MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber breaks down the two ways to view Trump’s aggressive attacks on the FBI. Veterans from FBI and CIA tell The Washington Post it’s an effort to “to discredit Mueller." Duration: 13:00
Dean: Trump “running a criminal enterprise out of the White House"
The Beat With Ari Melber 12/26/17
A new Wall Street Journal report reveals Trump spent nearly one-third of his presidency promoting his own properties. Former Bush ethics lawyer calls to get Trump “out of there,” and Howard Dean says Trump is “running a criminal enterprise out of the White House.” Duration: 7:24
Baratunde Thurston: I’m not interested in “enabling people who undermine democracy"
The Beat With Ari Melber 12/26/17
Comedian and best-selling author of “How To Be Black,” Baratunde Thurston joins Ari Melber to talk about the year in race under Trump from birtherism to “both sides.” Duration: 6:29
Trump Republicans a receptive audience for Kremlin attacks on FBI
The Rachel Maddow Show 12/26/17
Del Quentin Wilber, reporter for The Wall Street Journal, talks with Joy Reid about the Republican attacks on the FBI and its leadership as they try to weaken any potential case against Donald Trump. Duration: 14:11
GOP's anti-FBI campaign of limited use beyond political spectacle
The Rachel Maddow Show 12/26/17
Chuck Rosenberg, former U.S. attorney, talks with Joy Reid about how Republican efforts to discredit the FBI are being received within the bureau and how little those efforts will matter in a court of law. Duration: 4:15
Disinformation basic to Putin's playbook; Americans take heed
The Rachel Maddow Show 12/26/17
Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, talks with Joy Reid about Russian president Vladimir Putin's use of disinformation and distortion both at home and abroad as a standard matter of course, not just in 2016. Duration: 5:17
Trump immigration policy distinguished by fear and cruelty
The Rachel Maddow Show 12/26/17
Jacqueline Charles, Caribbean correspondent for The Miami Herald, talks with Joy Reid about the fear that grips the DACA community and other immigrants in the face of Trump administration cruelty and Donald Trump's broken promise to the Haitian community. Duration: 9:48
New Republican tax plan explodes the deficit for a purpose
The Rachel Maddow Show 12/26/17
Bruce Bartlett, former Ronald Reagan domestic policy adviser, talks with Joy Reid about the expected fallout from the new tax plan and the Republican strategy to blow up the deficit with tax cuts for the rich so they can later argue a need to slash benefits to address the deficit. Duration: 7:41
Ex-Watergate prosecutor: New Trump FBI threats may be obstruction
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 12/26/17
GOP lawmakers are following Trump's attacks on Robert Mueller, the FBI and its leadership, which ex-Watergate prosecutor Jill-Wine Banks says are a "serious threat to democracy" and could be considered in Mueller's probe. David Frum & Matt Miller join Ari Melber. Duration: 13:31
Trump SuperPAC spends $1M to thank Trump for 'Merry Christmas'
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 12/26/17
Donald Trump has declared victory in the "assault" on the phrase "Merry Christmas." Ari Melber looks back at the dark history of the war on Christmas and Trump's own history of self-congratulations. David Frum and Jason Johnson discuss. Duration: 10:05
Trump again blasts the FBI targeting Dep. Dir. McCabe
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 12/27/17
Keeping the focus on the Russia probe and again attacking his own FBI, Trump spent the day after Christmas golfing and going after FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Our expert panel breaks it down. Duration: 8:34
Richard Painter: Calls to purge DOJ & FBI are 'nuts'
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 12/27/17
Fmr. Ethics Attorney for Pres. George W. Bush Richard Painter says that Republicans who say the DOJ & FBI need to be purged are either in safe GOP districts so they can 'mouth off,' or they're 'nuts.' Duration: 6:38
Possible [sic - Certain] that Trump's spent [far more than] 40 hours tweeting as president
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 12/27/17
A Boston Globe analysis found if Trump has spent one minute [. . .] on each of his over 2,400 tweets so far as president, that's over 40 hours as president on Twitter. Our panel reacts. Duration: 6:07
Ronny Chieng recaps the biggest technological developments of 2017, from Lyft re-inventing the city bus to robots that are poised to take over the world.
