Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. It is now under way. The director of National Intelligence said in a recent speech that the Warning Lights are blinking red and the Digital Infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. And here we see the incursions coming. Russian hackers have now already targeted at least three candidates in this years 2018 midterms. Reports one of the targets is missouri democratic senator Claire Mccaskill. So highway donald trump doubts much of this is even occurring, his pentagon chief does say there are secret actions now underway to combat it. What is the government doing to halt russian interference in the next elections . Yeah, im not at liberty to explain what were doing in that regard. Just rest assured there are actions under way to protect our elections or to exposeness
now the question is whether trump lied about the worst possible thing, not the pr afterward, but whether donald trump took actions or
That and whether he can help prove it, thats an open question. We also know on the day that donald trump junior formally accepted that meeting, candidate trump touted the big upcoming speech about hillary clinton. I am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week, and were going to be discussing all the things that have taken place with the clintons. I think you will find it very informative and very, very interesting. Candidate trump did not make that monday speech. As trump now repeats his denials about any advance knowledge of the meeting, it is critical to note this is a meeting that team trump already lied about. His own lawyers often admitting to mueller trump dictated that misleading statement about the meeting originally. First they lied about what happened in the meeting. Then they lied about the defense of the meeting. Which he was choosing to offer,
even though he also claimed he didnt know anything about the meeting. Now the question is whether trump lied ab
Trump got updates on the whole of government approach his administration is implementing to safeguard our nations elections. The president has made it clear that his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections from any nation state or other malicious actors. That kind of Paper Statement is a contrast to trumps actual words in helsinki where trump sided with the russian president over his own Intelligence Agencies on the question of whether russia interfered in the u. S. Election. That was the Press Conference where putin brought back an idea these two leaders had apparently talked about, a joint u. S. russian Cyber Security group to investigate Russian Election meddling. Sort of like having el chapo join up with the dea to fight drug trafficking. Now this quite absurd plan to team up with the only country whose own agents have been charged for 2016 interference first came up you may remember all the way last summer when trump wrote that he and putin discussed
media. it is going to be historic when you step back and realize that we are about to begin a trial of a campaign chairman, numero uno for this sitting president of the united states over numerous felonies. that s what part of faces when he begins his first trial in virginia next week. jury selection already underway. today we got something always key, it is like traesh map, the witness list. 35 people prosecutors reserve the right to testify against manafort as the case unfolds. some of the names very much expected. r rick gates, everyone who follow this case knew that, because he pled out and promised to testify against his former boss. he has pled guilty and offered to cooperate with mueller. also, five people, their name we got because the court had to release them as part of the wrangling earlier this week.
realize that we are about to begin a trial of a campaign chairman numero uno for the sitting president of the united states over multiple felonies. that s what paul manafort faces when he begins his first trial in virginia next week. jury selection already under way today. we got something that is always key in these kind of cases because it is like a treasure map, the witness list. 35 people the prosecutors reserved the right to call to testify against manafort as the case unfolds. some of the names very much expected rick gates, everyone who has followed this case knew that because he pled out and thus promised to testify against his former boss. he has pled guilty and agreed to cooperate with mueller. also on the list the five people who got spec immunity from mueller in exchanging for testimony. their names we already got because the court released them as part of the wrangling earlier this week. they all look like people who worked in financial services of