wants us to return to those they don't want to fix as the resistance the resistance here as the rachel maddow of the world want this to continue like this because she's at the top she's earning a lot more so in fact the top one percent owned thirty three point seven percent of all wealth in the us in two thousand and seven now they own thirty eight point seven percent so their real wealth has increased by over ten percent they're happy well the rest the next nine percent owned thirty seven point seven percent that in two thousand and sixteen is thirty eight point five percent so a little bit better but the bottom ninety percent own twenty eight point six percent of us wealth in two thousand and seven twenty eight point six percent now it's twenty two point eight percent that's down but that's down like almost twenty percent so they've suffered a huge crushing defeat the bottom ninety percent under a system that rachel maddow m s n b c thinks was fantastic they think that system was so freaking great and it like who voted against this who is it against us it can't be us it can't be me rachel m

with an orangutan i don't care well look i mean there is the fake left in the media space like rachel maddow by the equally culpable are journalists so called on the fake right like john stossel who's a fake right wing journalist who also doesn't focus on any of the realities that we are describing here and you know if it on the old failed dictatorships regimes yesterday yesteryear as economies are failing they would prompt a bigger and bigger statues of their dictators and so here in america as the american economy is failing miserably they're there propping up their icons of these you know s. and p. five hundred of these few stocks that represent the the tomic you know godsends that we should all worship before even though they're being puffed up by free money from the fed what exactly is a pumpkin valid just actually ok have you ever ever ever ever once seen rachel maddow leave new york city leave manhattan no she records there all the time she hangs out with these people who who have convinced themselves because nobody likes to pretend that they've become wealthy in a rigged game that th

he referenced james clapper who was on with rachel maddow last night. james clapper made this digs tin -- distinction which is the fbi investigating russian interference with the election. they had people talking with members of the trump campaign. that's a line of distinction the officials are drawing. he said we call it spy gate. that's the name the president has come up with all of this. law enforcement officials continue to draw this distinction. they has not been evidence to back up what the president is talking about. he hedged on the date when asked about that. we know there may be another planned meeting in singapore. the president is going to talk about ms-13. he clearly has russia on his mind. he's been tweeting about it all morning. he walked over to reporters. clearly wanting to get this off of his chest. >> so much going on. we understand there's work going, that diplomats are in the region working on this. as you point out, there hasn't been a whole lot of studying and they seem, especially after the secretary of state's testimony today on

rachel maddow shows start now. >>> thank you. it is hard to know where to start on a night like this after a day like this. in a world like this. let's just start right here tonight. let's start with this. james comey was right. >> he fired comey because comey would not, among other things, say he was a target of the investigation. >> once upon a time, the white house tried to pretend that president trump fired james comey, the director of the fbi for something having to do with the handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. within two days the president slipped off that rationale like he was falling off a slippery rock when he told lester holt that when he made the decision to fire comey he had the russia issue on his mind and he said the same thing to high ranking russian officials. he said i just fired the head of fbi. i faced great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. james comey said it seemed he was getting fired because of the russia investigation. >> do you believe the russia investigation played a rol

rachel maddow is just the corporate left i mean because she's she's not left at all but she's kind of the corporate media version of the left response to a xan hannity sean hannity was number one when obama was in office was she's number one now because trump's in office and it's giving people the these tribal little groups to get into and that's how we go about our business and i would also say you know the white house is in total disarray yes that's true there's more turnover than a third party pyramid scheme yes that's true however the media is no better at all i mean when the media was told to turn off their cameras there was not one person in that room in that press briefing room that had the courage to say no i'm not turning off my camera because this is my job my employer is very powerful and i'm not turning my camera off what are you going to do arrest him. that story will go viral go ahead they all said yes sir or madam i'll turn my camera off that's not journalism that's access journalism that cinco fance it's nonsense and it's garbage and it's got to stop a full dis

rachel maddow told them not to apparently. cable instead forced them to talk about russia. they didn't want to.ld luckily we kept copies of the tape, and here's what they actually said about russia. >> there is no question that russia attacked us. >> attacks, ladies and gentlemen, on the constitution. >> attacks on the integrity of a our elections. >> an attack on our democracy. >> we are only at the beginning of understanding what the russians did to affect our elections. >> i think there is a broad recognition among our members that russia is not our friend. >> why does does it not worryco donald trump that the russians, according to the intelligence community, tried to, and indeed did kind of infiltrate and undermine our democracy by what they did? >> tucker: richard goodstein is a lawyer. he advised both of hillary clinton's presidential campaigns, and he joins us tonight for what's going to be a tough conversation for him, i would say. because it's not really plausible -- you know, you can argue that russia hacked our election, as democrats have argued, for the last ye

