Within the past hour or so, he confirmed actually reports that weve heard before that the kremlin was engaged in an negotiation to possibly free Alexey Navalny in the days before he finally died in an arctic penal you know, colony, a death by the way, that Vladimir Putin described as a sad event. Take a listen for mr. Navalnys passed away. Some colleagues told you that they were not members of the administration some people said that there is an idea to change mr. Navalny for some people who are in prison in western countries, you can believe me or you can choose not to. The person who spoke to me. You have not finished his sentence. Yes. I said i agree but unfortunately, what happened happened, we would exchange him i said and you pay only on one condition that he doesnt come back from the go. Let them sit there. Thats all that happens. What can we do about it . Well they, have it paula. A pretty interesting description of the negotiations that went on, apparently behind the scenes to
Up to 70 or so up gilt. Com today today on inside politics, welcome to the General Election. The two parties choices, whether you like it or not, are joe biden and donald trump. The 2020 rematch is now effectively a done deal after nikki haley made this announcement this morning, the time has now come to suspend my campaign. I said i wanted americans to have their voices heard. I have done matt. I have no regrets. And although i will no longer be a candidate, i will not stop using my voice for the things i believe it the question now, where Will Haley Voters go . Both biden and trump are making a play for their support with very different strategies. Im dana bash, lets go behind the headlines and Inside Politics First Up today is day one of what will likely be a bidder and girls cooling 244 day General Election in 81 yearold incumbent president versus his seventysevenyearold predecessor. Donald trump was able to secure his spot as the Presumptive Republican nominee for the third time i
and welcome to hanna. tonight, we begin with a fox news alert. the epsteiwslert,n files, they e been released, and we are now learning the names of more thaan 150 individuals allegedly an 150associated with the powerl convicted . that includes formeresident president bill clinton. now coming up, we ll get reaction tonight from pam bondi. markon. will get from p geragosd alan dershowitz, who once represented epstein in courte lt and whose name appears on the list. he will join us. . s.also tonight, shocking new video from nevada where a convicted criminalfrom nev. this is unbelievable. brutally attacking that judg e after she sentenced him to jail. and it goes on from theres oe. we have a lot more coming up. and later. i do have bad news for jon d ne stewart, formerly of the daily,o show, who once begged me, along with the jersey boys and nathan lane, to stay in new york. you mighheseyt remember. take a look. jon, we know you re ma d at usyou ha and you have every right
night. i ll be back for my show plus catch additional episodes every thursday exclusively on peacock. the rachel maddow show starts right now. they ve already got you working triple time? this is the down side of being very good at what you re doing. then you have to do more and more. aid good time. an hour went pretty quickly. as a viewer i felt the same. that s a good sign. well done, my friend. have a great show. thank you. and thank you at home for joining me. it is good to be hear. so he spend 21 years spying against the united states. he did it for money and who knows what else. they did pay him. they paid him in cash and they paid him in diamonds which is a nice spy movie touch. he spied against the u.s. for the next 21 years. then the next 21 years after that, he resided in federal prison. 21 years as a spy against america and then 21 years and counting in prison before he died today in prison at the age of 79. it was stop the presses huge national news wh
at any moment now, president biden is going to speak on the phone and finalize the bill. the president had this to say about the negotiations. reporter: mr. president, are you positive this deal will get to your desk? yes, it will. i m about to call mccarthy at 3:00, make sure all the ts are crossed and the is are dotted. reporter: what are the sticking points? none. should all democrats vote for this bill? still anyone s guess if the house has enough votes to get this bill to the president s desk. but speaker mccarthy says he s confident the deal will pass. back to february 1st, i sat down with the president. i said let s work together to raise the debt ceiling but curb the amount of spending, to let america be able to work again, cut red tape, get work requirements to help people get back into work. i think this agreement frames all that from limit save grow. it doesn t get everything everybody wanted but that s in divided government, that s where we end up. i