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
in russia called the right to bear arms. so you have a putin-connected oligarch attached to a gun rights platform. and that is very odd. steven hall, the former chief of russian operations for the cia explains it thusly. the idea of a private gun ownership is anathema to putin. so the question is why? why was a pro-gun campaign being hac hatched by a leader in putin s own party? the answer put forward here, that putin was reaching out to attract the nra, specifically over to russia. this is part of what the justice department alleges. and again, the case is only beginning, but what they allege was a covert influence operation. torshin cultivating ties with the nra, all the way back in 2010. he and butina become nra members, which is weird. they begin attending the nra yearly conferences in the u.s., which are about domestic politics. they meet with top nra officials. they cultivate these friendships. the pictures tell the story.
oligarch attached to a gun rights platform. and that is very odd. steven hall, the former chief of russian operations for the cia explains it thusly. the idea of a private gun ownership is anathema to putin. so the question is why? why was a pro-gun campaign being hatched by a leader in putin s own party? the answer put forward here, that putin was reaching out to attract the nra, specifically over to russia. this is part of what the justice department alleges. and again, the case is only beginning, but what they allege was a covert influence operation. torshin cultivating ties with the nra, all the way back in 2010. he and butina become nra members, which is weird. they begin attending the nra yearly conferences in the u.s., which are about domestic politics. they meet with top nra officials. they cultivate these friendships. the pictures tell the story. in fact, two times, they got senior nra officials to go to russia, all expenses paid, of
weekend. if you look at the last 20 years, election s have been won on a gun rights platform, but not the opposite. it hasn t been a single issue. what did you take away? one thing i thought was interesting was rick scott coming out. he hasn t announced or said whether he s going to run for senate or not, but it struck me that he was crossing the nra on this question of how old you should be to buy one of these guns. whether that s simply a reflection of the fact that i i do not doubt this is going to be a front and center issue in any florida statewide race come the fall. the question for me whether this becomes national. if this is a signal to republicans, hey, this is a place where we should move or is he protected by the president? i think it all comes back whether people start making the phone calls on the other side of the argument. we re all saying this. this has been the issue. people have voted consistently and call their members of congress consistently in favor of th