rachel maddow is just the corporates left i mean because she's she's not left at all but she's kind of the corporate media version of the left response to a xan hannity shanahan and he was number one when obama was in office. well she's number one now because trumps in office and it's giving people the these tribal little groups to get into and that's how we go about our business and i would also say you know the white house is in total disarray yes that's true there's more turnover than a third party pyramid scheme yes that's true however the media is no better at all i mean when the media was told to turn off their cameras there was not one person in that room in that press briefing room that had the courage to say no i'm not turning off my camera because this is my job my employer is very powerful and i'm not turning my camera off what are you going to do arrest me that story all go viral go ahead they all said yes sir or madam i'll turn my camera off that's not journalism that's access journalism that cinco fance it's nonsense and it's garbage and it's got to stop a full di

when you have major news anchors like anderson cooper and dominant and rachel maddow -- emon and rachel maddow who live in alternative lifestyle live with a different lens that say my company. host: thank you. guest: i have been very careful l not think the media writ arge with the same brush. there are some very good reporters not just in an agenda. there are some that actually have an agenda and some that don't acknowledge the agenda. as a conservative, i have seen this my entire career on a variety of issues. at the house budget committee, there were people who viewed everything we did in this negative light about cutting and burning. there were a lot of times when we would reform program because we thought it would serve people better it is without the private sector or charitable organizations did a better job than a bloated bureaucracy. that doesn't mean we care about people less. a lot of journalists talk about cutting and slashing because of where they came from. i think there is a difference. i don't think that people come to congress or public service to hurt people. people. t

rachel maddow is just the corporates left i mean because she's she's not left at all but she's kind of the corporate media version of the left response to a xan hannity shanahan and he was number one when obama was in office. she's number one now because trumps in office and it's giving people the these tribal little groups to get into and that's how we go about our business and i would also say you know the white house is in total disarray yes that's true there's more turnover than a third party pyramid scheme yes that's true however the media is no better at all i mean when the media was told to turn off their cameras there was not one person in that room in that press briefing room that had the courage to say no i'm not turning off my camera because this is my job my employer is very powerful and i'm not turning my camera off what are you going to do arrest me that story all go viral go ahead they all said yes sir or madam i'll turn my camera off that's not journalism that's access journalism that cinco fance it's nonsense and it's garbage and it's got to stop a full disclai

watching rachel maddow is like going to target. went in for shampoo and left with the entire history of the byzantine empire. and of course, megyn kelly. what would i do without megyn kelly? i would probably be more proud of women. [laughter] megyn kelly got paid $23 million by nbc. then nbc didn't let megyn go to the winter olympics. why not? she is so white, cold and expensive she might as well be the winter olympics. [laughter] and finally, megyn, santa is black. goingird, old, white guy down your chimney was bill o'reilly. i am not going to go after print media tonight because it is illegal to attack in endangered species. there is a time of news right now. a lot is going on and we have all these 24 hour news networks. we could be covering everything, but instead we are covering three topics. every hour, it is trump, russia, hillary, and a panel of four people who remind you why you don't go home for thanksgiving. milk comes from nuts now, all because of the gays. withuys are obsessed trump. did you used to date him? because yo

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> who is your favorite podcast guest? >> you're going to have to subscribe, rachel maddow, and wait until tuesday morning when it drops into your phone. >> but chris! >> the suspense. >> and it's ahead of the weekend. >> i know. >> well, that's flabbergasting. well done, my friend. thank you. much appreciated. and thank you for joining us. happy to have you here with us on this friday thiet. a lot to get to tonight. the mass shooting today at a texas high school about 35 miles from houston has thus far claimed ten lives. another ten people are injured. the 17-year-old suspect in the mass murder is in custody. he's said to have used two guns in the killing, a .38-caliber revolver, so i ahaa handgun, ano reportedly a shotgun. over the course of the day we've had mixed reports about other people besides the shooter being sought or questioned by police in conjunction with these murders. we done yet have clarity on whether other people had knowledge of this attack or

