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I'm Keith Olbermann and this is the resistance.

The putative president of the United States

is not only being investigated for illicit contact,

directly or through mediaries,

with representatives of a hostile nation.

But the head of the Federal Bureau of investigation

reportedly the department of justice

to essentially call the President a lying gossip monger.

Trumps madness and his weekend of channeling

his persecution complex and

disseminating it as a deflection

from his own perfidy is the obvious headline;

however, the true story is the moving parts of his raging

seeming treachery with Russia,

especially those moving parts,

have become the wheels now flying off the vehicle.

To dodge those wheels and review the headlines as they land

for most, Trumps Whiite House council Don McGahn

reportedly spent the weekend

combing the U.S intelligence services

trying to gain access to any FISA court ordered

surveillance related to Trump or his associates.

That would be twice in a little over one week

that the White House directly tried to interfere

with the investigation of the Trump gang and Russia.

The first was when Chief of Staff Prepuce

got the chairman of the house and senate intel committees

to spin the media on trumps behalf,

and tried to get intelligence officials to do the same.

Stuff like this is what Nixon's white house

tried to do with the FBI and CIA through out Watergate.

Second headline, long time trump confidant Roger Stone

Confessed and he publicly boasted

over the weekend of knowing in advance

about the coming WikiLeaks attacks

on Hilary Clinton last October.

Have never denied that Assange and I had a mutual friend

who told me Wikileaks had the goods on HRC

and would begin disclosures in Oct...

Assange does NOT work for Russians

and no one has proved otherwise.

Although I never had direct contact with him,

such contact would be neither illegal or impromper.

Even if Stone is correct about that,

this is damning circumstantial evidence.

The most generous interpretation is that

a key Trump advisor looked the other way

before the dissemination of emails,

stolen in what the American intelligence community asserts,

to this day, was an Russian cyber attack

against this nation.

Third headline: yes, attorney general

and former trump campaign flunky Sessions

did the right things and recused himself

from any investigations of Trump and Russia.

But he also gave a series of nonsensical

interview answers during the week.

Asked if anybody in the trump campaign thought

the Russian government favored trump over Clinton,

Session's answered I have never been told that.

The follow up startled question, do you think they did?.

The Sessions answer, I don't have any idea..

'you'd have to ask them.

At his conformation hearing,

the one at which he forgot to mention his meetings

with the Russian Ambassador,

the subject of Russia being guilty

of interfering with our election came up twice

and Sessions first said,

at least that's what's been reported,

and then said I have no reason to doubt that,

and have no evidence that it would indicate otherwise.

Sessions is coming off as either a bad liar,

paralyzed with guilt, or moron.

Forth headline, Carter Page,

the second man Trump ever mentioned

as one of his Foreign Policy Advisors,

keeps changing his story.

Said on February 15th, quote,

I had no meetings,

no meetings with Russian officials in 2016.

Said on March second

about meeting Russian Ambassador Kislyak

at the republican convention in Cleveland, quote,

I'm not going to deny that I've talked with him.

Fifth headline: Trump campaign national security lackey

J. D Gordon changed his story about

how the republican platform at the convention

was 180 from defending Ukrainian rebels to kissing the off.

Sixth headline, Michael Cohen, Trumps personal lawyer

who has already changed his Russian story at least 4 times,

did not change it a fifth;

however, the business man Alex Oronov,

who organized the controversial Ukrainian peace plan

that Cohen supposedly hand carried to General Flynn,

Oronov suddenly turned up all dead.

Seventh headline: whatever that is it's catching,

when the popular Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin,

killed over at his desk last month,

he became the sixth Russian diplomat to die suddenly

since the day trump was elected.

Eighth headline: Trump himself was reportedly so outraged

by the accusal of the Attorney General,

from the Russian investigation,

that he went into a three day spasm of what about ism.

He began with a demand for an investigation

of this 2003 photo of senator Chuck Schumer

and Vladimir Putin, which turned out to be them

literally at ceremony christening

the Russian owned Lukoil service station in New York City.

Schumer and Putin were at a gas station ribbon cutting

like they were the co-host

of some radio station morning zoo program.

The ninth Trump-Russia headline: Trump then tweeted,

the first meeting Jeff Sessions had with the Russian AMB

was set up by the Obama Administration.

Trump added without realizing

he was making his own argument look ridiculous,

under education program for 100 [Ambassadors].

When that didn't work Trump moved on

to repeating the right wing radio nut job pattern,

that Obama had tapped trumps phone.

When that blew up in trumps face came tenth headline.

The reaction to the conflation of Russia,

Obama and imaginary wire taps,

so screwed up the white house that at 8:51 eastern time

Sunday morning, Press Secretary Spicer declared

that until there was a congressional investigation

of trumps crazy talk, quote,

Neither the White House,

nor the President will comment further.

18 minutes later, Deputy Press Secretary Sanders

went on ABC's this week to comment further,

and 25 minutes after that

spicer commented further on twitter

and by late Sunday afternoon

trump was reported by Maggy Haberman of the New York Times

to have been, quote,

frustrated by these Sunday shows today,

felt people didn't defend him strongly enough

on his Obama claim per people close to him.

And then at 7:06 eastern time Monday morning

the White house still not commenting further,

commented further on ABC, again,

Via the Deputy Press Secretary.

And lastly the eleventh headline.

The question posed in many different quarters,

at least 7 trump campaign figures

had contact with Russia.

Even if every last second of all the interaction

was of benign, did any of them, at any time,

ask there Russian pals

if they would lay off the international cyber crime.

All of this one to one conversation

and did anybody in the trump gang say,

you know, you should probably stop hacking our computers

and screwing with our elections.

The wheels haven't just come off the bus,

the tires have now formed a pile and started a fire,

and of course Trump, who blamed the generals

for the loss of that navy seal in Yamin,

and suggested the threats on Jewish setters

were made to arouse sympathy for Jews.

None of this panorama of disloyal amoral interaction

with enemy nation during a Presidential election,

none of this is his fault,

and you know what, Republicans, he's right.

This is no longer his fault, this is your fault.

Look to our history, look to the civil war

when many democrats opposed intervention against slavery

and for personal politics and the evils of inaction.

Look to the years before WW2

when many members of another political party,

the republicans, opposed intervention against Hitler

and stuck to personal politics and those evils of inaction.

What happened to all of those men, they took the fall.

Not one prominent figure in either party, in either century,

survived the political apocalypse

that followed their amorality.

They took the fall

and as all of you gutless republicans of today

will take the fall for enabling this treason

involving Russia to remain unrevealed

and this lunatic Trump to remain unimpeached.

Resist.

Peace.