swing area. mobile or huntsville where they have development are worried about the state's reputation. this remains republican state so as much as doug jones is pitching them in the final few days to come over, it's a difficult argument to make in this state with these demographics. >> we should note that steve bannon was down there tonight. he is endorsed moore -- moore was all but guaranteed to win the primary. swooped in at the end and has helped maneuver the republican party into full throated support of a man who stands credible accused of molesting a 14-year-old and sexual assaulting a 16-year-old. thank you both for being with me tonight. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us. all right. buckle up. things are getting a little weird. we knew it would happen but it's happening. since the president's national security advisor mike flynn pled

guilty on friday morning, there have been some strange utterances coming out of the white house about this investigation that threatens to engulf the trump presidency. specifically, strange utterances coming from white house lawyers about this investigation. we should have probably seen it as the first sign that mike flynn's guilty plea was really rattling the white house. when white house russia lawyer ty cobb gave his initial response to that guilty plea as if he was beaming into this news story from some other distant backwards planet where this was good news. mike flynn plead guilty to lying to the fbi and simultaneously agreed to cooperate without limit with the special counsel's investigation on all other matters and white house lawyer ty cobb greeted that news by praising quote the conclusion of this phase of the special

counsel's work as if mike flynn issue was done now. it's like if you went to see a movie and as soon as the opening credit started rolling, you stood up and tried to lead a big round of applause and tried to get everybody to leave the theater with you. wow, that was awesome. i love that title. we all came to see the title, right? that was the first odd response from the president's lawyers greeting the mike flynn news as if it's done. as the flynn as a cooperating witness chapter opened, the president's lawyer praised the special counsel for wrapping up that part of the investigation. super weird and a sign they would behave strangely after that plea. second weird set of reactions from the president's lawyers came yesterday when john doud argued and argued if the president obstructed justice in this matter or if the president colluded with russia, who cares?

john doud said the president cannot be an obstructer of justice because he is justice and jay secular saying it would not be a crime to interfere in the u.s. election because technically there is no crime called collusion. those climaim's from the president's lawyers flipped on what sounded like a laugh track in legal circles across the country but did mark an important moment in this presidency. the moment when the president's legal team stopped arguing that the president didn't obstruct justice or that he didn't collude with russia. they instead started arguing maybe the president did those things but those things are okay for a president to do. so the weird reaction to the mike flynn news over the weekend, the president can't commit a crime because he's the president news yesterday. well, now we've got the next

phase of the response also from the president's lawyers. it is also a little weird. it's a little hard to make heads or tails of but basically what the president's lawyer started arguing today is that they are not just arguing with reporters, they are not just trying to shift the narrative about how people describe what is going on in the investigation, the president's lawyers are disputing the existence of an important new news story about the progress of the scandal and investigation. they are not fighting about the importance of this news story or the legal significance of the news story, they are literally disputing whether or not this story exists. this was the story for the record. this is the original version of the story. the english language version of a german newspaper called handelsblatt. forgive me if it's an insult to german speakers.

handelsblatt. deutsche bank has been served. quote, deutsche bank served subpoena. this is a german news story about a german bank so they are understandably focused on the implications of this for germany and for this german bank but after handelsblatt initially broke that story, it was picked up and reported out and very quickly became clear in our country that this isn't just an important story for some big important german bank. this is an important story for our presidency and that's because of two important things about this particular german bank. the first important thing to know about deutsche bank in this story, it's up to its german neck in russian money

laundering. i'm a russian crook and i grew up practicing judo with vladimir putin and he's given me leave to steal stuff or strip the assets out of some formally state-run company. i'm a russian bad guy. i've got ill gotten games. i've got stolen money and i would lake to enjoy my stolen money. and so in order to do so, i have to secret those funds away somewhere where they won't get noticed by law enforcement. where they won't get taxed. and where anybody who might prosecute me or purse cuk perser the way i got this money, they won't be able to find it and reclaim it and trace it back to me. for the sake of argument, the amount of money i crook want to get out of russia is $10 million. if i want to get $10 million out of russia, i want to convert it from rurals inbles into some ot currency. to get it out without anybody noticing, it has to look like