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> you're allowed to book your wife? >> i am. i am. isn't that great? it was so fun. it's really, really -- it's been a dream of mine for a while, and now people can listen to it. >> you know, susan has long threatened that if i ever really start taking this show for granted, if i start taking this job for granted, if i stop appreciating it, she's going to come in one day and bigfoot it and she's going to teak a burner cell phone, put it here on the desk and she's going to take on-air gardening calls for an hour to make me appreciate how good it is to have this job. >> that's good of her. you can lose sight sometimes. i'm happy to hear that. >> well done, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. if you'd like to vote for susan to host the next rachel maddow show taking your calls live on the air about gardening tips you can vote -- you can't. happy monday. you know, there's been a lot of complaining, public complaining by the presi

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. r favorite podcast guest? >> you're going to have to subscribe, rachel maddow, and wait until tuesday morning when it drops into your phone. >> but chris! >> the suspense. >> and it's ahead of the weekend. >> i know. >> well, that's flabbergasting. well done, my friend. thank you. much appreciated. and thank you for joining us. happy to have you here with us on this friday thiet. a lot to get to tonight. the mass shooting today at a texas high school about 35 miles from houston has thus far claimed ten lives. another ten people are injured. the 17-year-old suspect in the mass murder is in custody. he's said to have used two guns in the killing, a .38-caliber revolver, so i ahaa handgun, ano reportedly a shotgun. over the course of the day we've had mixed reports about other people besides the shooter being sought or questioned by police in conjunction with these mu

bases imagination and the propaganda speech by rachel maddow that's now all been discredited and the bunked in the wake of the russia gate hoax which is now widely understood to be purely a trick to confound americans and disappeared and yet another one but the nature as we're talking about the nature of a free market globalized system is that you can't have barriers it can't have censorship you can't censor you can't create a swift global financial system based on your dollar and want the world to have a u.s. dollar standard for example and then start saying no we don't want you to participate no we don't want you to participate and that person can't actually exclusive yes so you either want to have a global trade system with a dollar reserve currency or you don't you can have selectively pick sanctions that would create choke points in the dollar reserve global currency that's what i'm saying right that's true isn't. well free market system is not a financial suicide bomber like jamie diamond he's more of a global trade guy i think i've got a what he. got a woody i mean i've got wo

now delivered. >>> class is back in session at "the rachel maddow show fake law school."u all, again, for being here. we were talking before the break about michael cohen, the president's lawyer, his role in whatever happened with the stormy daniels payment. the president, obviously, has to account to the public, in terms of his changing accounts -- his changing accounts of how this all worked. but then there's also the issue of what michael cohen is in trouble for. he's being pursued by ':(y prosecutors in your old office, mimi, the southern district of new york. we are told that what they were looking for in those search warrants had to do with the president, had to do with these payments, and we're also told that they were doing pretty intrusive surveillance. we know his home, office, hotel room and safety deposit box were searched pursuant to a search warrant. would that be one search warrant or four, for a search like that? >> you could do it either way. if they're all in the same location, ie, new york city, you could go to court with one parent, but list each place

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now with joy reid in for rachel.hris. i have my phone and will be subscribing as soon as we hit a commercial break. very excited. congrats. >> have a good one. >> thank you. you too. and thank you to you at home for joining us at this hour. rachel has the night off. okay. so it's friday, which these days means there's a lot going on in the news. there are no slow news days anymore. we're learning more about the russian oligarch affiliated with an american investment firm that paid half a million dollars to trump lawyer michael cohen. the president's chief of staff gave a rare media interview, which has been making headlines all day and not in a good way. we'll talk about both of those stories tonight. plus new details about that time epa administrator scott pruitt's security detail busted down the door of his apartment for no reason.

while they don't realize is that i'm telling you again they think that they live in the world of rachel maddow that c.n.n. that that people reflect their ideas it's not true it's the opposite ok but ron i mean you do have a prevalence where you know we can always talk about the exception of fox when it comes to cable and they certainly make money off of their click bait but they're not practicing journalism anymore and i mean we can talk about the the the infrastructure the business model but the profession itself i mean i watch the cable news because i have to because for my job but i don't see journalism being practiced at all i mean and on top of it people expressing opinions without really much knowledge i mean it's kind of a lot of dumb people saying dumb things that are very cliche and some of these issues are really very important go ahead. well you know what peter this is a this is an odd double edged sword for me because the corporate media in the united states does bother me however if they ever got significantly better i might be out of a job sure i get to exist i get to exist in th

