. >> thanks, rachel. >>> and thank you, again, to our fearless leader here at msnbc, rachel maddow. >>> up next, george will explains what he calls donald trump's dangerous disability and later "the last word's" most watched segment of the year online and here's a hint. it has something to do with donald trump not telling the truth. well, like most of you, i just bought a house. -oh! -very nice. now i'm turning into my dad. i text in full sentences. i refer to every child as chief. this hat was free. what am i supposed to do, not wear it? next thing you know, i'm telling strangers defense wins championships. -well, it does. -right? why is the door open? are we trying to air condition the whole neighborhood? at least i bundled home and auto on an internet website, progressive.com. progressive can't save you from becoming your parents, but we can save you money when you bundle home and auto. i mean, why would i replace this? it's not broken. >>> last year columnist george f. will left the republican party when donald trump won the nomination. four months into the trump presidency, georg

see you. >> thanks, rachel. >>> and thank you, again, to our fearless leader here at msnbc, rachel maddow. >>> up next, george will explains what he calls donald trump's dangerous disability and later the last word's most watched segment of the year online and here's a hint. it has something to do with donald trump not telling the truth. >>> last year columnist george f. will left the republican >>> last year columnist george f. will left the republican party when donald trump won the nomination. four months into the trump presidency, george will found a key phrase to describe donald trump. dangerous disability. >> trump has a dangerous disability. that was the title of george will's column that was trending on twitter today. george will has often had the most talked about column of the day in the decades as a columnist. today there was an urgency to his writing. he said it was urgent for americans to think and speak clearly about president trump's inability to do either -- to do either. this seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. it seems he does not know what it is to k

see you. >> thanks, rachel. >>> and thank you, again, to our fearless leader here at msnbc, rachel maddow. >>> up next, george will explains what he calls donald trump's dangerous disability and later the last word's most watched segment of the year online and here's a hint. it has something to do with donald trump not telling the truth. >>> last year columnist george f. will left the republican party when donald trump won the nomination. four months into the trump presidency, george will found a key phrase to describe donald trump. dangerous disability. >> trump has a dangerous disability. that was the title of george will's column that was trending on twitter today. george will has often had the most talked about column of the day in the decades as a columnist. today there was an urgency to his writing. he said it was urgent for americans to think and speak clearly about president trump's inability to do either -- to do either. this seems to be not a mere disinful disinclination but a disability. it seems he does not know what it is to know something. joining us now george f. will, puli

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morgan by his advertisements on rachel maddow show so that she doesn't talk about it so it's all just bought for him to post the code it's rather just fine news to take over time magazine so now this study was done by baylor university and catherine flowers of alabama center for often flowers from acre as they call it. looking at the situation who remember caused by sewage the raw sewage and most of it comes from the from your feet basically people walking through it and the hookworm gets in there and basically then ruins your life so she says about the fact that this exists and about the oligarchs the neo futile system we have all these billionaires who by so much great publicity on the likes of rachel maddow shout in the washington post the likes of bill gates the philanthropist the guy who's giving away his billions warren buffett they're helping all the people of african asian blah blah blah but here he says our billionaire philanthropist like bill gates fund it water treatment around the world but they don't fund it here in the u.s. because no one acknowledges that this level of

morgan by the advertisements on rachel maddow show so that she doesn't talk about it so it's all just block frickin washington post the code it's either just fine is to take over time magazine so now this study was done by baylor university and catherine flowers of alabama center for rural enterprise so here's a quote from catherine flowers from her as they call it. looking at the situation who remember hoquiam was caused by sewage the raw sewage and most of it comes to your feet basically people walking through it and the hookworm gets in there and basically then ruins your life so she says about the fact that this exists and about the oligarchies the neo futile system we have all these billionaires who by so much great publicity on the likes of rachel maddow shout in the washington post the likes of bill gates the philanthropist the guy who's giving away his billions warren buffett there helping all the people of africa nation blah blah blah but here he says our billionaire philanthropist like bill gates fund it water treatment around the world but they don't fund it here in the u.s

