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acting in the united kingdom with the poisoning, et cetera. but this is saudi arabia acting inside its region. both countries that are friendly to the u.s. so if our allies think they can get away with this, what does that say about our adversaries? >> great point. that is all for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening. >> thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for being with us tonight. top of mind tonight, all over the country is hurricane michael, churning across the florida panhandle and alabama and georgia. we're going to get a live update on the state of the storm coming up in just a couple of minutes here. unusually, though, for a day in which a huge category 4, almost category 5 hurricane hit the continental united states, unusually, this has also been an otherwise busy news day. usually, a storm this big hitting the united states broadside would eclipse all other news.
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but today, a lot of other stuff has been happening besides. so we're going to be covering the storm. we're also going to get to a bunch of these other stories alongside our hurricane coverage. you should know, for example, that tonight "the washington post" is reporting that the president has talked "recently" to the man who is now serving as chief of staff to the attorney general, jeff sessions. his name is matt whitacre. matt whitacre made news when everybody thought rod rosenstein was going to be fired as the deputy attorney general and the overseer of the mueller investigation. matt whittaker, that day that everybody thought rosenstein was out, he was named by the justice departments a the person who was going to get appointed to replace rod rosenstein had he been fired. that was really controversial for a few different reasons. number one, rosenstein wasn't getting fired after all that day. so it's weird that the justice department wrote a press release about who was replacing him and
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then that leaked to the press. that was weird. also weird, matt whittaker is not in the line of succession at the justice department to take over the deputy attorney general job. so inserting him into the rosenstein job, had rosenstein been fired, that would have been strange. that would have been the white house inserting itself into the justice department to hand pick the person to take over that important job. the fact that matt whittaker, until recently, was a cable news pundit, whose main gig on tv was attacking the robert mueller investigation, that made it seem clear to a lot of people why the white house might have wanted to pick him exactly to insert into the rod rosenstein job, presumably so whittaker could hamstring the mueller investigation he's been so critical of and protect the president from that high post at the justice department. well, tonight, what "the washington post" is reporting
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that whittaker is in talks with the president to replace a high ranking justice department official, only this time "the post" reports that the president is talking to him about him replacing jeff sessions, the attorney general. not rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. trying to make matt whittaker attorney general of the united states, or even acting attorney general of the united states, that would be a spectacularly radical move by the white house. given his minimal experience and declared hostility to the ongoing special counsel investigation into the president, which he is personally negotiating about get thing gig. what "the post gths " is report that those talks are under way, and those talks have happened recently. briefly today was also the
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day that special counsel's investigation produced its longest jail term yet. we'll have more on that coming up in a moment. we have just got in the transcript from that sentencing hearing today. the prison sentence that was imposed at this hearing today for this defendant in the special counsel's investigation was described by his defense lawyer as a shock. so we've got that transcript coming up. we also had a surprise announcement from the justice department today that a chinese military intelligence officer was arrested and extradited to the united states to face federal charges that he was part of a plot to steal technology in the united states from a u.s. company. it was specifically airline technology, and whrnlt the technological secrets of ge aviation are things that are of interest. what is particularly interesting to all of us about this case with this chinese military intelligence guy today is that this is a foreign military intelligence military officer who has been picked up,
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arrested, extradited, and sent here to face trial in a u.s. courtroom. the u.s. has indicted chinese military officers before, including for hacking crimes. the u.s. has indicted a whole bunch of russian military intelligence officers, quite recently, including by the special counsel's office, for their role in the attack on the 2016 election. every time there's one of these indictments of foreign intelligence military operators, the u.s. prosecutors who file those indictments, they face the same criticism, right? this is just naming and shaming. this is a purely symbolic act. you'll never get these guys in a court of law. well, in this case, today they did. this is a case overseen by the counterintelligence unit of the fbi. this chinese military officer was arrested in belgium, charged in a sealed indictment. the indictment was unsealed today, and he was extradited to the u.s.
