are lots of people in the administration from kushner to devoss who have been told yes, your ideas are great for a long time and have to deal with reality. thank you-all for being with me. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thanks, my friend. happy monday. don't think of it as an extra hour lost of sleep, think about it as an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day. this is a new book from investigative reporters. that book comes out tomorrow morning. mike and david are here tonight in person for the first interview they are doing about this book. that means not only do you get to see michael and david, that means this show tonight is the first opportunity we have to break some of the news that is in this book. so that is coming up in moments.

stand by for that because tonight one of those wacky coincidences, tonight, the night before "russian roulette" comes out. house republicans decided to announce with no warning they are not doing any more interviews in the russia investigation, that in fact, their whole investigation is over as of today, surprise and having declared the investigation over today, they somehow today also completed their 150-page report on the results of their investigation. what they have concluded is there was absolutely, positively, no collusion by the trump campaign and maybe putin wanted hillary to win. who can say? now i say this was all a surprise tonight because literally, even people who are supposed to be intimately involved in this investigation, they had no idea this was

happening tonight. the "wall street journal" said the republicans might be quitting and announcing it's done in response to that reporting from the "wall street journal", the democrats were like what? they are doing what now? the investigation is over? a staffer telling the "wall street journal" as of this amp quote we have not been informed there will not be more interviews conducted. we have not been informed the investigation ended but poof, it was over. republicans just ended it on their own and declared no collusion, no collusion while the democrats on that committee weren't even yet under the impression that things were wrapping up. this is called unsubtle. now with all due respect for the leadership of the insdwrentelli committee, i'm not sure anybody was waiting with baited breath

to see if devin nunes would get to the bottom but unless democrats can retake the house and restart the investigation under different and perhaps more committed leadership, this latest stunt but congressman nunes declaring today surprise, it's over, everything is fine, this means as of today there is no congressional investigation into the russia scandal anymore, at least not in the house. republicans on the judiciary house said no, they wouldn't look into it and oversight committee said they would keep investigating hillary clinton instead. in the house intelligence was basically it. that was all they were doing and have now shut that down. now the top democrat on that committee, on the intel jents committee put out a blistering response tonight saying republicans quote placed the interest of protecting the president over protecting the country and history will judge their actions harshly.

congressman adam schiff in this statement tonight, it's interesting, he left bread comes. criticizing republicans saying history will judge you harshly but leaves bread kruls for peop -- crumbs for people to follow. he says quote, we've learned a great deal about countless meetings, conversations and communications between trump campaign officials and russians all of which the trump administration initially denied would later misrepresent and be forced to acknowledge. check this out, on a whole host of investigative threads, our work is fund mentally incomplete. some issues partial lynn vely investigated, others remain barely touched including credible allegations of russian money laundering. if they have leverage over the president of the united states, republicans decided they would rather not know. so there are minor political

explosions going off tonight over house republicans shutting down the russia investigation at a time when democrats who are part of that investigation say among other things, there were credible allegations of russian money laundering that may indicate russian leverage but republicans are refusing to look at that. so we're going to have congressman adam schiff here with us tonight in a few minutes with more on that. with the house investigation shut down, though, there are obviously still some other games in town in terms of getting to the bottom of the scandal. in the senate, the investigation apparently proceeds a pace as far as we can tell. the investigation in the senate is lead by richard burr and mark warner. they have been silent as church mice but we think their investigation is still plugging along, maybe.

there is also the special counsel investigation. the trump campaign may be bringing on a blue chip lawyer to augment the strength of the legal representation for dealing with the mueller team. we'll have more on that ahead tunnel. there is also interesting new reporting from bloomberg news tonight about how mueller is proceeding and what he still hasn't done. bloomberg reporting tonight that neither donald trump junior nor his sister ivanka trump nor long-time trump body guard keith shiller have been interviewed. you might imagine all three people would be on deck for him and his team but none have been interviewed yet. so the only investigation in the hols g house got killed. the mueller investigation is blacker box but at least they pop into the light and indict a

bunch of people. you know, if we, the american people are going to get a clear view what happened to us as a country, what happened to us in the 2016 election and who done it exactly, well, you know how we've gotten most of the information we had thus far. most of the information we had thus far as american citizens has been from the other investigation, the investigation that runs parallel alongside what's been done by the house and senate and robert mueller. where we've learned the most is from the investigation that never stops from the one that can't be shut down by republicans from the investigation that can't be fired. it's the one that taught us almost everything we know thus far about this scandal. it's, of course, the investigation being done by journalist, investigative journalist. the best book written about what went wrong getting this country into the iraq war in 2002 and 2003, that was a book called