that money is leaving the country as some part of legitimate transaction. and on the down low, slightly, i probably need it to be okay with putin i'm taking that money out because he tends to know these things. that's where deutsche bank comes in. it went through a big legit bank, this scheme they were running was super effective at moving money not just once but lots and lots and lots of times, tons of money into russia and out of the west to keep the scheme going for years before people finally started to realize that even though this was a legit european-looking bank, this say huge, fairly simple criminal operation they were running with russian illegal money. and it -- again, it was pretty

simple. i mean, usually money laundering is designed to be complicated so you can't follow the money. it was simple. here is how it worked. you can't just ship your money from russia like wire it to the cayman islands or cypress or new york or london. you'll get caught doing it that way if you're a russian crook. instead, what you do is say i don't just want to send my money abroad to park it somewhere, i don't just want to open an account in a foreign country and move it there. i can't do that with money like this. instead, i want to buy something. so you need to have something you're going to buy for a lot of money. so you have somebody abroad go to the bank and i have this highlighter and the price of this highlighter i want to sell is $10 million. miraculously, simultaneously at that same moment you pop up in moscow with your $10 million in

ill gotten rubles and say hey, office, do you know anybody selling something i might be able to buy for $10 million. i was thinking of investing in a highlighter. do you know anybody selling one for $10 million. the bank says we can do that transaction for you. we can handle that. think about how the money moves. i'm the dude in russia. i hand $10 million in dirty rubles into the moscow office. they say thank you very much. you purchased a highlighter. then over in their other office abroad in london or wherever, that bank's office, they pay their client $10 million in euros or dollars or whatever and they, you know, collect the highlighter that's just been sold. and that's it. that's how the money moves. $10 million goes in in moscow, $10 million pops out in london. and thanks to the fake jerry

rigged sell price of that item they were supposedly buying and selling there, that $10 million highlighter, you just moved $10 million from moscow to london using the offices of the bank to do it. that $10 million is not on the books as money you stole from the old ladies. it's money you can access in the west because it's the proceeds of a totally legit big-name european bank. they don't it selling highlighters but real stock trades instead but that was the principle. they used real stocks. they used a real bank. but it was all fake for the purposes of just moving money. it's a scheme they called mirror trading. right? it's -- you can see how the mirror works there. i want to sell something for $10 million. i want to buy something for $10 million and poof, the money moves. somebody selling in london or

cypress or tax shelter island somewhere and somebody else buying in moscow. and there was something like 6,000 of these fake mirror trades and in most of these cases, the buyer and seller were actually the same entity. there were two different people really buying and selling anything to anyone else. these were fake sales events. fake stock sales that were -- they used real stock but the whole point was a way to move tons and tons and tons of illegal russian money out of russia into the west. tons of money. this was multiple billions of dollars. more than 6,000 trades using multiple deutsche bank offices over the period of years and part of the reason they got away with it for so long to such a huge extent, because this bank was involved. they count have done it without

deutsche bank and deutsch couldn't do it without connections in russia because nobody gets multiple billions of dollars shovelled out of russia without the russian government being in on it and saying okay. in the new book collusion written by guardian reporter luke harding, he reports out some of the apparent russian government involvement in this scheme. you know how they say in american politics personnel is policy? in russian politics, personnel is is policy, it's also money, it's also often criminal connectio connections. a guy name the andre is somebody who vladimir putin installed at the very top of russian state-run banking. he is thought to have kgb, sfb connections of his own. putin put him in charge of a state-run bank in russia called veb bank is famous in our own country for having sent their chief executive to meet with jared kushner during the transition. what was that about?

