Donald Trump's Abrupt Firing Of US Attorneys Remains Unexplained | Rachel Maddow

>>> HERE'S SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW.
WITH EACH NEW WEIRD REVELATION ABOUT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
AND THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN INTO THE TRUMP TRANSITION AND NOW INTO
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, WHAT APPEAR TO BE NOT JUST PAST
UNEXPLAINED CONTACTS WITH RUSSIAN OFFICIALS BUT WEIRD
CURRENT ONES TOO INCLUDING TONIGHT'S BOMBSHELL FROM THE
"WASHINGTON POST" ABOUT THE PRESIDENT REPORTEDLY SHARING
HIGHLY SECRET CODE WORD INTELLIGENCE WITH THE RUSSIAN
AMBASSADOR AND THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, WITH EACH NEW
REVELATION ABOUT WHATEVER IT IS THAT'S GOING ON WITH THIS
PRESIDENT AND RUSSIA, WE AS OBSERVERS AND PEOPLE WHO'VE JOB
EXPLAINING THIS STUFF, WE HERE ON THIS SHOW HAVE BEEN TRYING TO
KEEP INCREASINGLY CLOSE TABS ON HOW WE'RE GOING TO FIGURE OUT
WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THIS PRESIDENT AND RUSSIA.
WE'RE BEEN KEEPING EXTREMELY CLOSE TABS ON THE ACTIVE
INVESTIGATIONS INTO THIS MATTER. SO THE MOST HIGH PROFILE
INVESTIGATIONS ARE HAPPENING IN CONGRESS.
THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE BOTH LEADING TRUMP-RUSSIA
INVESTIGATIONS IN THEIR INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES.
THERE ARE ALSO SUBSIDIARIES WHICH BROUGHT US THE SALLY YATES
TESTIMONY LAST WEEK AND THE HOUSE SIGHT IN THE OVERSIGHT
COMMITTEE WHICH BROUGHT AT US REVELATION THAT FORMER NATIONAL
SECURITY ADVISER MIKE FLYNN SKREELD HIS FRAMTS FOREIGN
SOURCES THAT LED THE REVELATIONS ABOUT FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS.
CONFIRMING THIS AREA LOOKING INTO AT LEAST THE PART OF THIS
SCANDAL THAT CONCERNS MIKE FLYNN.
THERE HAVE BEEN MULTIPLE REQUESTS MADE TO THE INDEPENDENT
INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE JUSTICE ADOPT INVESTIGATE PORTIONS OF
THIS SCANDAL ALTHOUGH THAT OFFICE WILL NOT CONFIRM NOR DENY
TO US ANY INVESTIGATION THAT THEY MAY HAVE UNDERWAY.
THERE'S ALSO, OF COURSE, THE CONFIRMED FBI
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION INTO THE RUSSIAN
ATTACK ON OUR ELECTION, AND THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT THE
TRUMP CAMPAIGN WAS IN ON IT. NOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS
ADMITTED THAT HE FIRED THE FBI DIRECTOR BECAUSE OF THE
TRUMP-RUSSIA INVESTIGATION, ONE MIGHT ALSO GUESS THAT THE FBI
HAS NOW STARTED AN OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE INQUIRY INTO THE
PRESIDENT. BUT THAT TOO HAS TO HAVE A
QUESTION MARK ON IT BECAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE WORD ONE WAY OR THE
OTHER WHAT EVERYBODY EXPECTS TO BE AN OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
INQUIRY IS ALREADY UNDERWAY OR NOT.
THERE IS ALSO REPORTEDLY AN INVESTIGATION RELATED TO THE
TRUMP-RUSSIA INQUIRY AT THE FINANCIAL CRIMES UNIT IN THE
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. SENATE INVESTIGATORS HAVE
REQUESTED DOCUMENTS FROM THAT UNIT FOR THEIR OWN WORK WHICH IS
HOW WE FOUND OUT THAT UNIT HAS THOSE DOCUMENTS.
THESE ARE ALL INVESTIGATIONS THAT ARE EITHER CONFIRMED TO BE
UFRTS OR BELIEVED TO BE UNDERWAY AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
BUT THERE'S ALSO THIS POSSIBILITY.
U.S. ATTORNEYS. WE GOT WORD LAST WEEK THAT
DOCUMENTS RELATED TO MICHAEL FLYNN WERE SUBPOENAED BY U.S.
ATTORNEYS OFFICE IN VIRGINIA. IT WAS ALSO REPORTED ON FRIDAY
NIGHT BY VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE THAT THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
WAS INVESTIGATING THE PROSPECT OF RUSSIAN MONEY LAUNDERING
THROUGH DONALD TRUMP'S REAL ESTATE EMPIRE AND THAT
INVESTIGATION WAS UFRTS AT THE TIME THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
INEXPLICABLY FIRED ALL THE U.S. ATTORNEYS.
FRIDAY NIGHT VANITY FAIR QUOTED WAS THERE MONEY LAUNDERING GOING
ON, MONEY FROM THESE RESOLUTION PLUTOCRATS THAT'S BEEN WASHED
THROUGH TRUMP'S REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESSES, THAT'S GOTTEN
OVERLOOKED BUT PREET BHARARA WERE SUPPOSEDLY LOOK SBOOCHLTSDS
WE'VE GOT INFORMATION TONIGHT ON THAT.
ON MARCH 10th, THE PRESIDENT DID FIRE BASICALLY ALL THE U.S.
