Carol Leonnig, National Reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that Donald Trump’s advisers explicitly told him not to congratulate Vladimir Putin and to condemn the poisoning of two people in the UK. Trump did the opposite.
Senator Mark Warner, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about the new revelations regarding Cambridge Analytica and its work for the Donald Trump campaign.
Senator Mark Warner, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about the bipartisan effort in the Senate to establish basic defenses against further Russian intrusion into U.S. elections.
This tweet demonstrates a profound willful mischaracterization of the purpose and purview of the Special Counsel. Trump continues to treat Putin's crimes against America's electoral process as a political issue rather than a dire national security imperative. He is complicit. https://t.co/BAjxyR2fdT
"Democratic turnout in Illinois was up 300% versus 2014 and up 30% versus 2010, the last midterm cycle… Meanwhile, Republican turnout dropped by 30% from 2014, when there was also a well-contested GOP governor’s race."https://t.co/PvGOO2mtjH
And this thread, folks, is why you don't have open primaries if you really want change– because the other side will determine your November back at the primary. https://t.co/R8WTGpOnQL
But 19% of people voting in the primary approved of Trump. And Lipinski won those folks 85-10. Trump supporters in this open primary were responsible for saving Lipinski from a resounding defeat yesterday.
this is what she said about primaries…and i agree…
The only fair primaries are closed with easy registration: within a week of the primary. Open primaries allow the other side to skew elections to favor their Nov win. Caucuses exclude minority voters, single mothers, disabled, shift workers, anyone threatened by a boss or spouse. https://t.co/L7Xn2q1uD4
THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL 3/20/18 Stormy attorney: Trump team ‘stepped into every trap we’ve laid’
Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti says Donald Trump’s lawyers “have stepped into every trap we have laid” and calls their strategy “tic-tac-toe” compared to their team’s game of chess. Joyce Vance and Matt Miller react to the latest Trump legal troubles.
Another part of the Obama generation on the other side of the world. Young people like these are his legacy; they will remake the world into a better place.
#Breaking Former Facebook employee Sandy Parakilas has told MPs the company knew about the risks of data policy violations but had “little detection” and no policy of informing users pic.twitter.com/fiMA1SzllM
Knew and participated in allowing the GOP and anyone who paid them to take this data illegally and without letting people know. Suckerberg suckered a lot of folks to get the mad man in the WH elected.
Being able to recognize excellence and being able to appreciate it is something that this country will have to get used to if we are to progress as far as we want to.
GA, TODbots.
Congrats, Rikyrah on your Au ⭐ Furst 😉
Thanks, NW. I am glad to hear that the Terrorist in Austin TX was finally neutralized.
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It may be surprising but paper ballots need to be embraced in the 2018 elections. It's one of the safest, smartest systems because Russia cannot hack a piece of paper like they can a computer. https://t.co/qwP0Hw0F6r
Um this is the clearest indication yet Russia hacked Trump into the White House and did the same with a number of House and Senate seats to give GOP total control of federal government.
The White House wants the leak to be the story. The leak is not the story. The story is that the President of the United States was explicitly told by his national security team, DO NOT CONGRATULATE Vladimir Putin on his sham re-election and he did it any way, right off the bat.
The L.A. Times is lifting its paywall on stories about the storm that's about to slam Southern California, as officials fear the possibility of destructive mudslides. https://t.co/y8v6WoPhey
It is coming down in buckets right now in SoCal. Streets are starting to flood and there is NO let up since 9:45am. SoCal’er who lived here in the past 30 years, remember when we had the Pineapple Express in the 70’s and 90’s? It’s baaaaccccckkkkk.
– where is the Forensic Code audit with data trails of the 2016 election? An audit-able paper trail does nothing to PREVENT another hack. Only hand counted paper ballots & full analog elections with nothing touching the internet will stop an attack/hack & secure our elections.
Mark Zuckerberg has released a statement on the Cambridge Analytica situation: "We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you."
EXCLUSIVE: Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe oversaw federal criminal investigation into whether Jeff Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives, sources tell @ABC. https://t.co/iENzTKGd34pic.twitter.com/sIHfjayu2z
It is so disheartening to hear these MSM pundits talking about Pres Obama’s congratulating Puti in 2014 and comparing this to what Trump did. Also, talking about the reset and outreach PBO and his State Department undertook, it was with President Mededev ( and NOT Putin who was then Prime Minister, I think) and they were trying to reset with the new President to see if he would take a different approach.