but andre costen at one point was installed by putin as head of the tb which is another russian state-run bank with close ties to russian intelligence. when it came time for the bank to staff up the office in moscow, one of the people they installed was andre costen's son also handedly named andre costen. soon as docdocumented, the spect turned on. billions of dollars in elicit russian money started getting flowing through the office and spirited out of russia through the office and this multi billion-dollar criminal scheme they were operating. the bank ran that keep using the offices in the west, as well. but that whole thing happened, they did that because they could thanks apparently to their

connections to the russian government and intelligence services close to putin. they did it because they could. the bank did it because they got paid, right? they got a cut. you're moving multiple billions of elicit dollars? yeah, you're taking a cut. that moscow office of deutche bank started clearing profits of a half billion to a billion dollars a year in profit. that one office. thanks in large part to that very friendly relationship linked to the intelligence services ran by andre costen's dad. so if that bank, if deutche bank is getting subpoenaed, one reason that's important, it's one of the clearest windows we got into russia money laundering in the last 10 to 15 years but it's interesting to know that muller is looking into that but

it's not like this hasn't been investigated before. not like he's about to uncover this scheme. part of the reason we know about the scheme and i can talk about it on tv is because the bank and money laundering scheme got busted a few years ago. in january they paid over a $400 million fine for that russian money laundering scheme to new york state, new york state is home to the headquarters of lots of domestic and international banks so lots of financial crimes get prosecuted and pursued by new york state financial regulators. so they had to pay. one of the interesting dogs that didn't bark during the first year of the trump administration is that even though deutsche bank settled that case with new york state and paid that gigantic $400 million fine to new york state in january, a lot of people were expecting that that was the small penalty, that the big fine they were going to

pay, the one that wouldn't be hundreds of millions of dollars but billions of dollars would be paid by deutsche bank after the feds got through with them. it's one thing to have new york state regulators come to you and one thing to have the justice department coming after you. people expect it would be a ginormous fine against deutsche bank when the justice deputy case about money laundering finally came to its conclusion either in the courts or in the settlement. well, that russian money laundering case against deutsche bank had been run in the justice department by u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york quite famously he was fired by president trump even though president trump had previously assured him that he could keep his job. well, since then, since the start of the trump administration, it's possible that the justice department's russian money laundering case against deutsche bank has been chugging along in the background and we don't know anything about it but it's moving along full steam ahead and some day we'll

find out something dramatic is going on. maybe that's happening and we don't know but from out ward appearanc appearances, the investigation since the trump administration has been in office, that investigation appears to have gone dormant. that was the phrase cnn used when they checked in on that justice department case against deutsche bank and found out that it had gone quote quiet. gone dormant. the reason i say that's the dog that didn't bark in the trump administration is because while deutsche bank was in this years long multi billion-dollar money-making scheme to launder money out of russia, they were also cultivating and otherwise sort of inexplicable major financial relationship with now president trump. let me quote luke harding again from his new book "collusion." quote a kremlin bank run by

proxies of the russian intelligence services captured the out post. deutsche bank were beneficiari s beneficiaries. while going on, they length hundreds of millions of dollars to the future president. right? so this is the second reason why it's very important to the american presidency right now if deutsche bank did get subpoenaed. there is the russia money laundering thing they are up to their neck in and the relationship with our president. this was the trump international hotel and tower in chicago. to build this lovely building, the president borrowed over $600 million from deutsche bank. that itself is remarkable because mr. trump as a businessman by the 2000s was very famous for minding ways not to repay loans that he had taken from banks. it became part of his business

image. he bragged about that and wrote about it in his book as one of the secrets to success whenever banks loaned him money and he didn't want to pay them back or have a way, he would write how he saw that as the bank's problem not his problem and would find a way to stick it to him. he had been doing that and writing about it and bragging about it for decades so by the time trump was borrowing money for this building in chicago in 2005, there were not very many banks who wanted to do business with him anymore. but deutsche bank for some reason were happy to. they loaned him the money in 2005. by 2008, he had already started defaulting on obligations to repay the loan. so deutsche bank came after him for a $40 million payment he was supposed to make and he responded by turning around and suing deutsche bank. he said no, i'm not paying the