morgan by his advertisements on rachel maddow show so that she doesn't talk about it so it's all just block frickin washington post the code it's rather a fine news to take over time magazine so now this study was done by baylor university and catherine flowers of alabama's center for rural enterprise so here's a quote from catherine flowers from acre as they call it. looking at the situation member hoquiam was caused by sewage the raw sewage and most of it comes from the from your feet basically people walking through it and the hookworm gets in there and basically then ruins your life so she says about the fact that this exists and about the oligarchies the neo feudal system we have all these billionaires who by so much great publicity on the likes of rachel maddow shout in the washington post the likes of bill gates the philanthropist the guy who like giving away his billions warren buffett there helping all the people of africa nation blah blah blah but here he says. our billionaire philanthropist like bill gates fund water treatment around the world but they don't fund it here in

morgan by his advertisements on rachel maddow show so that she doesn't talk about it so it's all just block frickin washington post the code it's rather just fine news to take over time magazine so now this study was done by baylor university and catherine flowers of alabama's center for rural enterprise so here's a quote from catherine flowers from acre as they call it. looking at the situation member hoquiam is caused by sewage the raw sewage and most of it comes from the your feet basically people walking through it and the hookworm gets in there and basically then ruins your life so she says about the fact that this exists and about the oligarchies the neo feudal system we have all these billionaires who by so much great publicity on the likes of rachel maddow shout in the washington post the likes of bill gates the philanthropist the guy like giving away his billions warren buffett they're helping all the people of africa nation blah blah blah but here he says. our billionaire philanthropist like bill gates fund water treatment around the world but they don't fund it here in the

morgan by his advertisements on rachel maddow show so that she doesn't talk about it so it's all just bought for it in washington post the code it's rather just fine is to take over time magazine so now this study was done by baylor university and catherine flowers of alabama's center for rural enterprise so here's a quote from catherine flowers from acre as they call it. looking at the situation who remember hoquiam was caused by sewage the raw sewage and most of it comes from the your feet basically people walking through it and the hookworm gets in there and basically then ruins your life so she says about the fact that this exists and about the oligarchies the neo futile system we have all these billionaires who by so much great publicity on the likes of rachel maddow shout in the washington post the likes of bill gates the philanthropist the guy who's giving away his billions warren buffett they're helping all the people of african asian blah blah blah but here he says our billionaire philanthropist like bill gates fund water treatment around the world but they don't fund it here

the rach"the rachel maddow show now. >>> it's been a busy news day. the fcc today, as expected, voted to end net neutrality, which in theory will give internet service providers the ability to control what you're allowed to see on the swinterne and what sort of internet based applications and services you will be allowed to use. they will decide, not you. if internet service providers elect to speed up or slow down certain traffic for commercial purposes, that will put the whole online world, your access to the whole online world in their hands. as i say today's vote was expected. it does end up being more controversial vote than the fcc expected for some very specific reasons, including some stuff that has just broken in the last 24 to 48 hours. we'll have more on that vote and it's consequences coming up this hour. also today, republicans appear to have lost control of their big tax bill as senator barbara boxer was just saying to chris hayes moments ago, she praised that they lose this thing and looks like that's possible. yesterday we talked about

the rachel maddow shows starts now. >> thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i'm doing something a little different. we are doing something special tonight. and i think we have picked exactly the right night to do it. just in today's news, the president went to the grounds of the fbi and as he was heading into the fbi where he spoke at an fbi ceremony, he proclaimed the fbi to be a disgrace. he was asked about the prospect that he might pardon his national security adviser, mike flynn, and he said, i don't want to talk about pardoning mike flynn -- yet. we then got a sort of red flag thrown by congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on the intelligence committee, who went public today with his concerns that he believes the republicans in congress are trying to end the house intelligence committee investigation into the russia scandal by the end of next -- by the end of this month. he said he thinks they're trying to wrap it up now and he was explicit about why. he said he believes the republicans' view of shutt

