Were going to start with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. The United States at that point had long been flying High Altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. Its interesting. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very precisely identified in all the history books as having started on october 16th. Two days after that u2 spy plane captured those images in cuba. But the crisis didnt start on october 16th because something happened that day, because there was some overt act by cuba, there was some provocation there or some announcement by them, it didnt start because on october 16th there was some act by the
soviet union or some announcement by the soviets that kicked off this crisis. The reason we can be so specific about when the Cuban Missile Cris
lift sanctions on three firms that were sanctioned for being owned or controlled by russian oligarch oleg deripaska. the decision raises key questions that the administration must answer. we ve posted the full statement we ve got from the democratic spokesperson on the banking committee tonight. you can see it at our website at maddowblog.com. but the key insight here is that it s bipartisan. that both the democratic staff and the republican staff on the banking committee in the senate are working on this question of whether or not those sanctions really ought to have been reversed. for oleg deripaska s companies. so that is now a live and interesting question. we have almost right, there is almost never any suspense as to whether or not something will happen on a bipartisan basis. it never does. but this is a live question, which may defy some of the partisan nonsense we have seen on every other issue. is it really shady that the trump administration is trying to lift sanctions on o
don t laugh. it has happened before, and it has happened specifically on this issue. and, in fact, we just got a statement from the banking committee in the senate on this issue suggesting that this really is something that might get some bipartisan objections. here is the statement. quote, bipartisan staff of the senate banking committee bipartisan staff are formally reviewing treasury s decision to lift sanctions on three firms that were sanctioned for being owned or controlled by russian oligarch oleg deripaska. the decision raises key questions that the administration must answer. we ve gone ahead and posted the full statement we got from the democratic spokesperson on the banking committee tonight. you can see it at our website at maddowblog.com. but the key insight here is that it s bipartisan. that both the democratic staff and the republican staff on the banking committee in the senate are working on this question of whether or not those sanctions really ought to have been
maddowblog.com. it is worth knowing about, right? it is worth knowing about it in its own right. i think it is a good reminder at this point in the news cycle and this moment in history, just in general, keep your head lights on. right now keep your head lights on for this next week and after the election, even just this story here of the solicitor general. and with this one, honestly, i don t know how this gets resolved. i mean i have a feeling i know why they kept it a secret all these months. i don t know how this gets fixed. particularly if they are trying to spring this sort of thing on us. nobody knows until it happens that the general is going to be allowed to do this once they
shut down. this is, main, we i mean, we ve watching this at one level or another over the course of the past year and a half. but right with this crisis and attempted murder, attempted assassination in britain, police officer still hospitalized for having gone into the house of these people who apparently were targeted in this attack, two people still fighting for their lives, trying to fend off the effects of this military nerve agent. it s like having a spy movie that has another spy movie embedded inside of it. we ve heard from people they ve had a hard time getting ahold of this democratic status report that we first reported on. we have posted that at maddowblog.com if you want to look at it. the scotts turf builder program. it s the best way to get the yard you want