$40 million i owe you, instead, you need to pay me $3 billion because you caused the financial crash. it was -- there was -- that was insane. it was that kind of thing that had resulted in all of the other major banks who deal in major real estate loans deciding they would never again do business with the trump organization or donald trump but for some reason, in 2008 after trump said he couldn't pay deutsche bank back what he owed them and finded an insane lawsuit and tried to get out of paying them, for some reason after he pulled that in 2008, deutsche bank didn't cut him off but they gave him a ton more money. they doubled down and tripled down and started doing a ton more business with him and nobody quite knows why and nobody believes they have seen a complete or accurate statement of the president's financial situation but as best as we can

tell from the time he became president, deutsche holds the lion share. that's deutsche bank on the right side of the screen. the money they loaned him that he has outstanding in terms of loans with them includes the loan on the building in chicago after he defaulted and sued them over it. it includes loans for his golf course. it includes $170 million hi te k for a loan for his hotel in d.c. deutsche has been generous to mr. trump personally and at the same time they were inexplicably generous they were laundering billions in russia in a scheme that appears to be tied at the russian government. the combination of those two dynamics led max seine waters t

push it he said the financial services committee should examine the money laundering operation and assess the integrity of the u.s. justice department's on going investigation into the scheme given the trump administration's conflicts of interest in the matter. republicans running the financial services committee had no interest in doing any such thing. and zest jushe's just a democra the republicans run the committee. couple months later, she was like okay, i'll write myself to deutsche bank and told them they needed to hand over to her committee, to her, the internal reviews they had done as a bank on the russian money laundering scandal and on their banking relationship with the president and the business and his family. deutsche bank responded saying no, we're not giving you anything. but maxine waters did not give up. by july this summer she was still pushing.

>> donald trump is clearly hiding something when it comes to his finances. there are many unanswered questions. why does trump refuse to reveal his tax returns to the public? why was deutsdeutsche bank a ba that's been fined for russian money laundering and other violations of the law willing to lend hundreds of millions of dollars to trump after his bankruptcies when no other bank would lend to him? >> congressman maxine waters has been on the spot on this issue from the beginning. republicans on the various committees had no interest whatsoever in pursuing this line of inquiry but the democrats have. >> donald trump has said a number of times that he has had nothing to do with russia and i want to ask you director, if you're familiar with deutsche bank and its $300 million loan

to donald trump and his organization? >> not something i'm going to comment on. >> director, are you aware that deutsche bank has been investigated and fined over 400 million dollar to stop the corrupt transfer of more than 10 billion-dollar out of russia? >> i think generally from press accounts. so an individual's association with a bank that has had dealings with russian money laundering, that would be something that would be a red flag for a counter intelligence investigation i would assume. >> that's onehypo i don't want answer. >> a hypothetical he doesn't want to answer. that was back in march but now according to handelsblatt, deutsche bank has been served or maybe they haven't. this is where this story today diverted from fascinating to huh?

two of the president's lawyers today put out identical statements claiming that this isn't real. there is no subpoena. both jthe same statement today, we confirmed this with the bank and other sources. okay. then another white house lawyer ty cobb seems to have put a telling finer point on it saying today quote, previous reports of subpoenas that relating to the president and his family are false. after ty cobb and had a previously said president trump's accounts, they changed headlines and the muller subpoena isn't about president's accounts, it's about people or entities close to mr. trump. you know what? that said, handelsblatt isn't

