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Unlike Richard Nixon, Donald Trump Misconduct Piling Up In Full Public View | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

"MATT WHITAKER - Why Trump Replaced Sessions with the Huckster Acting DOJ Head"

MSNBC
Published on Nov 28, 2018

Rachel Maddow reviews the many ways that Americans have witnessed Donald Trump attempt to quash or otherwise undercut the special counsel investigation
into his 2016 presidential campaign, unlike Richard Nixon, the full record of whose misdeeds were not publicly known until after his scandal had run its course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Bb2R9jncQ

Rachel outlines many of Trump's efforts to hinder or stop the Mueller investigation.

From video:

Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on FBI Russia probe
VIDEO
(Whitney Leaming/The Washington Post)
By Adam Entous June 6, 2017
The nation’s top intelligence official [DNI Daniel Coates] told associates in March that President Trump asked him if he could intervene with then-FBI Director James B. Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe, according to officials.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/top-intelligence-official-told-associates-trump-asked-him-if-he-could-intervene-with-comey-to-get-fbi-to-back-off-flynn/2017/06/06/cc879f14-4ace-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?utm_term=.6e4b18a61be1

Manafort’s Lawyer Said to Brief Trump Attorneys on What He Told Mueller
By Michael S. Schmidt, Sharon LaFraniere and Maggie Haberman
Nov. 27, 2018
WASHINGTON — A lawyer for Paul Manafort, the president’s onetime campaign chairman, repeatedly briefed President Trump’s lawyers on his client’s discussions with federal investigators after Mr. Manafort agreed to cooperate with the special counsel, according to one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers and two other people familiar with the conversations.
[...]
Giuliani, one of the president’s personal lawyers, acknowledged the arrangement on Tuesday and defended it as a source of valuable insights into the special counsel’s inquiry and where it was headed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/us/politics/manafort-lawyer-trump-cooperation.html

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Fmr. CIA head On Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump & ‘kompromat’ | The Last Word | MSNBC

MSNBC
Published on Nov 30, 2018

Fmr. Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin tells Ari Melber that Cohen's guilty plea reveals Russia's compromising information on
Donald Trump and describes the revelations as "the seeds of blackmail." Malcolm Nance and Ruth Marcus join the discussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNQ2UPwRnDU

Trump in reply to question re Putin praise, 'He's a top leader unlike what we have.' To the
statement statement that Putin killed journalists Trump said, "our country does killing too."

Referenced in the video:

john mclaughlin
?Verified account @jmclaughlinSAIS

One of the most notable things learned today
is that Russia knew all along when Trump was
lying during the campaign in denying
financial or other dealings with Moscow. The
seeds of blackmail. More to wonder about re
what was said during that private meeting
w/Putin in Helsinki.
7:23 PM - 29 Nov 2018

One of the most notable things learned today is that Russia knew all along when Trump was lying during the campaign in denying financial or other dealings with Moscow. The seeds of blackmail. More to wonder about re what was said during that private meeting w/Putin in Helsinki.

— john mclaughlin (@jmclaughlinSAIS) November 30, 2018

Also in the video Malcolm Nance says foreign spies get their victims through an acronym called MICE: money, ideology,
coercion/co-option, by playing to ego. "Most of the time they don't even know they are committing treason."

When Putin was asked if he had compromising stuff on Trump, he waffled, and didn't say no.

How about that Trump family!

Putin and Saudi crown prince high-five at G20 summit

Guardian News
Published on Nov 30, 2018

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman shared a joke at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, laughing heartily as they took seats next to each other in the main meeting room. Earlier, the Saudi ruler was sidelined during the official 'family photo' of world leaders and other dignitaries, standing at the far edge of the group portrait and ignored. His presence at the international summit has been contentious following the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXiSafSqXAY

That one also posted in reply to

So... the person installed in the oval office by Putin appears to have dementia.
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