Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Robert mueller is not. See you in a bit. Here onset for another day, dan goldman, an msnbc legal analyst along with our pal nbc News Reporter carol lee. It is less hot than it has been all week. You picked a good day to be here. Dan, let me start with you, if you look at what each side wants, they are both looking for leverage. And the sticking point, one of them seems to be this idea much an in person interview. What is the framing behind that . The trump team wants questions on collusion only and special counsel wants to hear about it all. I think Rudy Giuliani is trying to figure out a way to drum up some leverage because ordinarily the witness of the defendant or target or subject does not have the leverage, the prosecutor does. And but because bob mueller is not talking and Rudy Giuliani is, hes able he has the whole Public Domain to make all of his arguments, even though as
a prosecutor, none of them make sense. Start with the perjury trap. This is not a perjury trap is it a perjury trap if you tell the truth. The perjury trap looks at it from the perspective of the prosecutor and the truth looks at it from the perspective of the witness. The reason its not a trap in any way shape or form, they have legitimate questions to ask about an ongoing investigation. Thats that makes it not a trap. Whether he tells the truth or not is up to him. There are two strategies that the president s legal team seem to be putting forward here. You have the legal strategy which youve laid out but then carol, theres kind of the Public Relations strategy which weve talked about before as it relates to the president s legal team and Rudy Giuliani seems to be making implicit threats. Heres what he had to say in the fox interview as well about that. The real story here is not that this case isnt going to fizzle. Its going to blow up on them. The real question is what we talked about before, theres a lot more to what they did that
nobody knows about yet. And mueller is going to have a lot to answer for. Seems kind of easy to send Warning Shots to somebody you know isnt going to fire back. Absolutely. This is a pr o fenffensivoffens been negotiating on this interview for eight months now. Its its an exceptionally long time and in that time, youve seen the president s legal team while its undergone different changes and various phases, they just launch an increasingly aggressive assault on the investigation and so in many ways, you know, you can see how theres a whole school of thought that the president was never going to do an interview, even if he wants to, that was never going to happen and theres been a lot of stalling and thats part of the tactic here. You can see even if he if he does decide ultimately that there is no interview, that hes mounted this whole defense about why that is and hes made it so normally in a political sphere,
that would be seen as youre afraid to answer questions or this and that. Hes casted as the investigation as such a witch hunt and in that sense he can argue that why would he sit in front of an for an investigation thats a witch hunt and out to get him. Dan, i want to quickly touch on the idea that Rudy Giuliani says theres a Department Of Justice rule that says you cant be doing this to close to an election. Theres no written regulation on this. No written policy. Theres generalized guidance it seems that prosecutors do not indict political candidates or use O Vert Investigative Methods in the weeks before an election. Fact check that. No written rule but it is seeming to be an unwritten guidance. Everybody thinks about james comey when we talk about this. James comey was a little bit of a different story because that investigation became so public prior to that period before the election. But putting james comey aside, theres sort of 60 day rule that the Department Of Justice generally abides by. Its not written, not hard and fast. But where Rudy Giuliani gets it
completely wrong is that it does not mean you need to end an investigation 60 days before the election. It just means that you calm things down a little bit. You let the political process play out and then you can ramp it back up after the election. Both of you stand by for a second. While were talking about special counsel as it relates to a Potential Sitdown with the president , the special counsel is doing work right now this morning inside a courtroom in alexandria, virginia. The trial of course of trump trumps former Campaign ChairPaul Manafort picked back up for the day in the last few minutes. Prosecutors are in the final stages of their case, going out with a bit of a bang. Fireworks from the testimony of rick gates and then these clashes with the judge. Nbcs julian anzly has been inside the courtroom for us and stepped outside to bring us live reporting. Julia, fill us in on whats happening this morning and high drama as the government starts to bring this case to a close. Thats right. We expect the prosecution to finish calling witnesses by the end of the day tomorrow. Right now on the stand just as i
