>> thank you so much. >> that is "all in" for this hour. you can find more on the facebook page and and if you miss any of the show, download the podcast. wherever you get your podcast but for now, stay here because it's time for "the rachel maddow show." >> i for one welcome this time in human development where we can say overtly. >> like us. >> like me. >> don't forget to like me. >> don't forget to like me. >> i'm on television every night because i desperately need your attention. >> it's, you know, it's an all too transparent window. >> exactly. no subtext. >> thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it's presidents' day. it's a long weekend for some people and -- this is one of those -- this is one of those sort of holidays some people get and some people don't get that can in normal interruptions in

the news cycle. we don't get interruptions in the news cycle anymore. that's okay. that's why chris and i have jobs like this. in 1984 in the last state of the union address, january 1984, ronald reagan at that state of the union made a very sober promise to the country on a very serious issue. >> this year we will intensify our drive against these and other horrible crimes like sexual abuse and family violence. >> that was january 1984. ronald reagan telling congress the government will intensify our drive against sexual abuse and family violence. this was one line in a sort of dark part of regan's state of the union address that year. that was part of the speech where he talked about kidnapping and about child pornography. but when he got to the line about intensifying our drive against family violence, one american woman, this woman, her name is charlotte fetters, when

she heard that part of ronald reagan's state of the union address that year, it caused her to write a letter to president regan and because of who she was, she had reason to believe her letter would get through. she wrote to the president quote i'm a victim of wife abuse for over 16 years of marriage, my husband periodically beat me. i've had a broken eardrum, wrenched neck, several black eyes, many, many bruises. once he even beat me around the about while i was pregnant with my first baby. now, the reason charlotte f fetterers wrote that story is because her abusive husband worked for ronald reagan. he was john fetterers. he was the enforcement director. that's an intimidating job and he was an intimidating guy but ronald reagan made that mention

about entense ffying the drive d his wife wrote a letter documentedidockin documenting the phenomenon. that letter she wrote was given to regan's white house counsel but after reading that letter, the white house decided to do nothing. john fetterers kept his job. when that letter had zero effect despite the fact it got to the white house counsel, charlotte fetterers sister decided to push it further. she picked up the phone and got the white house counsel on the phone to raise the issue with him again. charlotte fetterers sister explained what the white house counsel told her when she informed him a powerful government official appointed by president regan was violently abusive to his wife, who was her sister. he said the president would never knowingly keep a spouse abuser in a top administration job but at this point he said it was a private dispute.

he did ask me have you ever seen him hit her and i said no but i've seen the black eyes, bruises and broken eyeglasses. even after that phone call from charlotte fetterers sister, the white house still did nothing with that information. they stayed quiet. john fetterers stayed on at his hig high-profile job but by february of 1985, that story which the white house was trying to push aside and not pay attention to, that story made it to the front pages of the wall street journal. yet, m quote, mrs. fetterers said the beatings began from the start of their marriage. he broke one of her eardrums with a blow to the side of her head in october of 19f68. she said john attacked me with his fists and hands and said he didn't care if he killed me or the baby. he beat her in the abdomen. he blew up for an $80 bill from

a marriage counselor. he came in and just started hitting me. he said i don't care if i kill you. at that time she fled with the children to the home of a neighbor and said she appeared with tears and showed bruises. mrs. fetterer suffers severe pain from an injury in november 1981 when he yanked her around by the hair after trying to throw her over a banister in their home. two of their sons witnessed that. first he tried to throw her over the banister. she dropped down to the ground. he tried to pick her up by the hair and he just shook her. luke says he no longer speaks to his father and adds his mother wears an orthopaedic collar around her neck when it's really bothering her. 1985 front page of the wall street journal. that apparently did the trick. page one in the wall street journal was the third time the regan administration had seen

