Rachel Maddow

Rachel Maddow Calls Bs On Pence Claim He Never Knew About Flynn’s Turkish Contract

... the head of the [Trump] transition, while all of those news stories of Mike Flynn being on the Turkish government’s payroll were breaking. He was the head of the transition when Mike Flynn was being vetted for the National Security Advisor job. He was the head of the transition when Congress formally notified the head of the transition that Mike Flynn appears to be on a foreign government’s payroll. He was the head of the transition when Mike Flynn’s personal lawyers came and told the transition that Mike Flynn maybe needed to register as a foreign agent.”. However, Pence now claims that he’s only now hearing about the information. Maddow called it absolute bunk. “It’s something to pick someone manifestly unfit for the job of National Security Advisor to be National Security Advisor, that’s one thing,” she continued. “It is another thing when you bring somebody on board to a top national security position while they’re also on the payroll of a foreign government! And you either don’t notice or you don’t care.”. Maddow noted that Flynn sat in on the president’s daily intelligence briefings and that he had top national security clearance ...

Sean Hannity Blasts Rachel Maddow, Jake Tapper As 'worst Examples' Of 'propaganda Press' Video

... a stint as an afternoon breaking news anchor to average 1.14 million viewers, giving MSNBC a hit show while resurrecting Williams’ career at the same time. 17. “Anderson Cooper 360”. Cooper had CNN’s most-watched program of 2016, with 1.14 million viewers. While Cooper is a household name and widely recognized, many will find it odd that he finished behind so many cable news competitors. 16. “Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”. O’Donnell, who was a writer on “The West Wing” before landing his MSNBC gig, averaged 1.24 million viewers in 2016. 15. “Fox & Friends”. The Fox News morning show hosted Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade and Ainsley Earhardt averaged 1.27 million viewers. By comparison, cable news rivals “New Day” averaged 508,000 and MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” averaged 677,000. 14. Fox News’ 2 p.m. ET Hour. This one is complicated, as “Real Story with Gretchen Carlson” occupied this spot until she filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against former Fox News CEO Roger ...

Rachel Maddow Exclusive Debunks Extreme Vetting Propaganda Of Muslim Ban

... S.-based violent extremists likely radicalized several years after their entry into the United States.". And why is that important? Say it again? "We assess that most foreign-born U. S.-based violent extremists likely radicalized several years after their entry into the United States," comma, "limiting the ability of screening and vetting officials to prevent their entry because of national security concerns.". Oh, right, so much for extreme vetting, right? The whole justification, the whole explanation from this administration for the Muslim ban was to stop people coming into this country, at least for a while, right? At least for a while, it's a temporary travel ban so we can get the extreme vetting, so Trump could set up his extreme vetting plan, right? When he announced it in the first place, that's the "Until we can figure out what is going on" part of how he announced it. MADDOW: I ...

Tax Story Puts Spotlight On Msnbc’s Rachel Maddow

... alum, tweeted that “we’ve got Trump’s tax returns … (Seriously),” advertising her program. That teaser spread like wildfire, and within the hour, MSNBC was running a countdown clock on its screen counting down the minutes to a “Trump Taxes Exclusive.”. It was actually another reporter’s exclusive, and more limited than the tweet made it sound. David Cay Johnston, founder of the web site __link__ and a longtime investigative reporter and author of the critical book, “The Making of Donald Trump,” had received a copy of two pages from Trump’s 2005 federal tax return in the mail from an unknown source. Before Maddow even went on the air, the White House confirmed the documents were real and stole the headline by saying that Trump’s income exceeded $150 million in 2005 and that he paid $38 million in income taxes that year. “It’s been a ...

Monday's Campaign Round-up, 3.13.17

... or the federal Voting Rights Act, a panel of federal judges ruled Friday. In a long-delayed ruling, the judges ruled 2-1 that the Texas Legislature must redraw the political maps it most recently used for the 2016 elections.”. * Fresh off his very narrow re-election victory, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) hosted a pair of town-hall events in his district on Saturday, where he was confronted by quite a few progressive activists. The California Republican spent a fair amount of time distancing himself from Donald Trump during the forums. (Issa has, however, voted with Trump so far in this Congress.). * While it looked a couple of months ago as if Virginia Democrats were struggling to recruit candidates for state offices, the Richmond Times reports that those troubles are over: There’s been “an unprecedented rush of candidates for the Virginia House of Delegates this year fueled ...

Rachel Maddow Explains What Galloping Gertie, Bechtel And Trump Have In Common

... (Her story about how construction workers were warning there was something wrong with the bridge from the onset and the video of it rolling in the wind are pretty amazing.). Maddow then goes on to talk about the company that much later built the third Tacoma Narrows Bridge, one of two that currently crosses the span. That company, Bechtel, is a world wide company, Maddow says, and she then explains how the company placed a bid to build roads in Azerbaijan that was rejected by a person she claims is a corrupt bureaucrat who became a billionaire despite a salary of about $12,000 a year. Then she begins to get to the point, a point made in the article “Donald Trump’s Worst Deal” in The New Yorker.  In Azerbaijan, there is a hotel that not long ago had the letters TRUMP emblazoned across the top. The author of the article then goes on to explain the ties between that building, the corrupt official who rejected Bechtel, Trump and ...

Trump Sparks New Controversy With U.s. Attorney Dismissals

... abruptly step down. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked for those chief prosecutors who were holdovers from the Obama administration to voluntarily resign Friday. They included Bharara, who in November said Trump had asked him to stay on as U. S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York during a meeting in Trump Tower. And this is where the story gets a little weird. Preet Bharara has earned a reputation as one of the most important legal figures in the United States, overseeing a U. S. Attorney’s office that’s tackled critically important cases – on matters ranging from terrorism to Wall Street to government corruption. Bharara was appointed by President Obama, but he wanted to stay on at his post, and during the presidential transition period, Donald Trump specifically told Bharara that he could keep his job. U. S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the same commitment to the New York prosecutor. On Friday afternoon, however, Trump reversed course and asked for Bharara’s resignation. Bharara refused, prompting the president to fire him on Saturday. Trump does not have a successor in place. Indeed, for all 46 of the U. S. Attorneys who were ...

Mike Pence's Falsehoods Start Catching Up With Him

... Act succeeding. As regular readers know , under Gov. Steve Beshear’s (D) leadership, the state’s success story has served as a national model, watching its uninsured rate drop from 20.4% to just 7.5%. In terms of state-by-state improvement, the Bluegrass State is tied for first  as the greatest percentage improvement in the nation. Pence pointed to increases in premiums, but (a) premium hikes were common before “Obamacare” became law; (b) the vast majority of consumers aren’t seeing sharp spikes; and (c) the Republican plan Pence was in Kentucky to promote will very likely push premiums even higher. All of which suggests Pence was trying to deceive his audience with rhetoric he should’ve recognized as false. Have you noticed how common this is becoming with the vice president. Usually, when we think about the Trump White House and dishonesty, we immediately think of Donald Trump, who lies with such unnerving frequency that some have questioned his mental stability. By comparison, Mike Pence may look like a Boy Scout. But looking past the Trump comparison, Pence’s recent departures from the truth are starting to pile up. ...