When Putin came back, the Obama Administration tried to continue engagement in this way to see if they could get him to move in this direction and assist with Syria etc and act in that vein but it did not happen because he then invaded Crimea and Ukraine and hacked the election.
The PBO Administration reacted and took a different tack thereafter.
Some of the MSM need resfresher history courses or have another agenda.
Yes, I found PBO did call and congratulate Putin on his win as the “new” president (I am sure PBO new these elections were B.S.) but he wanted to work with Putin on Syria, etc. Then when Putin pretty much said FU and invaded Crimea and his hostility towards Ukraine PBO imposed sanctions, after sanctions, and also got our ally Germany to do the same. Trump, nada he won’t say a bad word about Putin and only has to be forced to say something when Russia does something horrible like murder in the UK.
WOW!!! Truth from Ezra Klein on his fellow journalists!
Unpopular opinion: the way the media covered Hillary Clinton's emails did much more to make Donald Trump president than anything Cambridge Analytica, or even Facebook, did. And it was less defensible on the merits.
We see these lawmakers representing the NRA, and not their constituents. We see our “leaders” making excuses and refusing to act. On Saturday, they’ll see US. pic.twitter.com/7OGttnRSsz
At Starbucks annual meeting. Starbucks has achieved 100% gender and racial pay equity for all US partners and is committed to reaching global gender equity. I hope others will follow @Starbucks’ leadership in closing the pay gap. #EqualPay
“If Game of Thrones can have three seasons of all male directors, why can’t we have three seasons of all women directors?” 🤷🏾♀️ https://t.co/e2xTDy8fXw
"There are perhaps no two areas in the criminal justice system that are marked by greater racial disparities than the sentencing of drug-related offenses & the imposition of the death penalty." – @Sifill_LDF. Read our statement: https://t.co/OjirOfDASUhttps://t.co/ckemL2i7mo
Robert Mueller already knows about Cambridge Analytica. Legal experts I've talked to suspect he's building a RICO case, not only against President Trump, but against Don Jr., Kushner, Ivanka, and at least 4 members of Congress as well.
Am still wondering why dems went against Franken. Maybe I’m missing something, but his voice right now could have been important in this quagmire/cesspool. ???
If NW, or one of the early birds could bring this over to the new thread, while us WestCoasties are sleeping or swimming, it would be lovely! We have 24 hours to party and mustn’t waste a minute!! 🎉🍰👏🏼♥️❤️ Merci!
Barack Obama was welcomed to New Zealand today with a traditional Maori ceremony ahead of meeting Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. It is the former US President’s first visit to the country. Obama was gifted a whale tooth pendant during the ceremony. (📷: Getty) pic.twitter.com/qw35YnqWck
One of the greatest surprise for today was the arrival by mail a couple of days ago of ‘an Intimate Portrait’’ – many, many THANKS, GAIL!
Honestly TODobots, every bedroom in my home has a bookshelf as I tend to collect books, sometimes more than one copy of my favourites. Why? Well, decades ago I also developed the questionable habit of sometimes commenting in the margins of a book I’m reading. 🙄 No one else I know does this, but there are times when even though I know the accepted thing is not to write in a book, I can’t seem to help myself. I think of it as dialoguing with the author. 😉 😉
Looks like Instagram has totally removed all links to permanently delete your account from your profile page, so your only visible option is to disable your account (but they can keep your data). This is a big deal.
Remember way back when the web was a really interesting place? Then the ad men moved in and took over to monetize every last inch. What they introduced was a web full of columns of ads, pop-ups, floating and exploding ads, CONSTANTLY IN YOUR FACE advertising. This guy who worked at Netscape developed cookies and suddenly the monetizing thing became the personal data gathering thing. All the platforms wanted to know your shopping habits. And Karl Rove wanted to know your shopping and browsing habits and your religion and club memberships so he could figure out your voting habits. And here we are. Facebook took it over the edge by monetizing with very bad actors.
Mark Mazzetti, investigative correspondent for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about Robert Mueller’s consideration of undue influence on Donald Trump’s Middle East policies on behalf of Saudi Arabia and UAE.
Reuters photographed 17 Russians voting multiple times in the rigged Russian presidential election. Many appeared to be state employees, and some even showed up in groups and in mini buses bearing the names of state-provided services. #ImpeachTrumphttps://t.co/sQpZuLZttq
This has to be so devastatingly humiliating to the victims families…..