is the party getting back behind rachel maddow and trying to get something to happen? >> yeah. notably, aaron, the national republican campaign committee, the campaign arm for the senate republicans, is still going to be on the sidelines. not lifting. i think the question is how much is the rn c really going to be helping ray moore. and still trieking president trump is going to be on the florida. not all the way in. trying to have it both ways. so extent to that support i think is still an open question. >> we just heard this morning that john conyers is retired now from u.s. house. what do you make of that decision? is this something that was going to happen inevitably anyway? >> it was inevitable. you started to see people like house minority leader nancy pelosi kind of defend him and then move to say it was time to lead. but aaron i'll say it is unclear whether he's leaving today. or what he was announcing retirement i'm announcing today and retiring by the end of the year is still unclear. but regardless, congressman conyers, 88 years old will not be in the seat come next

. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts right now with joy reed in for rachel. good evening. >> thank you very much. have a good rest of the night. thank you at home for joining us. rachel has the night off. today we were supposed to get the answer as to which party will control the virginia house of delegates in the new year and in just about the strangest way possible. race that will likely decide control of the chamber currently a tie and going to be decided drawing lots. two names tucked into film cannisters and placed inside what "washington post" described as turquoise pitch frer 1835, found by chance under long-buried stables in richmond's capitol square. that was uniquely virginia scene we were expecting today. at very last minute the democrat in the race filed court challenge. papers arrived this morning by overnight ups delivery. drawing of film cannisters has been canceled for now while the three judges on the circuit court figure out how to get back from holiday vacations to issue a ruling. ticktock. reconvenes january 10 and don't know which party c

was somebody else on staff who was the host of "rachel maddow show." basically we have the same show. i expect there would be a fight to death and only one of us would keep the job in the long run. dena powell was expected to replace this man kevin harrington, one of the original let's call them free thinkers installed in a very important national security position back when steve bannon and mike flynn were in charge of that sort of thing. he came to this very senior job at the national security counsel with zero experience in foreign policy. zero. now he's supposed to be directing strategy for national security for the united states of america? never worked in foreign policy a day in his life, however, he had worked at one of peter teal's hedge funds. peter teal, the anti democracy german born billionaire who made his money at paypal, who bankrupted the gawker website for printing things about him he did not like. his work experience for running strategy at the national security counsel is he worked at a peter teal hedge fund and before that worked at

as rachel maddow has reported, the trump-russia dossier which has not been fully verified by nbc news did allege that russians had been eyeing trump for years. >> steele wrote, russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting trump for at least five years. aim, endorse had putin, has been to split. >> five years. cultivating donald trump for those russian political ends. another "washington post" report this week also key here. it suggests the white house you is softening the current russia threat that was shaking d.c. at the end of this week because it shows people close the trump spinning his bizarre russia behavior while saying, it is all ego and he refuses to address the interference because the idea that he's been put into office by vladimir putin is pretty insulting. let's pause on how all of these have come together. >> that splaexplanation, sugges that he's a juvenile maniac who won't confront the russians because it hurts his feelings. that explanation about feelings, but she writes, it fails to account for all the sucking up trump did toward putin during the cam

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> have a good weekend. >> you, too. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. i'm doing something a little different. we're doing something special tonight, and i think we have picked exactly the right night to do it. just in today's news, the president went to the grounds of the fbi and as he was heading into the fbi where he spoke at an fbi ceremony, he proclaimed the fbi to be a disgrace and might pardon the national security advisor mike flynn and said i don't want to talk about pardoning mike flynn yet. we then got sort of a red flag thrown by congressman adam schiff on the intelligence committee that went public today with his concerns that he believes the republicans in congress are trying to end the house intelligence committee investigation into the russia scandal by the end of next -- by the end of this month. he says he thinks they are trying to wrap it up now and he was explicit about why. he believes the republican's view is shutting down our investigation is a necessary prerequisite to shutting down bob muller. thereafter, we learned that th

