structure, rules and regulations that the congress can pass about how the private sector manages this incredible challenge. talk to me about the conflict of interest here, because twitter, facebook and google, they re all sending people to appear before congress next month. twitter actually in particular has been scolded for only giving a bread crumb s worth of information to the senate. is there a conflict of interest with troordz regards to relying on companies like twitter and facebook to build up the got s defenses against countries like russia? it s trainingy challenge. let me look at that from the perspective of russian intelligence and president vladimir putin, who understands that the internet is really a critical backbone, infrastructure, for our democratic process, modern democratic process. and so, what he sought to do was to use it to weaponize the intelligence he had to interfere with our election, and then also
now saying, that didn t happen at all and he says in this statement, the attorney general was not silent. he responded to this comment by saying that the fbi and the department of justice needed to be careful about following appropriate policies regarding contacts with the white house. so two aspects there both recusal and this issue of silence wolf that the justice department is now pushing back on but it s interesting they don t address the one bread crumb that was left by comey today about some of the other reasons, a variety of other reasons that he couldn t discuss openly about why the attorney general jeff sessions recused, wolf. that was certainly a huge bread crumb, indeed. gloria, there s so much of what comey says that the president is a liar, so much of what the president s private attorney marc kasowitz is saying that comey is lying so it s a he said versus he said, so is it now up to the special counsel robert mueller to determine whose telling the truth and whose lying?
today. walk me through it. according to jim comey s testimony, he was fired by the president. he was kind of stunned and shocked. he didn t know what to do. the friday following the firing, president trump had that twitter rant where he said, with the times, using the quotation marks, comey better watch out. if there are tapes of our conversations. and comey told the senate today that it was that tweet that put in his mind the idea of getting the memos out there into the public. and that s where this whole issue of him directing his friend, the columbian law professor to leak the memo to the new york times in the express desire, comey says this in front of the senate, in front of the world, to launch a special counsel and put it in the special counsel realm. the independent investigation. so i m seeing jim comey lay bread crumb for director mueller
anyone else from the whole question of the connection of the property in florida back to a bank who a president cabinet member was on the board of the bank. i mean, give us a sort of headline view, so to speak, of what you have been able, and your superb team there, rachel maddow show, been able to really uncover just following where the trail led. yeah, and it really is i feel sort of led by the story. i feel like we re just following each individual bread crumb and seeing where they re going. i feel like it s two different tracks. one of it is one that s gotten more attention, which is the number of people close to trump, particularly on the trump campaign, who have unexplained and previously denied, now confirmed, links with russia. that s michael flynn, jeff sessions, all of these different people from the campaign. and so, we re learning more about a lot of stuff that
yeah, they keep saying let s be honest. the right wing is saying this is a silent coup, that obama is trying to take over the united states of america. if he was that powerful, he would have rigged the election for hill arary. he was doing that while he was go ahead, brian. conspiracy theories. i m guilty of that myself. but this does have a conspiratorial air to it all. you wonder if they re leaving bread crumb to say a year or two from now if things aren t going their way, saying it s all obama s fault. another conservative media outlet, down in mar-a-lago with trump yesterday. saying he s never seen the president this angry. i think we can put on the screen the exact quote.