago, where he says, russia, if youre listening, heres the favor that you can do for me. Come on and deliver hillarys emails. At the time it felt strange and awkward. Now with everything that weve learned in the past few days, perhaps thats the truth of what went on in that meeting in trump tower, that there was a conversation about some form of future cooperation with the campaign and that it came to pass that evening. Just to be clear, youre saying that theres multiple Cover Stories that cover story number one would be adoptions, number two would be oh, this Dossier Type Material on clinton that wasnt any good or usable for the speech but number three, the real action would be hey it, we can do things cyber if you flip the switch and he went on potentially under this theory of the case to flip the switch in public . And the problem here is
because there have been serial mistruths told about what happened in this meeting, we know that it has to have been something significant, something that people want to cover up but we dont know exactly what it is. We do know what it isnt. Its fascinating when you put it like that. Joyce vance, thank you so much for joining us tonight. Thanks. Nbc News National security reporter ken dilanian has been reporting on todays rather short white house meeting on Election Security. His story right now is on nbc news. Com headlines the Trump Administration has no central strategy for Election Security and no ones in charge. Ken, hanks for joining me tonight. Great to see you. Thanks for having me. Your story digs in deeper than just what is blatantly odd about this meeting and its brevity. Walk us through what former and current officials are telling you. Yeah, and this is not some great feat of investigative reporting. This is simply talking to folks
and listening to Cabinet Officials talk in public about their efforts to combat foreign election interference. What they say, for example, the department of Homeland Security secretary in an interview with our own Peter Alexander in aspen talked about the things that the dhs is doing working with the states on election secure security but said thats not enough. We node need a whole of government strategy. She didnt say there isnt one. Thats what everybody you talk to about this said. I was flabbergasted when the white house released a statement that says there has been such a strategy since donald trump took office. I havent found anyone whos seen that strategy. A lot of people say no such strategy exists. The fbi is doing things. They have created a foreign influence tack force. They are trying to focus on this problem of the russians and others interfering in our politics. The russians are on social media as we speak manipulating American Public opinion. The nsa has said they are
stepping up efforts in cyber space. Most of that is secret. We dont have anything that knits this together. We have no leadership from the oval office and this is the kind of issue that requires it because there are some really hard problems like you know, the russians playing on twitter and facebook. Those are private companies. There are first anticipate issues at play. There may be required changes in law or some Public Policy issues. When you dont have the executive Branch Leadership on this, you really lose the power of the full federal government. You dont have a strategy. You have different agencies trying to do what they can. Some of these officials testified to congress including wrist wray, fbi director, they had never been asked by the president to tackle Russian Election interference. Its hard to know what the white house is talking about a strategy from day one. Theres all different states involved. We have a system that decentralizes our elections. Something that didnt get a ton of attention was a proposal in the house to put 380 million
into the state efforts to combat this. Led by democrats. That was defeated by republicans there. How much does this effort also require upgrading what states can handle when the Mueller Investigation is revealed how these countrybacked efforts are going avid states that may not have the cyber know how right now . Yeah, i mean, every State Official you talk to says they need more money, they need upgraded technology. They need more resources. But i actually think that while the sort of vulnerabilities of State Election Systems are troubling, when you think of the three ways the russians attacks the election, they did hack into they attempted to breach 21 states and got into seven. That may have been the least effective method they used though. The most effective was they hacked the Democratic National committee. They hacked john podesta and stole emails and releases them. The second most most effective