here at the rachel maddow show the homage is you know more now. stories that don't make sense at first but then down the road, hey -- come back. do it again. do it again. do it the other way. do it backwards. back that other way. there you go. thank you! sorry. hey! look, now you how the story ended. sorry i made you do it twice. abc news in august released a little intriguing morsel of news we didn't know what to make of at the time. peter strzok, a top investigator on robert mueller's team at the special counsel's office left the team under mysterious circumstances. now, peter strzok was a big deal, chief of the fbi's counter espionage section. and when mueller appointed special counsel he recruited strzok to help lead the special counsel's probe into russian meddling. and just weeks after mueller recruited him to the special counsel's office, strzok mysteriously gone and he wasn't just gone back to counter espionage. he was gone to human resources. and no disrespect to our brilliant friends in hr who i am not disrespecting by saying this, but i

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. >> rachel maddow, chris matthews, my cay ca mica kaczyn. >> very good. we protected his identity because he's worried. >> under trump, this could end up being a modern civil war. >> but there can't be that big a difference between the two camps of survivalists. surely the right wing has a few more years to prep but they're basically on the same side. >> liberals will be the first too die because they are afraid of guns. >> how many guns did you buy. >> i have no guns. >> seriously. >> a baton, 28 and three-quarters inches, it slices and a chops. >> where you preparing for the apocalypse? >> this is absolutely practical. >> you need this. >> that's the stupidest thing i've heard of. you draw that. bang, you're de. >> you're not accounting for the 30 seconds where you're, like, whoa, cool sword. >> bang. >> luckily our liberal prepper was trained. >> i'm not trained with it. >> you're not trained. >> not at all. >> at least-studied kung fu panda. >> if you spin around like a tornado, you can suck your enemies in towards the blade and slice them to bits. >>

i mean exception of fox they this was very very much under reported i mean you had rachel maddow saying it's important this is it significant but nobody on the left wanted to go there i don't know why did it look it was only a matter of time when their freedom in space with and really remember the ninety years i was in school back there on the internet was just starting to remember the boards and the car would progress to what we have now with the world wide web and it was a new medium where you could do some things then you could do more now you. and do a lot of people you know what twenty years ago there was limited news coverage there now everybody is there even more so. to some degree than in the print media so now of course everyone understands the need the america needs the west and it's understand that either the control of the internet the limit the exodus of their populations to news that they do not like the information laden i'd like you were that you can get that endless you know down little you know trying to download the new range exams or exam the arsenal and they also kn

rachel maddow: there was an america first committee that formed in this country, they were infiltrated by the nazis. many of them were anti-semitic, part of why they weren't alarmed by hitler's rise in germany. sharyl: you dissected the case in which president trump, then candidate, was accused of mocking a reporter who had a disability. pres. trump: now, the poor guy, you ought to see this guy, "ah, i don't know what i said, i don't remember." he's going, "i don't remember, maybe that's what i said." sharyl: what did you find? prof. martinez: i found ten separate occasions in which donald both before the incident, and after the incident, by shaking and moving around. sharyl: people who weren't disabled. prof. martinez: people who were not disabled. pres. trump: when you see the president of the bank, i mention the word "regulator." what do you think about isis? isis is very tough. they were sent by russia. they said senator cruz, "what do you think of waterboarding?" prof. martinez: the media took an image, a moment in which donald trump's right hand happened to be bent at the wrist.

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i mean exception of fox they this was very very much under reported i mean you had rachel maddow saying it's important this is it significant but nobody on the left wanted to go there i don't know why did it look it was only a matter of time when their freedom in space with and really remember the ninety years i was in school back there on the internet was just starting to remember the boards and the car would progress to what we have now with the world wide web and it was a new medium. you could do some things then you could do more now you can do a lot of people you know. twenty years ago where there was limited. news coverage there now everybody is there even more so. to some degree than in the print media so now of course everyone understands the needs the american needs the west and its understand that either the control of the internet the limit the access of their populations to news that they do not like the information laden i'd like you were that you could get that endless you know down the you know trying to download the you know grain variant on exams or exam the also no and