ATTORNEYS, ALL THE FEDERAL PROSECUTORS OPERATING IN
JURISDICTIONS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
THAT WAS SURPRISING IN PARTICULAR WHEN IT CAME TO PREET
BHARARA IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MANHATTAN BECAUSE PRESIDENT
TRUMP HAD GONE OUT OF HIS WAY TO INVITE PREET BHARARA TO TRUMP
TOWER AND TO GO PUBLIC IF THE WITH IT FACT HE'D BEEN ASKED TO
STAY ON AS U.S. ATTORNEY IN NEW YORK.
BUT WITHOUT WARNING MID MARCH HE WAS FIRED.
ALL THE U.S. ATTORNEYS WERE ASKED TO RESIGN.
PREET BHARARA REFUSED TO RESIGN AND HE WAS FIRED.
NO EXPLANATION, NO WARNING, NO REPLACEMENT U.S. ATTORNEYS AT
THE READY. WHY DID THAT HAPPEN?
IT IS PARTICULARLY WORRYING AND INTERESTING WHEN IT COMES TO
PREET BHARARA BECAUSE THOSE PERSONAL ASSURANCE WERE MADE TO
HIM, HIS JURISDICTIONS INCLUDES THE HEADS OF THE TRUMP
ORGANIZATION AND BECAUSE THE SUBSEQUENT REPORTING FROM
REUTERS AND VANITY FAIR NOW THAT HE WAS WORKING ON POSSIBLE MONEY
LAUNDERING OR OTHER TRUMP RUSSIA CONNECTIONS AT THE TIME TIME HE
WAS FIRED. FACTOR THIS IN TOO.
A HIGH-RANKING FORMER JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL, MATTHEW
AXELROD WHO SPENT MORE THAN 12 YEARS IN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
AND WAS SALLY YATES'S DEPUTY AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AT THE
TIME SHE WAS FIRED, HE LEFT THAT DAY TOO WHEN THEY FIRED HER.
MATTHEW AXELROD OPERATED AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT AND THROUGH THE TRUMP TRANSITION.
HE WAS AT THE VERY UPPER ECHELONS OF THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT DURING THE TRANSITION.
HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE TRANSITION.
AND HE TELLS THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL THAT WHATEVER HAPPENED
WITH THEM FIRING ALL THE U.S. ATTORNEYS IN MARCH, THAT WAS A
RADICAL CHANGE IN THEIR OWN PLANS.
HE SAYS, QUOTE, THIS WAS AN ISSUE THAT WAS DISCUSSED DURING
THE TRANSITION. THE TRANSITION TEAM RECOMMENDED
TO THE INCOMING ADMINISTRATION THEY NOT GET RID OF ALL THE U.S.
ATTORNEYS AT ONE TIME AND THAT RECOMMENDATION WAS ADOPTED.
IT'S NOT CLEAR WHAT CHANGED AND LED THE ADMINISTRATION TO GET
RID OF EVERYONE ALL AT ONCE. THAT RECOMMENDATION WAS ADOPTED.
IT'S NOT CLEAR WHAT CHANGED. SO SOMETHING HAPPENED IN TRUMP
WORLD BETWEEN THE INAUGURATION, JANUARY 20th, AND MARCH 10th
WHEN THEY FIRED THEM ALL. SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT MADE
ADMINISTRATION THROW OUT THEIR OWN PREVIOUS OVERT
WELL-THOUGHT-OUT PLAN. TO INSTEAD DECIDED THEY HAD TO
FIRE ALL THOSE PROSECUTORS, NO WARNING, NO PLAN TO REPLACE ANY
OF THEM, GOT TO GO INCLUDING BRAR RA.
EVERYBODY OUT. WHY DID THEY CHANGE THAT PLAN?
THE ADMINISTRATION OBVIOUSLY HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A MELT DOWN
TONIGHT. FOR THE PAST WEEK REALLY OVER
THE TRUMP RUSSIA STORY. WHEN THEY STARTED TO UNRAVEL,
COINCIDENTALLY OR NOT IS ALSO WHEN WE STARTED TO GET DETAILED
REPORTING ON BUSINESS TIES AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MOVING TO
THE CENTER OF THESE INVESTIGATION.
DOCUMENTS RELATED TO MIKE FLYNN AND HIS BUSINESS TRANSISTOR
BEING SUBPOENAED BY U.S. ATTORNEYS OFFICE IN VIRGINIA.
REPORTS THAT THE U.S. ATTORNEYS'S OFFICE IN MANHATTAN
WAS PURSUING TRUMP RUS RUSSIAN Y LAUNDERING INQUIRIES BEFORE THE
ADMINISTRATION REVERSED COURSE AND FIRED ALL THE U.S. ATTORNEYS
EVEN THOUGH THEY SAID THEY WOULD NOT DO THAT.
PAUL MANAFORT BANKING RECORDS BEING REQUESTED BY THE FBI.
THAT STORY BEING BROKEN BY "THE WALL STREET JOURNAL" FRIDAY
NIGHT. THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY MOVING TARRED FINANCIAL QUESTIONS IN THEIR
INVESTIGATION. FINANCIAL RECORDS OBTAINEDTY
"B"TY TRISHRY FINANCIAL CRIMES UNIT.
IT SEEMS CLEAR THE INVESTIGATIONS MOVING TOWARD THE
MONEY. WHAT IS IT ABOUT THIS FINANCIAL
TURN THIS WORKS TURN TOWARDS THE MONEY THAT MIGHT BE FREAKING
THEM OUT SO

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