was manipulation of Public Opinion on social media. Its hard to measure how much influence that had on election. Thats still going on. They may not touch a State Election Database this time around for their own reasons. But they are every day playing on social media. Theres a website called hamilton 68 that measures some of it on twitter. Theyre trying to divide americans on race, guns, all sorts of issues. And dan coats, director of National Intelligence gab a speech the other day and said this is happening. Theyre interfering in our politics. He didnt say theres nothing were doing about it. We havent deterred, the u. S. Government has not deterred this behavior at all and the attempted hack of Claire Mccaskill suggests the russians are not deterred from trying to hack into political campaigns. You think what were learning about mccaskill, its just scratching the surface. Were just only about 100 days out from the midterms. A lot going on. Ken dilanian, thanks for being here on a friday night. I appreciate it. It has been a big news day. We have a lot to get to, including what happens when you are less than trough when you talk to the u. S. Congress . Someone quite close to this president may be about to find out. More on that in a minute. Stay with us. Mother. Nature sure smells amazing. Even in accounts receivable. Gain botanicals laundry detergent. Bring the smell of nature wherever you are. Do you ever wonder what bob mueller looks like were hes out and about . Is he imposing . Super low profile . We actually got a rare peek today because politico published this photo taken this morning at Reagan National airport in washington, d. C. At gate 35x. You can see the welcome to dca sign there. On your left is Special Counsel bob mueller. He appears to be minding his own business and reading the paper. But thats not all. Over there on the right is donald trump jr. , plus the secret Service Agent who looks kind of annoyed, i think, that someone was attempting to capture this particular moment. You are looking at a prosecutor and a witness passing each other at random. Today muellers office which is
notoriously tight lipped, they rarely respond to any question on the record. They put out this statement confirming that yes, that is him, waiting to board a flight. If it is accurate that the other person in the photo was donald trump jr. , mr. Mueller was not aware of him and had no interaction with him. Which is a bit like when a reporter asked mariah carey asked her about j. Lo and she said, i dont know her. He is very aware right now of trump jr. s role in this Trump Tower Meeting weve been covering. Which Michael Cohen is now ready to say is a thing that trump jr. Lied about how his dad approved it. Now that story first broke on cnn. And nbc news now confirming it with a source and saying that he knew about the officials that saw the a meeting with officials. They are saying that trump knew
and cohen said he will tell mueller if he can. Which raises a Concrete Question everyones been talking about it. I touched on it brieferly with joyce vance. Why leak it right now across the airwaves . No one knows the answer to that at this moment. As for the legal implication, cone is effectively accusing trump junior of a new crime because in september, he told the Senate Judiciary committee he did not alert his father to this meeting ahead of time. Ditto for his reported comments to the House Intelligence Committee that was in december. If this news about what Michael Cohen is willing to tell mueller is true, then it does obviously call donald trump jr. s testimony into serious doubt. Now, the leading democrats on the Senate JudiciaryCommittee Feinstein and leahy are already saying they want donald trump jr. Back in for questioning. Senator leahy wants to question him in public. That would be different as well as under oath. The top democrat on house intel
adam schiff says he wants trump junior back and wants to extend an invite 0 mike cohen, as well while theyre at it. Democrats do not control either of those committees. You could look at those as kind of wishes at least under the Current Organization till anything might change in a future election. Over on the house Intel Committee, republicans have closed out what they view as their russia probe months ago. Done. So can democrats get any fresh answers from trump junior now . Do they get another crack that the or is this all kind of a Fan Fiction Showing how they would use their Subpoena Power, run this investigation if something changes in the november midterms . For more, i turn to congressman eric swalwell, a member of this House Intelligence Committee. Congressman swalwell and other members of the committee met with donald trump jr. For several hours. First of all, thank you for making time for us tonight. I appreciate it. Good evening, ari. When you look at this, if
its True Trump Junior told his father about that, do you view that based on what you heard as a clear crime that he would have committed before the house or is it more copply indicated . More complicated but its clearly a crime and also a crime if Michael Cohen himself was not truthful with the house. Look what, ive learned with donald trump, his family, his soninlaw, his lawyers, none of them have been straight with us about anything weve asked them and they were inoculated by a House Republican investigation that never pressed them to testify under subpoena that never subpoenaed any of the records to check to see if any of their stories actually you know came out the way they were telling us. Youre an investigator here. You just said none of them. Is them the key figures, does that include hope hicks and other staff . Well, so hope hicks, for example, when she was pressed
