Evening. And the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. You. Just lived my nightmare. I know. This was going to come out while i was live on the air. Your staff had a betting pool on it. We did. Whoever won the betting pool was supposed to get tacos. You got tacos anyway. We got tacos for everybody at 8 00 anyway. I couldnt wait any more. It worked, because i got it. We brought the tacos, we did not bring your staff any tacos, well make that up to you tomorrow. Usually when i start this show at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, i have a script that i have written because there are things in the news that i would like to tell you about. Tonight there is no script because im going to go through what we just learned from the special Councils Office, im going to go through it with you,
basically as i am learning this. This just came out within the last 30 minutes, god bless chris hayes who was able to very ably digest this, handle, go to the i think the key elements of it right away, bring in lots of Expe
his lying to investigators. powell is now urging prosecutors. i believe the department of justice is withholding a lot of information. they participated in the complete set up of general michael flynn. it s the latest in a series of attempts, on december 1st 2017. on the heels of fox news reporting yesterday, the justice department investigation into the origin of the 2016 russia probe has been a criminal matter. something president trump says is great news. this be to investigate the investigators. whether it s klapper or comey or all of these people. they were very interested in
okay. this is a little bit nuts. i told you all the stories tonight are weird. but this is really weird. you remember roger stone, long-time friend and advisor south president now under indictment on multiple felony counts. he s charged with obstruction. he s charged with false statement and also witness tampering. this is how his indictment explains that. on multiple occasions including on or about december 1st, 2017, defendant stone told person two that person should do a frank pantanjali in order to avoid contradicting the. it s a character. in godfather part two which they had discussed. it s a character who testifies before a congressional committee and in that testimony he claims
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we knew about this back on december 1st, 2017 when general flynn pled guilty to lying to ambassador kislyak, the russian ambassador about sanctions because what happened was president obama, on december 28th of the prior year really through a monkey wrench into this whole deal by coming out with more sanctions on the russians. that created a whole line of communications among, in between flynn and mar-a-lago and flynn s assistant k.t. roland, and others in the trump administration, ultimately leading up to flynn lying about it. and if you look at his guilty plea, he admits that the materiality of that lie materiality is a critical element the government must prove to convict on a false statement count. he admits that the materiality related to the fbi s investigation into the coordination between the russian