rate and also review if you like it. that's "all in" for this evening. rachel maddow starts right now. >> i hear by review you as excellent. i'll do it whenever you want. i have a little spring in the back of my neck. just pull it and i'll say it any time. thank you for joining thus hour. pop quiz. ready? american history pop quiz. who was the head of the republican party at the height of the watergate crisis? who was the head of the republican party when nixon resigned? poppy bush. george h.w. bush was the chairman of the republican national committee from early 1973 until just after nixon resigned in the fall of 1974. and when he was head of the republican party in the summer of 73, right after white house counsel john dean started testifying about nixon before the senate watergate committee,

right after dean had started spilling the beans on not only the crime but the cover-up and the nixon enemies list and all the rest of it. that summer, july 1973, republican national committee chairman george bush set out on a listening tour. he traveled to four states to assess the mood of the republican party when it came to watergate. how were the party faithful feeling about watergate? how was the party coping? how was this playing outside washington? we know that did he this and we know what the results of the listening tour. were because george bush wrote this memo about it. date, july 2, 1973. memorandum to general alexander haig, white house chief of staff. you see the initial there's gb. i pre fared attached mood of the party memo for the president.

and then he gives the bottom line. quote, we're in fair shape. i expect when we get by those witnesses dragged in by dean, we'll be doing okay. all best. and indeed there's this two-page memo that's attached. and it is addressed to both general haig, chief of staff, and to president nixon himself. it is listed as confidential but no action required. here's what poppy bush says. i have just returned if a four-state visit. see attached schedule, to show types of events. with the exception of the students at the university of washington, the other meetings were party and press meetings. the press questions he said were, 95% about watergate. and it wasn't just the press with that fixation. quote, he says, the party people asked me almost exclusively about watergate.

he then goes on to describe the overall findings. i would summarize the mood as follows. a, the press. he describes them as skeptical. and keep in mind he's talking about the press that he has encountered on this four-state listening tour outside the beltway. he said the press out there in the country is more civil than washington, d.c. and new york press conferences. for the most part, willing to entertain the these miss party is not the loser out of the scandal. meaning the republican party as a whole is not being tarnished too much by the watergate scandal. b. george bush then assesses the mood of the students with whom he met. quote, unwilling to accept at all my conviction that president is uninvolved in watergate. quote, reasonable acceptance that party should not suffer because of the watergate. civil in attitude. good questions. and then he gives his assessment

of the mood of the party people. so this is the cheryl of the republican party at the time, 1973, talking about the base. talking about how the republican party faithful out there in the country, how they're feeling about this washington scandal. this watergate scandal. as john dean is testifying and as the scandal is really starteding to consume official washington. according to george bush, summer of '73, in his assessment, the party people have a, quote, almost unanimous desire to believe that the president is telling the truth. abhorence of enemies list, the enemies list that john dean had testified about, immense frustration about chp, the committee to reelect the president, better known now as creep. all that money sitting there and its continued existence. remember, this was in the memo of 1973. after the election. so nixon had already been reelected. he is saying the party faithful

are frustrated that it still exists with all that money sitting in it. especially if it will turn out to be a slush fund related to the watergate scandal. according to poppy bush, the white house feels the press is playing up watergate too much. he says the party people have unanimous distrust of john dean but some uncertainty as to his testimony. the party people generally want the president to hold a press conference or speak out. they generally do not feel president should appear before the senate committee. and then he gives his summary. quote. so this is george bush, then head of the republican party. explaining, he has this personal conviction that the president was uninvolved in watergate, even if people don't believe him. here was his conclusion for the white house chief of staff. quote, the party people need shoring up. they want to believe in the president. they are hurt and embarrassed by

watergate. they feel betrayed by watergate. when told we will overcome based on the president's record and party principles, they react enthusiastically. the party people need shoring up. tonight after another difficult day in his own summer of escalating scandal, the current president of the united states definitely set out to shore up the party people. tonight the president is in indiana holding what the white house described as a make america great again rally. promoting support for a republican candidate who is trying to unseat democratic senator joe donnelly. much like president nixon in the summer of 1973, the whole country knows and the republican party itself knows that a crucial factor in how this is all going to work out for the president and for the party is the level of support and enthusiasm and trust that the