she would refuse to answer questions and republicans wouldnt subpoena them. Donald trump jr. When he was asked about conversations with his father about the june 9th Trump Tower Meeting he refused to answer. And the republicans did not want to subpoena him to compel him. They didnt want to know. It was a take them at their word investigation which i think we are now seeing was so irresponsible because were learning more every day. Im an optimist. I still believe in the goodness of people and its never too late to do the right thing. If people at home tell their representatives this is wrong we should know what happened and theres still an opportunity to come back to congress and to reopen this investigation, we can still do that and i think people should tell their representatives on the Intel Committee they expect that. Why do you think the Trump Tower Meeting has proved so problematic for the trump team to get their stories straight . Well, its not about what donald trump did with that meeting. I think what is significant is what he did not do. If he knew that the meeting was to take place, he did not tell his son to cancel the meeting. He did not tell the fbi about the meeting. And if anything, he further encouraged and em boltoned the russians to hack because he went out just about a month and a half after the meeting and said russia if youre listening which was twos years ago from today, you would be rewarded for hacking Hillary Clintons emails. The green lights he sent by doing nothing or allowing his son to take the meeting. We also found in our investigation that donald trump and donald trump jr. Talked every day by phone in person about the most minute details of the campaign. So its just hard to believe that donald trump jr. Would not have told his father about this meeting. Its actually stranger if that is what occurred. And so finally, is this the blueprint for what you would do with Subpoena Power after the midterms . You would bear down on donald trump jr. And these other staff and what do you say to people
who feel like that would can then two more years of fix eighting on 2016 election events . Our investigations should always be about the future. We look back to inform us how we can best protect our democracy from Something Like this happening again. I know mr. Schiff has said and i agree with him that if bob muellers investigation and the Senate Investigation are not able to produce i think refors that are needed to protect the ballot box going forward, of course, were going to do our duty and go back and look at what is unanswered but if they do their job and bob mueller is able to tell the country what happened, i dont think we want to reopen that just for politics sake. Its also not too late for republicans to sign onto the Bipartisan Legislation youve written with Elijah Cummings that would have an independent commission. I think its too charged to handle this in congress. We should put Expert Anderson skates persons on this task, look at everything that happened, who worked with the russians and what reforces we
can make so it never happens again. We did that after september 11th. Thats a great model. We should take the opportunity to do that now. Eric swalwell, thank you again for your time tonight. Still ahead, 35 potential witnesses, 1 Criminal Charges, one Trump Campaign chairman. More on that in a moment. Stay with us. vo what if this didnt have to happen . I didnt see it. vo what if we could go back . What if our car. Could stop itself . In iihs frontend crash prevention testing, nobody beats the subaru impreza. Not toyota. Not honda. Not ford. The subaru impreza. More than a car, its a subaru. Sharper vision, without limits. Days that go from sun up to sun down. A whole world in all its beauty. Three Innovative Technologies for our ultimate in vision,
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some kind linked to manafort. Confirming news last night that rachel was reporting on the prosecution witness list include Bernie Sanders chief strategist in 2016, tad devine. Thats because up through 2012, devine like manafort was doing International Political consulting work in ukraine. He worked directly with manafort on the president ial effort for yanukovych who proved to be a pro putin autocrat and run out of the country through a revolt and more or less the last argument still going to be adjudicated before manaforts trial is about that very work. How much evidence should the prosecution be allowed to present from manaforts time in ukraine. Manaforts lawyers are beak saying look, this is a trial about tax evasion and bank fraud and a bunch of material about the former leader of ukraine feels irrelevant and been also potentially Preng Disthis Jury against their client. Thats their argument. The prosecution counters no. What manafort did in ukraine is directly relevant to this whole case and bringing it home. Everyone may recall it was in the Manafort Indictment that you saw those millions of dollars in transactions that manafort is accused to have made for cars, fancy rugs, very fancy suits, and hiring contractors to do landscaping on multiple homes. Those transactions made by Wire Transfer many of them from Bank Accounts over in cyprus. Prosecutors say theyre going to prove that manafort made those millions through his work in ukraine, wealthy oligarchs supporting his client the pro putin guy transferring those millions to Shell Companies which went to cyprus Bank Accounts controlled by manafort which then funneled out to all of those very noticeable luxury goods. Holes is on this witness list released today . It appears to be the guy who sold Paul Manafort the expensive suits and the guy who sod him his mercedesbenz and a
