Section: AlterNet (USA)
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Points Out a Key Part of the Mueller’s Team’s Fraught Day in Court that People Missed
Everyone focused on the fact that the judge was critical of the special counsel — few noticed the crucial part of Mueller’s team’s response. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team appeared to have a tough day in court on Friday as Judge T.S. Ellis was sharply critical of the prosecutors’ grounds to bring their case against...
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Points Out a Key Part of the Mueller’s Team’s Fraught Day in Court that People Missed
Everyone focused on the fact that the judge was critical of the special counsel — few noticed the crucial part of Mueller’s team’s response. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team appeared to have a tough day in court on Friday as Judge T.S. Ellis was sharply critical of the prosecutors’ grounds to bring their case against...
‘Rudy Giuliani Will Be Out of Here In Two Weeks’: MSNBC Contributor Explains How the Former NYC Mayor Is Already a Disaster for Trump
In his first few weeks on the job, the former mayor has already made the president look like a liar. MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch made a bold but plausible prediction on Friday about the future of President Donald Trump’s legal team: Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and one of the newest members of the team, will be gone in...
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Explains How Absurd Republicans’ Efforts to Derail the Mueller Probe Have Gotten
“The reason it feels like we’re getting to the edge of a cliff,” she said, “is because the Justice Department knows exactly what these members of Congress are up to.” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow explained Thursday night what exactly appears to be going on with congressional Republican’s efforts to intimidate...
Retired General Explains Why the ‘Extraordinary Number of Contacts’ Between Trump’s Campaign and Russia Needs an Explanation
Gen. Michael Hayden gets to the heart of why special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is so important. Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who has served under Republican and Democratic administrations as CIA director and NSA director, explained Thursday why special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation remains a vital...
Detained and Then Deported: U.S. Human Rights Lawyers Barred from Entry into Israel
Columbia University’s Katherine Franke and Center for Constitutional Rights executive director Vincent Warren were also repeatedly questioned about their associations with groups critical of Israel. Two U.S. human rights lawyers were detained Sunday for 14 hours at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport before being deported back...
The Wall Street Journal Is Upset About Having to Interact With Poor People At the Airport
The world’s tiniest violin plays for these affluent flyers who have to wait in less-than-luxurious airport lounges The last few months have not been kind to the airline industry. The main culprit seems to be United Airlines, which has been caught engaging in shady behavior ranging from forcing a mother to carry her toddler during a flight;...
Watch MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell Crack Up as They Discuss Giuliani’s Stormy Daniels Admission
The pair of hosts seemed giddy and baffled by the president’s lawyer’s stunning revelation. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell was responsible for informing his colleague Rachel Maddow late Wednesday night about the latest breaking news in the Stormy Daniels case, and they were both grinning and laughing as they discussed the...
Rudy Giuliani Contradicts Trump and Says the President Funded the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Payment
Michael Cohen and the president both said Trump knew nothing about the $130,000 payment. In a stunning departure from President Donald Trump’s own account, Rudy Giuliani, acting as the president’s lawyer, said that Trump himself financed the $130,000 hush money payment to the woman known as Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an...
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Unpacks the Wild Story of How Ukraine Thwarted Mueller to Win Favor with Trump
The country decided to stop participating in the special counsel’s investigation — and then the U.S. government decided to offer military assistance. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow dug into a stunning New York Times story Wednesday that found the Ukrainian government deliberately stopped cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s...