these allegations against in high-ranking official. first two times didn't result in them doing anything about it. it was only this third time when it ended up in the newspaper they decided to act. they didn't do nothing once it was in the paper. they leapt into action to defend john fetterers. the white house put out statements that said he was doing an outstanding job. not being asked to resign. next day, though, john fetterers was gone. >> until today john fedders was one of the top law enforcement officials of the government. he was the enforcement chief of the securities and exchange commission but fedders had personal problems and today resigned after revelations he beat his wife. >> the resignation came after two days of news stories and physically abused his wife but claimed he was not a wife beater. the stories came after his wife charlotte described the beatings during the divorce trial in the

courthouse. in one incident she said he slapped her and broke her eardrum and another he beat her up when she was three months pregnant. >> john attacked me with his fists and hands and hitting me around the abdomen and yelling at me he didn't care if he killed me or the baby. >> she said she was left with a black eye and bruises and has a permanent neck injury from a time her husband tried to throw her over a banister. in court john fedders admitted he was violent but claimed he never meant to hurt his wife. >> that was 1985. white house had been alerted t multiple times about the abuse happening at the hands of this high-ranking official regan installed. they sat on those allegations for month and defended it but john fedders. that was 1985.

we saw something similar play out last year. after donald trump was elected, he nominated a man named andy to be his labor secretary. poll l politico.com reported on an ensoe episode of the oprah winfrey show. they knew that tape existed. oprah's production company couldn't locate that tape. there was fierce interest for it after the reporting. the tape for whatever reason was missing. nobody could get it from the original source. and andy stayed on track to become the next labor secretary but then about a month down the road, the tape turned up. >> he vowed revenge. he said i'll see you in the gutter. this will never be over. you'll pay for this. >> his wife wearing a disguise

appearing on the oprah winfrey show but interesting, it was not the oprah winfrey show that found that tape. you know where that tape came from? charlotte fedders. the woman whose husband tried to throw her over the banister in front of her sons, the reason charlotte fedders had the tape of that show is because she also appeared on that same episode which is about domestic violence in upper class families. we're pretty sure that's her on the left hand side in the purple dress with the pearls. last year when charlotte fedders saw the news about andy puzder, she remembered that she had that tape. she took her personal copy of that tape. she gave it to politico and the day that tape came out, andy puzder with drew his nomination. charlotte fedders, remarkable story, right? starting in terrible violent

threatening circumstances, nevertheless she put her name to her own story about domestic violence by putting it in black and white in the national news. she took down a powerful government official in the regan administration despite the resistance from the regan administration to doing anything about it. then a generation later, she does it again this time with a decades old vhs tape. washington post has a stomach churning story on the front page of the website right now. this is the actual headline. for the weary white house, florida shooting offered a reprieve from scandals. reprieve is in courts because that's the word they used. reprieve after hearing the news of a massacre of high school kids. here is how the story starts, the white house was under siege.

pointing to a potential high-level coverup. two cabinet secretaries were caught for luxury travel. a playboy center field alleged an extra march 'til affair and the russia investigation was intensifying. it was so intense there was speculation the president might fire his chief of staff. but a gun massacre at a florida high school last wednesday that left 17 dead seemed to shift the media glare away from the trump scandals and gave embattled aids an opportunity to refocus. some aids privately acknowledged the tragedy offered a breather from the political storm. there had been a tentative plan for white house staff john kelly to address the news media on wednesday where he would have faced intense scrutiny over his role in the mishandling of domestic abuse allegations against rob porter. after the shooting in florida, though, that plan was scuttled. for everyone it was a distraction or a reprieve said a white house official. a lot of people here felt like it was a reprieve from seven or

eight days of getting pummeled. but the official said as we all know, sadly, when the coverage dies down a little bit, we'll be back through the chaos. sadly, eventually the coverage will die down and the white house will be sad about that because for them, it's been an awesome relief to have these massacre in the news. look at that headline there again. that's a direct quote. the white house sees the massacre as a reprieve, a breather. outside the white house people see that massacre differently. in just a few days, it has led to a kid's movement, a teenager's movement or organized angry people balancing the funerals they have to go to with a lightning national campaign underway to get gun laws changed. this is something new under the sun what these teenagers are doing. we'll talk with one of the young people helping to lead this uprising later this hour.