stepped out was melinda james, a low level person working at Citizens Bank in brooklyn where she would prepare Mortgage Applications, were assuming one of those Mortgage Applications is paul man that thforts and well hear more from her. There are forensic accountants and irs agents and understood the way he inflated income or lowered to dodge taxes or money la launderi laundering. Theyve moved past rick gates, the drama ive seen so far coming from the judge. In fact today we heard the first apology from judge ellis to the prosecution because yesterday he berated them for allowing a witness to stay in the courtroom during the entire testimony of the other witnesses and instead he said im sorry i was wrong, i did tell you that was allowed. Jury, please dont consider that when youre deliberating this case. Thats really interesting. Thank you much. Ill let you hop back inside to keep reporting this out. Let me bring in dan and carol again and as well as from washington, pbs news hour, yamish, julia brings up something interesting, talking about the judge. He has become a kind of focal point in this moving forward with the decisions that hes made that seem to have gone against the prosecutions case. Walk through how you see the jury viewing that or perceiving that . Well, first of all, its really important to note that judges have so much weight over the jury. While the jury will make their decision, the way the judge talks about the case and way he approaches it, really impacts how people how people view this case. I think that when you look at the fact that the judge is base he canally saying and has said at the beginning of this he doesnt want this to be a witch hunt for Robert Mueller and doesnt want this to be something to try to squeeze Paul Manafort, its already kind of created this feeling as though he might kind of have his thumb on the scale. I was in the courtroom yesterday as well. Essentially, if hes deciding that the jury cant see all of these photographs of this extravagant life that Paul Manafort was livering and cant really put they have to deal with documents, thats a lot harder than saying look at this big life this person was living. Its problematic and he was breaking the law. Just yesterday when i was in the courtroom, he was interrupting the prosecution a lot. He was basically trying to do the defenses job for it in some ways but also impacting the defense and interrupting them. It was clear that he was more concerned about the prosecutions line of questioning and making sure they werent leading the witness and i was there for rick gates. It was mainly whether or not they were leading rick gates to make a lot of statements that the judge didnt think was fair. Let me pull up a graphic we had on the screen listing some of the decisions the judge has made, for example not letting jurors see some pictures of Paul Manaforts clothing, giving an extra week to review questions and politico writes taken on
their own the individual rebukes are relatively minor but some experts say cumulatively they could plant doubt in the mind of jurors about the strength of the prosecutions case. On the other side of it you had a former prosecutor on Rachael Maddow who said this judge is a perfectionist, if and when this goes to an Appeals Court or appeals judge, everything is set to go. All judges are a little bit worried about protecting the record. And generally speaking, judges are harder on the prosecution than on the defense because they want to make sure that the defendant gets a full and fair trial and it allowed a vigorous defense. So what you really have to focus on is what the judge is saying outside the presence of the jury versus what the judge is saying in front of the jury. Its one thing for this judge to try to move the prosecution along to not want to show a lot of these photos which by the way will be shown in the closing statement, admitted into evidence and will go in front of the jury. Its a very different thing when the judge is interrupting and
interjecting during crossexamination of the governments main cooperating witness whose credibility is so crucial to this case and when he is asking a lot of these questions and sort of weighing in on his credibility. That is completely out of line and totally inappropriate. Im going to ask all of you to hang out longer. Youll be here the rest of the show thats a good thing because theres a lot to talk about this morning, including the last line of defense from one of the president s key allies in congress. Hes been caught on tape explaining why the president s party needs to hold on to power. Its a message you might here echoed by other republicans this fall. Were going to bring you those recordings as you look live at Downtown Summerville new jersey, population just over 12,000 people. We dont have 12,000 on the plaza but were close. The first person to survive Alzheimers Disease is out there. And the Alzheimers Association is going to make it happen