"hubris" written by david corn and michael. it's the book about what happened in the leadup to the war? that's the last book that they wrote together. now tonight at midnight it's the release of the next one, "russian roulette" and they will do a big launch tomorrow morning but they are here tonight first and one of the things they got which we've never heard before is the reaction from president obama when he was first briefed on the steele dossier and they also got the somewhat priceless reaction from vice president joe biden when he first heard after the election about the int intelligence reporting on connections between trump's campaign and the russian government. quote, on thursday january 5th, 2017 the day before the public

release, the intelligence chiefs briefed obama and senior staff. white house officials were taken aback. it was the first time the pieces came together from us. it seemed a much grander conspiracy than it was during the election. this was an intelligence failure and a failure of the imaginati n imagination. when joe biden was briefed on connexction connections, biden had a v reaction saying quote, if this is true, it's treason. a few days earlier national security advisor susan rice encouraged james clapper to tell president obama about the golden showers allegation during the presidents' daiily intelligence briefing. that's a claim in the christopher steele dossier about alleged russian dirt on candidate donald trump. obama turned to rice and said quote, why am i hearing this?

he was incredulous. they had no idea if this golden showers story was true but ocho bop -- obama needed to be aware. you don't hear golden showers in a presidents' daily brief or that the guy that's going to become president may be a candidate. so in that two paragraphs of reporting, we get the president's response to that piece of information. why am i hearing this? and news that a senior official operating at that level of clearance believed that trump may be a candidate. also, we learned joe biden learned if these allegations were true, that would be treason. on the subject of the alleged golden showers, i just leave my body, i'll be back in a minute. david corn and michael's book

knocks down the odds that that particular thing ever happened but i mean, you can read this however you want but they have lots of new detail about that allegation. first, in moscow, they do report out that the night mr. trump stayed in moscow during the miss universe pageant he did stay at the ritz carlton in the same room that obama stayed in when he visited moscow four years later. that's keeping with the allegations about trump and this alleged videotape of sexual behavior that supposedly took place in the room that was going to be used for leverage over trump for years to come. at the same time. david corn and isikoff get specific about the window of time in which this alleged activity would have to take place and it's not a big window of time. they report donald trump was at a party in moscow until 1:30

a.m. local time on the one night he was in moscow. he was at a party with other people until 1:30 in the morning. he was then due onset for a photo shoot the next morning at 7:45 a.m. and that was his only one night in moscow on that trip. and so if he was leaving party at 1:30, he had to be somewhere in 7:45. he gets a 2:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. window and maybe that's time to get after serious shenanigans that live forever but that's a pretty tight time frame this would have had to happened. corn and isikoff quote the author of the steel dossier as assertingless con less confidene tape allegations than the rest of his dossier. quote, steele's fate would clear. much later, christopher steele would say he believed 70 to 90%

of the broad assertions in his reporting were true, russia mounted a campaign to cultivate trump and colluded with the trump campaign. as for the likelihood of the claim that prostitutes had urn nated in trump's presence, steele would say to colleagues, it's 50/50. quote steele would later wonder if there is a connection between trump's visit to a las vegas nightclub the act. maybe there was a connection between that visit to that nightclub and the golden showers story in the first memo but he didn't know. that reference to the appearance at the act nightclub is from the first chapter of corn and isi p isikoff's book. they said those involved in the planning were in las vegas and went to a nightclub called the act in las vegas. quote, shortly after midnight the entourage arrived. the group included trump, enin,

gold stone, the reigning miss universe and out going miss usa. the club's management heard trump might be there and decided if they should prepare a special performance, perhaps him being tied up on stage. corn and isikoff report simulated urn nation barred any more such performances at this venue. since isikoff and corn made those claims, at least one photo of trump inside that nightclub that night has emerged. so the reason everybody calls the christopher steele dossier the alleged thing, it's important not so much for it's

