Rachel is trying to save America.

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16. Another awesome show tonight.

She's been hitting it out of the ballpark every night for almost a week now.

She's also mentioned Congressman Eric Swalwell's connect-the-dots guide, which I looked up:

ERIC SWALWELL, D-CA (15th District, NorCal)
https://swalwell.house.gov

CONNECTING THE TRUMP-RUSSIA DOTS
https://swalwell.house.gov/issues/protect-our-democracy

If you haven't been able to keep track (because it IS rather convoluted and we seem to keep finding more new elements, players, and inter-connections), or you've been unable to take notes fast enough on Rachel Maddow's "Trump-Russia Master Classes" on MSNBC especially over the past week or so, here's some good reference info.

This is getting out of control.

But in another regard, it's also starting to boil down like a good red wine reduction steak sauce. I keep thinking about this image Chris Matthews conjured up to describe what we're all seeing the White House unspool before our very eyes. He compared it to a jigsaw puzzle. You start looking for all the pieces along the edge. Those edge pieces will have one a straight line (for their place on the edge!), so they should be fairly easy to spot. And once the edge takes shape, you can start moving inward, filling in the center to get the completed image. I feel like we're filling in the blanks of the edge, and in some parts maybe starting to move inward.

I've never seen anything like this. And I was around for Nixon and Watergate, and we all thought that was terrible.