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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories. many months later, that s 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 attempt ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s 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 trump s own party should be aware of this stuff, as well. the official confirmation of the fbi investigation into the trump campaign s contacts with russia was not confirmed for many more months. it s even easy to forget that, because it s the kind of big information that s the center of american politics, so we all talk about it. people who don t even follow the news know about it. but let s be clear. it was not until march 2017, many months later is, that s 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, ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s 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, that s a lot of white space. there are two exceptions. the final page is information from a document, from february 2016. of course, that s 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 don t have the wider context of why. the other item comes from page two of these new documents. it concerns the fbi s 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 hi ....
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What they re saying to you. then there are actual goats, the kind that roam around many communities across america. they eat leaves, grass, and plants. and that s the story out of boise, idaho, today, where over a hundred goats broke free from their day job, yes, goats can have jobs, and they are deployed to do munching on a, well, a planned basis. there s a company that rents them out to eat up weeds. that company had to send out a truck to go get all of these goats. then they sent two trucks. ultimately, there was some flag work to try to corral those goats, you see, and get them all back into their goat transportation systems. which does suggest why that organic solution to overgrown weeds can seem like more work than it might be worth. why not just have electric weedwhackers around. it takes perseverance to chase down your moving goat system. it takes patience, it clearly takes diligence and energy. and some ask, is it worth it? is this the best we can do? it s hard to track down a ....