direct content as for the allegation that the russian government had evidence of this thing that it might use as leverage against the president in an on going way. well, if you are interested in that part of the russia scandal and steele dossier, david corn and michael isikoff turned up more than anybody wanted to know. they full reported this part of the scandal more than anybody else has. both what could have happened in russia and where that allegation might have come from if it didn't come from the president's actual behavior in moscow. all right. while i'm scarring my mom with this talk, let me also give you one other steve bannon book they turn up. when during the campaign announced his foreign policy advisors, steve bannon reportedly had a very robust reaction to the announcement specifically including the announcement of george papadopoulos. george papadopoulos would plead

guilty and cooperate with the mueller investigation. this is from corn and isikoff's book. they called up a friend saying quote, these people are a bunch of clowns. as for papadopoulos, bannon asked his friend quote how the f did he get on this list? corn and isikoff have a scoop on what george papadopoulos told robert mueller and investigators how trump reacted to papadopoulos' efforts to set up a putin meeting for him. quote, on march 31st, 2016, papadopoulos atenltended the meeting in washington. then under construction to become the new trump international hotel. with trump proceeding, the members introduced themselves. papadopoulos said he had contacts that could set up a meeting. papadopoulos told investigators he believed trump gave him

encouragement. according to sources familiar, trump said the idea was interesting and looked at sessions as if he expected sessions to follow up. sessions nodded in response. so papadopoulos said trump was encouraging and wanted poll lowup. here is another strange piece of reporting from the book about trump's reaction to another russi russian overture and we haven't seen it until now. this was the interaction from during the campaign. >> okay. let's go. >> sorry. >> yes, ma'am. >> i'm from russia. >> good friend of obama, putin. he likes obama a lot.

>> my question will be about foreign politics. if you're elected as a president, what will be your foreign politics especially in the relationships with my country and do you want to continue the politics of sanctions that mention of the economy or any other ideas? >> obama gets along with nobody. the whole world hates us. >> that's the start of his answer. he goes on there fror a long tie for about five minutes. quote, at freedom fest a conservative event, maria, a tall, striking red head who we learned in the book has ties to the kremlin stood up and questioned trump during a q and a session and said i'm from russia, do you want to continue the politics or do you have any other ideas? trump had not yet spoken about this issue as a candidate. during a five-minute long response trump said i know

putin. putin has no respect for putin. big problem, big problem. obama's policies drove russia more closely than china and this is a horrible thing for the united states. i believe i would get along nicely with putin. i don't think you need the sanctions thanks to maria and the russians have trump on the record opposing sanctions despised by moscow. much later, trump's campaign advisors watched the video and wonder about it. steve bannon raised it with our chairman reince priebus. how was it that russian woman happened to be in las vegas for this vent and trump happened to call on her and trump's response, it was odd that trump had a fully developed answer. trump's own campaign was weirded out by that interaction. that's in ru"russian roulette" that comes out at midnight. there is more. stay with us.

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was september 2016. was that report from yahoo news michael isakoff would report mont months later sure enough they said about trying to lift russian sanctions unilaterally. about six weeks after he reported that insdwrenvestigati david corn had a different kind of bombshell. he reported quote a former senior intelligence officer that specialized in russian counter intelligence said he provided the burro with memos that contend to the russian government for years has tried to assist trump. that scoop way before it's time was a week before the 2016 election. those memos mother jones would be the steele dossier reported david corn that reported their existence. these two reporters keep advancing the story well before

anyone else catches up to what they are doing and now michael iskoff wrote a book called "russian roulette." it comes out tomorrow which is very, very soon. it's very, very good. >> thank you. thank you for supporting us. >> it helps me. i cover this stuff intensively. i learn new stuff and helps me put it in context in a way i wasn't able to do before reading this. you advanced my own understanding. >> that was part of the point. this is a story that's been going on for a year and a half if not longer and goes in different directions and we get great scoops from reporters but they are a bit here and there and the way this world works, we seem to forget things so quickly they come and go so fast. we thought this is a particularly good moment in time to bring together in a narrative weaving together everything we