HMS St Albans: UK frigate shadows Russian warship in North Sea A British frigate shadowed a Russian warship through the North Sea near UK waters on Christmas Day, the Royal Navy has revealed. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42481216
Trump slams FBI, Clinton for 'garbage' dossier President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the FBI and the Clinton campaign on the Russia dossier compiled against him and his 2016 campaign. "WOW, @foxandfriends 'Dossier is bogus. Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED.' And they used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the Trump Campaign!" Trump tweeted, the latest in his ongoing smear on the FBI. [...] http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/366467-trump-slams-fbi-and-clinton-for-dossier-claims
Russia election: Kremlin queries legality of boycott call The Kremlin says a call by opposition leader Alexei Navalny for a boycott of the presidential election needs to be checked to see whether it is legal. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42486355
Briton Laura Plummer jailed in Egypt for drug smuggling A British woman has been convicted of smuggling 300 painkiller tablets into Egypt and jailed for three years. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-42483135
Utah paper tells Hatch to 'call it a career' in blistering editorial Utah's largest newspaper slammed Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah) in a Christmas Day editorial on Monday while calling on the senior GOP senator to retire. The Salt Lake Tribune’s editorial board named Hatch their 2017 “Utahn of the Year,” a designation the paper says is given to someone who has “had the biggest impact. For good or for ill.” The newspaper said Hatch earned the title based on “his utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power.” “It would be good for Utah if Hatch, having finally caught the Great White Whale of tax reform, were to call it a career,” the Tribune's editorial board wrote. “If he doesn’t, the voters should end it for him.” The Tribune went after Hatch for his involvement in President Trump’s decision earlier this year to shrink two national monuments in the state, saying there was “no constitutional, legal or environmental logic" behind the move. “To all appearances — appearances promoted by Hatch — this anti-environmental, anti-Native American and, yes, anti-business decommissioning of national monuments was basically a political favor the White House did for Hatch,” the editorial states. The Tribune also noted Hatch’s involvement in the passage of the GOP tax plan last week given his role as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. The plan has been criticized by opponents who say it primarily benefits wealthy individuals and corporations, claims that backers of the plan reject. The editorial criticizes Hatch for saying in 2012 that it would be his last campaign, but now appears to be preparing to run again in 2018, which would be his eight term. “Once again, Hatch has moved to freeze the field to make it nigh unto impossible for any number of would-be senators to so much as mount a credible challenge,” the paper said. “That’s not only not fair to all of those who were passed over. It is basically a theft from the Utah electorate.” [...] http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/366449-utah-paper-tells-hatch-to-call-it-a-career-in-blistering-editorial
Pardoned by Christie, [black] woman pushes for change to US gun laws TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The handgun that Shaneen Allen was carrying when she was pulled over on a New Jersey highway could have sent her to prison for years if not for a pardon from Republican Gov. Chris Christie. Now the legal saga that kept the Pennsylvania mother of two in jail for 48 days has helped inspire a measure that could change handgun laws across the country. “Hopefully I’ll be at the White House next to (President) Trump signing this bill,” said Allen, who has become a face of the Republican effort to break down barriers to carrying concealed firearms between states. “Republicans put their money where their mouth was.” [...] https://apnews.com/705f80b4a0ed450eb6f48f7ac462c881
House Dems demand action on Mueller protection bills
"President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump's 2017 Christmas Message"
By KYLE CHENEY
04/10/2018 06:56 PM EDT
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are seeking immediate action on bills to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller from any effort by President Donald Trump to remove him.
In a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) obtained by POLITICO, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the top Democrat on the panel, joined Reps. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), in calling for urgent action on a pair of bills to protect Mueller against a unilateral ouster.