landscaper who worked on one of those very large, very expensive Paul Manafort second homes. Theres been a lot of talk about bob mueller following the money a phrase everyone remembers from watergate. What were seeing through the witness list swi a preview of the treasures that this Prosecutor Team wants to prove at trial is they want to trace for the jury account entire story of manaforts money from whatever he did to get it in ukraine to the individual vendors that he spent the money on to all of the ways he didnt, they say, legally fulfill his obligations to report foreign accounts and obviously pay tams on the money as well as misleading banks that were loaning him more money. This trial, tra trail, it begins next week. We turn to josh gerstein, white house political reporter for politico and also a legal reporter there. Hes been on the manafort case from the start. Thank you for joining us tonight. Hey, great to be here. What do you see in the
witness list . Well, you hinted at some of this. This is going to be if people can remember back this far lifestyles of the rich and famous. Were going to hear about the suits and the cars. You know, hear from this fellows landscaper and the sums of money the apartments i think for an average juror are just going to be staggering. 800,000 with one particular Clothing Boutique in new york, half a Million Dollars spent on landscaping of a home. Thats not to buy a home. Thats to landscape a home. And the prosecutors have photographs of the suits, photographs of the landscaping, and so forth and theyre going to take this jury in this kind of a tour through manaforts luxury lifestyle and then show Histach Returns and pose a question of how he can possibly afford that if what he was really making was however much he was reporting to the irs. Why do they want to get into the complex stuff and shell
companies . There are as you know and i think as our viewers know plenty of big cases that involve complex finances where prosecutors make a strategic choice to simplify for jury the list, the clues were getting is theyre going big and theyre going in detail. Theyre not duchb dumbing it noun down. They are under some pressure from the judge who urged them to consolidate and shorten their case when they said this might take three weeks instead of two, the judge expressed his dissatisfaction with that and trying to really urge them to narrow this down. They seem to be trying to show one of the charges or some of the charges in this case are that manafort had these foreign Bank Accounts that not just to use them and bring money into the u. S. Without paying taxes on it but that he never reported them at all and that people are required to report those kinds of accounts when they have them overseas. So i think the foreign issue here and the foreign Bank Accounts does add an element of
subterfuge and element of intentionality here that makes this seem kind of exotic and somewhat beyond the pale. Maybe there are other people who shave paying their taxes here or there but they may not have dozens and dozens of overseas Bank Accounts that are essentially funding their lavish lieu of style. Right. And it allows prosecutors under your analysis to say look, this was a deliberate deceptive thing, not just proverbial corner cutting. You mentioned the judge wanted to speed it up. Rachel reported what that means in the socalled rocket docket. This one could take awhile. Well probably call on you again. Josh gerstein, thank you so much for being here. My pleasure. It has been a busy week. A lots happened. Something that should have been resolved last night actually is a very live issue right now. Thats next. Stay with us. High blood pressure, glaucoma, prostate, bladder, or urinary problems. These may worsen with anoro. Call your doctor if you have worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain while taking anoro. Ask your doctor about anoro. Go your own way get your first prescription free at anoro. Com. About the children ripped from families by the Trump Administrations Executive Order on the border. Thousands felt compelled to turn out, some showing up at a Lawmakers Office demanding answers, many people have felt a moral imperative to act. These ins and sounds of separated kids coming in from all over the country like these kids led into a new york facility 12 45 in the morning or this toddler separated on a play mat in a texas facility. For many people, its been hard to just watch this as another story and weve seen some really remarkable things like moms most pay for a Migrant Mother in arizona and a team drove her to new york where her three kids were being held. Something of a communal effort from people around the nation to do whatever could be done by citizens to help bring some families back together. Then there are the larger legal fights. Last month a federal judge in san diego ordering the government to return thousands
of these children to their families giving the Trump Administration a firm deadline. Thats 3 00 a. M. Eastern this morning. If it seemed chaotic and improvised when the government tore those families apart, putting them back together has seemed often an chaotic. Late thursday night a local reporter from Tell Makeup Doe walked into part of it happening in new york city. All of the sudden, theres about 11 to 12 vans outside of the facility. I asked them why are they here. They all came out holding some manual manila envelopes. I asked them if they were going to move the children and nobodys responding. Then hours later the governor of new york told reporters those vans ended up shuttling more than a dozen kids around all night because there was confusion which of the children were eligible to return to their parents. The governor said clearly, this is gross incompetence and purposeful chaos. The federal judge in san diego, california, held a hearing a few hours ago. Now that the deadline for the administration to reunite 2500 families has passed. The Trump