The Rachel Maddow Show

The traditional ties between Republican politics and law enforcement appear to be fraying in ways that would’ve been hard to predict in the recent past.

Trump’s lawyer acknowledged that he reimbursed his lawyer for a hush-money payoff to a porn star. The president then honored the National Day of Prayer.

Trump World has tried to separate the Stormy Daniels payoff and the campaign. Rudy Giuliani today did the opposite.

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.

Paul Ryan believe that Democrats, if given any meaningful authority in Congress, would take steps to hold the president accountable for his actions.

The president who introduced Americans to the idea of “executive time” wants the public to believe he’s too busy for the Russia scandal. (He’s not.)

Rudy Giuliani hoped to help bring Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation to an end by today. How’d that work out?

As a rule, when a group of people, in the midst of a scandal, repeatedly change their story about basic details, something is amiss.

Last month, Trump said he did not know about the $130,000 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. According to Giuliani, that wasn’t true.

Ken Vogel, reporter for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about Paul Manafort’s former colleague Konstantin Kilimnik and how a lack of cooperation…