Why does the media (especially the print media) spend so much time trying to humanize a monster? Sometime a person is just a monster whether the people around him knew he was or not. #AustinSerialBomber
Always the nice kid that was just misunderstood…..never mind he was a man, not a kid. He KILLED a 17yr old very nice kid contributing to society but NOTHING about him.
2018 governor races are CRITICAL in the fight for free and fair elections. Governors will be instrumental in Census 2020 redistricting of both state legislative and congressional maps.#VoteDEM2018
Want to hold a Voter ID Clinic to help citizens obtain the documents required to secure a state-mandated ID or documentary proof of citizenship? Contact VoteRidershttps://t.co/sUOBGjWUra
Trump attorney John Dowd said to resign amid shake-up on legal team for Russia probe
John Dowd, a personal attorney for President Trump handling the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, has resigned, according to two people familiar with the decision.
Dowd’s resignation came several days after Trump added Joseph diGenova, a former U.S. attorney who was pushing an aggressive new strategy, to his team.
8 years ago today, Pres. @BarackObama signed the #ACA into law, finally providing real protection to me & millions of others suffering from diseases considered “pre-existing conditions” by health insurance. Waiting for @NancyPelosi in the US Capitol to commemorate that day pic.twitter.com/DgvRDas1ap
Your obligatory Watergate comparison to the news that Trump’s lead lawyer John Dowd has resigned because his client won’t take his advice. pic.twitter.com/hnNGeoGg78
Rachel Maddow shares some of NBC News’ exclusive interview by Pete Williams of FBI Director Chris Wray and notes that not only did Donald Trump not mention the UK poisonings when he called Vladimir Putin, but he also didn’t mention Russia hacking U.S. power plants and energy infrastructure.
Emma Gonzalez, Jaclyn Corin, and Sarah Chadwick, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas who have been thrust into activism against gun violence after a shooting tragedy at their school, talk with Rachel Maddow about whether legislators are doing enough to prevent future atrocities.
The more mainstream White American culture attempts to normalize that which is not normal or safe, the more normal the abnormal atrocities become. https://t.co/3MkYGN2T2p
Sacramento police release video of fatal shooting of Stephon Clark
Community activists and relatives of the father-of-two have questioned why officers needed to fire 20 shots.
by Alex Johnson and Gadi Schwartz / Mar.21.2018 / 8:15 PM ET / Updated Mar.22.2018 / 5:54 AM ET
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
Good Morning Rikyrah!
NW, you rock.
You simply rock, the way you bring it to us.
Against advice, Trump congratulates Putin on sham election win: WaPo
Carol Leonnig, National Reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that Donald Trump’s advisers explicitly told him not to congratulate Vladimir Putin and to condemn the poisoning of two people in the UK. Trump did the opposite.
Warner: ‘A lot more stories to be told’ from Cambridge Analytica
Senator Mark Warner, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about the new revelations regarding Cambridge Analytica and its work for the Donald Trump campaign.
Senate intel moves to secure elections despite Trump indifference
Senator Mark Warner, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about the bipartisan effort in the Senate to establish basic defenses against further Russian intrusion into U.S. elections.
LET’S DO THIS
I HATE open primaries!
this is what she said about primaries…and i agree…
YES. Enough with manipulation.
But, we have same day registration in Illinois. so, in a Primary, it’s a trade off.
Maybe it can be same day for new voters or address or name change but not to change party affiliation
I doo too, Meta. I don’t want Republicans or the so called Independents selecting Democratic Candidates.
THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL 3/20/18
Stormy attorney: Trump team ‘stepped into every trap we’ve laid’
Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti says Donald Trump’s lawyers “have stepped into every trap we have laid” and calls their strategy “tic-tac-toe” compared to their team’s game of chess. Joyce Vance and Matt Miller react to the latest Trump legal troubles.
Thanks so much for this; I love traveling with PBO. So heart-warming to see how excited NZ is about his visit.
Thanks, JER. I loved the part where he asked the helicopter pilot where he should sit! Classy our PBO! ❤
JER, that was soooooo special ! Thanks ❤️
I hope he gets a Maori haka presentation before he leaves.
Some video here:
https://www.bet.com/video/bet-her/leading-women/2018/michelle-obama-and-valerie-jarrett-share-their-girlfriend-connection-at-leading-women-defined.html
Another part of the Obama generation on the other side of the world. Young people like these are his legacy; they will remake the world into a better place.
