hustle something under with no hearings, no deliberation or order is trying for the fourth of fifth time. thanks for being here. >> thank you. that is all in for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening. >> good evening, chris. thanks, my friend. thanks for joining us this hour. happy friday. the first one often called a firing but it wasn't. it was a resignation. the first one came 24 days into the new administration. three and a half weeks in and already shedding their first senior staff. february 13th, trump national security advisor mike flynn resigned from the white house. that was in february. then in march, next out was the deputy white house chief of staff, katy walsh. then in april, it was the deputy national security advisor mcfarland. then in may, it was the white house communications director number one. mike in may.

then in june, it was the vice president's chief of staff, guy named josh and july, july ended up being busy. i swear they saved this up for when i went on vacation in part of july. in july they lost the deputy chief of staff of the national security and then they lost the white house press secretary sean spicer. assistant white house press secretary and lost reince priebus and then they lost white house communications director number two anthony scaramucci and then we rolled into the lzyy days of august and in washington nothing happens but it's time to fire or accept the resignation of the senior director for intelligence at the national security counsel as watnick and

there in the first place and he was gone. then all in the same day, chief of staff president named and a direct liaison, director of the office at the white house and and advisor on regulation and carl icahn and that same day. then a week later, sebastian gor gorka. all gone. i mean, this is just like the people who have knowable titles. right? all gone. this administration isn't that old. this doesn't show a revolving door. people just fling off the thing with force into the night.

right? of course, that's not counting the no notice firings of dozens of federal prosecutors and the firing of the acting attorney general and firing of the fbi director. this is all just white house. last night "the new york times" broke the news that on the day robert mueller was appointed special counsel, president trump reportedly lost his mind at the attorney general jeff sessions because sessions had recused himself from anything related to russia. quote, when the phone call informing him about the muller appointment ended, white house counsel don mcgahn relaid the news to the president and his aids. almost immediately mr. trump lobbied a volley of insults at mr. sessions. telling him the attorney general it was his fault they were in

the current situation. he did resign. he wrote a resignation letter to the president but the president would not accept it quote. trump ended up rejecting sessions' resignation letter after senior members of his administration dismissing the ag would create more problems for a president who already fired an fbi director and national security advisor. senior advisors told him that accepting mr. sessions' resignation would sow more kew s inside administration. really? the idea this administration didn't want to let anybody go would chalk too much attention. they were afraid of shedding anyone as of may? they took drastic steps even against the president's wishes to stop losing key and high profile staff as of may because that would be too much chaos? really? they stopped -- how does that square with their actual

behavior? it doesn't make sense that senior white house advisors wouldn't let the president fire anyone too high profile as of may because in reality as of may they were just getting started with the flinging people into the carousal into the good night into the fall. the times further reports that president trump asked again if he could please fire jeff sessions in july. and again, the answer was reportedly no. no, that would be too disruptive. too disruptive to fire somebody in july? why? because jeff sessions might clog up the outdoor they were using to fire these other people and there might be a pileup? he was going to block the fire exit? honestly, that explanation for why the president couldn't fire jeff sessions when he wanted to honestly makes no sense given the number of people fired from this white house. this situation with the president and the attorney general supposedly having this stand off, it will end weirdly i

can assure you but something about the way that conflict between the president and the attorney general, something about the way that palace intrigue is being described is off. when you put it in context against the way the white house was otherwise behaving at the time these supposed conflicts really came to ahead. regardless of jeff sessions, today there is one new name to add to the list in washington. today we got the resignation of the press secretary to the vice president. mark lotter. mike pence gone as of today. mike pence lost his chief of staff back in june. lost his press secretary today. and for all the turmoil in this white house and all of the scandals about various people and quitting and disappearances of these senior staff, vice president mike pence has been caught out in way more of these scandals than his bland beltway press coverage would have you believe. going back to the first dramatic

departure from the white house. going back to mike flynn. all right? mike pence was the head of the transition. this is a letter that he received as head of the transition notifying him in writing about concerns soon to be national security advisor appeared to be on the payroll of foreign governments. in addition to this notification in congress, mike flynn's lawyers said they, too, notified the transition in person telling them that flynn was on the payroll of foreign governments. vice president mike pence was running the transition when all those warnings about mike flynn came in. he nevertheless claims he never heard, no idea. as head of the transition, no idea, but he could have had any idea mike flynn would have been on the payroll of foreign governments. that's plainly not true. vice president mike pence also solemnly intoned to the american people, there is no way mike flynn had discussions about