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putting into words what his deeds have shown. Hes made it pretty clear he sees his job as protecting the president at all costs and not getting to the bottom of what happened, whether with regards to russian interference and with regards to whether any members of Donald Trumps campaign participated or assisted in the russian interference. Thats been obvious for a year and a half now. Its remarkable to come out and admit it privately, not publicly in a setting where you often hear politicians slip up and say what they really mean. And i think what it shows is this argument you see democrats making across the country which is the Republican Party in no way is willing to be a check on donald trump. No way willing to investigate corruption or malfeasance or impropriety in his administration and Devin Nunexts S not just unwilling to investigate it but actually coming out and saying ehe is th one the republican majority is the last ability to stop donald trump from being investigated in this case by the
special counsel. So jeff, do you see this as a message that other republicans will adopt or could adopt or are adopting the idea that Democrats Cannot take back the house because weve got to protect the president . I think it depends on what the race is. Theres different theres different republicans running in different all politics is local. It depends, yes, if its going to help a republican this their district, yes, you would take that on. Similarly if it helps a democrat in their district, they could take on the opposite or flip argument, if we dont take oerve over the house taking over the house is the only way we can be a check on the president and possibly move towards impeachment proceedings. I would pick up on that word. Thats one of the bottom line concerns hes addressing there. There are republicans who absolutely feel that way, if the if the democrats take over the house, they are going to try to impeach the president. And if you get that word out there, even more than the democrats are talking about it, it will gin up the base and have
their worry, look our guy is at risk. Theres also this that devin nunes said as it relates to Rod Rosenstein and for example impeachment. Listen. The senate would have to drop everything they are doing and start with impeachment on rosenstein. Then you take the risk of not getting kavanaugh confirmed. So its a its not a matter its a matter of timing. So not a new idea, matt, right, but what does it say to you about the possibility if or when kavanaugh gets confirmed, the Supreme Court pick, that then this this idea of the Impeachment Train for Rod Rosenstein gets back on track . I think you can take what he said one of two ways. One you can take it literally that there is a plan in the Republican Party, especially in the house to try to impeach Rod Rosenstein after the elections, im not sure thats the case. I know nunes wants to do it and
mark meadows and others have pushed for. Paul ryan is the speaker to the end of the year has been resistant to that and other republicans resistant to it. The other way to interpret it, devin nunes should talk about the impeachment of rosenstein because it is part of their kind of scheme to undermine the special counsels investigation, that even if they dont have any intention to ever impeach rosenstein for the reasons he outlined in those remarks, its still they find it politically advantageous, as long as they can attack that investigation, they can undermine it with the republican base. Thats the interpretation i take away as the more likely one. Jeff, how about what you could call Cathy Mcmorris rogers factser, she is high up in house gop leadership as nunes is making these comments that elaborate what hes indicated he wants to do. For sure. Shes a part of leadership and on the tape part we dont hear her weighing in or disagreeing
with anything hes saying. It is interesting, leadership in particular, paul ryan had a much different view of this and of the russia investigation than representative nunes. Its politics. She was in a tough primary. We dont know didnt say on the tape. But also as you said in the beginning, had an opportunity to comment on this and chose not to. Right. Carol and jeff, thanks for coming on out. I know your pool if the president has an event later this afternoon. Youll be shouting questions. Ill be shouting questions. Make us prouds, my friend. Ill see you soon again, im sure. The nunes audio is not the only secret recording on our radar today. Omarosa now has a tellall book and possibly Something Else behind her sleeve. Secret tapes of the president. Plus a congressman indicted for Outsider Trading out on bail and promising to fight back. How democrats are vowing to make an example of him already. Youre looking at the Beautiful Day in summerville, new jersey,
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said initially. That is a story were staying on top of and have been on since maria hit. Live pictures right now over at the pentagon, where Defense James Mattis is waiting for arrival of mike pence because the Trump Administration is launching details on its space force today. In the next hour vp will lay out the plan at the pentagon making it the first new branch of the military potentially. More than 70 years, thats a story ill be reporting on tonight for nbc nightly news. Within just the last hour, democrats are coming out swinging against what they call a Culture Of Corruption within the Republican Party. It comes after congressman Chris Collins was arrested on those federal charges of insider trading. We shared that Breaking News yesterday. Today collins is defiant, prosecutors say the Congressman Schemed with his son so his family could avoid big losses on an investment in an australian pharmaceutical company. Collins served on the board and still a top shareholder. This Morning Collins who remember was the first member of congress to support donald trump