I hope and pray that the weather will not affect the march this weekend.
Knew and participated in allowing the GOP and anyone who paid them to take this data illegally and without letting people know. Suckerberg suckered a lot of folks to get the mad man in the WH elected.
Nah! Not believable. 😖
The Obama Diary might not be a good place to have a photo of a murderer; just saying.
OMGoodness!!!!
This is priceless.
The Smithsonian should just build an Obama Wing
Being able to recognize excellence and being able to appreciate it is something that this country will have to get used to if we are to progress as far as we want to.
GA, TODbots.
Congrats, Rikyrah on your Au ⭐ Furst 😉
Thanks, NW. I am glad to hear that the Terrorist in Austin TX was finally neutralized.
{{{ ❤ Chips ❤ }}}
❤ ❤ ❤ TODville Village.
YES!!!!!!!!
Hate Damn. She went there.
It is coming down in buckets right now in SoCal. Streets are starting to flood and there is NO let up since 9:45am. SoCal’er who lived here in the past 30 years, remember when we had the Pineapple Express in the 70’s and 90’s? It’s baaaaccccckkkkk.
Stay safe, SoCal TODers. We’ll be getting some of it up here in the North as well.
Thinking of you all! Stay safe! ❤
Those NZ accents are so broad.
JUST IN: In memo to US attorneys, AG Sessions directs them to pursue the death penalty for certain drug-related crimes.
The move has been supported by President Trump. https://t.co/vbVm2oOqHQ pic.twitter.com/YM8kcivDzI— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 21, 2018
“Certain drug-related crimes” does that translate as Blacks/Browns only? Somehow I don’t think they will be arresting Drug Mfg CEO’s.
Wall Street-like sniffers, pill pushers, injectors & inhalers? Nah! Lawdy, save us from that Keebler elf!
So very happy for our PBO! He deserves all that’s bright & beautiful!
Trying really hard to not voice my words at that self-serving statement. Uggh!
Mueller has that info from McCabe. I bet!
GM
It is so disheartening to hear these MSM pundits talking about Pres Obama’s congratulating Puti in 2014 and comparing this to what Trump did. Also, talking about the reset and outreach PBO and his State Department undertook, it was with President Mededev ( and NOT Putin who was then Prime Minister, I think) and they were trying to reset with the new President to see if he would take a different approach.
When Putin came back, the Obama Administration tried to continue engagement in this way to see if they could get him to move in this direction and assist with Syria etc and act in that vein but it did not happen because he then invaded Crimea and Ukraine and hacked the election.
The PBO Administration reacted and took a different tack thereafter.
Some of the MSM need resfresher history courses or have another agenda.
Yes, I found PBO did call and congratulate Putin on his win as the “new” president (I am sure PBO new these elections were B.S.) but he wanted to work with Putin on Syria, etc. Then when Putin pretty much said FU and invaded Crimea and his hostility towards Ukraine PBO imposed sanctions, after sanctions, and also got our ally Germany to do the same. Trump, nada he won’t say a bad word about Putin and only has to be forced to say something when Russia does something horrible like murder in the UK.
WOW!!! Truth from Ezra Klein on his fellow journalists!
this might be in exchange for DEM Votes
Eff! I’m going Color Purple on these turds: “You so ug-lee”.
FYI, properly deleting FB account: TechCrunch: Here is how to delete Facebook. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw_LDSwTo
😂😂😷😯
OMG
Something to watch…
Beyond glorious! Let it be so. 🙏
Well, Duh!
Where’s my ticket? 😂
Oooh! Pete’s shady-shade! 😂
I love Pete’s shade. He’s been on fire since leaving the White House.
Am still wondering why dems went against Franken. Maybe I’m missing something, but his voice right now could have been important in this quagmire/cesspool. ???
I’m not sure. Since he resigned so quickly, maybe there was something that he may have done in the past.
Goodnight, Nerdy darlin’, TODville, and all the ships at sea!
🎂♥️👁👁🎈🎁🎉🥂🐸💐🕯👋🏼👊🏼
Let the wild rumpus begin NOW!! A very Happy Birthday to our VC!! Many many happy reruns to you, enjoy the par-tay! Everyone is welcome! 😹🌏
If NW, or one of the early birds could bring this over to the new thread, while us WestCoasties are sleeping or swimming, it would be lovely! We have 24 hours to party and mustn’t waste a minute!! 🎉🍰👏🏼♥️❤️ Merci!