changing reporters and routers was the first to pick up on the story. reuterss updated the headline, neither them nor bloomberg changed the reporting despite the white house lawyers youing about it. if the money laundering money, deutsche bank is handing over records of the president and people near him, this is the next great leap in this scandal. this is where you get to when you follow the money. which is how these things always get sold. and the president's lawyers are being a little nutty about this. like they have been a number of things since the flynn scandal broke. are they just being nutty? are they only correcting part of this? are we sure these subpoenas that have happened? why are some news outlets changing their stories about this today and others sticking

with it, sticking with their original reporting. this is really, really, really important stand stuff getting weird just as fast as it's getting interesting. greg ferrell from bloomberg news is here next. patrick woke up with back pain. but he has work to do. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. sometimes i think, why did i do that. take risks. i'm gonna teach you how to make something happen. don't rinse the pan, this is where we gonna make our sauce. instead of using parsley, we're going to use the carrot tops. they're gonna say, where did you learn that. did you learn that at the masterclass or did you go to paris for a year? i'm wolfgang puck and this is my masterclass.

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today, we got one story after another, all reporting that yes, special counsel robert mueller subpoenas that that bank and hundreds of millions of dollars to the president in recent years when other banks didn't want anything to do with

them. the special counsel is trying to get looking for that part we don't have clarity on and part of the reason is because of the president's lawyers saying there is no subpoena. they say in fact there is. regardless of ways in which there is muddiness in the push back, there is a reason we should have seen this coming. over the summer in july we got this, muller expands probe to trump's business transactions, quote, the u.s. special counsel investigating possible ties between donald trump's campaign and russia is examining a broad range of transactions involving trump's businesses and associates according to a person familiar with the probe. according to that source, fbi investigatiors are looking at russian purchases and trump's involvement in a controversial development in new york with russian associates and the 2013 miss universe pageant and trump sale of a florida mansion to a

russian in 2008. when that story came out from bloomberg news in july, there was quite a lot of push back to it but bloomberg stood by their reporting as did the fall of the money reporter who broke that news and he's here with us tonight in a full scale white house freakout over today's news that his earlier reports were correct and that part of the muller investigation involves a subpoena, one that deutsche bank and investigative report er. great to view yo with u with us tonight. you blush. sorry, i don't mean to embarrass you. you explain the importance, did i say anything that struck you as wrong or we should clarify? >> no, we stand by our reporting. it was interesting you noted to get this level of push back from the white house. >> the white house is pushing back, help me understand this

because we saw a few things change today once the president's lawyers started making statements about there not being a subpoena and hard for me to parse what they are contesting. we saw routers change the headline and we saw wall street journal change the subheadline. you guys standing by reporting. do you understand what it is they are raising an issue with? >> well, needless to say after the strong push back, we went and, you know, we were confident that the original reporting was correct. we stand by that. i do think that you've got to look at a subpoena for records related to trump as whether or not it was for all records related to trump or if it was lots of business transactions that touched on trump, trump family, trump associates, et cetera. >> okay. >> there is a lot of wiggle room. as you refer to the story in july, you look at the real estate transactions, of course, a lot of them would have been done through deutsche bank.

to that extent i didn't find it a surprise. >> when we talked about deutsche bank and their potential interest to the muller investigation when you did that reporting, one of the things we talked about is the fact deutsche bank refused request from the u.s. congress, they -- when they responded to max scene waters and said they would not send you anything, they were polite about it but you said at the time that as far as you understood the compliance obligations and the privacy obligations of banks in this regard, they were not allowed to respond to anything but a subpoena. >> yes, they would need and want to have a subpoena to cover themselves. they can't give away sensitive client information. they can defend themselves by saying the u.s. government issued a subpoena requiring us to turnover information, that's why we're diddioing it. they had this now and not what

maxine waters asked for it. >> we heard the president tell "the new york times" if the muller investigation started looking for business deals, he could consider that a violation. that might be something he would consider to be out of bounds for the muller investigation. we've seen this very strong and a little in my estimation weird reaction from the president's lawyers today now that this story about the subpoena has come out. given the reaction and red flags that the trump side has waved about this, do you think they are right to be freaked out? do you think this is an area of real danger in terms of this investigation? >> i think what happens with the muller investigation is because his -- it's been such a black box that any small show or something about the news, i wouldn't be so hyped up. the muller team appears to be approaching months ago. we talked about they issued a