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thank you, my friend. much appreciated. you know how i always say oh, we had a whole show planned and we just threw it out? i literally just threw out the show while i was in the makeup chair. and if you know anything about me, i don't spend all that much time in the makeup chair. but just a couple minutes before we were due to get on the air, "the new york times" has just published a remarkable document. michael schmidt is the reporter at "the new york times." the headline is "mueller has dozens of inquiries for trump in broad quest on russia ties and obstruction." literally reading this off "the new york times" website right now because they have just published it. thank you, jackie, who's just hand td to me. robert mueller the special counsel investigating russia's election interference has at least four dozen questions on an exhaustive array of subjects that he wants -- that he wants to ask president trump. to learn more about trump's ties to russia and determine whether trump obs

bases imagination and the propaganda speech by rachel maddow that's now all been discredited and debugged in the wake of the russia gate hoax which is now widely understood to be purely a trick to confound americans and disappear and yet another one but the nature as we're talking about the nature of a free market globalized system is that you can't have barriers it can't have censorship you can't censor you can't create a swift global financial system based on your dollar and want the world to have a u.s. dollar standard for example and then start saying no we don't want you to participate no we don't want you to participate and that person can't determine actually exclusive yes i either want to have a global trade system with a dollar reserve currency or you don't you can have selectively picked sanctions that would create choke points in the dollar reserve global currency that's what i'm saying right that's true is. well free market system is not a financial suicide bomber like jamie diamond he's more of a global trade guy i think i've got a what he. got a woody i mean i've got wood i

bases imagination and the propaganda speech by rachel maddow that's now all been discredited and debugged in the wake of the russia gate hoax which is now widely understood to be purely a trick to confound americans and disappeared and yet another one but the nature as we're talking about the nature of a free market globalized system is that you can't have barriers it can't have censorship you can't censor you can't create a swift global financial system based on your dollar and want the world to have a u.s. dollar standard for example and then start saying no we don't want you to participate no we don't want you to participate and that person can't determine actually exclusive yes i either want to have a global trade system with a dollar reserve currency or you don't you can have selectively picked sanctions that would create choke points in the dollar reserve global currency that's what i'm saying right that's true is. well free market system is not a financial suicide bomber like jamie diamond he's more of a global trade guy i think i've got a what he. got a woody i mean i've got wood

while they don't realize just like i'm telling you again they think that they live in the world of rachel maddow that c.n.n. that people reflect their ideas it's not true it's the opposite ok ron i mean you do have a prevalence but you know we can always talk about the exception of fox when it comes to cable and they certainly make money off of their click bait but they're not practicing journalism anymore and i mean we can talk about the the the infrastructure the business model but the profession itself i mean i watch the cable news because i have to because for my job but i don't see journalism being practiced at all i mean and on top of it people expressing opinions without really much knowledge i mean it's kind of a lot of dumb people saying dumb things that are very cliche and some of these issues are really very important go ahead. well you know what peter this is a this is an odd double edged sword for me because the corporate media in the united states does bother me however if they ever got significantly better i might be out of a job sure i get to exist i get to exist in the capacity

while they don't realize just like i'm telling you again they think that they live in the world of rachel maddow that c.n.n. that that people reflect their ideas it's not true it's the opposite ok but ron i mean you do have a prevalence where you know we can always talk about the exception of fox when it comes to cable and they certainly make money off of their click bait but they're not practicing journalism anymore and i mean we can talk about the the the infrastructure the business model but the profession itself i mean i watch the cable news because i have to because from my job but i don't see journalism being practiced at all i mean and on top of it people expressing opinions without really much knowledge i mean it's kind of a lot of dumb people saying dumb things that are very cliche and some of these issues are really very important go ahead. well you know what peter this is a this is an odd double edged sword for me because the corporate media in the united states does bother me however if they ever got significantly better i might be out of a job sure i get to exist i get to exist in t

while they don't realize just like i'm telling you again they think that they live in the world of rachel maddow that c.n.n. that that people reflect their ideas it's not true it's the opposite ok but ron i mean you do have a prevalence where you know we can always talk about the exception of fox when it comes to cable and they certainly make money off of their click bait but they're not practicing journalism anymore and i mean we can talk about the the the infrastructure the business model but the profession itself i mean i watch the cable news because i have to because they're my job but i don't see journalism being practiced at all i mean and on top of it people expressing opinions without really much knowledge i mean it's kind of a lot of dumb people saying dumb things that are very cliche and some of these issues are really very important go ahead. well you know what peter this is a this is an odd double edged sword for me because the corporate media in the united states does bother me however if they ever got significantly better i might be out of a job sure i get to exist i get to exist i

