Conspiracy theorists have for years alleged Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign launched a plan to falsely accuse Donald Trump of collaborating with Russia. Now, newly declassified information reveals documents that were supposed to confirm those allegations were likely fake and created by Russian spy services. The material is part of a 29page annex to a 2023 report by special counsel John Durham, who investigated the government's probe of Russia election interference and the Trump campaign.The New ...

What are they so afraid of in the Epstein files. I think they do not want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein. You know, they fed into this conspiracy theory and now they want to run away from it.And you you can't have it both ways. This is like the Trump one greatest hits. What happened today is a new low for the Trump administration who's willing to declassify anything regardless of the danger to try to stop themselves from declassifying the Epstein files.What's your take on what's going on right I don't think ...

Joining us now, staff writer for The Atlantic and MSNBC political analyst Ashley Parker. Staff writer for The Atlantic and author of its newsletter, Galaxy Brain, Charlie Wartzell. Jake and Tim are still with us.Um, that was uh that moment where Donald Trump said, "I want a foreign government to hack into the emails of a not just private citizen, but a political figure in this country was a um disruptive moment in 2016 to say the least." Later, we found out, Ashley, that Russia did start around that time tr ...

I lost a lot of faith in certain people. Yeah, I'd lost because they got duped by the Democrats. Duped by the Democrats.Fact check. Trump and his MAGA followers were the ones pushing Epstein conspiracies. Seriously, we need to release the Epstein list.That that is an important thing. We have uh flight logs. We have information names uh that will come out.What names are in there, man. You understand how many powerful people probably want this thing to desperately go away. This is another government gangster ...

Joining us now, New York Times opinion columnist David French, executive editor of More Perfect Union, Faz Shakir, and staff writer at The Atlantic, and MSNBC political analyst Ashley Parker. Ashley, this is so interesting to me because this Epstein thing is so sticky to the base, to to the loud voices of the base, the ones that whip people up online. And it's the it's the one thing that I haven't seen the president in this 2.0% version of him be able to shake, right.I mean, I I love that pebble you don't s ...

Joining us now, Washington Post national columnist Philip Bump, Democratic pollster and MSNBC political analyst Cornell Belchure and host of the Bull Work Podcast and an MSNBC political analyst as well, Tim Miller. Phil, this is different. I mean, I I just laid out a handful of the things that Donald Trump has said over the years. There's so many more to name. Um, but he has been willing to say whatever he needed to say if he thought that's what constituents wanted to hear. if it was something sticky and an ...

NBC News confirming with two sources tonight. The deputy director of the FBI, the number two at the bureau, Dian Bonino, didn't report for work today and he may be on the verge of quitting altogether after openly clashing in the White House with Attorney General Pom Pam Bondi over her handling of the case. Now, before he got his job, Bangino was making a living doing stuff like this. I got a big question about the Epstein files. Who's on the Epstein tapes, folks? Who's on those tapes? Who's in those black b ...

us now. Staff writer with the Atlantic and MSNBC political analyst Ashley Parker, New York Times Justice Department reporter Glenn Thrush and former chief strategist for the Bush Cheney 2004 presidential campaign and MSNBC senior political contributor Matthew Dow joins us. Glenn, um, this is what happens when you nurse a conspiracy theory and you then get into a position where you are responsible for quelling things that aren't true, for trying to suppress conspiracy theories. What happens now? Well, the, y ...