russian sanctions during the transition. despite the fact he said it very solemnly solemnly, that was not true and insisted, insisted there were no contacts at all between the trump campaign and russian officials during the campaign. that of course, was not true, either. vice president mike pence insisted that james comey was fired as fbi tie recolledirectof an internal process. had nothing at all to do with the white house's needs or desires and president's feelings about the russia investigation. although, that's what mike pence told the american people about the firing of james comey. we now know president trump gave pence a letter that outlined his rational for wanting to fire james comey the day before the department of justice ever produced their rational. so, mike pence's comey firing explanation was not only not true, we can tell based on the

timeline that he knew it was not true at the time he said it. but wait, there is more. this week, mike flynn's son, mike flynn junior was described by nbc news as being a subject of the investigation by rob burt mu -- robert mueller. mike pence has a good run about mike flynn junior, as well. continue ver controversy emerged about toxic conspiracy theories that serk la circulated during the campaign and controversy around mike flynn junior continuing to depend some of the most conspiracy theories during the campaign after a disturbed young man showed up at a d.c. pizza shop. mike was fired from the trump transition. again mike pence was head of the transition. his explanation for what happened is mike flynn junior wasn't really being fired

because he was never tactually part of it. not true. mike flynn junior was not part of the transition. we have evidence for this until the form of the fact that mike flynn junior had been happily e-mailing conspiracy theories to reporters from his official trump transition e-mail address for quite sometime before mike pence tried to get away about lying about that, too. mike pence has a real problem in the russia investigation and in some of these white house scandals. again and again and again mike pence made untrue public statements about some of the most controversial elements of the administration and russia scandal specifically. now, vice president pence having already lost his chief of staff today he lost his press secretary, vice president pence has himself hired a high-powered washington d.c. lawyer to represent him on the trump, russia scandal. after the vice president took the unprecedented step of

setting up his own political action committee, something no vice president has done at this point in a new administration ever, after he set up that pact, team pence initially floated the idea this pact might be used as a fundraising vehicle to raise money to pay for mike pence's legal fees. after they got pushing press inquiries, the vice president backed off the plans and say the pact won't be used to fund the legal defense. we don't know how the vice president is planning to pay for his legal representation on the russia matter but he's not a man of trump level means. ist it's going to be a real issue for he and his family. walter left that job in frustration. very high profile resignation. as he left, he warned that one of the things we should watch

for at the government ethics office now that he was leaving, he said we should watch for who the trump administration will point out as successor. he warned us administration might try to passover the most senior person under him at that office who would otherwise be in line for the job. he said that person is highly qualified and would do an excellent job with the ethics office and said it should send red flags for everybody if they bypass that senior person. if they bypass that senior official who is next in line to be the acting director and instead, he warned us watch to see if they instead want to pick this one other particular guy that works at the office. the trump administration did that and walter warned should be expected to have a more pliable attitude on ethics towards this white house. that is the guy in charge of the ethics office now and he's revised the rules around legal

defense funds for administration personnel under the new interpretation of ethics rules, mike pence and any other white house staffer that needs to fund the legal defense will be able to accept unlimited anonymous donations from lobbyists to defray any legal bills that arise out of these white house scandals. oh, good. what could possibly go wrong? if there is one thing for lobby'ses lobb lobbyists to fund, it's the legal defense. tonight administration announced that they do not want this to be seen as a change in policy. i'm sure they don't. but the out going director at the ethics office has been banging the drum over this for the last couple of days since they made this change warning that this really is a turn for the worse. today for the second time, we learned of a witness being called to testify before one of what we believe are the two grand juries convened by special

counsel robert mueller. first person to have testified to the grand jury, soviet born naturalized u.s. citizen part of the trump tower meeting last june during the campaign. he is known to have ties to russian military intelligence. the first person we know who spoke to the muller grand jury. the second person we now know who has spoken to the muller grand jury was today. jason maloney, the spokesperson for trump campaign chair paul man foafort manafort. it's weird for a spokesperson to testify before a grand jury but presumably that reasoning will become clear in the end. paul manafort has a real bull's eye on him in terms of what is happening in congress. the top democrat in the senate diane feinstein was asked by reporters why there is such a delay in getting paul manafort to come in and give testimony to the committee weeks and weeks

and weeks after it had been announced he had been asked to come in. she responded by attributing the delay in part to the committee's own need to up its game when it comes to investigating complex financial matters. diane feinstein announced her committee has just hired two new investigative financial staffers to quote trace the money. now that those staffers are in place, senator feinstein suggested that interview with paul manafort might go ahead. what that means for potential liability or money trails, we don't know. paul ma that fon manafort is go. even since they have been in the white house, we are starting to realize that in trump world, the way this works is there is going to be a lot of people left behind. there are going to be a lot of people involved in lots of interesting things who are long

