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Were looking forward to that the beat, 6 00 p. M. Eastern week nights. But more importantly the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening, ari. Thanks. Much appreciated. Thanks for joining us at home. It is friday. So that means the news has again a little nuts again. I feel like there is nothing predictable about American News cycles anymore other than the fact that the cuckoo pops out of the clock reliably every friday night. Thats one thing you can count on. Its friday. Things are nuts. Tonight is no exception. Tonight the cuckoo has popped out of the clock. And over the course of this hour, actually, were waitsing for the next big thing to happen on two very important stories. Ill just tell you flatout, we expect to be covering developments in both of these stories over the course of this evening, potentially into the overnight hours tonight. A ....
chuck rosenberg, former attorney, forrer fbi. thank you for being with us on a friday night. thank you, rachel. a bit of a whiplash inducing news night. more to come. stay with us. opportunity is everywhere. like here. and here. see? opportunity. hi! cinturones por favor. gracias. ev-er-y-where. about to be parents. it s doing a lot of kicking down there. meeting the parents. it s gonna be fine. and this driver, logging out to watch his kid hit one out of the. go dani, go! opportunity is everywhere. ....
Published their own versions of this story, which fundamentally contradicts the whole point of the, in times reporting. the times is insisting that rod rosenstein seriously proposed wearing a wire, surreptitiously recording the president inside the white house as part of a serious plot to prove the president s incompetence and get him out of office. the times says their sources for that information were people who were briefed on the fact that rod rosenstein had said that to other officials and sources who were briefed on a memo that another fbi official, fired deputy director andrew mccabe supposedly wrote about this proposal from rod rosenstein. those are their sources. nbc news and the washington post, however, say as of this afternoon that each of these news organization has a source that was actually in the room when rod rosenstein supposedly made this proposal, and their source, who, again, was in the room, says that when this happened, rod rosenstein was quite obviously be ....
We re expecting presumably by the on the other hand this hour, but also because there is this other thing. now, if ewe been watching this show this week, this is something you might have seen coming. this is something we ve been watching percolate all week. monday night this order from the president announcing that president trump had directed a number of documents related to the russia investigation be declassified and released to the public. and this has been sort of a running thing in the russia investigation since late last year. the president and pro trump republicans in congress demand, demand that the justice department and the fbi hand over internal law enforcement documents and communications from the investigation, from this open, ongoing investigation into the president and his campaign with regard to russian interference in the election. now these demands that documents and communications from the ongoing investigation be opened up to the public and handed over, these deman ....
Night issued that order from the white house to declassify all these additional documents related to the russia investigation, congressman adam schiff, top democrat on the intelligence committee warned that that last dynamic was what was going on here. he said, quote, with respect to some of these materials, i have been previously informed by the fbi and justice department that they would consider the release of those materials a red line that must not be crossed because releasing those documents and materials would compromise sources and methods. john mclaughlin s former cia director, he has been making the same argument this week as adam schiff has. this is his op-ed in the washington post about why trump must not declassify these materials. the last line of the op-ed is this, quote, if the president overrides his professional staff and insists on unredacted classified information, it would force some officials, sworn to protect sources and methods of intelligence and law enforceme ....