the other thing, of course, that broke in the last pew days that changed that conversation around the white house scandals is when the special counsel handed down that big indictment on friday. that indictment apparently initially made president trump excited and happy which is amazing but who knows how people talk to him about these things. by this weekend, the president changed his attitude and seemed to be very worked up about the indictment to the point where his twitter traffic was rattled and upset seemingly more than normal. robert mueller is signaling charges against paul manafort and there are multiple reports the deputy campaign chairman rick gates is about to change his plea to guilty in an arrangement that will see gates cooperating with prosecutors. that is potentially a big turn in the case. we'll have more on that story comi coming up, too. there are a lot of big news stories that have broken that may or may not feel like a

reprieve for white house officials depending on how things are being explained to the president on any given day. but in the next few days, this week, this white house scandal that started as the rob porter domestic violence story, the modern day reiteration, which led interestingly to a "usa today" profile of charlotte fedders, the rob porter domestic violence story is about to come roaring back alongside the other things happening in the news and will go off like a stink bomb in the oval office. the rob porter white houseco domestic violence story, the allegations resulted in rob porter never getting cleared by the white house to hold a permanent security clearance. that exposed the fact the trump white house kept rob porter in

his job for more than a year literally controlling the flow of sensitive and secretive documents that cross the president's desk even though he wasn't able to get the clearance you need to be allowed to see those documents. that being exposed at the white house is a serious problem for the white house in general. for john kelly, for the white house counsel. but very specifically for the president's son-in-law who is a senior advisor to the president and who famously is also able to obtain a permanent security clearance. last year it was reported kushner's difficulty in obtaining a security clearance is a subject of fascination among national security specialists with people trying to figure out why it is he can't get a clearance. that report was also where we learned that despite the fact that he can't get a permanent clearance, jared kushner nevertheless gets access every day to the presidents' daily brief from the intelligence community which is a very highly classified document.

washington post since reported despite kushner's inability to clear the background check to get a false security clearance, apart from the staff on the national security counsel, kushner issues more requests for information to the intelligence community than any other white house employee. now, we don't know why jared kushner can't get a permanent security clearance but there is a lot of feverish speculation why that might be at the new yorker. it was reported that kushner made the unusual and risky decision to meet alone one on one with the chinese ambassador even though that leaves him open to china making any characterization what he wants what kushner said or did in the meetings and report that u.s. intelligence intercepts caught the chinese ambassador saying jared kushner discussed his business interests alongside government policy when he was supposed to do things like plan the mar-a-lago visit with the

chinese ambassador. eight days after the election, jared kushner met with an insurance company reportedly considering pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into a struggling property owned by kushner's family business. a property for which they have to make a $1.2 billion mortgage payment this time next year despite the fact there are no clear signs they will be able to make the payment. last march, the times was first to report one of the foreign meetings was a meeting with a large sanctioned state-run russian bank. a meeting that happened during the transition. the banker put out a statement at the time saying he took that meeting and kushner's capacity as the chief executive of kushner companies. now tonight, cnn reports robert mueller special counsel investigation is looking into efforts to secure financing from foreign investors during the presidential transition. so there is all of this worrying

stuff that has been reported about jared kushner in terms of suitability for a security clearance and handling secret information given his ties to foreign governments and foreign business interests. lots of reporting. we don't know the reason why the president's son-in-law can't get a security clearance nor do we know why the white house nevertheless is letting him read the daily brief to make more requests for intelligence but this has been an on going situation with jared kushner and there is now a gigantic spotlight on the problem because of the rob porter domestic violence scandal. and now into the news that the white house is enjoying or suffered through in the past few days depending who you ask, on friday night the white house chief of staff just flung this into the fray. quote, effective one week from today discontinue any top secret or compartment level interim clearances for individuals whose