for president is out on bail. He has pleaded not guilty and he has ses not stepping aside. The charges that have been levied against me are meritless and i will mount a vigorous defense in court to clear my name. I look forward to being fully vindicated and exonerated ending any and all questions relating to my affiliation with lets go to nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt. Whats been the strategy . Reporter well, theyve been trying to be out front casting this as a Culture Of Corruption under the Trump Administration, the president as you know well campaigned on draining the swamp and their argument is well actually, its really just the opposite on a Conference Call this morning, Congresswoman Sherry Gustos a former jornlist herself mimicked an Editorial Meeting at any one of the news
organizations, should we lead with wilbur ross or scott pruitt, which person set of problems should we focus on first to try to underscore this is something weve seen that runs ram pant through the administration, the list of Trump Associates and trump in this case Chris Collins, this is an unrelated to anything to do with the Trump Campaign but he was of course the president s first supporter in congress. So that list is remarkably long. Thats not to say democrats havent had their own challenges with their own members facing criminal charges or questions about corruption including senator bob menendez. But clearly this is something were seeing at a relatively high scale here in the Trump Administration, hallie. And nbcs kasie hunt. Thank you. Let me back in dan goldman and carol lee and dann, let me start with you. Congressman collins says hes innocent and believes hell have the charges against him cleared. Does he have a case based on
what you learned . Every defendant says they are innocent until they are not. Not the ones who confess, but okay. Very few of those and people who know about the investigation prior to this which Chris Collins did. Keep that in mind he has to say im innocent. He has a line of defense here that is plausible, which is to say that you dont know what i said in the conversation with my son. Its my son, i talk to him all the time and you dont know that i was actually relaying any information specifically that i was not allowed to relay or whether i just said now might be a good time to sell the stock, even if he admits he was talking about the stock. From that point the rest of the case goes from his son out. So collins will try to really narrow it down to what happened when he was at the white house and saying that what you dont have enough proof to show that what i did was illegal. Heard ka sixt e explain how democrats are really seizing on this. Lets talk about this
politically. This district in western new york, solid red seat. Donald trump won 60 back in 2016. The Cook Political Report moved the seat from solid to likely republican right after that indictment was unsealed. Do you think it is really going to make a difference when it comes to that particular house seat . Zb zbls. Well, i think em Battle Republicans are following the lead of the president , that is to stick it out. When you think of the all of the things President Trump had to weather in order to win the president ial republican nomination and then to become president , he really just flew in the face of all of the scandals around him. The access Hollywood Tape and talks about porn stars and all sorts of issues. He stuck through it. You think of scott pruitt. He had stories about where he was living and whether or not he was trying to get his wife to have a chic filla. Its because the president set the really the mirror from that. They are all taking a look at the president saying if he can survive so can i. I think hes looking at his
district and saying i can survive this much like my president. Can we just pull up the list we made of people in the house who have either been arrested or who have been facing conviction while in office . If you look at this, its democrats and republicans, carol. When you look at this list, what do you see . Bipartisanship. Bipartisanshibipartisanship. This is something thats happening both parties. You see the democrats and they want to take collins and make this a broad brush with the Republican Party and they have the added benefit numberswise, may be more republicans, right. Having significant troubles and number of members of the president s cabinet but when you look at that graphic, you can see you can see the risk in democrats taking on something that perhaps republicans can then turn and say look at your party has problems too. Then it becomes something here in new jersey in both of their houses. Carol and dan, thank you for that conversation. We have much more to come up in the show, including for example