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. ♪ ♪ >>> breaking news right off the top here at the rachel maddow show. rachel is off tonight. she will be back in the new year. but donald trump has given an impromptu interview with michael schmidt of the of "the new york times." i have that interview right in front of me. i'm going to read you just a little bit of it. he didn't make any new news. he made some rea ergs sz but it's very interesting. right off p top donald trump said thursday he believes robert mueller the special counsel in the russia investigation will treat him fairly, some members waged a weeks long campaign to discredit mr. mueller and continue the inquiry. during 30 minutes at his golf

. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts right now with joy reed in for rachel. good evening. >> thank you very much. have a good rest of the night. thank you at home for joining us. rachel has the night off. today we were supposed to get the answer as to which party will control the virginia house of delegates in the new year and in just about the strangest way possible. race that will likely decide control of the chamber currently a tie and going to be decided drawing lots. two names tucked into film cannisters and placed inside what "washington post" described as turquoise

listen to this from tonight's "rachel maddow's program" just how significant this is from joyce vance. >> the president tried with senator burr was not access null and proceeded to go everyone around him in an effort to put pressure for him. rachel, one thing we have to remember that unlikely we'll see a bob mueller indictment the president. it is more like lie that we'll see this evidence packaged in some sort of a report that goes to the -- then will be used by folks in the house to gain whether or not impeachment is appropriate. >> important stuff right there. more on that later. attorney jeff sessions met with the house intel committee behind closed doors behind the russian matters. the democrats were less than thrilled with how he answered their questions. >> i asked the attorney general whether he was instructed by the president to take any action that he would believe hinder the russia investigation, he declined to answer the question. >> the attorney general is one of the most forgetful person out of the white house. >> jeff sessions answered questions today the same way he ha

. >> a few weeks back she was on with rachel maddow and was wonderful. i don't know how she views her future. i think a good many americans would have voted for her for just about anything. at the height of this. >> it's been very difficult. it's a lot more difficult for people that still don't have water or have to boil their water, but they don't have anything to boil it with. >> she has an urgency about her and a decency about her. and a econocompetence about her. this president attacked her during her roughest time. >> she went to meet him when he visited puerto rico and had that ridiculous paper towel moment. when he did that, when he threw paper towel at her citizens, the island still had i think sdei h and 41% had no safe drinking water. she never made it personal. she stood up for her citizens. >> when we come back from a break, our list of the ten most continues. it's been said the president loves generals. well, a few of them have gotten into trouble over the years. we will talk about that when we continue. >>> our list of the ten most comes to

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. rachel? >> i'm endebited to you. >> i feel good as opposed to guilty as going over an act. >> i really need chris to take 29 more seconds and then you just gift them to me. appreciate it. >> whatever you need. >> thank you. >> thank you at home for joining us. much appreciated. >> a lot of news today and sort of two big political stories that have been happening simultaneously and one story that is totally off of politics but has riveted the nation's largest city and the country. new york city was the target of a terror attack for the third time in months. a pressure cooker bomb detonated in manhattan. that was september last year. then halloween this year, it was the guy driving a truck down the west side bike path in lower manhattan deliberately hitting cyclists and pedestrians. today a 27-year-old would be suicide bomber who appears to have affixed some kind of home made explosive device to his torso. he was apparently trying to blow up the pedestrian passage way. he ended up injuring hims

♪ ♪ >>> breaking news right off the top here at the rachel maddow show. rachel is off tonight. she will be back in the new year. but donald trump has given an impromptu interview with michael schmidt of the of "the new york times." i have that interview right in front of me. i'm going to read you just a little bit of it. he didn't make any new news. he made some rea ergs sz but it's very interesting. right off p top donald trump said thursday he believes robert mueller the special counsel in the russia investigation will treat him fairly, some members waged a weeks long campaign to discredit mr. mueller and continue the inquiry. during 30 minutes at his golf club in wall street palm beach, he didn't demand an end to the investigations, swirling around his administration, but insisted 16 times there has been no collusion discovered by the inquiry. quote, it makes the country very bad and puts the country in a very bad position. trump said of the investigation. so, the answer, it's worked out, the sooner it's worked out, the better it is for the country. a little bit more. asked

