Rachel Maddow Points Out The Clearest Sign Yet That Trump Is Terrified Over Russia Scandal
Maddow said Trump’s move to distract from the Sally Yates hearing was the most “cynical” thing she has seen in politics in “many, many years.”
Maddow said Trump’s move to distract from the Sally Yates hearing was the most “cynical” thing she has seen in politics in “many, many years.”
“The White House should be going through a full lifestyle polygraph to determine was Michael Flynn just an individual liar or did he have accomplices?”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) got his head handed to him by Sally Yates during the first round of questioning, so he didn’t bother to show up for round two.
Malcolm Nance highlighted Sally Yates testifying that the Russians have their own transcript of Flynn call and can blackmail the Trump White House if they lie.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) is asking whether Donald Trump committed a federal crime by engaging in witness tampering with a tweet about Sally Yates. If Trump was convicted of witness tampering, he could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.
Sen. Lindsey Graham came right out of the gate with a false statement at the hearing where Sally Yates is testifying about the Mike Flynn/Russia scandal. Graham said that the joint intelligence report found no collusion between Trump and Russia. This was a false statement.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) told CNN that House investigators had uncovered power classified evidence of Trump, his family, his businesses, and his campaign’s deep personal, financial, and political ties to Russia.
While meeting with Donald Trump after the election, President Obama warned the then president-elect not to hire Mike Flynn, which means that Trump is ultimately responsible for Flynn’s potential crimes while serving as national security adviser.
“Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Council.”
The Trump White House is planning on running a smear campaign against Sally Yates while she testifies before Congress about the Trump/Russia scandal.
Top House Intelligence Committee Democrat, ranking member, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) made an astute observative about the hack of French presidential candidate Macron’s emails and what it might say about the investigation in Russia and Donald Trump.
An ethics complaint has been filed against the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) for obstructing the progress of the investigation into the Trump campaign’s potential collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
Former Obama senior adviser Susan Rice notified Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that she won’t be testifying in front of the Senate as part of the Russia investigation. By not testifying, Rice destroyed the Republican hopes of distracting from Trump’s potential crimes by blaming the Obama administration.
Sally Yates is described as being motivated and ready to set the record straight about the warning that she gave the White House about Mike Flynn’s Russia activities when he testifies before the Senate.
During an interview with CNN’s Chrisitiane Amanpour at a Women for Women event, Hillary Clinton explained why Donald Trump is not a legitimate president.
For those who are worried that if Trump goes down for the Russia scandal, Vice President Mike Pence will be in charge, keep in mind that Pence in was in charge of the transition that never vetted Mike Flynn. The entire Trump administration is knee deep in the Russia scandal.
“If you want to turn this president to stone, ask him about Mike Flynn.”
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer tried to blame President Obama for Trump hiring Mike Flynn because Trump never did another background check of Flynn but used the same one that Obama administration did years before.
Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) asked the Acting Sec of the Army for a final determination as to whether former Trump National Security Adviser retired General Mike Flynn broke the law by accepting payments from foreign government-controlled entities.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) released three documents that show that Mike Flynn committed crimes while serving in the Trump administration and that the White House is engaging in a cover-up of those crimes.
“This White House has made a decision that they will produce absolutely nothing. I’ve not seen this before, and it sets a very dangerous precedent.”
“More and more information is coming out about the connections of the Trump allies and some people in his cabinet and their connections to Russia, and it’s only going to get worse.”
When the White House refused to turn over documents that were requested by the House Oversight Committee’s investigation, they were engaging in a criminal cover-up that could be the beginning of the end of this administration.
There is no indication that Trump’s former National Security Adviser General Mike Flunn complied with the law by properly disclosing payments he received from Russia, Republican House Oversight Chair Jason Chaffetz said Tuesday.
“GOP leadership, with less backbone strength than Gumby, has tossed morals, integrity & patriotism out the window in their lust for power.”
CNN is reporting that the FBI has intelligence that shows Russia tried to use Trump’s advisers to infiltrate his campaign if they were successful the presidency has been compromised, and Trump must be removed from office.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence announced that it sent letters inviting the testimony of many top current and former intelligence officials in regards to Russia’s active measures during the 2016 campaign, including Sally Yates.
Yates is the big news here, as it was a hearing that she was scheduled to testify at that was abruptly canceled by Devin Nunes.
During an interview on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) warned Donald Trump that the truth is going to catch up to him on Russia.
Trump’s bad week has gotten even worse as Russian documents reveal why he is not a legitimate president and how Russia helped him win.
A Russian government think tank controlled by Vladimir Putin developed a plan to swing the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump and undermine voters’ faith in the American electoral system, three current and four former U.S. officials told Reuters.
After Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner failed to disclose two meetings with high profile Russians, House Democrats are demanding that Kushner’s security clearance be suspended.