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reporters have just published this new report at buzz feed news and what they are reporting in the first instance is a new addition to the exceedingly long list of secret meetings with foreign officials that the trump campaign and trump transition didn't disclose until after that meeting ended up in the press. buzz feed today reporting on a previously secret meeting held in january in new york that involved mike flynn, steve bannon, jared kushner and the king of jordan. now there is nothing inherently scandalous about the king of jordan. there is nothing inherently scandalous about the members of the presidential transition team meeting any foreign leaders. it happens all the time. it is unusual they didn't disclose it. jared kushner initially left the meeting off his security clearance application and mike flynn left it off the applicati

application, steve bannon, we don't know yet but working on it. beyond the secrecy about this, the fact it has not been disclosed until now, here is another really acute problem about what buzz feed just reported. democrats on the house oversight and foreign affairs committee reported on wednesday morning this week that another thing mike flynn failed to initially disclose was that he was a paid agent working to advance a business proposition to partner with among other companies, russian nuclear and security companies in order to do this gigantic multi hundreds of millions of dollars project that would build nuclear reactors in the middle east. most of them would be in saudi arabia, which yes, floats on the sea of oil so question mark about nuclear power anyway. also in the nation of jordan. so congressional democrats on wednesday released this information they said shows that mike flynn was involved in that

project being paid to advance that nuclear project including taking a trip to the middle east in 2015 to pursue that project. he was doing all that without ever disclosing that trip without disclosing any of the foreign meetings with foreign leaders he took in congestion with the project and certainly without 'tdisclosing the paymen he received. he didn't disclose that in the security clearance application and forwarding that to robert mueller to decide if that was a prosecutable defense. that was wednesday morning. by wednesday afternoon the wall street journal said once mike flynn was national security advisor he continued to advance that russian nuclear business proposal up to and including telling national security counsel staff members they had to take meetings with the companies involved in that business plan. well, now what buzz feed reports is not just mike flynn but steve bannon and jared kushner who

does still work in the white house, buzz feed reports that the three of them were in on a meeting, a previously undisclosed meeting with the king of jordan during the transition at which they talked about that nuclear deal. again, this is chris mcdaniel and the reporters at buzz feed and really interesting. they get denials. i love the way they source this. they get denials from three individuals, one close to flynn. one close to kushner. and one close to bannon and each of those three people close to each of those guys denies flynn's business deal thing was discussed at the secret meeting with king of jordan. now check this out. check out this wording. quote, people close to the three trump advisors say that the nuclear deal was not discussed but a federal official with access to a document created by a law enforcement agency about

the meeting said that the nuclear proposal was one of the topics the group talked about. so a federal official with access to a document created by a law enforcement agency about the meeting. law enforcement agency? why was a law enforcement agency aware of that meeting? how did they know what was discussed at that meeting and if that law enforcement agency is right about what was discussed at that secret meeting, what would it mean if kushner and flynn and bannon are lying about it? remember, put that panel back up. yeah. a lot of people are gone from this white house. flynn is gone. bannon is gone. kushner is still there. joining us now is anthony, politzer prize winning reporter with buzz feed news. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> the way i stacked that up, there is a few things you've broken that add to reporting.

previously undisclosed meeting, a second meeting that seems to have involved this flynn nuclear deal and the question about whether or not these guys are telling the truth about what the content was in that meeting. >> right. >> okay. in terms of the undisclosed meeting, there is nothing inherently skancandalous. >> they should have let them know the head of state is in the united states and probably should have reported it on their security disclosures. we know mr. flynn did not. we know jared did not on his initial disclosure. we don't know what mr. bannon did. we've been trying hard to get that document out of the white house. they have refused. the people around mr. bannon have refused. >> there are a lot of meetings between members of the trump campaign, trump transition with foreign officials that did not get disclosed until after the fact.

interesting reporting this week about the crown prince of the united arab meeting with flynn -- >> same group. >> same group, kushner, bannon, in that case it appears u.s. intelligence agencies were aware in part because they were weirded out that the crown prince from the united arab was in the united states without telling the united states. is there any indication the king of jordan took that meeting? >> we really would like to know that. >> okay. >> we have not been able to figure it out yet and no one will tell us. it's a rather simple question. did you tell our national security apparatus that a foreign head of state was not united states in a bar, in lower manhattan. a fairly simple question. we're a little bit weirded out that nobody will answer it or give us a straight shot at it. i can't answer it. i wish we could.