do know up through the election and beyond. it seems tonight it's very appropriate because while the house intelligence committee says the republicans will have 150-page report, we don't know what will be in it, we have a 300-page report that's more extensive and comprehensive than they are putting out. >> the surprise announcement. >> it doesn't have to go through a declassification review. you can read it. there will be no blacked out pages. >> but you can add them yourself. let me ask you about specific stuff in here. you guys do a better job than anybody else has about talking about some of the unusual characters that ended up on the trump campaign. page and papadopoulos ends up with narrative about them in context of how they ended up on the campaign and contacts with russia. you have a great quote from obama's assistant secretary of state, she says the moment when she heard trump hired paul

manafort to be the campaign ceo and chairman, she thought quote, manafort, he's been a russian studge for 15 years. manafort, page, papadopoulos have very unusual russia ties end up in the trump campaign. do you have an understanding how these people came to be on the trump campaign? >> trump staked out ground. you go back to the miss universe pageant where he goes to moscow. he's obsessed with meeting vladimir putin. he can't wait. is putin coming? have we got a phone call from him? have we heard? that seems to be his primary focus. he was trying to do aaguilera, billionaire oligarch known as putin's builder that co-sponsored the miss universe pageant and wanted to build a trump tower in moscow.

he knew he needed putin's approval and one way to get it is saying flattering things about him and ignoring the really nasty things about putin's regime. once he had done that, he staked out his ground with the russians, the kremlin knew where this guy was coming from and i think that gave them the opening to everything that came afterwards. >> to shovel people in his direction. >> to cultivate those people. >> that's who he attracted. michael flynn. who in december of 2015 had gone to the famous rt celebration and sat at a table with putin. >> and was paid $40,000. >> one point you make is that was seen as a big propaganda coup for the russian government to get the head of dia to come over. >> a top spy chief in american society and american government

to come and sit with putin who -- >> and applaud r.t. >> the propaganda outlet that putin knows is part of this massive information warfare operation he unleashed. they are working in coordination with the internet research agency in st. petersburg. they knew russian hackers were trying to get into democratic targets. maybe they didn't desacide. when flynn is applauding r.t., i would love to know what putin thought. lyndon had a phrase, useful it y idiot. putin is using in this campaign against americans. >> that's 2015, december 2015. as we reveal in this book, in 2014, the u.s. government had a secret source inside the kremlin that was providing a ream of information about what putin was up to and his plans for massive

cyber attacks information warfa warfare. this was all being reported through channels to top u.s. government officials. so it was known at the highest levels of the u.s. intelligence community what putin was up to and, you know, one of the sad conclusions of the book is there really was massive intelligence failure here. >> we'll take a quick break and come back. i want to ask you about the source. that was the first thing that made me close the book and talk to my staff about this. that stuff about the source deep inside the kremlin with access to pu to putin's circle i found terrifying. well talk about that later. stay with us. but what a powerful life lesson. and don't worry i have everything handled. i already spoke to our allstate agent,

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he told the amaerican kremlin they were attacking western institutions and under mine western democracies to include cyber attacks, information warfa warfare, propaganda. it fit putin's decision to destroy nato and european union and seriously harm the united states. two things are amazing, the content of the warning, the seriousness of the warning but the fact there is that kind of source inside the russian government talking to u.s. intelligence at this point in 2014. >> not to u.s. intelligence. he was not a spy per se. he started out as providing gossip. always go on in kremlin circles and started giving more important information about plans that putin had for the invasion of crimea and talked about how putin regarded barack obama. sometime as a weak link, sometimes as a super manipulator

who could do anything in russia to try to get putin and also, you know, the people around putin talking about obama and very racist terribles, calling him a a monkey. >> using the "n" word. >> and then as he evolved, some of it was chitchat i think but it became a lot more serious when he started giving warnings that did go through the channels and still remains a mystery today why the u.s. intelligence community and agencies did not take this and some other indicators they had around that time frame in the years since. >> to recognize what we were up against. >> he was not a u.s. intelligence asset in the formal sense but reporting to a u.s. government official who was reporting through intelligence channels and if you know anything about the way the u.s. government works, the rivalries among u.s. agencies where the committee would look down on that which is being reported by

