Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Whether a person is too close to the subject of the probe, whether Jeff Sessions would beak be more of a Trump Campaign surrogate who happened to be Attorney General rather than acting as an independent Law Enforcement officer. If sessions didnt recuse after that statement, it would have made him look even more like he was doing trumps bidding. And trump apparently didnt know that making that statement would also as just a general matter of embarrassment, make him look weak and out of the loop about a decision that was already done. Because there were reports that show the Internal Doj Process had already resulted in sessions accepting that nonpartisan Recusal Recommendation from the career staff earlier that week and that Jeff Sessions was already working with doj officials op writing the very rationale they would soon release to the public. In fact, it was barely an hour after trump put that public pressure on session
trump to make a mid-campaign trip to moscow also known as a great idea. the buzzfeed report includes another bombshell on the subject that relates to collusion. even before mueller was appointed special counsel, fbi agencies learned that cohen was in frequent contact with foreign individuals about trump moscow and that some of those individuals had knowledge of or played a role in 2016 election meddling. that would be like a big headline all on its own if we didn t have so many other things happening. it s one exhibit in the collusion issues around trump. now, buzzfeed s cormier and leopold this team is back with a new scoop. this one is about the accused spy maria butina currently in jail accused of acting as a russian agent. prosecutors accuse her of waging a covert operation of influence targeting the nra and other conservatives and allege she was aided by u.s. persons one and two. first one matches political operative paul erickson who also