>> the king of jordan, should be noted, has incredibly warm relations with the united states especially on security and intelligence matters. so do we know anything about from his side of this in terms of whether he is willing to answer questions from investigators, reporters, willing to talk about these things? >> might be willing to talk to investigators but not talking to journalis journalists. the only thing we found rather obscurely is a brief message saying the king returned home from a foreign visit. >> of a private nature. >> which is this visit. that's the only public statement from anyone involved that the king of jordan was in the united states at the four seasons hotel and ultimately meeting with three of, you know, three of the incoming white house officials. >> according to your source, that private visit was talking to jared kushner, mike flynn and steve bannon about a potential

nuclear deal involving the russians. that doesn't sound like a fun private visit. >> that's your words, not mine. >> anthony, this is a really interesting scoop and as you can tell from this discussion, i have a feeling it will lead to a lot more interesting information. thank you very much. >> thanks. much more to come. busy night tonight. stay with us. i was having a good round, and then my friend, sheila, right as i was stepping into the tee box mentioned a tip a pro gave her. no. yep. did it help? it completely ruined my game. well, the truth is, that advice was never meant for you. i like you. you want to show me your swing? it's too soon. get advice that's right for you. investment management services from td ameritrade.

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hurricane irma about the nursing home across the street from a working open hospital that had power. neverthele nevertheless, eight residents died in sweltering conditions. terrible story. we're getting some provocative and worrying new information about that tonight. first, there is new video tonight from inside this nursing home taken by a relative before patients started dying. the owner losing the air conditioning system is when a tree came down and hit the transformer and the ac unit was not hooked up and the a.c. went down and as you can see in this footage, they resorted to fans and portable and keep them cool but clearly, it wasn't enough. eight. that nursing home in hollywood, florida is closed and it's a

crime scene. criminal investigation granted a search warrant this morning. teams were inside photographing evidence. the nursing home operator could be facing manslaughter charges. administrators or the owner of the center acted with cullbpabl negligence for the safety of the residents. it carries a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. one retired homicide investigator whose 94-year-old mother told the ""miami herald" they should have called 911. somebody should go to jail for this. tonight we're learning the nursing home says they did place emergency calls for help. they say they called florida governor rick scott. investigative reporter of cbs foreign miami reports this tonight. 36 hours prior to the first

death, officials at the first facility called on three separate occasions an emergency number that governor rick scott had given to health care institutions including nursing homes so they could have a direct line to the top of the state government if they were in need of help. nursing home officials say they called that number three times asking for help and placed the first call to governor scott and then they say they called again the next day on monday. then they say they called again the next day on tuesday. they say those calls went unanswered. now nbc news is reporting with some specificity about the calls, according to nbc news the first call at 5:34 p.m. on september 11th and another call at 5:59 september 12th and a final call for help at 12:41 p.m. later on september 12th. so we've got specificity in terms of what the nursing home says they did. and we do know the florida governor gave out that number for medical facilities, health

care facilities to get help. that said tonight, the state of florida and governor are refu refuting the account. the governor's office says quote every call made to the governor was referred to the agency for health care administration and florida department of health and returned. the nursing home says they made three calls for help to the emergency number that was supposed to get them to the governor. they say they never got a response. expect the effort to pinpoint exactly whose failure to act may have doomed eight vulnerable people and what went on and to factor into what is looking like a considerably aggressive criminal investigation. watch this space. patrick woke up with back pain.

