This evening on the Rachel Maddow show, Rachel Maddow went through a list of people who have been appointed or hired to work in senior government roles that are completely unqualified for the job.

Today on The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur took a hit at former employee Dave Rubin in a discussion about racists in the media. In discussing PewDiePie, Uygur noted that certain media personalities take positions because they are actually racist, like Richard Spencer, while others take positions because they're paid to, like Dave Rubin.

STATEMENT OF DONALD J. TRUMP JR. September 7, 2017

I welcome the opportunity to share this prepared statement in an effort to set forth the sum and substance of what I know regarding a meeting I attended on June 9, 2016. I am thankful for the opportunity to meet with you today and look forward to answering all of your questions. As will become clear, I did not collude with any foreign government and do not know of anyone who did.

Donald Trump has successfully scared away journalists from reporting on his "dossier" for a while now. But despite the outrageous allegations in the dossier, the CIA and FBI are continuing to use it as a guide to their investigations into the Trump/Russia scandal.

Kansas Secretary of State Chris Kobach spent the day yesterday making the rounds on TV suggesting that many (if not most) DACA recipients are criminals. Even through the vast majority (like > 99%) haven't been convicted of any crime, he insisted that they're still criminals because some of them (he didn't have any numbers) may have been arrested and not prosecuted.

Well known journalist Seth Abramson has a new theory today regarding the Trump-Russia investigation. This one involved the super-questionable Carter Page: Abramson suggests that Page may have been the go-between on a giant money-for-lifting-sanctions deal betwen President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

With the onslaught of hurricane Harvey, millions of people across America have given money to the Red Cross and other organizations to support relief. And celebs across the country aren't holding back, with giant multi-million dollar donations to the relief effort. But one famous and wealthy person seems to be absent from the list of people donating. That's the President himself, Donald Trump.

Journalist Yashar Ali of the Huffington Post and New York Magazine today released a letter that he says was sent by CBS board member Arnie Kopelson to Kathy Griffin, after she posted the picture of herself holding a severed head likeness of Donald Trump. And the letter is shocking to say the least.

Today, as all of the cable news channels are showing video of people stranded by floods due to hurricane Harvey, and multiple deaths and injuries have been reported due to the storm, Donald Trump is, of course, tweeting.