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today he was arraigned in federal court in ohio. i mean, charge a foreign military officer and charge a foreign spy, true, most of the time you're not going to get them in a u.s. court, but sometimes you do. documents filed by prosecutors seemed to suggest maybe the way they got him is by keeping the charges against this guy sealed, luring him to belgium, luring him to a country where we could have extradition under promises he might be able to obtain some more of that stolen information he was interested in from the aviation company if he traveled belgium. it was all set up, and now he's here on trial. also, along somewhat the same lines, we have been watching fast-moving developments today related to the disappearance of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. khashoggi is the saudi journalist who had become a main
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stream, mar fairly moderate cri of the saudi regime. he entered a saudi consulate in turkey to do routine paperwork, and then disappeared. and amid absolutely damning reporting now that suggests that a team of more than a dozen saudi agents were dispatched to that consulate to lay in wait for him there, charges that that saudi team killed jamal, but may have videotaped that killing to prove it to the saudi crown prince, amid reports that they may have used the house of a nearby saudi official to dispose of the remains. amid reports u.s. intelligence may have captured intercepts that overheard saudi officials discussing the journalist's murder. now tonight, a big bipartisan group of u.s. senators has written to the president in a specific way that legally triggers a u.s. investigation of this murder, that legally
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triggers an investigation into whether or not saudi officials were involved in the apparent mudder of this journalist. i said this letter designed to trigger that investigation. this is the mechanism that was created by the magnitsky act in response to the russian torturing and killing distemperature dissidents at home. but it's not specific to russia, and now that the chairman has written to the president with the senators, the u.s. government, under u.s. law, now has 120 days to investigate, and then if they find culpability, they will need to lay down individual sanctions against anyone responsible. again, given how the trump administration feels about the saudis and the saudi leader, who is alleged to be behind this killing, that might be a tall order.
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but, again, tonight the letter has gone. that investigation into khashoggi's apparent murder should be triggered under u.s. law. we'll see how the trump white house handles that. as i said, today has been a very busy news day. on top of all the hurricane news. the stock market fell off a cliff today, dropping more than 800 points today, led by huge losses in the tech sector. also, supreme court justice brett kavanaugh learned that judicial complaints against him, related to his testimony during his confirmation and the temper meant problems he may have displayed, those complaints have been referred for investigation to the 10th u.s. circuit court of appeals. so this is his fellow judges saying, not his fellow justices on the supreme court, it started with his fellow judges on the court he used to sit on, saying these complaints about him warrant investigation. if the 10th u.s. circuit court
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of appeals substantiates these claims against kavanaugh, it's not clear how it will affect kavanaugh's time on the bench at the supreme court. supreme court justices send to sort of be pretty much above the law in terms of their own conduct. but now he is the first supreme court justice to ever take a seat on that court while his fellow judges recommended that misconduct claims against him are serious enough to warrant judicial review, and now that judicial review will begin in the 10th circuit. so all that is going on tonight. plus one other story that i think is potentially really important that just broke in "the wall street journal" that relates to the old peter smith case. the republican operative who was trying to pay the russians to get hillary clinton's e-mail. big interesting break in that case today. we'll have more on that coming up, as well. there's a lot to keep track of tonight. but of course, the biggest thing of all is this hurricane. at the form's height, wind gusts up to 175 miles per hour.
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that's the force of an ef-4 tornado. that makes it the fourth strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in the u.s. ever. the storm made landfall this afternoon in the town of mexico beach in florida. these shards of wood and debris that you see is all that's left of one house in mexico beach, florida, after hurricane michael came ashore. in panama city, the storm's winds acted like a sandblaster, tearing the roofs off of buildings, tearing buildings down. after the storm passed, this is what it looked like. you can see a lot of trees just snapped in half mid height there. ushltly once a storm makes landfall it fizzles pretty quickly. but this one, this one instead of falling apart when it hit land, michael picked up a little speed at landfall it seems. for hours, it seemed to hold
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together. joining us now is nbc news meteorologist bill karins. bill, we know that it's obviously decreased in strength by now, but this has been a remarkable trajectory today and a big swath of destruction. >> we're almost eight hours after landfall and still dealing with a hurricane in central georgia, we still have trees that are falling on houses, cars, power lines, and people in georgia are heading to safe rooms. that's just a fact that we're going to go through. it is weakening, down to a category 1, but wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour, heavily forested areas, just a ton of trees. that's the pictures you're going to see is all the trees down throughout the region. here's the latest. yes, we are down finally to 85-mile-per-hour winds. in a couple of hours around midnight, we'll drop it down to a tropical storm. we like the fact that it's moving at 17 miles per hour. let's quickly try to get this out of here as we go throughout the overnight hours. then again, the faster it moves,