b c's imagination and the propaganda speech by rachel maddow that's now all been discredited and the bunked in the wake of the russia gate hoax which is now widely understood to be purely a trick to confound americans and disappear and yet another one but the nature as we're talking about the nature of a free market globalized system is that you can't have barriers it can't have censorship you can't censor you can't create a swift global financial system based on your dollar and want the world to have a us dollar standard for example and then start saying no we don't want you to participate no we don't want you to purchase me and that person can't actually exclusive yes so you either want to have a global trade system with a dollar reserve currency or you don't you can have selectively pick sanctions that would create choke points in the dollar reserve global currency that's what i'm saying right that's true isn't. well free market system is not a financial suicide bomber like jamie dimon he's more of a global trade guy i think i've got a what he's. got a woody i mean i've got wood i

million dollars because of the theater right because of the spectacle of you know it's trump how did rachel maddow go from being a reasonable voice of the left to becoming an alex jones like foaming rabid psychopath kind of notice that he used to be relatively calm right now probably because. the other side's in power even a good bit over to mark's for now it's become a partisan hack yeah i think because that would you mind it when i just you know pick pick fights with my competition at the expense of the owner i want more i don't know please kids like all right so innocent bases because conspiracy theories and ok so the point is though that the consumer is left a bit adrift because they are tuning in to cable news and their news is it's all basically polemicists that's right there's no debate we were talking about william buckley earlier in this debate with the gore of the doll during the nine hundred sixty eight presidential as eventually action that opened the way toward an interesting debate format in american william buckley went on to host fire i and other shows and there was intelligent deb

rachel maddow asked about that last night. >> we identified about three million $180,000 worth of financialnsactions. they've taken issue with a whopping $205,583$20,583. we struck a percentage. our report appears to be 99.35% accurate. if this was election, that would be pretty good pr the popular vote. >> let's get the inside scoop from peter baker. where are you on this continuing feud? >> well, look, michael cohen wants to pick apart this report in order to question the credibility of the overall message. in fact, whatever the e details that might be mistaken is michael avenatti talked about there, we had confirmation from at&t that they paid michael cohen in other words to gain his insights into trump. we know a number of others have been confirmed. the vast majority does seem to be bearing out. the question being did he sell access to the president or did he simply sell his knowledge of the president. >> michael cohen calling people and saying i can help get you some inside access. it's not illegal especially after the supreme court decision on governor mcdonald from virginia. >> it's

>> caller: actually, i heard it on the rachel maddow show. >> it's an interesting question, fran. and there are russians that come to america from time to time in strange ways. on different kinds of visas. so one prominent russian who has been in the news a lot lately, a billionaire, and oleg darepaska has been on the travel ban list to the united states for many, many years, and was on that list when i was in the government. i remember that because the russian government, and their foreign minister, serge lavrov, would lobby our government, secretary clinton and secretary kerry, to try to get him off that travel ban list. and now i'm on one of those travel ban lists in a tit for tat way because we put so many on their list. but he did something very clever. he got a diplomatic passport, and then he became formally a member of the delegation to attend a multilateral organization called apec, which has their meetings every year or so somewhere in the asia-pacific region. so he would go to that meeting, he would attend as an official of that delegation. but that would give him a win

here is what he told rachel maddow. >> this is really a clear example, rachel, of ignoring the elephants in the room and concentrating on the fleas on the floor. and what do i mean by that? so in the report that we issued, we identified about $3,180,503 worth of financial transactions. they've taken issue with a whopping $20,583, okay? >>> that i have taken issue with a whopping -- we struck a percentage and our report seemings to be 99.935% accurate. if there was an election it would be good for the popular vote. >> tonight's news comes as we are tracking development on the report that are accurate and seem to intersect with the overall russia investigation. looking into papers and the pharmaceutical giant novartis made. contacted by lawyers from the special council's office regarding the company's greem. it cooperated fully and provided all of the information requested. >> and a senior official said that michael cohen contacted the company promising access. >> and had an agreement with the company focused on u.s. health care policy matters. and at&t paying insight for trump. contacted

here is what he told rachel maddow. >> this is really a clear example, rachel, of ignoring the elephants in the room and concentrating on the fleas on the floor. and what do i mean by that? so in the report that we issued, we identified about $3,180,503 worth of financial transactions. they've taken issue with a whopping $20,583, okay? so we struck a percentage -- our report appears to be 99.35% accurate, which if this was an election, that would be pretty good for the popular vote. >> tonight's news comes as we're still tracking developments on the parts s of avenatti's repo that are accurate and seem to intersect with the overall russia investigation. washington post reporting that special counsel robert mueller was looking into payments the pharmaceutical giant norvartis made to cohen. quote, norvartis said wednesday that it -- it was contacted last november by lawyers from the special counsel's office regarding the company's agreement with essential cons consulta consultants. that's the cohen company. the drug maker said it cooperated fully and provided all the information requested.