background check investigations or adjudications have been pending since june 1st 2017 or before. effective one week from today. discontinue interim clearances for people whose background check investigations have been pending since june? jared's has been pending since january, at least. he's not able to get a permanent security clearance for lots of reasons we can speculate about but none that we actually know. well, the white house chief of staff friday night in the middle of the news breaking, you might not have seen it but john kelly recommended that the new white house policy will be to yank interim clearances and access to close fi classified material and wants that done by when? one week from today. he put that out on friday which means this friday barring some change in course or some special presidential family members, jared kushner is going to be out

at the white house or they will have to move him to a job in the cafeteria or something where he doesn't have to have access to anything sensitive. you're not going to be the mideast peace envoy if you're not allowed to see secret information. according to the document from john kelly, jared should be out by the end of this week. i have no idea what a crisis like that involving the president's family might shake loose in this chaotic white house but if this guidance from the chief of staff is about to go into effect, there is the jared kushner factor. we could also be looking at a really big title wave of resignations or firings from the white house by the end of this week. nbc news broke the news that more than 130 people with top jobs at the white house had only interim security clearances as vently as november unless those numbers have turned around, if this policy in fact about to go into effect, that means dozens of high-ranking people inside

the white house are about to get kicked out. they are about to get kicked out of their jobs or at least moved into their other jobs, low-ranking gigs where they don't see anything sensitive and this is due to happen now but the end of this week, by friday. including members of the president's family. i think this week will be insane. buckle up. come on dad! higher! higher!

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i don't know what the normal thing is to do when you get fired from running a presidential campaign. what do you do? i'd go to a bar or stand in a river and pretend know how to catch fish. maybe you can imagine yourself going for a feel sorry for yourself long drive. i don't know what the right thing is to do but when paul manafort was fired in august 2016 he did something unexpected that day. the day of his resignation, he created a shell company called summer breeze l.l.c. that same

day that he quit the campaign. within a few weeks, summer breeze received a $3.5 million loan from a new york financial if i recall called sp ed spruce capital and then summer breeze got another big loan, $9.5 million patrfrom a small bank i chicago and two months later he got a big loan, $6.6 million. those big loans from that little bank in chicago, they are strange for a couple reasons apart from the timing. the first sort of strange thing to know about those loans is that that was really small bank run by a trump economic advisor and that bank specifically caters to military veterans. paul manafort is not a military veteran. secondly, i mentioned it's a

small bank. those $16 million in loan, $16 million in loans made up a quarter and why are they loaning a quarter of the reserves to one guy? especially a guy whose not a veteran when they are a financial institution and subsequently, they soupupe subp the bank looking for money laundering and fraud. that was last summer before manafort was indicted on felony accounts with conspiracy and failing to register as a foreign agent, et cetera. bank fraud was mentioned several times but didn't show up in any of the charges, which is puzzling at the time but we may be about to figure some of that out. friday night's news was dominated by indictments of 13

russians for attacking the election in 2016 but another big development from the special counsel's office as we went to air on friday night that understandably received less attention but it's turning out to be really, really interesting. it was a filing from the special counsel about the terms that paul manafort and lawyers negotiated to keep him free on bail and out of jail while he awaits trail. this was the headline about it in politico.com. mueller levels new claim. quote, the proposed package is deficient in the government's view, meaning the bail package, in light of additional criminal colorado condu conduct we learned including a series of bank frauds and bank fraud conspiracies including criminal conduct relating to the mortgage on paul manafort's property in fairfax, virginia. the government has evidence he secured this mortgage through a series of false and fraud lenul