maddow tonight. we'll talk about it on the other side. >> i've not talked to chairman nunes since the article came out. i've certainly been aware of a couple of things for a long time. and these are things we have raised the alarm bells about, and i think we need to raise them even further at this point. and that is initially rather than really focus on the russia intervention of our election and the issue of the connections between the trump campaign and the russians, the chairman and others on the committee were focused instead on trying to build a case that the obama administration was either illegally wiretapping the trum administration or they were illegally unmasking people. when they found nothing there, they moved on instead to trying to discredit christopher steele, to discredit the fbi. >> so chuck, you hear it there. how likely is it to go over among your own colleagues in your beloved institution that the fbi to up aerate on the knowledge this attack on this american institution may just

now back to the rachel maddow show in progress. >>> that looked impossible, but -- shellacked the republicans of virginia. they were plus ten statewide in terms of votes for those legislative seats. but then the next morning, virginia democrats woke up and they were still in the minority in the legislature. and that's because virginia's districts are drawn to be so favorable to republicans. a bunch of those races were really close. and then today in va, did you see how it all worked out? today virginia democrat shelly simonds beat david yancy in a recount in one of these virginia house districts. going in the recount the democrat was behind by ten votes but five hours later of that cliff hanger recount with all the math scribbled on the white board, after that she ended up ahead by one, one vote. and if it holds up an gets certified, that means that virginia democrats will have gotten 200,000 plus more votes over all for legislative seats, including that one vote victory in that one delegates race. and they still won't get to be in charge. they will have steam rolled their way to a tie, to 50

. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening. >>> thanks for joining us. buckle up. tons of news. big news in washington today was republicans celebrating the passage of the only significant legislation they have passed since they took control of the house and senate and white house back in january. this is the only major legislation they have passed but it is a doozy. you know the top line results already. this tax bill will add $1.5 trillion to the debt, deliver tax benefits to wealthiest in the country, in the end raises taxes on majority of americans, starting at bottom of the income spectrum. we knew that going into the dead of night party line vote. but now that they've passed the thing, some of what is happening come into sharp release. largest banks getting a huge windfall. goldman sachs is forecasting that seven largest banks increase earnings by 14%. when you're a multibillion-dollar enterprise, 14% is a metric freak ton of money. for a variety of reasons known only to republicans who wrote this bill in comfort of the cloak room with consultations only with

maddow tonight. >> i have not talked with chairman nun ezsince the article came out. i've been aware of a couple things for a long time and these are things we have raised the alarm bells about and i think we need raise them even further at tis point and that is initially rather than focus on the russian intervention or election and the issue of the connections beteen it trump campaign and it russians, the chairman and others on the committee were focussed instead on trying to build a case that obama administration was either illegally wire tapping the trump administration. so the focus was on unmasking. when they found nothing there, they moved on to try to discredit christopher steele, the fbi. >> so chuck, you hear it there. how is it likely to go over among your colleagues at your own beloved institution at it fbi to operate fd the knowledge that the attack on this american institution may be an act of deflection away from the president? >> it wouldn't be the first time and it is my beloved if stugz and it is for a reason. the men and women for are good and decent

. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thanks my friend. appreciate it. it's been a busy news day. tracking a number of stories tonight including uncertain fate of minnesota democratic senator al franken. 20 days since the first woman came forward to allege that senator franken behaved in sexually inappropriate manner towards her some years ago at uso event and half dozen more have come forward to describe actions. mostly groping in a public place or workplace environment or inappropriate attempts to kiss women against their will. it's not clear tonight if one of those galgsss with viewed as significantly more important than the others or maybe the sheer number of them now, but something happened today to break the political dam in terms of senator franken having the spoufrt his colleagues. nearly three dozen democratic senators came out to call for him to resign. senator franken's office announced a public statement tomorrow, midmorning. shortly thereafter, reported that senator franken would announce resignation from senate but shortly after that report