. >> tucker: i watch rachel maddow. i get it. where is the truth? >> i don't have subpoena power. bob muller does. >> tucker: you have a high level security clearance, presumably you have -- >> i'm only giving you the evidence i've seen an unclassified manner. >> tucker: but there must be something more classified you're not allowed to see. we had a lively engagement with congressman eric swalwell. we offered a half-hour to see proof of russia collusion and there wasn't that way. meanwhile, on "the view," james clapper, the one who lied to congress on camera, said that president trump wasn't being spied on by the obama administration. they were just watching him. trump ought to think him forht that. >> was the fbi spying on trump's campion? >> no, they were not. they were spying on -- a term i don't particularly like -- on what theyi russians were doing, trying to understand, where the russians trying to infiltrating, trying to gain leverage and influence? >> so why doesn't he like that? heho should be happy. >> he should be. >>

what did rachel maddow intend to do with the actions that she took? so these questions go right to the intent issue. why was the president doing these things? what was his intended effect. proving obstruction requires prove of intent and many of these questions seemed to aim at that. i guess there is a fifth reaction. these are topics and they're styled as questions but they are really topics. it could launch dozens and dozens of follow-up questions. by no means, should anyone think that there is just 40 something questions. >> let me ask you about the p s process of how these things work. questioning the president in a criminal and civil matter is not questioning anybody else and there are different types of negotiations that happens making a president available for some sort of investigation like this, whether or not it is the president, when you are trying to get arrange and interview when you are approaching a broadc broad complex investigation like this and you got a high-stake interview that you want to do, as the justice and prosecutor pursuing

and we like to give credit, rachel maddow was the first one that handled this, that looked so large aso be suspicious. >> they either totally mismanaged the 1$107 million thy that raised or it was treated the only way they it can be treated as an opportunities to have a slush fund. this guy got elected president with a -- >> wiso you say this was paid fm a slush fund? >> i know they paid a lot of different production companies to come in and do a lot of different scenarios, but it takes a lot of work to add up to $26 million. >> the producers of the beat, you mentioned the actual largest, you guys pulled off the 55 milli$55 million and it was accounts a very good event. when i covered donald trump's campaign, it was notoriously cheap and the nicest thing you can say about that is that he won on a cheap budget, and in business, that's considered high return on investment. the meanest thing you could say is he didn't really care about it and he wasn't trying to win, what does that tell you that he was not as cheap with the inaugural funds as he was during the actual campaign? >> because

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now with ari melber in for rachel.evening, ari. >> chris, i have bad news. >> what's that? >> i have a new podcast coming out called "why isn't this happening?" >> that is a perfect joint team. people can subscribe to both. >> okay, good. you know what? then it was good news. i will be subscribing. thank you, chris. >> you bet. >> and i want to thank you at home for of course joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. it was a year ago today that president trump opened the oval office to host putin's foreign minister and his ambassador in the united states, the russian ambassador. this is one day of course after he fired fbi director james comey. the photos you're looking at right now are from the russian government because no members of the u.s. press were invited to attend. and trump confided in the russians with classified information from an america

. >> you heard my discussion with rachel maddow about what happened to the other two suspicious activity reports. the two missing reports that provoked this current government official to decide to leak the suspicious activity report that remains. >> right. i did. so that would have been outside of my -- really outside of my scope at the treasury department. i could really only speculate on that, and it would be irresponsible for me to speculate. >> let me try a couple things on you. >> sure. >> the only thing that i can think of that makes a certain sense and would be understandable, is were those reports removed by the special prosecutor because the special prosecutor wanted to isolate those for their own purposes? even though, in normal circumstances, all of these reports remain available basically as a data bank for investigators all around the country to be able to look at in whatever cases they might be using? in this particular case, since it involved an investigation close to the president, the special prosecutor might want to say i want those. but my question is, why wouldn't th

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. ry rarely, if ever, tweet public ly to let people know they have to see something that's coming up on your show. but that tape of bill gates -- >> wild, right? >> -- is absolutely right. the one part of this i don't think you addressed this on your show but i'm curious as to what you think about it. what do you think -- how do you think the president will react to this tape of bill gates talking about him this way? >> i think it is almost like engineered in a lab to touch the most intense insecurities he has, which is being laughed at and mocked by people who view him as kind of nouveau riche and that his entire life has been driven