Administration dividing these kids in the custody and the rules here within two categories. Eligible for reunification and not eligible. The children they call eligible the Administration Says it has gotten all 1820 of them either back to families or what they the government is calling appropriately discharged by this deadline. Msnbc had a reporter in this courtroom today at thing us the Trump Administration now says 650 children are not eligible to go back to their parents, which is, of course, what this whole thing is about. Those families remain apart right now and theyll continue that situation until, well, the governments not saying. For many of those families the parents have been deported. So the allegation now is some of those parents agreed to deportation without knowing they were leaving their kids behind. In todays hearing an aclu attorney said this was torturous to have a parent thinking i gave away my child because i was confused and made a mistake. Aclu is the group that brought this case. Its not finished working on this issue of reuniting families whether theyre called ineligible or not. Im joined now by cecilia wong, Deputy Legal DirectorConfident Aclu which brought this case to court. Thank you for joining us. What is the most important part of the work that remains . Well, ari, thank you for having me on. The important thing that remains in the case which is caused ms l is there are many hundreds of parents who still have had their kids ripped away from them and not yet returned by the u. S. Government. The government walked into court today and claimed that its been working as hard as it can to reunite these families but the truth is, that there are two
major groups of parents were very concerned can about. The first as you mentioned is that there are about as far as we know, 400 parents who have been deported from the United States without a chance to reunite with their kids. And those parents we need to know and get in touch with them and have them identified by the government so that we can find out did they make a knowing waiver of their right to be reunited with their kids bfd they were sent back to their hope countries possibly back into harps way. The second group of families were very concerned about. Let me ask you on that and well go to the second. For anyone listening straight up, why would any normal parent agree to that if they understood it . Well, there are many of these parents, ari, who may have been deported without having been given notice that theres a court order that precipitations them to be reunited with their kids. A lot of these parents who end up with Deportation Orders are going to be put to a very
difficult choice, a choice that could have long lasting lifelong impacts on their family. And they need to have a chance to sit down with their children as a family with lee counsel to make a decision. If im going to be deported, should i take my kids with me or do i have a Family Member here in the United States who i can leave my child with if the childs going to be returned into harms way. And these families we believe did not have a chance to get lee counsel, to sit down as a family and to make these kinds of potentially life or death decisions. Thats what were seeking from the court the ability for families to be reunited whether or not the parents have been deported and to have seven days, seven days as a family to consult with attorneys to consult with each other. And in cases where a parent has made that off choice to be returned but leave their child here with a Family Member, to
explain to their kids why theyre doing that for the kids own good. Its important work and clearly, its something that has forced a little bit more transparency on what has been according to. Experts a total mess. Cecilia wong, Deputy Director for the Legal Program an the aclu, thank you for being here tonight. Thank you. We have more to get to tonight including a reallife piece of news for this friday night that sounds like it cape right from the onion. Thats next. Stay with us. What . welcome. [ gasps ] a bigger room . how many of you use Car Insurance . Oh. Well, what if i showed you this . [ laughing ] hohoho wow. Its a computer. We compare rates to help you get the price and coverage thats right for you. Thats amazing the only thing that would make this better is if my mom were here. What . an unexpected ending
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back to norm. Thats what happened in the room but after the summit, the official white house transcript didnt have the part of the journalists question meant that in the official government record, there was no mention that putin expressly said in front of everybody he wanted trump to win. And that omission was first flagged the day after the summit by Uhre Friedman in the atlantic. Rachel followed on this week noting white house transcript and video of the event both had that part missing. And you can see her point. In general, you want to have a real record of what happens between two World Leaders especially the u. S. President started saying the russians want democrats to win the next election not him at all. So all the more important that the actual truth get nailed down for a real record and a retranscript and a real history reflecting that putin did say for whatever his reasons are in front of everyone he wanted trump to win and then yesterday, ten days after all this, the white house finally did correct their transcript so it does include the question to putin and his answer saying he wanted