democrats on the move. Chipping away at gop strong holds or trying to. As they push to retake the house. Steve kornacki is at the big board to talk through districts where they are eyeballing a takeover and how many seats they have to flip. Were in of course summerville, new jersey, a county where 54 picked Hillary Clinton in 2016. Heres one of our local folks take on partisan politics this morning. Listen. Somerset is a im kind of like with my restaurant, im in switzerland, i dont know if i can get too particular. Keep it comin love. If you keep on eating, well keep it comin. All you can eat riblets and tenders at applebees. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. It was always our singular focus, a distinct determination. To do whatever it takes, use every possible resource. To fight cancer. And never lose sight of the patients were fighting for. Our Cancer Treatment specialists share the same vision. Experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care. Specialists focused on treating cancer. Using advanced technologies. And more precise treatments than before. Working as hard as we can doing all that we can for everyone who walks through our doors. This is Cancer Treatment centers of america. And these are the specialists were proud to call our own. Treating cancer isnt one thing we do. Its the only thing we do. Expert medicine works here. Learn more at cancercenter. Com Cancer Treatment centers of america. Appointments available now. Nobody else even comes close. Now starting at 7. 99. Gillette. The best a man can get. We are live back here in summerville, new jersey, taking a look at our plaza, you can call it here downtown with one of the top five most fun crowds weve ever had at the show thanks to all of them for turning out in new jersey today. We want to talk about another state, ohio, votes in tuesdays special election out there in the 12 ng Congressional District are still being counted right now. Over the last 24 hours, that tight margin has actually gotten even tighten. Danny oconnor and Troy Balderson is separated by only. 8 , less than a percentage point. After 588 previously uncounted votes were found in franklin county. Heres the thing, provisional ballots absentee balanlots are still being counted. If it gets down to. 5 , it
triggers an automatic recount. Were watching that really closely today. The bigger midterm landscape and fight for control of the house, Steve Kornacki is at the Big Board At 30 Rock with more. 89 days until election day. What should we look at . 89 days. Ill give you another number, that key number is 23. Thats the bottom line if youre a democrat, you are dreaming of your party picking up 23 house seats to get the house this fall. If youre a republican you are hoping against all hope that democrats are unable to do that. So we actually partnered with the folks at Left Field Productions to sort of set the stage, take a closer look at the battle for the house, the midterm battle and about that number, 23. 23. 23 is the number we have to be thinking about. Because this is the number of seats democrats need to pick up if they are going to win back
the house in november. They can definitely get there but its by no means certain they are going to be able to. So the question is, is there a blue wave coming . So for democrats to get those seats, there are a lot of places they can look around the country. But theres one type of district that really stands out. Its the 25 districts across the usa that republicans hold that were also won by Hillary Clinton in 2016. What were saying is that the democrats need 23 seats. And they do have 25 prime targets and there are more seats outside of this they could pick off too but the biggest problem, even if all of the ingredients are there for democrats in this age of polarization, their just may not be as many targets as there used to be. 25 obvious targets for democrats and dozens of others that they are working furiously to try to find. Theres a wild card factor. In 2016, all of t 2016, all spell doom for done amd trump
but he won anyway. In 2018 could we be in for another surprise . Thats a little taste of what we put together there. They need to take 23 if thats what democrats need to take. We mentioned it in there. The obvious targets, the 25 districts now held by republicans that Hillary Clinton won in 2016. You can go beyond that though, how about the ones that are held by republicans now but where trump barely won . You can add a few more targets there potentially and potentially when you Start Talking about seats that were single digits, trump won them but 7 or 8 or 9 points. Ohio 12, trump won that by 11. Its a nail biter now. Heres all of the seats trump won by ten or less. You can see that potentially expands the battlefield here but bottom line right now, democrats need 23 if they somehow pick off the ohio 12 it will be 22. For now the key number, 23 sfl steve car knackky, that was especially cool. You can find more on the nbc
