Rachel...

[berni_mccoy]

She's blowing it up tonight.

KA-BOOM.

How THREE Russian Banks worked with Trump campaign.

Turn. It. On. NOW!

Update 1:
Tying together the following:
Alpha Bank Servers communicating with Trump Campaign servers during campaign
Jared Kushner's concealment of VTB Bank
How Sperbank, VTB and Alpha Bank have execs hand picked by Putin and most are former or even current FSB members (Sperbank had spy expelled by US).

Update 2:
Pulls in ties of Deutsche Bank and how documents handed over by Trump's lawyer to investigative committees today were also released to press to put spin on them. But what they show is that Trump's praise of Putin was timed with critical moments of the Moscow Trump Tower deal and these banks' involvement in the project.

Update 3:
Ivanka Trump's staff admitted (today, with the release of the above documents) that she toured the Kremlin and sat in Putin's chair (but she was only a tourist... yeah right).

Update 4:
WaPo Journalist, Carol Leonnig says there is a bigger story yet. Direct collusion is provable as well as Trump's concealment of it and that a deal was in fact done and Russia acted on it.

[applegrove]

1. Keep those of us who don't get Maddow updated if you can.

[berni_mccoy]

2. Will do.

[berni_mccoy]

6. Done, think that's the majority of the story tonight.

[applegrove]

9. That is great. Thank you so much.

[dalton99a]

10. Thanks

[yortsed snacilbuper]

3. livenewschat

http://www.livenewschat.eu/politics/

[GP6971]

4. It's a killer show tonite. n/t

[titaniumsalute]

5. Great recap

[lindysalsagal]

7. I know, right?

It was a possible hotel deal in russia while he was campaigning. He figured he'd lose, so, he might as well make a great deal while he's on the world political stage.

Yup. Busted.

[flamingdem]

8. Excellen summary

I watched but have a habit of multitasking, on the web with program in the background.

I needed the review

[lostnfound]

11. Thank you!!! Missed most of it because of family members who can't stop making demands at 8 pm CDT

I swear, it is planned that way! (Grrr....)

[MontanaMama]

16. Wait...

I thought that stuff only happened to me!?!?! I have to literally SAY "Okay family, Mama just punched out. I am OFF duty. You're on your own." My quiet time is for everyone's safety.

[lostnfound]

24. Exactly except

I have two particularly hard-headed examples, so last night involved a too-shallow pan of boiling oil on a gas stove and the sounds of an argument over safety procedures, with a serious communication and generation gap layered on top. Oh, family time...sigh.

[MontanaMama]

25. I got you.

Another day in paradise!

[BigmanPigman]

12. Do they re-run Rachel 3 hours later on the west coast?

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YES THEY DO...thanks for replying DUers. I am watching her now.

[berni_mccoy]

13. I believe so? Not 100% on that.

[floppyboo]

15. 9pm PST nt

[Hekate]

17. 6 pm, 9 pm, and I think midnight or 1 am in California

Rachel is the greatest.

[Perseus]

30. In Google

type "the rachel maddow show" and it will take you there. I don't have cable so that is how I watch it. They will only publish the day's program after the second and final showing. I would imagine that is at about 09:00pm on the West coast.

[Achilleaze]

14. K and R

[ecstatic]

18. Meanwhile, Trump still has the nuke codes...

Why can't they take it away until this is sorted out!!!!

[PatSeg]

23. But, but,

"wouldn't it be nice if we got along with Rushhha?" He's been so transparent from the beginning and tens of millions of people didn't see it.

[pnwmom]

19. As to update 4: did she give a hint as to when the bigger story will come out?

[moonscape]

20. I didn't hear the same thing you did, re Carol Leonnig's take.

Her comment about there being a bigger story, was after comments about lying, etc.

The bigger story she said is about the Trump Tower deal, Sater, and Cohen - with Sater offering to deliver Putin's kind words about Trump, and Cohen then talking to a bud of his close to Putin about wanting the Tower deal to go through, wink wink we know how things are done in Russia.

The benefit to both was - Trump would come off as a great negotiator, able to warm relations with Russia, and for Putin it was the same thing - warming US relations.

[oasis]

21. Great show tonight. nt

[ProfessorPlum]

22. Thank you for the updates

This is super valuable

[Wounded Bear]

26. I love how she ties things together...

and creates a thread of evidence that gets to the heart of things.

[Flo Mingo]

27. For those without cable, or with interrupting family

Rachel's podcast is available for free on iTunes. They only have video of the first segment but they have a full audio version as well.

[PBass]

28. I love the podcast! No commercials! No filler!

I listen to the audio version. Sometimes you miss out on some of the graphics and video, but most of the time it doesn't matter... the video is available elsewhere, the graphics reinforce the audio content, etc.

What you do get is Rachel's analysis, great guests, and you can listen anytime you want (show is not archived, it's updated daily).

[2naSalit]

29. Also...

MSNBC has a web site for her show and you can either watch it there or on her Utoob channel. It's available, you just have to look for it.

[Perseus]

31. Sorry for my ignorance, but can someone explain

the issue with Ivanka sitting on Putin's chair? Is that with Putin on the chair, or without him?

I am just puzzled about this, not sure of the significance.