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the more widespread the wind damage is. you just can't win with these things. overnight, we send it through south carolina. then north carolina. by that time, it's much weaker and will turn into a hybrid type storm. ault of this region is going to get drenched by a lot of heavy rain. so not only the problems of additional wind and trees, but minor flooding to deal with. but as far as the damage from this storm, we are about 80%, maybe 85%. we've seen most of it. so here's the winds throughout tomorrow. this is the potential for tropical storm force winds. we're targeted in the carolinas. as far as the rainfall forecast goes, the heaviest rains will be found throughout the night tonight, and then eventually sliding up the east coast. and i mentioned flood watches up through southern new england. this pink is about four to five inches of rainfall. it's been a very wet fall and the ground is very saturated. it's just been a crazy,
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historic, this thing just intensified so quickly and kept going to landfall. if it had been had two or three more hours over water, it could have been a category 5. the strongest hurricane to make landfall in our country sense 1992, when hurricane andrew came ashore. so that was 1992, so 26 years ago we haven't seen a storm this strong. the lower pressure, this goes down as the third strongest. by far, we have never seen anything like this in october. before this landfall, the strongest was 130-mile-per-hour winds. we were 155, that's off the charts stronger and more intense. >> so we keep breaking terrible records, we keep seeing what everybody talks about as 100 year storms or 500 year storms and floods and all these things happening. does it feel like things are more extreme, both with individual storms and in terms of the frequency of extreme
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events just because we're seeing them in close proximity or is things getting worse? >> i think the message has changed. it always used to be, you know, this storm happened because of climate change. you don't hear that now. what you hear now is, we always had storms in the past. but this storm was stronger than it should be because of climate change. so they'll take this storm, they'll take a study of it and put it in the computers and see, you know, did a warmer planet, did warmer gulf water temperatures make it that much stronger than it normally would have been? that's where the science has taken us. so we're trying to advance the narrative. did this storm happen because of a warmer planet, but was this storm boss because of a warmer planet. >> it does seem like the warm waters of the gulf were a factor in terms of the rapid intensification. >> gguaranteed. this is usually the peak of the warmth there any ways.
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in october, we've had monster storms in the gulf before. this one decided not to fizzle before it got to land. so the water temperature was a little warmer than normal, nothing crazy for this time of year. it was just a perfect ingredient that the winds weren't tearing apart, the storm was able to hold itself together and put out an amazing show. where it hit, you know, we've seen the pictures. panama city, the air force base, mexico beach. that area was devastated. storm chasers that have traveled the world say it looks like a bomb went off. we didn't even see the worst pictures of that region. we'll see that tomorrow when the helicopters get up. it will be worse than what we're showing now. we were limited by about two hours of daylight to show you the best we could. but there's a couple of communities that are going to
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have to make tough decisions whether to rebuild or not. >> especially now that we have a new understanding of the strength of storm that can hit in that part of the world. >> that's the other question, right? if we rebuild it, at what standards? >> exactly. meteorologist bill karins doing yomen's work today. thank you very much. much more to get to tonight. stay with us. how do you top mac & cheese? start with 100% clean ingredients. like vermont white cheddar. then... add bacon, bbq chicken, or baja blend. catering and delivery now available. panera. food as it should be.
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february this year, on the same day that the special counsel's office unsealed an indictment of 13 russian citizens and three russian companies under the control of an oligarch close to vladamir putin, same day as that indictment in the russia investigation, the special counsel's office unsealed a plea agreement from an american who had apparently unwittingly helped out those russians in their effort to influence the u.s. election. the american's name is richard peneto. what we learned when they unsealed this plea agreement is he agreed to cooperation with prosecutors, and agreed to made guilty to identity theft for his
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role in the scheme. basically, what we learned was that he had been running an illicit business online where he bought and sold bank account information and helped people set up paypal accounts using that stolen information. the russians involved in the online propaganda effort to tilt the 2016 election to donald trump, they used accounts they said up with his help to buy online ads and to pay for other stuff related to their part of the election interference scheme. well, today richard pinedo got sentenced for that. he got six months in prison, six months house arrest and two years' probation after all of that is over. but we also found out at the sentencing hearing today, because we just got the transcript from the hearing, we also found out what happened when the special counsel's office caught richard pinedo in the first place. here's what happened today. at this point, the judge is asking the prosecutors from the
