A look at the days news and headlines. Authorities and facilitating them. It seems right now theyre trying to raise as much money and awareness to recover Mollie Tibbetts. Bill her boyfriend spoke to fox news. Com at length yesterday. He is back in the house where she was staying when she disappeared on the 18th of july, matt. He is back in that house where mollie went missing. He hasnt gone inside the bedroom where she has gone missing. We asked him if he noticed signs of a struggle or forced entry. He said he would not comment because investigators asked him not to jeopardize the investigation. He tells us the doors to this home were probably not locked on the day that mollie went missing. He said people dont lock their doors in smalltown iowa. Regarding what he thinks happened, he says he has no idea. Never body has their own theories. Im leaving it up to the Law Enforcement to try to figure that one out. Just dont want to go racking it through my Brain Thinking of what happened, wh
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Theyre speaking from the same playbook. But this is a tough line to walk, andrea. Ken dilanian, you had dan coats, head of national intelligence, questioned about the dissonance there. Lets watch. In the runup to the helsinki summit, u. S. Officials, ambassadors to nato, ambassadors to russia, said that the president would raise the issue of malign activity with the president. Im not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened at helsinki. Ken, it does seem that dan coats and the rest of the team have still not been briefed on what happened during that private one on one. And thats remarkable, andrea. Dan coats is the nations top intelligence official. He needs to know these things, he needs to understand where the russians are coming from, and what potential negotiations took place between the president and the russian leader. This News Conference was such a fascinating mixture of cynical
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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Many months later, 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 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 attempts to inf
A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. Area, ostensibly to rally for a representative locked in a dead heat in the house race. He seems more interested in pleasing his base than boosting candidates. Earlier, he stumped in pennsylvania for lou barletta, going up for a seat against bob casey. But he spent time listing his grievances against the media and touting his accomplishments, and when talking about Lou Barlettas opponent, trump described that as the boring stuff because sources tell cnn that President Trump is increasingly frustrated with the russia investigation, the fact that its still going on and seemingly produced no evidence of collusion. But the probe could be far from over, as President Trumps legal team is continuing to negotiate the final details of a potential sitdown interview between President Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller. And aides tell cnn that they hope by filling t
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