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turkey and us because we were on soil. i mean, usually when a host country summons the top diplomat, especially when you have it in a public way and usually that means somebody is getting in trouble for something. top american envoy to cuba to did cut what the united states said about the weird colt effects and hearing lose breaking out against u.s. diplomats in havana seemed like it wouldn't go well. that that rare face-to-face in our top diplomat there wasn't because anybody and castro not

to voice a complaint, he did it to express his concern and according to the u.s. officials familiar with what happened at this meeting, president castro seemed baffled by the attacks as baffled as the united states has been. he denied responsibility for whatever has been happening to u.s. diplomats in havana. u.s. officials were taken aback by the way he addressed the matter. cuba reportedly offered to let fbi agents come to havana to investigate this thing. cuba is not usually psychoed about inviting fbi agents anywhere. the fbi did send additional fbi personnel to cuba to investigate the sonic attacks but unclear if they are there now. cuban sources tell nbc news the cuban government allegedly sent a diplomat note they would help investigate the incident part of a by lateral investigation with

the united states into this matter. cuban sources tell nbc news they sent this note to the u.s. state department, never got a response back. i understand they are having staffing issues at the state department. they didn't get a response. we first learned about these strange attacks, these strange symptoms emerging against u.s. diplomatic personnel in august. cbs radio first to report american diplomats were reporting incidents which caused a variety of physical symptoms. super vague in the initial reporting that was very unclear what types of incidents were happening here. the state department was totally baffling vague and confusing on the subject. we now thanks to good reporting on the subject, we now know it's a scary and weird as it seemed before we knew the details. we now know there are 21 medically confirmed cases, some involve permanent hearing loss or traumatic brain injury. yesterday the associate the

press published scary details on the attacks. let me read to you straight from the a.p. story. yet, the blaring grinding noise jolted the american diplomat from his bed in a havana hotel. he moved just a few feet and there was silence. quote he climbed back into bed, the agonizing sound hit him again. it was as if he walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room. quote in several episodes recounted by u.s. officials, victims knew it was happening in realtime and strong indications of a sonic attack. we really don't know what is going on. there is an aggressive investigation underway but offered no more information than a month ago. the state department's most recent line is the reality is we don't know who or what has caused this. we also now know the state department is not responding to the cuban government when they have been offering to buy latterly investigate what is

happening. joining us is josh letterman been reporting about this terrifying story. mr. letterman, thank you very much for your reporting and thanks for being here tonight. >> hi, rachel. >> so the thing that i don't -- the thing i can't get my head around this with this story is i don't understand if there -- if we believe there to be a type of weapon or some sort of electronic device or some sort of tactic that could cause the kinds of injuries that have been seen in these diplomats. do we know there is something like this and we don't know who has been deploying it? >> that's really what made this puzzle possible for investigators so solve. there are devices or technologies that could explain parts of what we're seeing. they could explain the noises people are hearing, maybe the vibrations. there are devices that could explain symptoms that people are hearing and feeling and experiencing but then not others

and investigators haven't been able to find a theory that fits what they are seeing among the 21 americans confirmed to have been affected by this. >> the targeting part of it you explained is beyond spy movie in terms of thinking about this and how scary. can you clarify what these people reported in some instances is a sense of noise causing discomfort or disturbance and exists in parts of a room but not in others. you can literally move in and out of the zone of interference. >> right, like there was an invisible wall splitting through it and you couldn't hear what you could hear on the other side except people were two or three feet away from the bed where they were before. there are some devices that can do that. electro magnetic waves can be

targeted narrowly like lasers for instance and also, ultra sonic waves can also be targeted. there are these devices called l rads used sometimes to disburse crowds or to try to prevent buy ri -- pirates from boarding ships but don't explain the symptoms. almost a year after americans started getting sick. >> josh, we've got 21 americans who have been identified has having been affected by this more or less. some symptoms, possibly permanent in terms of permanent hearing loss and you have some interesting reporting this may not have just been confined to american residences or workplaces. this may have included a hotel. >> at least one hotel and the place and near all of the big

sites, boardwalk. we can confirm today that there were several other hotels where this seems to have taken place. >> wow. josh letter mman, absolutely confounding story and you're reporting on it is clarifying and scary. thanks for helping us understand it. >> thanks, rachel. >> we've been watching this story unfold. one thing is this appears not to be over. when the state department started talking about this, they seemed like it happened long in the past and resolved and retroactively trying to invest gate. it seems as recently as less than a month ago, there was at least one additional attack. the geographic none specificity of this in terms of their offic and multiple hotels is confounding. there are these new disturbing details we got tonight about the state department apparently blanking cuba when cuba offered to help with the investigation.