subpoena for records for lots of banks regarding paul manafort and couple months later, a detailed indictment of manafort and gates that had a mountain of information about transactions, financial transfers from cypress to a variety of rug dealers, landscape, architects here in the u.s. they collect that information. just doesn't appear to be a fishing expedition. seems that the muller track record seems to go find something when they think there is something of interest there. we shouldn't assume it's thproo of wrongdoing such as it's necessary to make the next step to do what they will do. >> we can observe a freakout by the president's lawyers. no reason to assume that is warranted but this is a receiver use matter in terms of the way the muller investigation is approaching. >> right. there must be a reason for him to want the information they are trying to get but having said that, i don't think we should all get hot and bothered about something happening next week or christmas. >> i get hot and bothered

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pressure mounting steadily from within his party that he should resign. so now as of today the congress retired today effective immediately. the republican candidate faced allegations he made unwanted sexual advances to teenagers when he was a grown man in his 30s despite the actusexual harassment al gaulegations, he s to be picking up support from national republicans. the republican party cut ties with the moore campaign last month but they are back. they reinstated support from alabama republican candidate roy moore. now what is a little weird about this, and a little telling is that nobody at the national republican for party, nobody at rnc wants to admit who made the decision that the rnc would get back into business with roy

moore. nobody will talk about the decision to do it. tonight buzz feed is reporting quote nobody at the rnc is actually defending the decision publicly when asked for comment, rnc officials would only speak quote on condition they not be identified. quote senior party members prompted questions to spokespersons that declined to comment. the silence speculated several gop sources is reflective of tensions between the rnc and white house but in getting back in bed with roy moore as it were, the rnc is essentially following president trump's lead. there is one person i know to speak to about this who i think knows how this all turns out. more than anybody else i could imagine and he's our guest, next.

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in alabama, the man he's facing is roy moore. also the man he was referencing in those last remarks. roy moore appeared at an event in fair hope, alabama with steve bannon. >> this is going to be decided by the good men and women in alabama next week but the whole nation and the entire world is watching. >> we've got six days left and the people, and the people of alabama are going to speak to the people in washington d.c. >> they don't want me up there. i know that. they don't want somebody up there with an independent mind, somebody that will do what they believe is right under the constitution. [ applause ] >> nor do they want someone that will make them answer questions about 14-year-olds for the entire time you're in the united states senate. the rally that just wrapped up in alabama, great to have you with us tonight. thank you for your time.

>> thank you, rachel. >> what was their rally like tonight? was the mood like? i understand there was a pretty good crowd but also protesters. >> there were protesters out allowed to walk away. it was in a barn in south alabama where sweet home alabama played continually for awhile but there was a crowd. when steve bannon came in, he got a lot of applause. >> steve bannon obviously runs breitbart website. he was very closely associated with the president's electoral victory and trump white house. is he considered to be a powerful figure in alabama? a lot of people have been trying to game out at the national level whether it makes a difference the president has now explicitly endorsed roy moore. do bannon or the president have enough way so make a difference in the vote?

>> well, i think they do. i think steve bannon is pretty popular and certainly here seemed honestly sometimes seemed more popular than roy moore did when the crowd was more attentive when steve bannon was speaking than roy moore was but, you know, he made it fairly clear in his -- bannon made it clear this is a referendum on trump and i thought that was a standout moment. >> what do you think people watching this race for the final week around the country is important for the balance of power in the senate and what these two parties stand for and how these allegations against moore were handled. what do you think people watching this nationwide should have an eye on for the next week. how do you think it's important and how do you think it will work out? >> it will be really tight. i have not seen the democrats this motivated in maybe ever,