In an exclusive published in The Guardian that discredits even further President Trump’s unfounded accusations that President Obama wiretapped him there’s a bomb of its own at the very end, with a source claiming that the official investigation now has “specific concrete and corroborative evidence of collusion.” One source suggested the official investigation was making…
Carter Page couldn’t guarantee he did not discuss the easing of sanctions with his Russian contacts and told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, “Let’s see what the FISA transcripts say.”
Calls are growing for an immediate special prosecutor to be appointed after it was disclosed a FISA warrant was obtained to monitor Trump adviser Carter Page.
“The U.S. has no proof of Russian involvement in the actual chemical attack, but Russia’s surveillance drone over the hospital means Russia must have known the chemical weapons attack was coming. “
While the rest of cable news fawns over Trump’s ineffective and unauthorized strike in Syria, Maddow didn’t flinch.
This is a weird Russian story about a spam king being arrested, whose wife, Maria Levashova, said on RT he was told it was because of his involvement with a computer virus “linked to Trump’s election win.”
Alleged Russian hacker Pyotor Levashov, aka Peter Severa, was detained over the weekend in Spain.
The House Committee on Ethics sent a letter Thursday, confirming that Rep. Devin Nunes is under investigation.
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) had some bad news for Donald Trump. Devin Nunes failed to derail the Russia investigation.
“No matter what the White House throws at us, we’re going to be pressing forward.”
The congressman has access to more intelligence than the average member of Congress.
Ranking House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) isn’t being distracted by President Trump’s diversions on the Russia scandal. Schiff blew Trump’s latest attempt to throw Congress off his trail to bits with the facts about intelligence collection. In a statement provided to PoliticusUSA, the ranking House Intelligence Committee member said: If the White…
No matter how hard the president tries, this explosive scandal isn’t going anywhere.
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) caught the Trump White House red-handed engaging in the Russia cover-up when he went to the White House to view documents.
Democrats are taking this investigation seriously, while Republicans are bending over backward to protect the GOP president.
With members of Congress like Maxine Waters calling them out, Trump and the White House will not get away with lying about or diverting attention from their clear ties to Russia.
This scandal isn’t going away anytime soon – with or without the president’s childish, unhinged tweets.
The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) sent a letter to Trump administration officials asking when they became aware that their own staff was feeding information House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes. The five questions that Cummings demanded answers to should terrify the White House.
A White House Executive Order signing event abruptly ended without Trump signing the executive orders after the president fled the room because a reporter asked him about Mike Flynn.
The Russia scandal has taken a dramatic turn has Michael Flynn has offered to testify to the FBI if he is granted immunity from prosecution.
House Intelligence Committee member Denny Heck (D-WA) went there during an interview on MSNBC by comparing Trump and Nunes colluding on Russia investigation to Watergate.
Press Secretary Sean Spicer didn’t deny that the White House was the source of Devin Nunes’s information about Trump being wiretapped. Instead, he tried to direct media attention away from the Russia scandal.
The connections to the Russia scandal and the president himself have grown after it was revealed one of Devin Nunes’s sources was personally kept on the White House staff by Donald Trump.
The Trump conspiracy to distract from the Russia scandal has crumbled as House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) sources have been outed as being two White House officials.
During an interview on CBS This Morning, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan made a false statement about House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes’s source being a “whistleblower type person,” which is a reason for an independent investigation into the role of the Speaker in the effort to cover-up the Russia scandal.
If the Trump campaign worked with Russia to sway the 2016 election, the American people want the president to start packing his bags.
It’s not clear why Comey didn’t seek other avenues of making this information available to the public before they chose the next president.
During an interview on CNN’s The Situation Room, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) just took apart all of Committee Chair Devin Nunes’s excuses for not sharing the information that he claims shows Trump was spied on.
The Senate Intelligence Committee Chair and Ranking Member sent a message to Donald Trump by refusing to rule out Trump campaign collusion with Russia.
As the investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia continues to heat up, the president is desperately hoping to distract his way out of it.
House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) vowed never to reveal his sources for his claim that Trump was spied on to his own committee.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) claimed that an independent investigation into the Trump Russia scandal is not necessary because he believes that the Senate Judiciary Committee can do the job.
By giving a three-word answer at his weekly press conference, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan revealed that he is using his power to assist President Trump with his Russia cover-up.
The big mistake that proves the White House is engaging in a Russia cover-up came when the President tried to silence Sally Yates.
Trump’s Monday night tweets weren’t the words of somebody who is confident in his innocence. They’re the rantings of a man who is terrified of being caught.
As Nunes refuses to back away from an investigation he can’t be trusted to run, Democrats continue to put pressure on him to step aside.
Democrats aren’t backing away from their commitment to give the American people a fair and independent investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia.
House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) did an interview on CNN’s The Situation Room where he managed to make the Russia scandal even worse for himself and the Trump administration.
It is all unraveling for House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) as he admitted that the day before he took his claim that Trump was spied on to the media, he met with his source on the White House grounds.