president continues to inspire from the republican base. from the party people, right? who george bush set out to survey in the summer 45 years ago. and both with nixon 45 years ago and with president trump tonight, everybody looking at this presidential scandal in a clear-eyed way knows there's a connection between the amount of support the president can continue to count on from the party faithful. there's a connection between that and the extent of his own legal jeopardy. yes, the president appears proverbially bullet proof in terms of whether or not this scandal will dent his standing with the members of the republican base who love him the most. but everybody knows, from american history. even from the history of this president, that you can only take so much before even the party faithful start to wither a little bit in their support of the president. and that may be crucial as to his fate and the fate of the president and his party

together. right? and the president's legal jeopardy, the extent of the president's legal troubles, the extent to which he was drawn into the scandal personally, 1973, that was not yet clear for nixon either, right? john dean was just starting his testimony. the republican chairman was telling everybody he was absolutely convinced that nixon had no personal involvement or the crime or the cover-up, this is a level of uncertainty today as well about how much the president will be personally implicated in the scandal that's continue to surround him. today "the new york times" broke out another story about this. it started ensnaring his campaign aides and his business associates, including those now flipping against him. a la john dean. the president's personal lawyer, michael cohen, pled guilty last week to eight felony federal charges and in so doing in court under oath, the president's

personal lawyer implicated himself in of the two felonies to which mr. cohen pled guilty. both of those involved a tabloid company called american media and its flagship publication, "national enquirer." today the president writes, "times" reports that cohen and trump also made an effort to buy up all of the dirt and information that the "national enquirer" and its parent company had stockpiled on donald trump as a public figure dating all the way back to the 1980s. you might remember last week the associated press reported the american media kept a physical safe, a vault in which everybody knew they safeguarded all their information about celebrities and public figures that they had obtained but not yet publish, including information about donald trump. well, today's revelation from "the new york times" is essentially that the president at least tried during the

campaign to buy the contents of that safe. again, two hush money payments related to that company is that paid out during the campaign have already resulted in felony charges for the president's personal lawyer. felony charges in which the president has been named as a co-conspirator. the president's lawyer has said under both the person who directed the commission of the felonies was the president. the president's business is apparently implicated in the business of the felonies according to the information filed in court alongside michael cohen's guilty plea. if that part of it now also turns out to involve a greatly expanded universe of derogatory information about the president, but the campaign may have been trafficking, or trying to buy for the that you recall of influencing the election, well, who knows where that will go? when things came to an he said

in the watergate scandal it was because of a supreme court ruling. a unanimous ruling from the united states supreme court which ordered the president to comply with a court ordered subpoena to turn over the white house tapes. that's what resulted in the public release of the tapes. it was the public release which broke the dam. realizing that he would likely be impeached and removed from office, president nixon resigned. that case with the supreme court is legendary because hit such profound consequences. but as a matter of law, that supreme court ruling is not seen as controversial. it was a unanimous ruling, for one, including from judges who had been appointed by president nixon. since watergate that ruling has come to be seen as a bed rock part of modern jurisprudence that proves in america, even u.s. presidents can't break the law or defy law with impugnity.

there are a lot of cases well known because of controversy. u.s. v nixon is very well known but not because it is the source of controversy. it is not a controversial ruling. that that, brett cavanakavanaug said that maybe u.s. v. nixon was wrongly decided. now today, democrats in the senate have announced that one of the witnesses they will call to testify next week at the confirmation hearings for brett kavanaugh will be richard nixon's old white house counsel, john dean who came quleen the senate watergate committee and told them all about the crime is that ball the cover up and that ultimately resulted in the dominos starting to fall which resulted in the end of the presidency. john dean will testify on kavanaugh. specifically about deriding the result of u.s. v. nixon.

if this white house is at all trying to swim its way out of the comparisons between this scandal and watergate, and the unfavorable comparison to the nixon white house in the watergate era, it turns out they're swimming against very, very strong, very fast his, toal currents here. we'll have an interview tonight with the report here first broke the news about the "national enquirer" and its safe full of compromising information including on the president. i want to give you an update on a story that was strange when we talked about it on last night's show for the first time. it is a story that has since gotten a good deal stranger today. as you know, one of the main determinants have what will happen next political history and with this presidency is the fate of the u.s. congress. what will happen with the mid-term elections now just a couple months away. 68 days away, to be exact.

