Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Summit was less than an hour and didnt have any follow through and that match is reporting the Trump Administration has no central policy for Election Security and no one is in charge. While were running through the facts, note that another appointee flagged that they dont have a key person minding the store in Cyber Security because the Trump Administration eliminated the job of Cyber Security coordinator. So thats a lot of facts. That is the current policy baseline. Experts noting the trump approach looks more like cyber lackadaisical than cyber secure. That is the framework for what happened today. A list of intelligence vips, marching into the White House Briefing room. And you can see it there. They were rolling deep. You see the leaders of intel announcing that contrary to what their boss says, the recent reports in the news of russian midterm meddling are true. That russian interference and u. S. Politics continu
that seemed surprise the notion they would be eemailing andtectsing and discussing a directive to lie to congress. it doesn t seem like the kind of thing you would put in writing and where we re left is the idea of wondering whether there is corroboration in any form for michael cohen s story that donald trump directed him to lie. it s a completely plausible story. it s what he was saying he was directed to make illegal campaign finance but the question is it corroborated? because the house is not going to impeach donald trump on the word of a convicted liar. you made mngz mention of this but the significance of the time. buzzfeed writes this story. this thing gets lawyered and edited and they go back to their sources. these reporteders hars have a g track record.
they re not saying this isn t michael cohen s testimony, that michael cohen said trump told him to lie and there s this line in the michael cohen sentencing mmo that we re now realizing says explicitly that he lied to congress at the direction of client one and client one is was donald trump. so that part appears to be the case. it s cohen s contention. the issue, as you pointed out rksz t , the thing that got people interested was that there was all this corroboration. and by the time mueller got to cohen, they already knew donald trump instructed him to lie. it wouldn t surprise me what they were about was in fact the trump tower moscow project.
but on this single point which i think underscores what you re talking about, which is the public s need for some answers here. this is why i think congress has got to start this inquiry. let s talk about the content of what is essentially alleged in this article. to ken delaney s point and the filing in his own sentencing memo that this is a thing cohen apoors says the president did. as for corroboration there s a bit of a question mark about that. this is from the barr memo and i know you object and the theory contained therein. when he talks about basically making the argument you cannot commit obstruction is basically to say let s just be clear if a president knowingly destroys or alters evidence or suborns
directed michael con hen to lieo congress about building a trump tower unmoscow. as you know the same two reporters who reporteden the trump tower in moscow was at the heart of the indictment. i m on with you because jason and anthony are still reporting. do you have any indication ken delaney floated the theory that the situation is that the michael cohen is making this contention he was directed by the president but the existence of corroboration is what is in dispute. you know i dont know anything beyond what is in that statement and as you say very hard to understand. did they not communicate with you off the record? you did go to them with a story or absolutely. we went to them 24 hours ago and