Westbrook thing. Whatever you need to tell yourself, donnie. The celebration for bastille day marks one of the countrys key moments of the french revolution, the storming of the bastille. But his mind is still on whats going on back in washington. Senate republicans yesterday unveiled their latest version of the Health Care Bill and already two republican senators are saying they are not on board. Republicans cannot afford to lose another single vote. Well get to that battle in a moment. But the report from mcclatchy that says investigators on the house and Senate Intel Committees and Justice Department are looking into the Trump Campaigns digital operations, specifically whether the program overseen by Jared Kushner helped guide russias voter targeting and fake news attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2016. Did the Campaign Point russian cyber operatives and bots to specific areas in specific states. For the report, mcclatchy spoke to a former pentagon official who just left the department
That was ben smith, the editorinchief of buzzfeed, speaking on the phone with Rachel Maddow last night, making the rounds and cleaning up on aisle six. His publications bombshell report just 24 hours earlier claiming that donald trump as president directed Michael Cohen to lie to congress about the trump tower moscow deal blew up the political world and prompted democrats to call for the president s impeachment. Late last night a spokesman for special Counsel Robert Mueller took the extraordinary step of refuting parts of the report, prompting even members of the media to doubt the entire reports credibility. Joining me now, maya wiley, ellie mistell, mimi roca, paul butler, and nbc News Reporter ken delaney. Ken, im going to start with you on this. Obviously much consternation across the media world about this buzzfeed report. Let me read you the full statement. Buzzfeeds description of specific statements to the special counsels office and characterization of documents and testimony