it will be a seriously uphill battle to do so. the democratic party is putting absolutely everything it has got in an effort to take back control of the house of representatives. in order to do that, they'll need to take a couple of dozen seats that are currently held by republicans and they'll need to flip them democratic. and every competitive district is different all kraunld the country. every state, every locality has its own issues, dynamics to contend with. so there are many different approaches. as many as there are at stake this fall in terms of how democrats are approaching, trying on win individual seats and there by contribute to flipping house. but there is a theme that you can see, even from a distance in the democratic effort. and whether it is a deliberate effort on the democratic party's part or not, it so happen that's there are a opportunity of democrats running this year, trying on flip competitive seats who are democrats with military

backgrounds, intelligence back grounds, law enforcement back grounds. a ton of democratic candidates this year in lots of crucial districts where the democratic candidate has national security qualifications on his or her resume. we know that in part because the democratic party is keeping a list of those types of candidates. scrolling by, this is the names and the states. they form distribution list to which the democratic party sent a letter warning all these candidates that because of their national security background, because they may have qualified for security clearances, either now or in the past, they should be on the lookout for potentially being docksed. this is that letter from the democratic party to these candidates. we've now obtained the letter. quote, dear friends and future

colleague, it has come to our attention that the congressional leadership fund, a super pac with connections to speaker paul ryan, has somehow obtained and is distributing an unredacted questionnaire for national security positions. we are unaware of any way that this unredacted form could have been obtained legally. as an individual who has served our federal government either in the military or in a national security capacity, you well know, it is the most thorough document. in this case the one circulated was not redacted is that contained sense i have the private information including the candidate's social security number and full medical history. i write you in the likelihood that you also filled out an sf 86 in the service of our country is that to warn you of this super pac's disturbing behavior in this case. it concludes with a warning to

these democratic candidates who have national security background that's they need to be particularly vigilant about their security. reminds the candidates that they can avail. they of a senior team dedicated to cyber security if these candidates feel like they have need of it. so here's the democratic party. a couple months out from the election saying to all the candidates with a national security background, watch out. a new threat that goes specifically to you. it is a remarkable story. we first learned this candidate's security application had been obtained. and then by paul ryan's pack thanks to this article which broke tuesday night. she was working on counter terrorism issues shelf also worked on the law enforcement side of the u.s. postal service. what has been clear from the beginning of this scandal, cynic it first broke is that abigail's

security application really has been circulated by this paul ryan super pac and they have really used it againster in her campaign despite that it is not legal for them to have it. what has not been clear until today is how they got it in the first place. candidate abigail spanberger wrote and put in it blunt terms, quote, it has come the my attention that the congressional leadership fund, this pack, has somehow retained a full unredacted copy and has kiss seminatd it for unknown that you recall. it not aware of any legal way your group could have this document. that concern was echoed in a new letter signed by over 200 national security personnel. people with experience at the kramt is that the national security counsel.

it says, neither we nor national security law experts we've consulted are familiar with any previous case of an sf 86 being released in full to include this history. we have yet to hear why her personal information was released and subsequently made public by paul ryan's political action committee. each year thousands of aspiring publicer is nlts virginia file the same confidence. they must be comfort they are handled securely and never released to secure a political agenda. her security application is being used now for a political agenda against her. we still don't know why this incredibly sensitive document was released to a research if i recall. as noted, as far as we can tell it is a totally unprecedented breach. as of today we do know how that firm and paul ryan's pac did

obtain it. the u.s. postal service that they did it. it was an accident and they're apologizing for it. quote, the postal service deeply regrets our mistake many inappropriately releasing her official personnel file to a third party which occurred because of human error. we have taken immediate steps to make sure it doesn't happen again. the post ser, to ensure that su requests are properly handled in the future. we are continuing our review. get this. but we believe the issue began in june 2018 and that only a small number of additional requests for information from personnel files were improperly processed. oh, there is more?

so security documents are not subject to freedom of information act requests, particularly from firm who want to use them against people running for office. in this case, the u.s. postal service for some reason handed over this candidate's full unredacted file to this research group. the postal service says they're very sorry. but oh, by the way, wasn't just her. a small number of additional requests for information from personnel files were improperly processed. beyond this one, others were improperly processed. paul ryan's super pac is not just active in the field against this one congressional candidate, abigail spanberg here is trying to replace dave brat in virginia. paul ryan is all over the country. how many more requests like the did they make against how much

other candidates with national security back grounds? the agency that did this thus far is not saying how many others they did it to. it happened to others as well. the daily beast said they are not answering questions about how many federal officials had their files processed and whether the postal service released the files and to whom. we're also confronted with the fact the republicans here, the super pac controlled by the house speaker paul ryan, they obtained this document they never should have obtained. they circulated it. their justification for using this document to try to hurt the candidacy, that it was sent to them mistakenly but it was sent to them so too bad. this is like, if you with drew $20 from your account at the atm