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last week we got a strange report that the house intelligence committee subpoenaing the fbi and the justice department. on matters related to the trump russia dosier and robert mueller investigation. now, i say that was strange because we are used to seeing the fbi and justice department issuing subpoenas. we are not used to seeing them getting subpoenaed themselves. well, tons out there's a reason why that whole thing seemed a

little bit weird. it turns out it wasn't the whole house intelligence committee sending out the subpoenas. it was just this one guy. devon nunes, rogue chairman and apparently recused himself of russia measures and tossing out subpoenas like they're free t-shirts at a ball game. if you want to see how team trump is turning it into a democratic scandal, into definitely somebody else's problem, then nunes is the guy to watch. when trump claimed he was wiretapped by president obama at trump tower, nunes had the bizarre episode running off to the white house in the middle of the night to try to prove it. that got him kicked off the russia investigation and investigated by the ethics committee. he then tried to turn the russia investigation into an obama administration scandal about unmasking. that also blew up in his face. not only did the intelligence intercepts and interviews with

obama officials show they didn't do anything wrong, the intercepts raised new questions of whether trump associates broke the law and took meetings without disclosing them. oops. the latest attempt to team trump on the russia thing is apparently to try to discredit the trump russia dosier that's got egg so much attention over the last nine months. whatever you think about the salacious stuff in the dosier, collie claims were true. the dossier claimed that the trump campaign accepted damaging information from the kremlin on hillary clinton. now thanks to the reporting about that trump tower meeting we know that they did. the dossier laid out conversations of trump campaign officials and russians in the campaign. trump campaign denied that that ever happened and u.s. intercepts corroborated that many of the conversations took place between the same individuals on the same days as what was described in the

dossier saying then candidate donald trump exploring a real estate deal in moscow in the campaign. we know that to be true. trump tower moscow. this was supposed to be the big week of nunes to up end tmuelle investigation because of reliance on the trump russia dossier and appears to be strike three. when the attorney general and the fbi director failed to respond to these subpoenas that he sent them demanding they turn over fbi information about the dossier, nunes was mad and publicly threatened to hold them in contempt. he sent a threatening letter with a deadline. september 14th. yesterday. in this letter he said if these documents on the dossier were not produced by september 14th, quote, the attorney general and director of the fbi shall appear before the committee at 9:00 a.m. sharp on that day at an

open hearing to explain under oath their unwillingness to comply. that was yesterday. i don't know if we missed something. there was a big showdown at the ok corral and everyone was getting a breakfast sandwich but nothing happened yesterday. we tried contacting the office of nunes all week long to see if they got the documents they're demanding. all week long, silence. but yesterday 9:00 a.m. came and went. i kind of want to look forward to what he does next. i'll be right back. patrick woke up with a sore back.

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we now know that they were sowing discord in the election with phony groups on facebook. they were running anti-immigrant, anti-me, anti-hillary clinton demonstrations. they were, you know, putting out all this fake news, all the negative stories that were untrue to really divide people. and so, we are going to make facebook own up to everything. they're just begun to own up. they have a long way to go before they get to where they need to be in my opinion. >> make facebook own up to everything. that was hillary clinton in her interview on this show last night making the case that facebook needs to show their work. they need to own up to the fact they let the platform be weaponized by russia on an attack on our election.

facebook denied that russia used them at all in the attack. now facebook reversed course and admitted, okay, yeah, they did. but they won't say how they figured it out or what they found. it's hard to find out what facebook turned up in their records to make them change their tune on this story. all these months later. what made them admit they sold ads to russian interests? haven't been able to figure out they do it, how they got to this conclusion. until today we got this from senator mark warner. top democrat on the senate intelligence committee. he retweeted a cbs news story of the facebook russian ads thing and made a critical addition to this tweet. he added sick words of his own. this is what he added. and they paid in rubles. seriously. that was his whole tweet. was that like a joke? right? what does that mean? russia bought ads and russians buy things in rubles? hah hah hah. he is the top democrat on the

intelligence committee. he doesn't say things about this investigation by mistake. it seemed unlikely he jumped on twitter to workshop the russia currency jokes and we asked what he meant and got a satisfying answer and the office told us, quote, it is literally true. some of the ads were paid for in rubles. so that was not him making a joke. according to the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee, facebook really did accept rubles to sell those ads that were part of russia's hack on the election. that's what took facebook's crack investigators months and months to figure out. you would have thought a currency check on the records might have sorted out. hey, did we get paid in rubles for any ads in the campaign? months. that was the operational secret facebook didn't want us to know about how they were looking into this. amazing. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again on monday. now time for "the last word"