government and the press and congress, this one man, this outsider who would not be taken down and he did everything they can and they still are doing everything they can to take them down. how do you explain that part that s why wrote the follow-up to my first book. he didn t have to read it like a narrative. you can jump to chapter six. then in chapter two, wherever he wanted to start. i did this to deliberately. i didn t tell the whole story in a narrative format that you just laid out in a minute and half. i laid out very simply. i call this a spy story. i tell you events in a narrative format that you can read from start to finish and i break it down, here was a must plan a, plan b and plan c. you just spoke about it. they tried unmasking.
low-level lackey in the russian embassy here right, they re trying to minimize how significant this was. exactly! so you have to put this all together. this is a spy story, these are the hardest kinds of stories to understand what s going on. one point, brian, if i can, listen, there have been a lot of stories written. the prior consideration of exfiltrating this source was also, in our story. so there is no conflict there. and what happened, as you know, is that with stories like this, that particular involve the president, that the messaging machine, including fox news, sadly, it s a fact, you know, moves into motion and cites details to the advantage of a counternarrative, right? which often does not reflect the reality of the story. but i know you deal with that every day, brian, so i m not telling you anything new. it is a reality of the world we live in. it s a troubling reality that there s this spin machine that s very powerful these days, but the facts in your story
this is incredible. they report early in the week about a spy story that the spy had to be ex-fill traited from russia all because the evil donald trump, you know, petting mr. biglesworth on his lap, that he screwed up and shared some information with the russians that ironically, brian, had been reported on the same information by cnn a month earlier. you can look that up, folks. this network listen, it s over, guys. i get it, you re pandering to ten people in an airport in but it s over. it s not a news network anymore. i can t believe they blew it again. unbelievable. and jeopardized the security of the person they think is the russian asset that is now in washington. so there s hell to pay for that. exactly. you kept your blood pressure somewhat low. you waited to go out to eat it s date night, go out with your
astonishingly they blew it again. they reported earlier in the week about this spy story that the spy had to be exfiltrated from russia all because of the evil donald trump. petting mr. biglesworth on his lap that he shared information with the russians that ironically, brian, had been reported on, the same information by cnn a month earlier. you can look that up, folks, it s over, guys, i get it, you re pandering to 10 people in an airport in east tunafish but it s not a news network. they blew it again. unbelievable. brian: they jeopardized the security of the person they think was the russian asset that is now in washington. hell to pay for that. you kept your blood pressure low. go out on a date with your wife. my favorite night of the
could argue is really pursuing the same policy priorities as scott pruitt but he s a more experienced washington hand and is working hard to try to make sure that some of these regulations are getting across the finish line and to the extent they can be defended in court. juliet, good to talk to you. thank you for joining me. juliet eilperin is with us tonight. that s all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show begins right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, ali. much appreciated. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour as well. a little bit of an ominous development today in the spy story that has been unfolding over the past few days about the well-placed high-level source the cia apparently used to have inside the kremlin. a source close enough to vladimir putin that he reportedly could provide u.s. intelligence agencies with photographs of documents on putin s desk. he reportedly was able to give u.s. intelligence agencies the documentation that they needed