Carol Leonnig

Carol Leonnig, staff writer for The Washington Post. Leonning was one of the first reporters to break the story about a business deal Donald Trump was pursuing with VEB, a Russian government bank who would finance a Trump Tower in Russia. Trump was seeking the deal during his 2016 presidential campaign.

Barbara McQuade

Former U.S. attorney, Barbara McQuade. Here McQuade talks with Rachel Maddow about the possibility of Donald Trump being guilty of obstruction of justice in the Robert Mueller probe. More recently McQuade talked with Ari Melber about Trump sending a message to Mueller with his Arpaio pardon.

Patrick Radden Keefe

Patrick Radden Keefe staff writer for The New Yorker. Keefe recently wrote this in-depth, fascinating article on Donald Trump's richest adviser, Carl Icahn.

Adam Davidson

Adam Davidson, staff writer for The New Yorker. Here Davidson discusses with Rachel Maddow his in-depth piece he wrote for The New Yorker about a sketchy Trump hotel deal in Georgia that could make the president an easy target for blackmail by a foreign enemy. 

Carol Anderson

Carol Anderson, chair of African-American studies at Emory University and author of the book White Rage talked with Rachel Maddow about how the affliction of white supremacy is like a national drug addiction. 

Michael Signer

Michael Signer, Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, talked with Rachel Maddow about the gathering on Aug 12th, 2017 of hundreds of white supremacist Nazi sympathizers in Charlottesville.

Greg Farrell

Greg Farrell, reporter for Bloomberg News. Farrell broke the news that the Trump/Russia probe issued subpoenas looking into former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's financial records. This comes after the news of the FBI raiding Manafort's home. The plot thickens. When will justice be served?

Julian Borger

Julian Borger, world affairs editor for The Guardian. Borger wrote a story for the Guardian about how Trump staffer Devin Nunes secretly sent two people to London to talk with Christopher Steele, the author of the infamously salacious Trump dossier. If the dossier is a fake, which Trump and his supporters claim, then why did republican staffers try to meet secretly with the author of the dossier? Seems kind of suspicious to me.

The Borger piece was dwarfed by the news of Trump threatening to nuke North Korea claiming they will be met with “fire and fury like the world has never seen."  

Al Gore

Former Vice President Al Gore recently gave a rare interview to Chris Hayes to discuss American democracy, climate change and his new movie, 'An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.' The interview is in two parts and can be seen here and here

Del Quentin Wilber

Del Quentin Wilber, Justice Department reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Wilber was first to report the news that Special Counsel Robert Mueller convened a grand jury in the Trump/Russia probe.

Nahal Toosi

Nahal Toosi, foreign affairs correspondent for Politico. Toosi broke the news that Trump Secretary of State, former Exxon Mobil CEO, Rex Tillerson rejected $80 million in money approved by congress to fight Russian propaganda.

This comes on the heels of Trump reluctantly signing a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill, Trump introducing a new anti-immigration bill that would limit immigration to people who only speak English and Trump White House aide Stephen Miller getting into a tiff with CNN reporter Jim Acosta over the Statue of Liberty.

David Folkenflik

David Folkenflik, reporter for NPR. Folenflik recently broke the bombshell story about a new lawsuit filed August 1st against Fox News. According to the new lawsuit, Fox News worked with the Trump White House and a wealthy Trump supporter to manufacture a fake story about Seth Rich, a young DNC aide who was killed in 2016, to deflect attention away from the Trump Russia scandal. Here Folkenflik talks with Joy Reid about the new lawsuit.

Naveed Jamali

Naveed Jamali, former FBI double agent and author of the book How to Catch a Russian Spy. Here Jamali reacts to the Wall Street Journal report about how GOP operative Peter W. Smith, who hunted Hillary Clinton hacked emails from Russians, cited top Trump aides Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon in a document obtained by the journal.