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I'm Keith Olbermann, and this is The Resistance.

Do not be distracted by the latest noise.

The earth-shattering news, here, remains the revelation

of how the now ex-Russian ambassador to this country,

Sergey Kislyak, was reportedly intercepted by intelligence

agencies while updating his Kremlin masters about

his two meetings with the then Trump campaign

senior advisor, Jeff Sessions.

It is case closed for the Trump campaign's attempt

to collude, conspire, collaborate with the Russians

to illegally interfere with this country's

2016 presidential election.

For a year or more, the facts and the reported facts,

about Trump and Russia have cascaded down upon us

like dust from the topmost bookshelf

in the oldest of libraries.

As always, creating one timeline of all the seemingly

separate random events clarifies the truth

in the cascade of dust, wonderfully.

April 27, 2016, the Russian Ambassador, Kislyak,

attends Trump's first major foreign policy speech

at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.

Trump and Kislyak meet, perhaps briefly, perhaps privately.

Sessions will later say, he does not recall meeting

Kislyak at all.

The new report in The Washington Post has Kislyak

telling the Kremlin he and Sessions, quote,

Discussed campaign-related matters including policy issues

important to Moscow.

June 3, 2016, per his own email chain,

Trump Jr. is offered a meeting at which he will

be given, quote, very high level and sensitive information

that would incriminate Hillary as part of Russia

and its government's support for Mr. Trump.

June 7, 2016, Trump Jr. confirms that meeting,

and three hours later, Trump, himself, promises

a speech the following week about Hillary Clinton's

quote, corrupt dealings with the Russians.

June 9, 2016, Trump Jr., Manafort, and Kushner,

meet with the Russians at Trump Tower,

and 10 to 20 minutes after the meeting ends,

Trump tweets disparagingly about Clinton's emails,

and he uses the number 33,000 for the first time.

June 15, 2016, the hacker Guccifer2.0 posts documents

hacked from the computers

of the Democratic National Committee.

July 7, 2016, Trump foreign policy advisor, Carter Page,

travels to Moscow, ostensibly, to give a speech

to a Russian economics institute,

broadly criticizing US foreign policy.

He will later be investigated on an accusation

of meeting with the Russian leader in charge of monitoring

and meddling with the American election.

July 18, 2016, during the Republican National Convention

Ambassador Kislyak meets with Carter Page and Jeff Sessions.

And in the new report, Kislyak informed, quote,

His superiors in Moscow, who were eager for updates

about the candidates' positions.

July 27, 2016, at the last press conference

of his presidential campaign,

Trump urges Russia to find Clinton's emails.

September 8, 2016, Jeff Sessions meets

with Ambassador Kislyak in Sessions own senate office.

Even in the latest report, intelligence sources will not

reveal what, if anything, they have learned of Kislyak's

message to the Kremlin about this

his third meeting with Sessions.

October 7, 2016, with Trump operative Roger Stone

having repeatedly boasted of contact with Guccifer2.0

and Julian Assange,

and then tweeted about Clinton's campaign chairman,

it will soon be Podesta's time in the barrel,

and tweeted about Assange,

and tweeted about payload coming.

Wikileaks begins to publish 20,000 pages of emails

stolen from Podesta's computer.

December 1 or 2, 2016, Kislyak goes to Trump Tower,

meets with Kushner and incoming National Security Advisor,

Michael Flynn.

Kushner now admits to this meeting,

and Kushner proposes using Russian embassies, consulates,

or other Russian intelligence-control communication

systems to allow the Trump transition team to talk

directly to Moscow without Americans knowing about it.

January 10, 2017, at his confirmation hearing

Sessions testifies, under oath before the senate,

quote, I didn't have, did not have,

communications with the Russians.

May 10,2017, Trump in the oval office,

reportedly reveals classified intelligence,

later reported to be Israeli penetration of ISIS,

to the Russian Foreign Minister, Lavrov,

to Ambassador Kislyak with a Russian photographer present.

June 13, 2017, Sessions testifies to the senate,

and again, denies he met with Kislyak

at the Mayflower Hotel.

Says, he does not even remember

any brief interaction with him.

July 7, 2017, Trump meets Vladimir Putin with no other

American official present for a private meeting,

initially undisclosed at the G20 Summit in Germany.

July 8, 2017, Trump Jr. issues a statement claiming

his Russian meeting was about adoptions.

It is later reported the statement was written

by White House staff and approved by Trump.

July 22, 2017, Trump matter-of-factly claims

that he has the complete power to pardon.

Presumably, he has been informed that he can only

pardon someone who is guilty of a crime.

July 24, 2017, Kushner issues prepared remarks

before his appearance to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

He admits to attending junior's meeting with the Russians

and to setting up a back channel to talk to the Kremlin

in December, while insisting the back channel

was not a back channel.

The possible innocent explanations of any individual

link in this damnable chain have long since evaporated.

We have in the White House a president who,

if he is not an agent of the Russian government,

might as well be one.

Get him out

while we still have the mechanisms

with which to do so.

Resist.

Remove.

Peace.