. >> a few weeks ago she was on with rachel maddow in this building and was wonderful. i think -- i don't know how she views her future in politics. i think a good many americans would have voted for her for just about anything at the height of this. >> it's been very difficult. but it's a lot more difficult for people that still don't have water or have to boil their water but they don't have anything to boil it with. >> she has an urgency about her and a decency about her and a competence about her. this president attacked her during her roughest time. >> she went to meet him when he visited puerto rico and had that ridiculous paper towel moment. when he did that, when he threw paper towel at her citizens, the islands had i think zero power, maybe 2 or 3%, i think 41% of the island had no safe drinking water. but she never broke faith. she never made it personal. she simply defended and stood up for her citizens. >>> when we come back from a break, the list of our 10 most continues. it's been said our president loves generals. a few of them have gotten into trouble ov

and listen to this from tonight's rachel maddow program, when former u.s. attorney joyce vance was asked just how significant a development this is. >> this is really damaging evidence, right? this means that the president tried directly with senator burr, wasn't successful, and then proceeded to go to everyone around him in an effort to put pressure on him. and rachel, one thing we have to remember is it's unlikely we'll ever see a bob mueller indictment of a sitting president, it's more likely we'll see this evidence, this information packaged into some sort of a report that goes to the -- that will then be used by folks in the house to gauge whether or not impeachment is appropriate. >> important stuff right there. more on that later. also today, attorney general jeff sessions met with the house intel committee behind closed doors about the russia matter and the democrats on the committee were less than thrilled with how he answered their questions. >> i asked the attorney general whether he was ever instructed by the president to take any action that he

t"the rachel maddow show" start now with joy reid. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. rachel had a well-deserved off night tonight. we'll take you back to 2004 when george appeared to provide annual testimony on worldwide threats facing the u.s. the lion's share of the testimony focused on terrorism and the insure again in iraq. cia says russia could try to reassert itself after a putin victory. the cia warned after a greater assertiveness and far more robust approach through georgia and ukraine should vladimir putin be elected to a second terp. that victory was never in doubt. putin took 71% of the vote to win that second four-year term. >> the election headquarters, early results flowed in showing president putin's massive popularity. casting his ballot, the president urged russians to think about their future and tonight in a live tv address he promised to improve russian's lives but challenges take another view four more years of putin is a return to the past. during the campaign th, they a e accused the kremlin of dominating state-run tv and said putin relied on l

for now, back to "the rachel maddow show." >>> robert mueller started at the fbi one week exactly before 9/11. then he was there for ten years. after his ten years as fbi director were up, by then barack obama was president and he asked him to stay on for another two years. he specifically asked him to stay on because the defense department and the cia were both in the process of changing their leadership at the same time, too, and the obama administration reportedly worried that that would be too much turnover in too many key national security agencies all at the same time. he got a unanimous vote in congress to allow him to extend his tenure by an extra two years. he stayed on an extra two years and left in 2013. since he left, though, since 2013, since he was replaced by james comey at the fbi, robert mueller has been working for a law firm called wilmer hale. but specifically he's been working as the guy who gets called in after a big deal organization makes a huge mess and they need somebody to come in and sort it out and clean it up. for example, 2014. the nfl botches its investiga

. >>> we have breaking news off the top here on "the rachel maddow show." she is off tonight and will be back in the new year. donald trump has given an interview with michael schmidt of the "new york times." he didn't make new news but it's very interesting. right off the top it says that donald trump said thursday that he believes robert mueller, the special counsel in the russia investigation will treat him fairly contradicting some members of the party who have waged a week's long campaign to discredit mr. mueller and the continuing inquiry during a 30-minute interview with the "new york times" at his golf club, the president did not demand an end to the russia investigation swirling around his administration but insisted 16 times that there has been no collusion discovered by the inquiry. quote, it makes the country look very bad and puts the country in a very bad position, trump said of the investigation. it's worked out, it's better for the country. when asked whether he would order the swrjustice department reopen the investigation, trump appeared t