Happy Birthday, VC! 🎁🍰
Happy Birthday VC!
Thanks, Anna.
HOW GORGEOUS IS THIS MAN
Love that he is still rocking the no tie look.
He was gifted with a whale’s tooth, which he is wearing. I think he really looks best in that grey suit.
President Obama is greeted like a head of state…it is quite remarkable….warms my heart and makes me proud that he is greeted in such a manner…
Awesome. Morning everyone
Find a March for Our Lives event near you
https://event.marchforourlives.com/event/march-our-lives-events/search/
Happy Birthday to our very own VC!
May all your wishes come true!
You are loved ❤️
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for letting us know, GGAIL:) A very wonderful birthday to you, VC! Many, many more:)
You’re very welcome DF 😘
😘
One of the greatest surprise for today was the arrival by mail a couple of days ago of ‘an Intimate Portrait’’ – many, many THANKS, GAIL!
Honestly TODobots, every bedroom in my home has a bookshelf as I tend to collect books, sometimes more than one copy of my favourites. Why? Well, decades ago I also developed the questionable habit of sometimes commenting in the margins of a book I’m reading. 🙄 No one else I know does this, but there are times when even though I know the accepted thing is not to write in a book, I can’t seem to help myself. I think of it as dialoguing with the author. 😉 😉
You are very welcome, birthday girl 💃🏾
So basically these social apps including Facebook and the like are nothing but data collecting programs.
Remember way back when the web was a really interesting place? Then the ad men moved in and took over to monetize every last inch. What they introduced was a web full of columns of ads, pop-ups, floating and exploding ads, CONSTANTLY IN YOUR FACE advertising. This guy who worked at Netscape developed cookies and suddenly the monetizing thing became the personal data gathering thing. All the platforms wanted to know your shopping habits. And Karl Rove wanted to know your shopping and browsing habits and your religion and club memberships so he could figure out your voting habits. And here we are. Facebook took it over the edge by monetizing with very bad actors.
Smart, strong, confident women are amazing! We will continue to push ahead
Mueller following the money on Trump Middle East policy
Mark Mazzetti, investigative correspondent for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about Robert Mueller’s consideration of undue influence on Donald Trump’s Middle East policies on behalf of Saudi Arabia and UAE.
This has to be so devastatingly humiliating to the victims families…..
Always the nice kid that was just misunderstood…..never mind he was a man, not a kid. He KILLED a 17yr old very nice kid contributing to society but NOTHING about him.
Please help spread the word.
This reminded me:) Thanks, meta!
https://www.voteriders.org/get-involved/voter-id-clinics/
YES. They are excellent.
THIS IS AMAZING!!
Trump attorney John Dowd said to resign amid shake-up on legal team for Russia probe
John Dowd, a personal attorney for President Trump handling the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, has resigned, according to two people familiar with the decision.
Dowd’s resignation came several days after Trump added Joseph diGenova, a former U.S. attorney who was pushing an aggressive new strategy, to his team.
Sleazy John Dowd is out
This is so cute.
No mention of Russia hacks of US power plants in Trump Putin chat
Rachel Maddow shares some of NBC News’ exclusive interview by Pete Williams of FBI Director Chris Wray and notes that not only did Donald Trump not mention the UK poisonings when he called Vladimir Putin, but he also didn’t mention Russia hacking U.S. power plants and energy infrastructure.
Students press for change on guns ahead of March For Our Lives
Emma Gonzalez, Jaclyn Corin, and Sarah Chadwick, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas who have been thrust into activism against gun violence after a shooting tragedy at their school, talk with Rachel Maddow about whether legislators are doing enough to prevent future atrocities.
Dow dives 500 points over trade war fears, Fed’s moves to raise interest rates.
Lock Him Up before we get another financial crisis!
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/03/22/welcome-to-new-zealand/
Sacramento police release video of fatal shooting of Stephon Clark
Community activists and relatives of the father-of-two have questioned why officers needed to fire 20 shots.
by Alex Johnson and Gadi Schwartz / Mar.21.2018 / 8:15 PM ET / Updated Mar.22.2018 / 5:54 AM ET
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sacramento-police-release-video-fatal-shooting-unarmed-man-n858926
UGH