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special counsel's office to explain how much richard pinedo helped them z a coop ray for, because the judge needs to factor that in when deciding on the sentence. so here's the judge -- a coop ra because the judge needs to factor that in when deciding on the sentence. so here's the judge -- a coop ra because the judge needs to factor that in when deciding on the sentence. so here's the judge -- ray for, because the judge needs to factor that in when deciding on the sentence. so here's the judge -- eray for, because the judge needs to factor that in when deciding on the sentence. so here's the judge --
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so i would say that in a normal investigative office, we would assess that mr. pinedo provided substantial assistance vis-a-vie his upstream seller. if this is just a normal prosecution, he would have identified people above him more culpable and would have led to the charges of other individuals. the judge, did he implicate other folks? he did, your honor. and the government could pursue them? the prosecutor, it could pursue
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them. but the special down kocounsel'e did not pursue them. the judge, why can't that give this to another u.s. attorney's office to pursue? the prosecutor, the special counsel has been referring this to other offices to prosecute and investigate. the judge. is there any question that the information he's given you is truthful? the prosecutor -- we have every reason to believe that the information he provided is truthful and fully fulsome. the judge -- and his information could well lead to future prosecutions? the prosecutor -- could well lead, yes, exactly right. the judge says, and yet, and yet the government will not at any point commit to filing a rule 35 motion, which is one of the ways that you tell the judge it's okay to let this guy off, he gave us good cooperation. the prosecutor says, judge, i think rule 35 would be considered down the line. i just don't think the government can commit at this point, given -- the judge says, no, i
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understand. the prosecutor says, that's not to undersell mr. pinedo's cooperation and accept tans of responsibility. the judge, so he is prejudiced by being part of this investigation opposed to a regular u.s. attorney's investigation. prosecutor -- prejudice is maybe a little extreme, judge, because there are other instances which the u.s. attorney's office wouldn't be interested in the information he provided. but we think a prosecuting office that had a wider ambit, that would be right. but the judge says, without revealing too much, you would provide this information to another office? the prosecutor says, correct, your honor. what is all this i can't say, but what i mean is. this guy, richard pinedo, has been selling bogus bank account information online to who knows. he's pled guilty and cooperated. the judge needs to figure out
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how helpful he has been to co prosecutors as a cooperating witness. that's because the judge needs to decide how much of a break he's going to get on his sentence. the government, for example, is supposed to tell the judge if this guy provided information on more culpable criminals on himself, things that lead to other prosecutions. that's what gets you a lighter sentence. but in this case, this is the special counsel's office. these are prosecutors who work for robert mueller. so the prosecutors from the special counsel's office kind of don't have normal ochgs aal opt that and they have to pussyfoot around this issue because of cases that haven't been charged yet. can we put that up again. they basically say, because richard pinedo gave them information that could be used
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to prosecute people, people that have crimes on their -- crimes on their conscience, that have nothing to do with what robert mueller and the special counsel are investigating, the special counsel can't prosecute those things. and so, yeah, they might have handed off those potential prosecutions to other u.s. attorneys, even though they can't totally spell that out. but these are prosecutions they can't undertake themselves because they're just supposed to be investigating russian interference in the election. "the special counsel's office did not pursue those, because they did not relate to our core mission." this is interesting, in terms of the fate of richard pinedo today and the question whether more prosecutions are going to come that derive from his help. they can't say overtly, but that was the big hint in court today and the big worry for richard pinedo and his lawyers realizing if he had been prosecuted in the normal course of events, we might be in a better place.
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and then the judge says this -- >> in other words, i didn't think i was doing anything that wrong. i realize it could have been
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used by fraudsters and criminals. i didn't know it was going to be used to sway the presidential election. he then explains to the court how difficult his life has been since his guilty plea was unsealed. the loss of privacy, the accusations and threats. then he says this about his dad, who unfortunately is also named richard pinedo.
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>> the judge then goes on at length, explaining the reasoning behind her sentencing. she says pinedo deserves credit for his cooperation, that he was remorseful for his actions, but in the end, she says he's going to jail, six months federal prison, six months house arrest and two years' probation. that is the lowest end of what
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she could give him within the sentencing guidelines. that's the longest sentence yet in the mueller investigation. as such, it probably means something to these guys, who are all awaiting their own sentences in the russia scandal. trump campaign chairman paul manafort, rick gates, mike flynn, michael cohen. all awaiting federal sentencing right now. among them, it has to land with a thud that the other cooperator with a guilty plea in this case, the one nobody who has ever heard of, the bit player, today he got six months in federal prison. with the special counsel's office still not tipping their hand as to which shoes are next to drop, even in cases related to him, and which charges are still to be unveiled. hello. uh, no i need it right now. yeah... success is a numbers game. and you're not going to win if you keep telling yourself to wait.
