Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. It is now under way. The director of National Intelligence said in a recent speech that the Warning Lights are blinking red and the Digital Infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. And here we see the incursions coming. Russian hackers have now already targeted at least three candidates in this years 2018 midterms. Reports one of the targets is missouri democratic senator Claire Mccaskill. So highway donald trump doubts much of this is even occurring, his pentagon chief does say there are secret actions now underway to combat it. What is the government doing to halt russian interference in the next elections . Yeah, im not at liberty to explain what were doing in that regard. Just rest assured there are actions under way to protect our elections or to exposeness
now the question is whether trump lied about the worst possible thing, not the pr afterward, but whether donald trump took actions or
it s true trump junior told his father about that, do you view that based on what you heard as a clear crime that he would have committed before the house or is it more copply indicated? more complicated but it s clearly a crime and also a crime if michael cohen himself was not truthful with the house. look what, i ve learned with donald trump, his family, his son-in-law, his lawyers, none of them have been straight with us about anything we ve asked them and they were inoculated by a house republican investigation that never pressed them to testify under subpoena that never subpoenaed any of the records to check to see if any of their stories actually you know came out the way they were telling us. you re an investigator here. you just said none of them. is them the key figures, does that include hope hicks and other staff? well, so hope hicks, for example, when she was pressed