representations and maintained it by providing the bank with dr. doctored profit and loss statements to the tunes of millions of dollars. the special counsel's office says they have substantial new evidence of additional criminal conduct by paul manafort. the way they are describe it appears to be related to the loans, the big oddly timed loans that he took right after he left the trump campaign. why are we learning this now? why is this special counsel getting new information about paul manafort. what is their new source of information about his alleged bank fraud? nbc news has not confirmed but the l.a. times reported that manafort's deputy and business and deputy on the trump campaign rick gates will change his not guilty plea to guilty and "the times" is reporting rick gates agreed to testify against paul

manafort. possibility was first reported by cnn. l.a. times report put this weekend that's been matched by cbs news. if that's about to happen, does it make sense rick gates fr flipping and becoming a co-op rating witness explains why we're seeing allegations of new criminal conduct against paul manafort. if that's happening, what should we expect to see and if there is a new list of alleged criminal conduct against paul man that fo -- manafort, ewhy are they describing it in a filing like this? if so, how serious are the charges? how do we tell? joining us is former u.s. attorney in michigan. thank you for being so patient with me and explaining these things that are very obvious to you. >> no, happy to be here. >> great. this filing is not new charges being brought against paul

manafort but a filing about his bail conditions that says the mueller investigation has substantial new evidence of criminal conduct. why would you say you have that without bringing new charges? >> they haven't brought new charges yet. i doesn't mean they won't. it appears they had to file this document with respect toll bail and wanted the judge to know that they have this additional information because it could be that manafort may additional time. it could be that he is demonstrated that he can't compile with a court order because here he is on bond continuing to commit crimes and this security he pledged is property that he doesn't own rightfully anyway and might be foreclosed upon. their hand was forced here to share this information at this time. it may be they plan to file it later but wanted the court to have this information making the bond decision. >> does it make sense this new information describes this as being substantial new evidence

implying that they had this now and didn't have it before? does that make sense they might be getting this information, whatever is backing up these allegations because of potentially having a new cooperating witness or some other access to new information? >> it does. it says right in the document this is information that the government has only learned about since the initial bail hearing several months ago. somehow they got this information. it could be because they have sat down with rick gates and had cooperation and received information, could be other sources. i read reports that new york attorney general eric snider ma is investigating paul man tha m and even though they are indicted that doesn't preclude looking for a possible superseding indictment. it may indicate information on gates but that may not be the only possible source. >> there is reporting about gates changing his legal rep n representati representation, which we've seen evidence of and there has been a

few different tiers of reporting now that gates is planning to cooperate, there was reporting last week that he's done, what is it, the queen for a day interview last week or reported last week sometime in the last month he's done that kind of interview. all of to reporting isn't confirmed by nbc news. we see no direct evidence of it. if he is becoming a cooperating witness, it seems to be an important development. how will we know that happened? could that be kept secret for a very long time in this case? >> it is something that could be kept secret. he could enter the guilty plea under seal as we saw with george papadopoulos and find out about it later but my guess is what's going on right now is the cooperation portion of it because before the prosecutor offers the plea deal, they want to be able to evaluate and assess the value of the cooperation. the first part that would be that would happen queen for a day arrangement where they sit

down and talk and that could take several sessions to listen to what he has to say and make a plea offer and only then would a court date be set to enter that plea on the record so maybe a public hearing, maybe a secret hearing but at some point we'll know whether it's happened or not. >> barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney in michigan, thank you for being with us tonight. nice to see you. >> you, too. >> lots ahead tonight. stay with us. a lot of water. medications seem to be the number one cause for dry mouth. dry mouth can cause increased cavities, bad breath, oral irritation. i like to recommend biotene. biotene has a full array of products that replenishes the moisture in your mouth. biotene definitely works. it makes patients so much happier. [heartbeat]