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as pictures go, this one, i've always thought of a little on the nose. michael flynn and vladamir putin sitting elbow to elbow at a fancy dinner in moscow. come on, make it more subtle. it was taken december of 2015. vladamir putin was working behind the scenes to attack our election to help swing the election in trump's favor. all a little obvious. we're going on three years now since that picture was taken. given all that's happened since then, the picture almost looks
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weirder by the way -- it looks weirder now than the day general flynn was sitting there. why would he do that? what was he doing there in moscow that day? tonight, thanks to some new reporting from "the wall street journal," we do know a little bit more about the circumstances there. we now know, for example, what mike flynn was doing right before he flew to moscow to have that dinner. turns out he was talking to this guy. peter w. smith. petr smith was a long-time republican operative, last may he was found death in a hotel room, ruled as a susuicide. just a few days before he died, he did an interview which he told them about a project he had been working on during the 2016 campaign, trying to track down what he believed were thousands of e-mails that had been hacked from hillary clinton's private e-mail server. he contacted people who he believed were russian hackers
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online to encourage them to get clinton e-mails, so they could be used against clinton in the election for trump's benefit. in other words, peter smith, u.s. citizen, volunteered to "the wall street journal" last year that he, as an american citizen, really had tried to collude with russia to influence the presidential election in trump's favor. since then, one important question about that story has been, well, was he just doing this as peter smith, private citizen, or was he doing this as an agent of the trump campaign? well, tonight, "the wall street journal" figured out a piece of that. tonight, the wall street journal adds the news in which the story of general flynn and that dinner moscow and the strange story of peter smith and his attempted collusion around hillary clinton's e-mails, those stories kind of come together.
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>> so that's what mike flynn was doing before he hopped that flynn to moscow. apparently he was talking to peter smith, who was trying to reach russian hackers online to get hillary clinton's e-mails. we spoke with him on the day he left for his trip to moscow. "the wall street journal" has done incredible reporting on this story, pulling at this for
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more than a year. as has robert mueller, the special counsel. he has questioned witnesses connected to the late mr. smith, including at least one before the grand jury. he apparently has a trove of documents and hard drives that belong to peter smith. but sort of bottom line here, this one american, now deceased, who cheerfully admitted to colluding with russia to getting hillary clinton's e-mails, is dead now, but he does appear to have had a real working relationship at the time with someone at the top of the trump campaign. what exactly does that mean and what happens next here? joining us is shelby holiday, a reporter at "the wall street journal." thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> so first let me ask you, did i get any of that wrong? >> no. factually, it was correct. >> so in terms of this e-mail, which says that there was a relationship between flynn and
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mr. smith in 2015, a crucial time for this timeline, what can you tell us about that e-mail, circumstances of it, and whether you see it i guess as hard and fast evidence that that relationship did exist? >> the person that wrote the e-mail declined to talk to us. we've seen the e-mail and the e-mail led us to believe that yes, in fact, there was a relationship between these two men before flynn, as you said, took off to moscow and then later joined the trump campaign. we've been able to confirm that with sources. we know that they were in touch in 2015. we don't know if any business deals came of that. we don't have any reason to think they did, and we don't know what they spoke about before michael flynn left and hopped on that plane to russia. >> at the time, mike flynn had left the defense intelligence agency under difficult circumstances. he had formed a private intelligence group, and you suggest in the story that it's possible that peter smith was looking at potential investment
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opportunity, maybe wanted to become involved in flynn's business. >> peter smith was an investor, he had a lot of different connections. he was a republican, his friends describe him as an ardent conservative. so it would make sense if they were trying to connect on a business level that they would have a meeting. again, we don't know if anything came up related to hillary clinton's e-mails. but we do know that peter smith, for a long time, was convinced that hillary clinton's e-mails were out there, that he could get them, and they would be very damaging to her and spill secrets she didn't want revealed related to her work in the obama administration. >> now, the other part of this that has rung for so long, since the journal first broke this story is smith kept saying when talking to other people about this project, about his efforts to get hillary clinton's e-mails, he talked about how he was happy to try to get them from russian hackers, but he also bragged about his relationship with the trump campaign. didn't he brag about having a
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relationship with flynn? >> he used flynn as a person helping the effort. he dropped his name a lot. and he haddockmen documents tha steve bannon was involved, kellyanne conway.nied knowing h. michael flynn is not talking, but he hasn't pushed back as fiercely as some of the others in the trump campaign. >> to me, that's the super clarifying thing about this story. i followed every incremental development. for me, this is like we've now taken a turn. without knowing anything about peter smith other than his activism, him dropping lots of names, don't worry, this is legit, the trump campaign has me
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working on this, he might be a crazy dude. but if there's corroborating information, that might have been about something real, because him and flynn did meet and have a relationship. that implicates at least flynn, if not the trump campaign more broadly in what smith was doing. >> yes. that's a really good point. he could be a crazy person and some of his friends think he was a deluded old man. but he wasn't crazy in the way he went about it. he formed a company, he had a dummy e-mail account where he had people leave drafts but didn't want them to send e-mails. and he was raising money from at least four donors, raising at least $100,000. and did he pay hackers? he said he was in touch with five groups of hackers. two of them he believed were russian and had ties to the kremlin. you know, it raises questions about whether or not he was crazy and if he was very aware of what he was doing and whether or not what he was doing was
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wrong. >> to be clear in terms of following the money here, you've been able to track americans from whom smith raised money for this project. we don't know if smith sent money to the russians or anybody else to pay for what he thought he was getting. >> correct. >> shelby holiday, keep going. good luck. great to have you here. we'll be right back. stay with us.
