the assertion, part of a statement made by kelly in connection with lawsuits brought by fbi officials lisa page and peter strzok. i will talk with the reporter behind the story in just moments. also today, in a report from the washington post says prosecutors in the trump documents case a facing substantial harassment and threats. congressman eric swalwell himself has faced threats from trump supporters stressing the dangers to msnbc. maga extremism is so bankrupt of any ideas that it really relies on violence in threats and ultimately chaos to tear apart our communities, and then yes, too often the victims are family and staff who are often in fixed positions while the target of the threats is off and on the move. in d.c., barr disciplinary panel is calling for rudy giuliani to be permanently disbarred as a lawyer. the panel argues the former trump lawyer should lose his license over efforts to undermine the integrity of the 2020 presidential election, saying his malicio
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Many months later, thats after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. By that time, the fbi had also initiated a separate but related investigation and that has now been broken much into public view, much more, because the break came with this very curious indictment of a woman named maria butina. Now, she was suspected as an unregistered agent of the russian government. That she was trying to mount this covert influence operation through a conservative group, a Gun Rights Group in the u. S. Tonight, the same reporter who had the Breakthrough Scoop about the Steele Dossier has a new and obviously provocative question. Did alleged russian spy, maria butina, cause a Leadership Shake up at the nra . The backstory here is an fbi dive, prior to the fact of trump becoming president , into russian attempts to inf
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. By the letters, chs. Confidential human source. Now, the trove of documents detail reports of payments to steele, mostly redacted. You can see there, thats a lot of white space. There are two exceptions. The final page is information from a document, from february 2016. Of course, thats long before the russia probe began. It says steele was, quote, verbally admonished by the fbi and that steele acknowledged the admonishment and even signed a document noting it. Now, from this excerpt, which obviously is tantalizing, we dont have the wider context of why. The other item comes from page two of these new documents. It concerns the fbis decision to terminate its relationship with steele. Guess when . Just days before the 2016 election. Now, this document says steele had confirmed his relationship with the fbi to an outside party. And that he was a source for a, quote, online article. In addition to revealing his relationshi
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. They are known as the steele dossier. They allege, among other things, that the Trump Campaign had organized collusion with the kremlin. Quote, this is something of huge significance. Way above party politics, that Intelligence Officer told corn, that would be steele. Quote, i think trumps own party should be aware of this stuff, as well. The official confirmation of the fbi investigation into the Trump Campaigns contacts with russia was not confirmed for many more months. Its even easy to forget that, because its the kind of big information thats the center of American Politics, so we all talk about it. People who dont even follow the news know about it. But lets be clear. It was not until march 2017, many months later is, thats after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. By that time, the fbi had also i
inequitable treatment of taxpayers. like we stated before, the signed prosecutor, which included doj tax attorneys, all agreed to recommend the approval for the felony and misdemeanor charges they called them slam dunk charges. in your op-ed, you characterized the doj s behavior as obstruction. here s my question. do you think that there was concerted action, activity here by individuals in doj, maybe in the irs, concerted activity not to pursue the case aggressively, or more benignly perhaps, they are just afraid of rattling the cage of a high-profile family and defendants? the reason for me coming forward is this is all about preferential treatment of one person, and we re not treating taxpayers the same. so i guess i would point to the facts. the fact are that we re not