Prosecutors, including that secret recording made of trump just before the 2016 election. As anybody would say, thats the strongest possible evidence. There certainly was evidence of knowledge by the president of a payoff to the playboy playmate. We begin this morning with the president threatening to strip the Security Clearance of half a dozen former officials. Never mind some of them dont even have clearance anymore. That is not stopping the white house from stthe policy of paybk to vocal critics. I want to get to how it breaks down. The president is said to still be considering this move. While none of his people hes targeting are still in the government, current officials are certainly taking notice. Right now, these are the men and women on the list. Former cia director john brennan. Former director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Former cia director michael hayden. Monetary gain. No, that wasnt an snl skit. We already know the president has attacked u. S. Intelligence ag
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Many months later, thats after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. By that time, the fbi had also initiated a separate but related investigation and that has now been broken much into public view, much more, because the break came with this very curious indictment of a woman named maria butina. Now, she was suspected as an unregistered agent of the russian government. That she was trying to mount this covert influence operation through a conservative group, a Gun Rights Group in the u. S. Tonight, the same reporter who had the Breakthrough Scoop about the Steele Dossier has a new and obviously provocative question. Did alleged russian spy, maria butina, cause a Leadership Shake up at the nra . The backstory here is an fbi dive, prior to the fact of trump becoming president , into russian attempts to inf
Floo flighting if it does turn out to are accurate. Weve seen evidence of the ship to Ship Transfers. The u. S. Has given evidence to the panel. And we also understand from this report that they say that the north koreans are, quote, increasingly sophisticated evasion techniques, this is what they are using, they are becoming more sophisticated in their efforts to try to hide the fact that these are north korean tankers and ships at sea doing this kind of transfer. Is so certainly this will be of concern to the Security Council sanctions committee. Right. And what about south korea . They were the ones who first made this renewed connection with north korea and that ended up leading to a summit with the u. S. President. Do you expect them to respond . Reporter well, weve had no response from south korea at this point or from any of the players in the region. Certainly this report was only
handed to the committee on friday night. So there will be a lot of questions being asked about it.
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Reporters, Julia Ainsley and tyranny snead. We have been going back and forth. And i thought ken had the exciting stuff. But i think i had the better day. Where exactly Paful Manafort lied. One man who said he was asked to lie by Paul Manafort when he had emails showing that he was asked to lie and say that a residence that Paul Manafort owned in new york was a personal residence for the manaforts and not a Business Rental as it was. He wanted him to lie because he was trying to change his financial situation to get more loans. Then we saw another tax
preparer, cindy laporta. And she, there is a reason she had immunity because she said she was disturbed and she eventually drew a line and stopped doing this. But never wanted to report it because she didnt want to open up her firm to litigation. There is a pattern, rick gates and Paul Manafort worked hand in glove. It was not rick gates. And that also time and time again, Paul Manafort both person
Airports. Yes, theyre convenient. But if other people know theres no security there. Sure. But if youre looking at the kind of simple screening you can get at these airports, i dont think we need that much screening. I got the leave there it. Im sorry. Appreciate it. Thank you both. Tune in sunday morning to state of the union with jack tapper talking to congressman ed royce and deval patrick. Thats all sunday morning, 9 00 a. M. , 12 00 p. M. Eastern. Our coverage continues with wolf blitzer in the situation room. Happening now, breaking news. Mueller and the madam. Robert muellers Team Interviews the woman who earned notoriety as the Manhattan Madam. The Special Counsel apparently wants to know about her ties to roger stone. Is mueller building a case against the longtime trump ally . Russian hysteria after u. S. Intelligence chiefs paint a grim picture of continuing russian interference at u. S. Elections. Moscow responds with ridicule,
know anything about russian collusion. He didn