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> returning turncoats. >> that would be an interesting essay. >> they will demand yours first. i understand. well done. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. all right. let say you live in a house, your house has a driveway in front. you have a car. you tend to park your car in your driveway. some or all of the time. so you get home one day, pull your car into your driveway, park your car, get out of your car and you then see a guy jogging down your road. pretty good pace. running past your house and think okay, no big deal then a few seconds later, you see two fairly burly dudes running after that guy, chasing them as fast as they can, and from what you can tell, you're not totally sure but kind of looks like those guys doing the chasing maybe have guns. now in this hypothetical instance, you decide you're not going to be a by stander to the chase scene, you decide you're going to intervene, and so you get back in your car, start the engine, throw it in reverse and back your car out. you back your car out, so it blocks the ro

the rachel maddow show now. >> much appreciated. >>> thank you for joining us this hour. the day started today with an unimaginable, terrible train derailment in washington state. we're continuing to follow the on going response now. the derailment happened at 7:3 many 3 a.m. local time. 10:33 a.m. our time this morning. came off the track and nose dived on to interstate five. 80 passengers and five crew members were on board. all but one of the 14 cars on the train, all but one, 13 of the 14 cars jumped the track. now, this is a train that was bound from seattle south to portland, oregon. the derailment happened south of tacoma, washington. as of tonight, officials are confirming three passengers on the train were killed and at least another three passengers suffered critical injuries. more than 100 people were sent to the hospital after the crash. this train was making its first run on apparently, what we're refurbished tracks meant to provide a faster trip for this popular route. it happened at a spot where the track curves and the speed limit drops. they are looking a

we've had rachel maddow compare him to adolph hitler. where are the apologies for that? it's disingenuous. they treated hillary clinton with much more respect. i don't think that she's done much to earn it, frankly. >> i think vanity fair's greatest crime is it wasn't funny at all. >> it wasn't. it was ecstatic. >> i thought it was kind of funny. do anything else to not run. she didn't to them any favors. >> i think they might have done a better job on the video. in fairness, they gave trump a hard time and gave carry cone a hard time. it was a overreaction and democrats need to learn if everything is an outrage, nothing is an outrage. >> and snl is always making fun of the president. >> there's a little bit of truth. snl is pretty funny. you can set your politics aside and see the humor in it. the way they portrayed hillary clinton was not the kindest. but the thing with the -- this is just an overreaction. it's a problem for democrats. >> trish: so you're a former democrat, harlan. >> yes. >> trish: what would it take to get someone like you back in the party? i think

up next, rachel maddow with a special report on the dossier, who wrote it, released it and what we know to be true. "the dossier" starts now. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. nice to have you here. we have a special report for you tonight on a story we've been working on for a very long time now. for going on a year and a half, we've been digging into the russian attempt not just to interfere in this election but interfere for the benefit of russia's chosen candidate. that candidate of course, is now the president. and his administration has been dogged since before day one by questions of whether his campaign was involved in the russian intelligence operation that tried to influence our election. two members of the president's campaign including the former national security advisor plead guilty to lying to the contacts about the russians but tonight we'll take a step back to intriguing and in many ways president document at the heart of trump russia story. we'll step back and look at the 35-page trump russia dossier. and depending on which way the news is blowing, the allegations c

this is an effort rachel maddow recently warned about. >> it sounds nuts but they are really working on it. increasingly since mike flynn pled guilty and we learned he was cooperating two weeks ago, we have seen a whole lot of red flags flying. we have seen the increasing anti-fbi, anti-mueller growing fever pitch in pro turn conservative media. we have seen in it comments from white house officials who have started to say things like, the fix is in against the president. >> that warning is proving prescient and that is the statement of fact. let me give you a legal view. there are two ways you can view this newly aggressive public strategy. one, it could reveal that people closeett to the president, the rush probe, are getting nervous. maybe they know something that is pushing they will to dial up attacks to mueller. or two, this could be something like an insurance policy. mueller may not be any closer to finding wrong, we don't know. and they may want to undermine any future attacks on mueller. and the evidence for door number one comes in the one place, if you think about it, whe