“Paul Manafort pledged to influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States to benefit President Vladimir Putin’s government.â€
In case you’re wondering why ranking member Democrat Adam Schiff appears to know more than the Chair of the Intel Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, it’s because he has experience prosecuting a crooked FBI agent who was working for the Kremlin.
It wasn’t Donald Trump alone who had ties to the Russians during the 2016 campaign. It turns out that the Republican National Committee used a firm with ties to Russian intelligence to dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) accused House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) of trying to muddy the waters and help Trump cover-up the Russia scandal.
During an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asked the one question that will bring down the Trump presidency. Sanders asked, “What do the Russians have on Trump?”
Roger Stone sent a freaked out letter to CNN’s Jake Tapper this Thursday morning that includes calling Democratic Ranking Intel Member Adam Schiff a “p*ssy” and threatened to spank his accusers like children.
Carefully avoiding the network that broke the story that the FBI has evidence of the Trump campaign possibly working with the Russians to bring down Hillary Clinton, Trump wrote, “Just watched the totally biased and fake news reports of the so-called Russia story on NBC and ABC. Such dishonesty!”
The top House Intelligence Committee Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) dropped a bombshell on Donald Trump by saying there’s more than circumstantial evidence against Trump for Russia collusion.
According to intelligence expert Malcolm Nance, House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Devin Nunes’s attempt to give Trump cover has made things worse for the White House because the former Trump transition official has disqualified himself from any Trump investigation.
Instead of it exonerating President Donald Trump from his unfounded, wild accusation against President Obama, Schindler wrote, “We are now just one diligent special prosecutor away from a whole bunch of Republicans getting indicted for major crimes over #TrumpRussia.”
A Democratic lawmaker threw down the gauntlet Wednesday, saying that former Chairman of the Trump campaign Paul Manafort needs to be subpoenaed, “Our investigation will not be complete if he (Manafort) does not testify, so he should be subpoenaed.”
After Rachel Maddow drew attention to a fake Bernie Sanders supporters Facebook page that appears to be part of the Russian information warfare effort against the United States liberal and progressive patriots have flooded the page to fight back.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) doesn’t think the Senate should proceed forward with the Supreme Court nomination hearings as if there is no Russian smoke clouding President Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Chris Hayden of the Center for American progress sent out a list of what looks to be possible collusion points between the Trump campaign and the Russian government after the FBI Director James Comey said they were investigating whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia.
Director James Comey just confirmed for the first time during a House intelligence committee hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election that the FBI is investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, as well as possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) made a colossal mistake while trying to defend Trump on the Russia scandal that could cost Republicans the House in 2018.
Former Independent presidential candidate and former CIA operations officer Evan McMullin rolled out an ad today to pressure Congressional Republicans to name a bipartisan select committee to investigate Donald Trump’s Russia crisis.
Yes, it’s true your Republican Congress is not doing their job, strategic analyst for businesses and government agencies Eric Garland wrote, but the Trump Russia and Trump emoluments clause violations are being handled.
If Putin is Trump’s friend and our press and intelligence community are his enemies, then Trump is not by any measure an American president.
Russia’s state-sponsored TV network Russia Today (RT) tried to target CNN’s Jake Tapper, which prompted him to repeatedly share ugly facts about how Russia treats opponents.
“In which Sean Hannity looks for a way to blame Americans for an attack on America that was carried out by Russia. “
Maddow says there is growing evidence that Moscow’s work didn’t end on Nov. 8, 2016 – that was only the opening act.
During an interview on MSNBC, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) suggested that Wikileaks and Russia are working to together to protect President Trump.
Rachel Maddow explains that each day another piece of the Trump/Russia scandal comes together, and the White House denials fall apart.
After a poll came out Wednesday showing that a majority of voters say Attorney General Jeff Sessions should resign because they believe he lied under oath about his meetings with a Russian ambassador, oops, he did it again — there was that one other time!
Sean Spicer couldn’t answer NBC’s Hallie Jackson when she asked why President Trump would ask Congress to investigate looking for information he already claims to have about President Obama personally ordering a wiretap on him.
Donald Trump is already giving Russian President Vladimir Putin everything he ever dreamed of. Russia is laughing at the U.S. now, mocking its self destruction of the very values that made it stand in relief against an authoritarian dictatorship like Putin’s.
Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer called for an immediate investigation into political interference with ongoing investigations into Trump Russia connections and Russian interference in the U.S. election.
When asked to back up Trump’s wild claims by CNN’s Jake Tapper, the Trump White House confirmed that Trump got his ideas not from actual sources in the government, but from conspiracy and alternative fact specialists Breitbart and Levin.
Things went wrong for Trump when Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) was asked about the existence of transcripts confirming the Trump campaign’s communications with Russia. Instead of answering that there are no transcripts, Cotton refused to discuss them.
After Trump accused President Obama, without evidence, of personally abusing his power to spy on Trump, Republican strategist Rick Wilson pointed out just how stupid that accusation really is.