The New Yorker’s Adam Davidson joins us again to discuss the ongoing saga of Michael Cohen, including Cohen’s recent sit-down with ABC. Does he understand the situation he’s in? Davidson also helps break down the civil suit against the Trump Foundation.
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Today we’re talking oversight — specifically, what Congress could investigate under Democratic control. From environmental issues to civil rights lawsuits, TPM’s Matt Shuham helps us delve into the issues. Before that, we tackle a bizarre scene described in a recent New York Times report on investigative reporter Ali Watkins’ relationship with a key Senate Intelligence Committee aide.
The big DOJ Inspector General report is notable for what it omits — evidence of anti-Hillary Clinton bias at the FBI, which appears to have influenced James Comey’s actions leading up to the 2016 election. We break down some key questions the IG never addressed in his report on the Clinton email probe.
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Russia’s election meddling wasn’t restricted to the U.S. A bombshell report out of the UK over the weekend suggests that Russia also worked to swing the Brexit vote in favor of leaving the EU. We also preview two big stories to keep on your radar this week.
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Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, author of the new book “Assault on Intelligence,” discusses efforts Russia made to latch onto controversial narratives in the United States even before Donald Trump was running for President. Remember “Jade Helm”? Or Ebola coming across the southern border? Hayden, who served as NSA director and head of the CIA, examines how Russian bots propagated conspiracies that originated in the U.S.
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We just learned that President Trump dictated his son’s statement about the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting, so we decided to take a look back at what else was happening around the time that the story came out in July 2017. It turns out there is a lot of evidence that Trump’s cover story came from a private conversation Trump had with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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New Yorker writer Adam Davidson has covered some of Donald Trump’s shadiest deals. In this episode, Davidson walks through the recent global financial history that paved the way for Trump to pursue business with unsavory characters.
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The Middle East thread in the Trump-Russia story was substantially fleshed out this week. This thread comes with a new cast of characters — Elliot Broidy, George Nader, Erik Prince, and Israeli social media strategist Joel Zamel — and raises a new set of questions about the Trump administration’s dealings with Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Iran, and Russia. As the scope of the Trump-Russia story gets bigger and bigger, Josh lays out the facts we know and some theories on where this particular thread might be leading us.
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Typically one felony charge would be enough to sink a politician, but Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) has been hit with two. Then suddenly on Monday, the prosecution dismissed one of the charges against him. What’s going on in the Show Me State? TPM reporter Allegra Kirkland takes us inside the story. Later, we discuss the latest aggressive moves by Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti.
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A lot has happened on the Michael Cohen front in the past 24 hours, so we brought on author Seth Hettena to help us run through the backstory on President Trump’s personal attorney. Hettena’s new book, “Trump/Russia: A Definitive History,” digs into the history of Trump’s relationship with Cohen and explains how Russian money became such a big part of their business deals.