loaded in the police vans. that was tonight in maine. senator collins faced pressure all over her state while this bill makes the final push through congress. in maine, her constituents never made it through the front door and held a rally in the ice in 20 degree weather because the senator staff locked the office. they said you left us in the cold and all signed their names. this was in texas today outside john cornan s office. singing tax bill christmas car rolls caro rolls. republicans unveiled it on friday and the reporting since then has been, well, it s been about a lot of unpopular stuff. obscure sweeteners to benefit the office. who is that for? incidentally not just the president s business but business senator bob corker is in. you might remember senator
if you were a counter intelligence official at the fbi, what were you thinking? was going on in your head at the time the fbi was giving this warning to trump. what was in your head? turns out we can answer that. because on the first week, excuse me, on the week of trump s first close fiassified intelligence briefing, within a week after that briefing, we have a direct quote from the personal text messages of the deputy assistant director at the fbi and he in this text message says what he thinks about what he knew at that time when the fbi was giving the warning. omg, i cannot believe we are seriously looking at these allegations and pervasive connections. the pervasive connections. apparently exclaiming over exactly what the fbi was looking at in terms of the trump
high-level counter intelligence briefing and a similar to hillary clinton. the candidates were urged to alert the fbi about suspicious over tours to the campaigns and designed to educate the candidates and top aids about potential threats from foreign spies. they were timed to occur when they started receiving classified intelligence and classified briefings put them at greater risk to being targeted by foreign spies. so we re learning this for the first time today. we already knew that trump s first classified intelligence briefing as a newly minted presidential candidate happened last august, august 17th, 2016. this warning that we now know went to trump and his top staffers on the campaign, this is is very interesting for a few reasons. first of all, we know by the time trump was getting that warning, more than a half dozen trump campaign staffers, including members of his own family had already taken high-level meetings with
beep. now, the trump campaign s line on all those contacts with all those russians is those were totally innocuous things, there was nothing wrong with any of them. the reason they kept all of them secret for months is awful them slipped their mind. if there was nothing wrong, nothing nefarious about all those russian contacts, why didn t they tell the fbi about after the fbi gave them an explicit warning and said you need to call us when russians call you? but here s the other really interesting part about this scoop from nbc. if nbc is right that these warnings to the trump campaign about overtures from russians, if those overtures came right around time of trump s first classified intelligence briefing in mid august, we know that by then the fbi was already aware that the trump campaign had had lots of contacts with agents of the russian government. right? by august the fbi and the cia, by that point they d already started their counterintelligence investigation into the unusual n
political opinions. mueller saw those text messages from the inspector general s office. he respond the by taking strzok off his team back in i think june of this yar wp strzok no longer works on the mueller investigation. no longer works in counterintelligence. he s now in human resources. but the texts themselves have been seized upon by republicans as proof that mueller s team is somehow biased against trump and therefore mueller must be fired. and there definitely are some anti-trump sentiments expressed in some of these texts. after trump went after the khan family who lost someone in iraq lisa page forwarded an article about the khan family to peter strzok. she said, jesus, you should read this and trump should go f himself. strzok replied, god, that s a great article. thanks for sharing. and f trump. during what i think was a debate in october strzok said, i am riled up. trump is an f-ing idiot, unable to provide a coherent answer. on election day we got another