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georgia's hardline conservative secretary of state has been kind of a pioneer in ways to make voting harder in georgia. his office has been really gung ho about canceling people's voter registrations in that state. his office canceled over 600,000 voter registrations last year alone. think about that, 600,000 people who thought they were registered he canceled them. they have been closing voting precincts, often in poor and minority districts. he's been doing this kind of thing since we started covering him years ago. this year, however, that
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hardline elections official, that republican secretary of state, brian kemp, is not just the state of georgia's hardline top elections official, this year he's also running for the state's highest office. republican secretary of state brian kemp is running against democrat stacey abrams to become governor this year. that means he's now in charge of an election in which he's running at the top of the ticket. what could possibly go wrong? tonight, the associated press reports that more than 53,000 voter registration applications are sitting in a desk drawer at the georgia secretary of state's office on hold. so these are applications from people trying to register to vote this year. many of these tens of thousands of voter applications are being held and not processed by kemp's office, because of a system he's implemented called exact match, which means if you like, you know, drop a hyphen in your last
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name or somebody's election office types in your information with one letter wrong so it doesn't match information already on file with the state, well, your application is put on hold indefinitely. how to fix it if it even tells you the application is on hold at all. you may or may not be surprised to hear that the system of exact matching affects certain groups of georgians more than others. quote records obtain bide the ap reveals racial disparity. but the list of voter registrations on hold with kemp's office is nearly 70% black. so it's affecting black georgians at more than double the rate of their prevalence in the population. this would be a flashing red light story less than a month out from any election but especially approaching the georgia governor's race. polls in that race show a tossup. 53,000 votes is a lot of votes in a race that close.
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again, these are people who have filled out the application who are trying to be registered to vote. many of these people may not even know that their effort was not successful. the democratic candidate, stacey abrams, the first black woman major party nominee for governor in american history, particularly her campaign strategy explicit depends on turning out black voters and registering new voters and her opponent brian kemp is the secretary of state holding up 53,000 voter applications in his office. past georgia secretaries of state who run for governor have stepped down in order to run. because it's a bad look to be in charge of your own election. but he's not stepping down, saying everything is fine, you can absolutely trust him. if you are a georgia voter and your registration is in limbo on election day you can still cast a provisional ballot. which i suppose kemp did eventually once your application
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here. >> as hurricane michael barrelled through the florida panhandle today, 155 mile an hour winds. one of things that happened just in the news gathering process today, it was really challenging for us here atmous nbc andmous nbc news to even transit am videos our crews were taking on the scene to get those back here to headquarters so those tapes could be broadcast. but on the ground residents of the panhandle did their best to do their own documenting. even as they recommended in realtime with the destruction of their own homes and their own neighborhoods, kanisha clark of panama city, you just saw there, she said she's ridden out many hurricanes in her lifetime, and she said this one was different and she will not stay for this one. a lot of houses have not faired much better. hurricane michael is on its way into georgia right now as a category 1 storm.
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this is day where the hurricane in the southeast is of course dominating the news. but it's also a day which i i didn't really expect. but there's also a day in which there's been a lot of other breaking news on top of that. you will want to stay with us throughout the night tonight. now it's time for the "last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> we're going to have hurricane coverage and covering the latest from washington on other issues. we're going to go straight to it. thank you, rachel. our breaking news tonight from "the washington post" is that "the post" is reporting that the crown prince of saudi arabia quote ordered an operation to lure "the washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi back to his home in saudi arabia and then detain