Salaries of actors with speaking roles, were making up for in terrible acting by me. So whats going on here is that accused russian secret agent, maria butina, has been in jail a week and half. She was arrested last weekend right before the trumpputin summit in helsinki. She was actually arrested before the summit started even though we didnt find out about it at the time. The court didnt unseal the case against her until a few hours after the summit was concluded. The coincidence of those two events is potentially interesting because shes accused of being an agent of the russian federation, right . Secretly mound aginfluence operation in this country on behalf of the russian government to influence the Republican Party around the 2016 president ial election. Since they unsealed her case, we have learned a lot of interesting stuff about what exactly the government is accusing her of. Its all fascinating. I think we are hardwired as humans to think that secret agent stuff is inherently
Country that can be attorney general. Hes a fine man. Im not asking him to be fired, but the relationship is not working. To replace him, you have to replace him with somebody who is highly qualified and will commit to the senate to allow mueller to do his job. The president s campaign against sessions, of course, escalated in recent days after trumps former fixer, michael cohen, implicated him in Campaign Finance violations the same week his Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort was confiktvicted tax fraud charges. And now the wall street journal is reporting that Paul Manafort was, in fact, angling for a plea deal with mueller in the second upcoming trial. Those negotiations reportedly stalled over issues raised by mueller. Joining us today, former u. S. Attorney joyce vance, frank figliusi, elise jordan, former aide in the george w. Bush white house, now cohost of the podcast words matter. Sam stein, how did you get here . Oversight. Hes the politics editor of the daily beast. And Michael
Legacy thats certainly unmatched by any current senator, and he leaves a long trail of statements both funny, sad, remorseful that theres not more time left. Just take a listen to what senator jeff flake, the junior senator for arizona, had to say. Its tough to have a voice like that silenced. But this voice for civility, to put, you know, the country above your party, these are things that he taught for years and never more important than the last year. Reporter thats probably one of the most important things youre picking up in the wake of senator mccains death, is his colleagues, both democrat and republican, recognizing what his voice meant, particularly in such a volatile time for the country, such a volatile time both domestically and internationally. He was a voice where you always knew where he was going to stand. And perhaps unlike most politicians when mccain realized that perhaps he had erred he corrected those errors. And he was willing to do so in a way that very rarely do
Or dont, actually. Dont. Try really hard not to think about that. Thank you. Thank you, rachel. Well, today the president of the United States switched from insulting his director of National Intelligence yesterday by name and the thousands of intelligence personnel in washington and around the world who supply the president with the very best intelligence that they can provide. The president went from insulting all of them yesterday to insulting his voters today. The president told one of those trump lies that no one else in the history of public life in america would ever attempt to tell. Donald trump and everyone in the Trump White House know that most americans know that donald trump is an uncontrollable liar. The president knew he had no hope of convincing most voters today that he didnt mean to say what he said yesterday. The president knows that most voters, most americans, most children are way too smart to fall for the lie that donald trump told today. But donald trump must no
Press and the war over the truth, howard kurtz is outnumbered. Nice to see you, your silent. Melissa he has good manners. Howard supposed to be outnumbered. Harris thanks for being here. Lets get to the news, it is the document that so many have been waiting for. After House Republicans tried for months to secure its release, the fbi has released the application it submitted to a secret court, the fisa court, to get permission to start surveilling the Truck Campaign aides carter page. The heavily redacted document we now know reveals the Infamous Trump dossier compiled by a former british spy christopher steele. Which was an essential part of the fbi effort. President trump tweeted this. So now we found out that it was indeed the unverified and fake dirty dossier that was paid for by cricket Hillary Clinton and the dnc that was knowingly and falsely submitted to fisa and which was responsible for starting the totally conflicted and discredited speed witch hun witch hunt. House judiciar