and after you got the $20 out of the account, the atm started beeping and spit you out $20,000 from somebody else's account. right? do you just expect to be able to put that in your pocket and walk off? score. i asked for it fair and square. i didn't, well, it's mine now. in this case we're not talking about money. we're talking about essential i have the national security information. but it does seem astonishing is that apparently the plan is that they'll keep using it. why not? who will stop them? joining us now is abigail spanberger, nominee for the seventh district, trying to unseat dave brat. thank you for being here. i appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me on. >> so we've seen this story unfold over just a quick few days. what do you think, this release of this very sensitive document

from your time applying as a federal law enforcement officer and a cia officer, it was all released as an accident. >> that's the explanation that they've given. it doesn't change that it was released in violation of the privacy act and it was given on this research firm and then later circulated and provided to journalists. so i am incredibly disappointed this. this human error, it so profoundly maktd me but i'm glad it dime light so it doesn't affect others. >> as far as the response we've had thus far, have they notified any of the other people who may have been subject to the same kind of breach? they made reference today in their formal statement about this matter that there may be others whose personnel files with who knows who is in them,

may have also been breached. do we know if they've made further contact with those who may have suffered as they did? >> i do not know that. no. >> i want to ask but a matter of timing. the conservative pac, the republican groups that obtain the information, they apparently got this paperwork by accident. it should not have been responded to the way it was. a firm hired by you to help essentially prepare for your own campaign also filed a freedom of information act for your own records months and months ago at the end of last year. and as far as i'm told, the firm working for that you filed that same request for your information still hasn't gotten anything. but this republican group appears to have had a zip, zip, less than a month turn-around in terms of how quickly they got their information. >> that's correct. it is typical for campaigns to file research requests for. they so we hired a foirl

research me. and they did submit freedom of information requests back in september of 2017 and as of now, we have not received any information from cia or from the u.s. postal service related to my time as a federal agent or a case officer with the craft. >> so you're wasting nine months and haven't gotten anything. we know from the response that they got a response including your unredacted security application, they had in it hand within three weeks of them first making a request. that timing seems nuts. i don't know if you have any explanation or any suspicions about that. >> i don't have an explanation for it. i would echo your sentiments. as you noted in the opening, a foya request wouldn't result in receiving an sf 86 which is the national security questionnaire, certainly not an unredacted one

which includes my full medical history, my social security number, every place i've ever lived, every roommate i ever had. everything you trust to the government when they give you a security clearance and trust with you state secrets. >> last question here. you are part of what appears to be a real wave of democratic candidates running this year, first time candidates who do have a national security background. diplomatic, foreign service background. i wonder if you think that's a coincidence or if there is something about our politics this year, this time with democrats and opportunities, the efforts to take back the house which would really change washington fundamentally right now. is it a coincidence? there are so many with the background you have that are all running right now. do you think it is a moment for the democratic party that we should see as a national trend? >> i think it is a national trend. when you look at that we did have a super pac pushing out my

personal information, my social security number, my medical information, attempts to have a personal gainful it speaks to how broken our system isful it speaks to what is wrong with our political system and i think there are so many of us served in the community, in law enforcement, who are sworn to uphold the constitution and this is upemblematic of how bad things are. you expect to be hit with a couple of attacks here and there but this is beyond the pale. and what it does, and what it signals to anyone who might be in federal service who has filled out an sf 86, the national security questionnaire, i think there are people taking pause of what might happen with the information they thought was safe. so many of us are running because we want to stand up for what is right and get this country on track and be part of

changing not just the tone in washington but also the principles of right and wrong. the fact this was put out in violation, that was the first mistake. the second mistake is that an organization would know that they received as an error in violation of the law and continue to pushett out. so for those of us who are running, we're running because we want to stand up for what's right and bring our voices to congress and i'm excite to be part of this wave. i think this is one more example of the fact that people want to focus service for country and a mission of upholding the constitution. that's what we need in washington at this time. >> abigail spanberger, democrat runni running, thank you for bringing this to light so we can put our radar up about it possibly happening to others. stay with us. ening to others. stay with us