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you're about to see president richard nixon at a ceremonial signing from july 1971. july 1971. this is well before the watergate break in. the white house is packed with young people, very young people, teenagers. these young people at this moment had just achieved the loring of the national voting age from 21 to 18 and listen how president nixon describes them. describes them as filled with moral courage providing what the nation needs. >> as i speak with this group today, i sense i can have confidence america's young generation will provide what america needs as we approach our 20 0th birthday. not just strength and not just wealth but the spirit of 76, a spirit of moral courage, a spirit of high idealism in which we believe in the american

dream, but in which we realize that the american dream can never be fulfilled until every american has a chance. >> a spirit of moral courage of high idealism. that changed the voting age brought about in the form of the 26th amendment. it passed like a lightning bolt from the time they started the constitutional amendment process until it pasted, it was just over three months. incredibly fast. once the young people put their minds to it, it was a remarkable feat. a big change almost overnight. moral courage, high idealism, strength applied by young people speaking out, marching, organizing and winning something that should have been really hard to win and made it look easy. sometimes it works. it's possible. hold that thought.

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today is presidents' day. most schools were closed and most students got to stay home and these kids decided to lie in the street outside the white house in protest. this is what five days after a mass school shooting that took the lives of 17 people now looks like in our country. students response to last week's mass shooting in parkland florida is angry and determined and well-organized. the group that organized today's protest was form twod days after the mass shooting founded by two 16-year-olds. students from the high school have not been back and probably won't return until next week. in the meantime, they are very busy. they are organizing. the day after tomorrow a group of students from the school will leave for tallahassee to meet with state legislators and the attorney general. they are scheduled to start the seven-hour trip after the funeral of one of their classmates. if you have missed the

articulate furry these young people have been pouring on to this issue, you should know this is happening. >> my message for the people in office is you're either with us or against us. we are losing our lives while the adults are playing around. >> there are funerals going on today, tomorrow, this entire weekend and president donald trump right now is golfing. he'll be listening on wednesday. does anyone know where? does anyone know what time? has anyone been invited to this listening session? >> president trump, you control the house of representatives. you control the senate and you control the executive. you haven't taken a single bill for mental health care or gun control and passed it and that's pathetic. we've seen a government shutdown, tax reform but fothing to save our children's lives. are you kidding me? you think now is the time to focus on the past and not the feature to prevent the death of

hou thousands of other children. you sicken me. >> there are mental health issues and i'm not a psychologist but we need to pay attention to the fact this isn't just a mental health issue. he wouldn't have murdered that many students with a knife. [ cheers ] >> everything about these kids lives changed on wednesday afternoon at 2:20 in the afternoon. that last student you heard there, 17-year-old emma gonzalez wrote the speech she gave this weekend on the back of her a.p. government notes. despite the pressure these kids are under and the pressure of having gone through a huge trama themselves, students from the high school have emerged as the most eloquent advocates out there on gun control. they are actively working within a week of this happening to them to create a whole new wave of pressure on public officials. now they formed a group called

never again. they have taken charge of momentum on this. they are already moving things forward in a way that didn't seem possible a week ago. it's a tall order and very brave. joining us is a student at the high school in parkland. he's one of the founders of the never again movement and the march for our lives event that will happen across the country next month on march 24th. thank you for joining us. nice of you to be here tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> i've been trying to describe the organizing efforts made by you and your students. it's moving you guys have tried to not just tried to, that you've done so much so constructively so quickly after going through this trama. can i ask about your own thought process, why you decided to pursue it this way and work in this organizing effort? >> absolutely. our voices were being heard. we were speaking out, and as

more people were listening to us, we decided we needed a name. we needed something people could follow. we needed a lynch pin for everybody that's hurt and speaking out and demanding change and i was sitting down in my ghost busters pajamas and thinking and i thought of never again msd as just for everyone hearing us to come together and grieve and demand action as one movement and since then, we've gotten support from people we never thought we would get support from. everybody is listening and it's been amazing and that's why we've been able to organize the march for our lives. >> what do you want to happen at the march for our lives? what's the tactics for what you want people to do and what are you hoping it will accomplish? >> well, we want everybody to come out and i was -- i came here from a gun rally today where we had hundreds of people in dell ray beach, everybody was showing support and we're just going to see more of that.

