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
Welcome to the lead. I m in for jake tapper. A Top Republican congressman and supporter of President Trump jim jordan now accused of ignoring sexual abuse and molestation mo aaccusations at ohio state university. Theres a claim that a doctor showered with and inappropriately touched student athletes and that then coach jordan did nothing about it. I want to bring in cnns Jayson Carroll following this story. So tell us the details. Just shocking allegations. Reporter absolutely. Sadly, we have heard the type of allegations before. Officials turning a blind eye to reports of Sexual Assault at a school. Just past april, ohio state announced it was investigating abuse allegations against a man by the name of dr. Richard strauss for allegedly abuses students from the mid1970s to the mid late 1990s. A former wrestler saying the doctor touched him inappropriately starting as a teen and sexually molested some other teammates, as well. That wrestler, Michael Desabato said it was Common Knowledg
Attention to the written record of the trial when it comes out. So i am loving having the transcripts. Im a huge appreciater of transcripts. Well, there are 106 days until the election and President Trump really seems to be panicking. Its not easy to tell, but it is an understanding trump reaction to the possibility of this guy becoming the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee or this guy becoming the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee or nancy pelosi becoming the speaker of the house again. The democrats on the House Judiciary Committee already have some skilled former prosecutors on the committee. But if the democrats win the house in november, they will add more members, more democratic members to the Judiciary Committee and no doubt most of those new members will be experienced former prosecutors because it will be up to the House Judiciary Committee to initiate impeachment hearings if Robert Mueller presents the committee with what they believe to be impeachable off
I will sit down with john malcolm who help put together the president s initial judicial list. Our allies are bracing for his arrival in brussels later this week and the president s up coming summit with vladimir putin. I will get reaction to that in an interview with the u. S. Ambassador to germany. All eyes will be on capitol hill thursday when peter strzok testifies publicly before the House Judiciary Committee about his antitrump Text Messages and his role in both the clinton and trump investigations. I will ask one committee member, congressman andy biggs what he wants to hear from strzok as we look ahead to sunday morning futures. Out of the gate this morning, a fox news alert, at least four boys have now been recovered from that flooded cave in northern thailand. Thai navy seals backed by an International Team of divers and experts pulling off a remarkable feat here in just the last couple hours. This Dangerous Rescue Mission has just begun and could last for quite some time. Pr
Person who absorbs information better from print than i do from watching moving images, let alone live humans, which im sure you could read into from my personalities. But having the transcripts of these hearings it is like the treasured novels that come out every day and i want to bind them and keep them as books. When people watch stuff happen live, you dont pay as much attention to the written record of the trial when it comes out. So i am loving having the transcripts. Im a huge approach ya torec transcripts. Well, there are 106 days until the election and President Trump really seems to be pani panicking. Its not easy to tell, but it is an understanding trump reaction to the possibility of this guy becoming the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee or this guy becoming the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee or nancy pelosi becoming the speaker of the house again. The democrats on the House Judiciary Committee already have some skilled former prosecutors on the commit