Is anyone other than Rachel Maddow pursuing the russian takeover on air?

[milestogo]

She keeps drilling down to the real story beneath the other stories, and its terrifying.

[Claritie Pixie]

1. Can you give some details? I'm not watching but would like to know.

[milestogo]

2. Russian strategy is to gain political leverage by becoming economically invested

in places such as Kentucky - by setting up a company - its a way of bringing elite politicians over to their side.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mcconnell-at-nexus-of-increased-russian-leverage-on-u-s-66129477985

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Wow... what would the conservatives say if they bought a uranium company??

[Claritie Pixie]

7. Thank you!

[PandoraAwakened]

9. Deripaska: Russian aluminum oligarch, Manafort's moneyman, & Putin henchman

This is who Moscow Mitch & Leningrad Lindsey are owned by. Both bent over backwards to get Deripaska and his companies off the Russian sanctions list and both are completely in this thug's pocket. This is the guy who Manafort passed campaign data to.

[Pachamama]

3. I certainly hope so - its disgusting to be learning the details of what is happening

"Schroederization"

[still_one]

4. She always pursues stories that the MSM prefers to minimize or ignore

[triron]

8. Yep. She does this consistently doesn't she?

[BigmanPigman]

6. She opted to cover something important and not a distraction

like trying to purchase Greenland.

[Hekate]

18. She gave 5 minutes at the top of the hour to the "mean joke" played on Trump...

It was funny, in a painful sort of way, and another look into the appalling mess that is his brain. Worth watching, because I would not have believed it otherwise. Ended with a suggestion for what amounts to an intervention from Fox & Friends to get through to him what he will not believe from his advisors: that this is not possible.

Then she dropped that and continued with Russia's explicit strategy (which the Pentagon has written about) to create company towns and client states so beholden to Russia economically that they will do whatever the owners want just to keep the jobs and money.

[JI7]

10. it's too complicated for most of the MSM . They prefer to do things like talk about

how someone called Trump a racist and then bring on pundits to discuss whether the person was wrong for calling him a racist and then leave it up to the viewers .

[uponit7771]

15. +1,

[Vinca]

11. This is a BFD and should be covered everywhere. The idea that Kentucky was pretty much

conned into investing 15% is mind blowing. Shame on the Democrats in the legislature for blindly voting. They should know you can't trust a Republican.

[milestogo]

12. +1000

[PRETZEL]

13. I saw the segment she had with the KY state rep and how the vote

was pretty much forced upon them.

It was introduced at the very last minute just before the session ended where the legislature would have to approve the investment.

As the representative put it, there wasn't much choice. The area where the plant is proposed is in one of the state's most economically challenged and to vote no on the measure would have sent an embarrassing signal for the Democratic Party in Kentucky.

[uponit7771]

14. +1, she's first the rest follow a day late and a dollar short

[elocs]

16. I wouldn't know since I don't watch or listen to any of them.

I know it's popular to become fans and followers of those who want to present the truth to us all so we can parrot and repost it, but I prefer to think for myself even when I might agree with them.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. Not anywhere near well-known

but there are some bloggers and podcasts like Jackie Scheckner(sp?) who was collecting all of the Russia investigation information on her website (I think that she had to close down due to lack of funding or support) and Gaslit Nation Podcast- Sarah Kendizor and Andrea Chalupa- has devoted most of their time and resources towards the Russian investigation and talk a lot of about some of the seeds of it with Manafort and his work in the Ukraine prior to becoming part of the Trump campaign in 2016 and how his involvement changed the RNC platform. They have also discussed about Reality Winner, who's currently imprisoned for having leaked information about the Russia investigation.

[triron]

19. knr