other agencies. so it's possible and likely that this guy's reports, which were all documented and we talk about how they were top secret was kind of dismissed by some in the insdwrentelligence community be it wasn't one of their guys. it was a massive intelligence failure. >> it's like 9/11. you remember the famous line, there was a failure of imagination. we see the indication hiding in plain sight what the internet research agency were doing was reported first in the russian media and "the new york times" in 2015 in 2015, laid it out. >> none of this registered. we reported -- >> didn't seem like links in a single chain. nobody was taking a strategy look to recognize the real risk of what happened including in the highest level of obama administration. >> they defend, the policy

makers depend on the intelligence community to provide information and when the russian attack was underway, they were getting good intelligence in terms of the cyber attacks, cutouts. they got good intelligence mike first reported on about russian efforts to penetrate and probe state election systems but on this -- >> this concerned them a lot. >> on the social media front, they were totally lost and all those deliberations they had in the summer and fall, not once at the high level trying to figure out what was going on did they focus on what was happening in the social media front. >> one thing you want to read this book for, friends at home is the list this very concise list david and mike turned up that things that the obama administration considered doing, put on the menu as options to brush russia back, things they did not do but could have. part of the take away is those things conceivably could be on the menu.

the book is called "russian roulette, the inside story of putin's war and the election of donald trump." thank you to you both. you guys are doing a big launch tomorrow. appreciate you being here first. >> happy to be here. >> don't tell them. we'll keep it between us. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. ♪ we the people... are defined by the things we share. and the ones we love. who never stop wondering what we'll do

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exposed through journalism indo i want -- indictments or continued investigative work. each time this new information becomes public, republicans will be held accountable for abandoning a critical investigation of such vital national importance. joining us is congressman adam schiff. thanks for joining us. i know this is a big and important night. >> good to be with you. >> i was struck by this rocket that you fired off tonight to your republican counter parts on house intel. you said history will judge their actions harshly. how surprised, how blind sided were you by them announcing this is over as of today? >> well, not completely surprised. only in the timing of it being today. they have signalled really for weeks now they were under immense pressure to end the investigation and it became apparent from very early on from almost a year ago that midnight

run to the white house that the republicans on the committee viewed the job as protecting the president, not investigating what took place and so they would call in witnesses i think to go through the motions of doing a credible investigation and ask did you collude with the russians? did you conspire with the russians? if the answer was no, they were content to leave it at that. they were not willing to subpoena the records to prove or disprove what the witnesses were saying. when witnesses like steve bannon said they would beat their chest and say we can't conduct an investigation this way and refuse. not a surprise, rachel, but a grave disservice to the country especially it's the intelligence committee majority saying we just rather not know if it's going to be bad news and that is i think a betroayal of the promise we would fall to facts

wherever they lead. >> i was struck by the way you closed your statement on this tonight. you suggested that in coming weeks and months new information will continue to come out about this scandal whether it's from journalist or from the special counsel's indictments but said some of that new information could come out through continued investigative work by committee democrats. that suggestions that you are not stopping your work if the republicans on the committee have. >> that's right. we're going to continue to do the investigation. it will be much more difficult. we've never had the power to call in witnesses but we've learned a great deal when the majority would. at the same time, there are others that come forward to the committee and come to committee dm c democrats and will put pieces together as we learn through investigative journalism and the work of bob mueller. we learned additional granular detail in the last indictment for example. but what i mean by holding the

republicans to account is there will be revelations as there was within the last week that witnesses that have come before our committee like eric prince may not have been fully truthful. there is a witness who has come forward reported, george nador said this was an effort to establish a back channel with russia. that's part of the core of the investigation to see if that was going on and republicans will have to answer why they are not interested in finding out is eric prince telling the truth or george nador? we'll press and in the days to come, we'll demonstrate the investigative leads that need to be followed and documents that should have been produced in hopes it will guide journalists and colleagues and be of assistance to bob mueller. >> congressman, let me ask you a big hypothetical. i'm thinking about this because there is an important and

