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that is how they used to do it when he was in charge. now that the white house has hand-picked someone to take over that job, apparently we get the kushner forms 7:00 on a friday night. that does it for us tonight. we ll see you again on monday. now it s time for the last word. ari melber sitting in for lawrence tonight. good evening, ari. good evening, rachel. sometimes the news breaks late and people ask why, and there s no reason. and then sometimes it feels like maybe there s a reason. that s right. and, you know, some of these things, i just feel like it s because we re all cursed, and we don t get real weekends. so fridays just end up being a busy day. but there are some things in the news tonight that feel like legit, deliberate friday night news dumps that are supposed to be burying these things. right. and your reporting on what outgoing former director shaub said adds context to that. i am ari melber in for lawrence o donnell this evening. it seems attorney gen ....
the dni and the rest of the national security establishment? a question a lot of people are asking this hour. we re going to take you through the much balihooed memo release, what it means for the russia investigation and discuss potential resignations or firings of senior d.o.j. or fbi leadership. let s get right to it with our experts. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at both the cia and pentagon. now an msnbc national security analyst. matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department in the obama administration, now an msnbc justice and security analyst. chuck rosenberg, a former u.s. attorney who has worked on the staffs of both robert mueller and james comey at the fbi and is now an msnbc contributor. and with us on-set, nbc s ken delanian and republican strategist steve schmidt. jeremy bash, let me start with you on this idea that carter page, who we know was first surveilled in 2013, at least two to three years before he ended up in the trump orbit and y ....
peace process, but leaving the specifics up in the air. why does it matter? think back to how this year has unfolded. powell positioned herself, when she came in, part of that wing or faction in the white house. jared kushner, ivanka trump, but since then working to build rips with people like h.r. mcmaster is someone that the president trusts and looks to in some of these big settings and high profile moments. and she has influence here in the west wing. that said there have also been questions about her own sort of positioning or the rumors or speculation of where she wanted to end up. she was widely rumored to have wanted to get back to new york. her family is still there. which is obviously potentially part of what plays into this. but i would note just a couple things here. number one this may be just the start of what we re now seeing year book calling every day in twitter. calling into that yearbook specifically. there is room to question the voracity of beverly young n ....
one year ago tonight, the trump white house started shedding its first high-ranking officials, just 24 days into the new administration. one year ago tonight, the departure of michael flynn, who has since fled plead guilty to lying to the fbi has has become a cooperating witness into the special counsel investigation into the russia attack. tonight one year on we bookend that achievement with the news in the new york times that the president s personal lawyer says when it came time to pay a porn star right before the election to say that she didn t have an affair with donald trump, he found $130,000 in his own pocket and he swears it didn t come out of the campaign or out of the trump organization. that does it for us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. we have just stepped into john edwards territory. this is a third party making an expenditure for the benefit of the ca ....
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