honestly and obviously, roy moore's people are also highly motivated. it is going to be intense, and it is going to be something, the kind of election we haven't seen in alabama in my lifetime and obviously, everybody knows it out. and that's what is going to happen. it is a -- it is intense. >> john archibald, columnist for the birmingham news and aol.com joining us from outside a rally tonight. it's really nice to have you here. thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> all right. we'll be right back. stay with us. i can't believe you got us tickets. i did. i didn't pay for anything. you never do. send me what i owe. i got it. i mean, you did find money to buy those boots. are you serious? is that why you don't like them? those boots could make a unicorn cry. yeah, tears of joy. the bank of america mobile banking app. the fast, secure and simple way to send money.

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a whole bunch of people turned up outside republican representative barbara comstock's office in sterling, virginia today. a whole bunch of people and a large chicken. that is a trump chicken, if we're going to be precise. this was outside comstock's district office in virginia. while simultaneously across the river in washington, d.c., this was outside barbara comstock's office on capitol hill. >> i have spinal muscular atrophy. >> have i spinal muscular atrophy. >> i cannot go to the bathroom. >> i cannot go to the bathroom or take a shower. >> or take a shower. >> without assistance. >> without assistance. >> this is provided by medicaid. >> this is provided by medicaid. >> it took my god-given right. >> it took my god-given right.

>> to work and live like everyone. >> to work and live like everyone. >> so don't send me to a filing cabinet. >> don't send me to a filing cabinet. >> don't kill me. >> don't kill me. >> kill this bill. >> kill this bill. >> megan anderson was one of the activists at the capitol today, along with a ton of people with disabilities and health conditions, people advocating for those folks who stage protests and sit-ins outside capitol hill house republicans today pleading with members not to vote for the republican tax bill that among other things will cause 13 million americans to lose all health insurance coverage. this was outside pennsylvania republican ryan costello's office today where several people were eventually arrested, including one woman with a double mastectomy was demonstrating shirtless with the word shame written on her back there was a sit-in outside darrell issa's office and outside moscow republican dana

rohrabacher's office. the crowd also descended on new york republican claudia tenney's office. graduate students held a sit-in outside paul ryan's office protesting the potentially devastating cuts to higher education in the tax bill. we're told that nine of them were arrested. and while there was this particularly intense action on capitol hill today, it was another day of protest against this tax bill all over the country today too. this was roseville, california outside tom mcclintock's office. they had a couple of hundred people in roseville today. this was portland, oregon today. demonstrators gathered in downtown charleston, south carolina today, including one person promising free money. and then you see the asterisk, it says for millionaires only, court shi republicans in congress. they're still trying to gin up a final version of this tax bill before it goes to trump's desk. that means it isn't finished yet in terms of what's in it. it's not passed yet either. that's why you're going to keep seeing this. that's why people are not letting up.

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but he hasoke up wwork to do.in. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. russian olympic committee put on a big glitzy event in moscow last week to roll out its exclusive new team uniforms and fan merchandise ahead of the winter games that start in february. they had nice turtlenecks and some snazzy scarves. they also had this for the russian sports fan who has everything. an official russian olympic sweatshirt that proclaims in english "i do not do doping." the international olympic committee for the past year has been investigating an extensive

state sponsored doping program among russian athletes. today the over-the-countioc rel and russia will be banned from the winter games that start in two months. the ioc, however, will allow clean athletes, individual clean athletes to compete in pyeongchang, even if they're russian, but they won't be allowed to compete for russia. these athletes will be introduced as olympic athletes from russia. they'll be only allowed to wear generic uniforms that bear the olympic flag, not the russian flag. russian president vladimir putin has said the doping scandal is purely political. it's just meant to humiliate him. he hasn't responded directly to today's announcement. but expect that when he does respond, it won't be pretty or classy. but we'll see. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i know you were talking about some of the protests that are going on for the