high-profile congressional special election in the 18th district in pennsylvania tomorrow. it was a trump plus 20. democrats think they have a shot at taking that seat even though trump won it by 20 points. if the democrats, if your party has a big night in november and does take back the house, that would put you in line to be the chairman of the house intelligence committee under a democratic speaker of the house. would you expect in that circumstance you would reopen this investigation that you would do it the way you think it ought to be done in the first place? >> what i would expect is we will look at the work that's been done. if the work has been done by the senate intelligence committee or by special counsel bob mueller and we have done a full investigation, they may not be necessariy sa necessary. if it hasn't, we have to look at the work that remains to be done. one issue that concerns me is we were not allowed to investigate whether the leverage the

russians have over this president is money laundering and whether the russians did hear what they did elsewhere through the trump organization. the senate is not investigating that, either. i hope bob mueller is but issues like that that expose the country to leverage or over the president of the united states not go investigate it, we would need to. i want to say one other thing that really stands out to me about this sad chapter in our committee and that is many of us could see donald trump was going to be a very poor president. what we couldn't see is how wil resign their obligations under the constitution in our system of checks and balances in the service of that deeply flawed president. our constitution is only as good as the people that uphold it and by shutting down this investigation shows that the people upholding it are really not living up to their responsibility. >> congressman adam schiff, the

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last week this retired russian military officer was found slummed over -- do we have that picture? last week this retire -- there he is. retired russian military officer was found slummed over and

unconscious on a park bench in england. years before he'd be jailed in russia for passing secrets to the united kingdom. in 2010 he was one of four prisoners released by russia in exchange for 10 russian spies picked up in the u.s. after being released he came to the uk where he was living. that where he and his daughter were discovered barely alive. late last week scotland yard said they had been poisoned. they called the incident an assassination attempt. today we learned exactly what kind of nerve agent british authorities think were used in this case and we learned it from the top from prime minister

theresa may. >> they were poisoned by a nerve agent made russia, known as novichok. the government has concluded it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the act. mr. speaker this attempted murder using a weapons grade nerve agent was not just a crime against the skripals. it was an indiscriminate and wreckless act against the united kingdom and we will not tolerate such a brazen attempt to murder innocent civilians on our soil. >> british prime minister today pinning it on the government of russia. saying she is willing to consider a credible response from russia between now and wednesday, two days from now, but without one she's ready to debate the full range of measures the government could take in what she called this

unlawful use of force against t -- by the russian state against the united kingdom. the united kingdom is part of the nato alliance, so are we. at the heart of the nato alliance is article 5, collective defense. it says an attack on one country in nato is seen as an attack on all countries in nato. if the uk is saying this was an unlawful use of force against the uk, a state attack, that has serious implications, not just for them but for us as members of the nato alliance. they say they oo're going to dee it as of wednesday. it's important for britain. it's really important for us too. watch this space. (avo) if you've been struggling with belly pain

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i mentioned this a few moments ago with congressman adam schiff that we have come to another election eve. this time it's the 18th congressional district in pennsylvania, right outside pittsburgh. this is a seat that was once held by a republican congressman named tim murphy, a famously anti-abortion congressman who resigned his seat after he tried to convince the woman he was having an affair with that she should get an abortion. donald trump won this district

by 26 points in 2016 so this would be an easy seat for republicans to hold onto. they're not acting like it, though. early on they dispensed vice president mike pence to go rally. this weekend they sent president trump to the district that seemed drunk if you were sober and a horror movie if you were t tipsy. then today donald trump jr. was on the ground. republicans spent over $10 million to hold onto this seat. now the chairman is trying to play off this race as taking place in a democrat district. a democrat district that trump won by 20. there is optimism by democrats they could have a shot at taking the seat, according to the latest poll. depending on the turnout if it matches what other election turnouts have looked like or if the turnout is a little bit

lower in any of those circumstances, the poll is showing the democrat ahead in this race. the same poll asks about trump's job approval. now they're split on how well they're doing 49 strongly approval, 49 say they strongly or somewhat disapprove. both parties have a lot at steak and a -- stake and are both trying to spin this. poles close at 8:00 p.m. in pennsylvania tomorrow. that does it for us tonight now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell". >> tonight's episode is going straight to the broadcasting just because we heard you say golden showers four times in the first 15 minutes