people have been saying to us now is not the time to talk about gun control. now is the time to grieve and think about our community and while i don't necessarily agree and while i think not only is it not too early, it's way too late. we're listening and we're understanding, we're respecting people's needs to think about this. the time we'll talk about gun control is march 24th. we have marches in every major city, every minor city. we've been seeing people on facebook organizing groups without reaching out to us. people are listening. people are caring and the support we've gotten from everybody, every age and every generation, every political party is what's keeping us going. >> do you expect to be doing this down the road? i mean, obviously channelling this, the grief and the trama that you guys have just been through personally over these last few days, it's been -- i have to tell you, it's a

remarkable thing to watch what you guys have been able to do in templ terms of being so articulate, so clear, so unified so quickly, is this something you want to keep doing indefinitely, that this will be a sustained movement for you and your classmates? >> well, i have to tell you, a week ago if you had asked me this, the answer would have been completely different. a week ago i was a student at stoneman douglas high school. i was in three musicals trying to keep my lines together for all of them but after this, after seeing all of this, after my community took 17 shots to the heart and instead of falling down, we've rose up and we're leading the rest of the nation, i can't even begin to tell you what is happening in the future. all i know, the people part of my team will be leading in the future and making the difference. the fact i've been able to be with david, emma, jackie and

everybody else is great. we were all speaking out. we were all being heard and the fact we've been able to come together is proof that stoneman douglas, the future voters, the future lawmakers, they are coming from lawmakers, they're all coming from here. they're coming from people who have had to be afraid to go to school. and this is the last time a school shooting is going to have to be covered like this. this is the last time a school shooting is going to look like a terrorist attack. >> cameron kasky one of the students at marjory stoneman douglas, and one of the starters of this never again movement thank you for talking to us and good luck. >> thank you so much. >> we'll be right back. that's my girl!

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last fall the cia director mike pompeo was speaking at a public event when he was asked if he could say with certainty that the results of our last presidential election weren't skewed as a result of russian interference. here's how he responded to that question. >> we conducted an election that had integrity. yes, the intelligence community's assessment is that the russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of the election. >> nope. that response is not true. it's completely false. and as cia director he should know better. he's not some jibber jabber on tv we have it in print.

this is their january report, quote, we did not make an assessment of the impact that russian activities had on the outcome on the 2016 election. we did not make an assessment of that. so the cia director misstated that and they had to walk back his remarks, quote, the intelligence assessment with regard to russian election meddling has not changed and the director did not intend to suggest it had. that was the mike pompeo treatment issue in october. then a few days ago it happened again. >> first thing we all agree on is that irrespective of efforts that were made in 2016 by foreign powers, it is the universal conclusion of our intelligence communities that none of those efforts had any effect on the outcome of the 2016 election. this is the accepted view. >> nope. that is not the accepted view.

that's not the conclusion of intelligence communities. nope. what the vice president said there is not true, wasn't true when mike pompeo said it, still isn't true when the vice president said it. at least pompeo had to clean it up. when the vice president said that false thing last week we reached out to his office last week and again today to see if he wants to correct the record or knows something we don't and is standing by this assessment, we can't get a call back. but this weekend when sergei lavrov was asked about it, he said, vice president pence recently stated we didn't influence the outcome of the election. it was a lie. the vice president should correct this.

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white house press secretary sarah sanders is expected to brief at 2:00 tomorrow. they cancelled the briefing last wednesday on a day they expected to put out white house chief of staff john kelly, they cancelled it in the wake of the shooting. kelly had been expected to face, basically, a furious press corp. who's been trying to get to the bottom of white house conflicting statements about the white house staff secretary rob porter and the domestic violence allegations against him, the security clearance scandal that followed. they did not hold one thursday or friday. tomorrow they'll hold one and i'll get takeout. now it's time to for the "last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> i want to give you a tip about the white house briefings, i watch it a