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hosted on the show, abigail spanberger, the excia officer, her information was sent out and it has been sent out by paul ryan's pac. as i mentioned, she is running in virginia in a race where she is trying to unseat tea party republican dave brat. you might remember dave brat as a national figure because dave brat unseated eric cantor. he beat him in a primary. that seat has been seen as a safe republican seat for a long time. that district has been held by a republican since 1971. but times are changing. the cook political report for this year lists that race as a toss-up. in part because abigail spanberger is a strong candidate but also because dave brat is not a strong member of congress. and the virginians are not

having an easiest time of it. elections last year in virginia, the state elected a democratic governor, a democratic lieutenant governor, democratic attorney general, and a huge i know sw in the house as well. now today, more help for the democrats' hopes of flipping red congressional seats in virginia. more help for democrats today, courtesy of the president of the united states. much to everybody's surprise today, the president announced without warning that he is canceling an otherwise automatic across the board pay increase for almost 2 million federal workers. where do a lot of federal workers live? a cost of living allowance. a 2.1% raise due to go into effect in january. including lots and lots of them all over the country but lots of them in particular in places like virginia. the president just stabbed the pocket book of something close to 150,000 voters in virginia

who also happen to be federal employees. virginia republican congresswoman barbara com stock is probably the most endangered member of congress in the whole country. she is fighting for her life, trying to hang on to her seat against a strong challenger, jennifer wexton. that race is listed as leaning democratic despite that it has an incumbent republican serving there now. in reaction to the president's announcement about this pay rise, the congresswoman put out this statement saying she strongly opposes eliminating the pay raise for civilian federal employees and will work my colleagues to have the pay raise included in our appropriations. the same sound coming from scott taylor. another virginia republican who has some scandals of his own and he is facing a tough re-election fight against a democratic

business woman. the former navy vet. he came out immediately against the president's proposal. the administration's announcement to freeze cost of living adjustment for federal and locality pay areas is completely unnecessary and a disappointment for the 30,000 federal employees in the area, meaning in my district, who are way overdue for a pay increase. taylor says, i oppose this decision and will lead an effort to reverse its effect. this president's fate probably depends on who holds congress after the november elections. this president has said he intends to do everything he can to help get republicans elected to the house all over the country. now he has at least these house republicans in virginia, having to start running against how many this thing he inexmilki did today. as for abigail spanberger, her opponent, so far he hasn't said anything about this again.

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the damaging stories that publication had buried on donald trump's behalf, going back several decades. the trump files were described at the time, mostly older "national enquirer" stories about mr. trump's lawsuits, related story notes, and lists of sensitive sources some of the tips about alleged affairs and minutiae like allegations of unscrupulous golfing. what is scrupulous golfing when you think about it? i kid, i kid. don't be mad. we learned last being the parent company ami had kept all those materials on trump and other people in a safe. according to the ap, an executive from the company removed the essential i have the items in the weeks before the election and the inauguration. the current whereabouts of those documents and materials are unknown. that executive supposedly moved the stuff, he's now been given

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$72 million last year and the enquirer's average weekly circulation fell by 18%. and yeah, times are tough in the publishing business but that drop is bigger than anything else that american media owns. and as further explained by the ap, before the "national enquirer" lost 18% circulation this year, it lost 15% circulation the year before that which was during the election. so their finances aren't what they seem and the supposed business decisions they were making about their coverage of donald trump appeared to have not made much sense as business decisions. now two of their top executives have been granted immunity by prosecutors. what's going on? joining us now is jeff horowitz, reporter at the associated press who first broke the news about the ami safe containing the buried and salacious information that it had not published. and now broken the news about the finances. thank you for being here.

>> glad to be back. >> when we spoke a if you days ago about your last scoop about the safe, you suggested it might be interesting or it might help us fill in our understanding of what's going on here to have a better understanding about ami's financial situation. how it is running as a business. now that you've obtained this information saying that things appear to be sort of dire there, how does that help you understand what's going on with that company and how it relates to the president? >> it leaves me with a pretty big mystery still. why ami would be spending its fairly tight money, $150,000 on karen mcdougal, allegedly torsion basically do something that won't boost the circulation and didn't even sell all that well to readers. i will have to say that congress attacking hillary clinton may have added some value to the "national enquirer" but it doesn't look like going whole hog on donald trump did much for the publication at all. so you have to ask a question,

why david pecker and dylan howard, the top figures there, why they did that, but two, why the owner would have allowed them to do it. >> in terms of david pecker and dylan howard, the executives that you mentioned, it has been reported that they are cooperating, at least to some extent with prosecutors. obviously ami was implicated when michael cohen pled guilty to these hush money payments and ami seem to have been involved as an entity in those payments. do we have any clearer sense of why these executives might have been offered immunity, the extent of the cooperation, or whether or not the company itself might potentially have some legal jeopardy here beyond just these executives themselves? >> yeah. so companies can't be granted immunity and we are unaware of any reason to think that ami would be out of the woods here.

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