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come back here to try to make a difference. i want to congratulate you on the difference you have made. now one of the questions i would ask you is why you re willing to leave a place with so much responsibility and background and capability to be willing to be the secretary of health and human services. thank you, senator. when i think about the mission of the department of health and human services, which is to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of the american people, it s what i ve literally spent my life trying to do. and so to have the opportunity to participate if confirmed, to be to serve as the secretary of health and human services and to try to guide that organization in a direction that would further fulfill that mission, i can t think of anything more exciting for fulfilling. i think you have the background for doing that too, with the wide range of experience you had between the different practices and hospitals and then coming here and going through ....
and crucially he knows he is not supposed to do what he s doing, not supposed to get involved, admitting at much in a radio interview yesterday. you know, the saddest thing is that because i m the president of the united states, i am not supposed to be involved with the justice department. i m not supposed to be involved with the fbi. i m not supposed to be doing the kind of things that i would love to be doing. and i am very frustrated by it. i look at what s happening with the justice department. why aren t they going after hillary clinton with her e-mails and with her the dossier. if we haven t yet heard widespread calls for impeachment, it s because this president s disregard for the rule of law for democratic norms, his authoritarian impulses are largely baked in in the country s perception, even among political insiders. it was just a couple of days ago, for example, that he called the american criminal justice system a joke and a laughing stock. on top of that, all in ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. and senior reporter for the washington post, er rinne blake and anna palmer. carol, let me go to you. you are writing now about how the president sees this interview with robert mueller, how his legal team sees the interview. here s the thing, rudy giuliani is talking and talking and talking about this. you know who s not? roberts mueller. that s absolutely true, hallie. robert mueller has been silent and the president s lawyers have been la quashs. but one thing has not changed and that s the essence of donald tru trump, which is he believes he s his best lawyer and own best pr guy and own best thinker and diplomat and in this instance, he does believe and has as we were reported back in the spring, has always believed that if he could just sit down with these people, he could straighten this all out and explain no collusion, this is a hoax. now, his lawyers also have changed slightly in the sense tha ....
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, ....