leflt field youtube channel. Youtube. Com nbcleftfield. Its really cool work. Coming up after the break, the u. S. Is slapping russia with a new wave of sanctions over the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter but why did it take so long for those to drop . Were looking at that with a live report from overseas. Lots more to come as we wrap up our week on the road with the president. Youre looking at summerville where the flag is flying high. Amazing crowd on the plaza, hometown of lee van chief. Fun facts all morning. Stick around. . Ones that make it fast and easy to analyze and take action . How about some of the lowest options fees . Are you raising your hand . Good then its time for power e trade the platform, price and service that gives you the edge you need. Alright one quick game of rock, paper, scissors. 1, 2, 3, go. E trade. The original place to invest online. Aleve. All day strong. So President Trump has argued again and again that hes been tough on russia, really tough, the toughest. His critics disagree but the president may have new ammunition for his argument this morning. That is because the u. S. Is retaliating for russias role in poisoning a former spy and his daughter in britain last march. The new punishment will probably cut off hundreds of millions of dollars of exports of Sensitive National security equipment to russia, according to a Senior State Department official. A second more painful wave of sanctions could stop russias National Airline from entering the u. S. If the kremlin does not
demonstrate it wont use chemical weapons again and refuses onsite inspections by the u. N. Russia is not exactly expected to ak quee he is to those conditions. Lets turn to the Chief Global Correspondent bill neely, live from overseas. We have new information how the kremlin is responding this morning, right . Reporter yeah, good morning, hallie. Russia basically is furious and the new sanctions have already had an effect in moscow. The ruble falling sharply this morning, and many of russias leading companies. Russia is acting furious. President putins spokesman saying this morning in our view these and earlier restrictions, that is sanctions are absolutely unlawful and dont confirm to international law. Russia insisting again it had nothing to do with the poisoning of the xrskripals in england, tweeting no proof, no presumption of innocence, just highly likelies, only one rule,
blame everything on russia. But the big question are when does this punishment of russia end . And at what point does President Trump intervene . After all remember helsinki, hallie. Oh, i vividly remember that you and i in the room as the president stood side by side with Vladimir Putin and did not condemn him in strong terms for russias election interference. You mentioned russia is still denying had had anything to do with the skripal poisoning. Secretary of state mike pompeo signed off on the official determination that says yes, the kremlin violated international law. Is that what sort of automatically triggered the sanctions to kick in . Yes, its interesting, President Trump had little or nothing to do with this because under a 1991 u. S. Law, once its been determined that a country has used chemical weapons, the u. S. Must impose sanctions. So it wasnt the president s
choice. The real kicker though is what he does next or what happens next because the u. S. Is warning that more draconian sanctions will follow if russia fails to show fails to show its no longer using chemical weapons. They deny using them anyway so we can assume they will fail to meet these new tests. In three months there could be more sanctions. You mentioned for example banning russian aircraft from landing in the u. S. These will be a deeply, deeply political act. Nbcs bill neely live from london. Thanks. Remember what james comey said last summer testifying in front of congress . I hope there are tapes. Turns out, there might be tapes. They just might not be what you expect. Well talk about how omarosa has
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denied. Many didnt notice it as keenly as i did because i knew him way back when. They thought trump p was being trump offthecuff but i knew something wasnt right. How credible is she . I mean its a hard question to answer, because omarosa obviously has an agenda here which is to make sure she sells as many books as possible. Make money. To make money and really mon tise as much as she can that short time in the white house. That being said, she was in the residence, talking to the president constantly. Conkelly w john kelly was frustrated with the relationship. This is one who he brought into the white house personally because he wanted to have other around him. She does have an Insider Track and knows what the president s thinking was like. Carol, im old enough to remember what happened back in february when the white house
spopdsed to omarosas comments that you saw there. Omarosa was fired three times on the apprentice. This is the fourth time we let her go. She had limited contact with the president while here. She has no contact now. So the daily beast writes the mere existence of the recordings they say represents a dramatic betrayal of trust by a trump confidant. How close was she really . Well, they were obviously close enough. Shes someone who has been around donald trump for year, and frank welcome i, you covered the white house, ive covered it for years. Its a small building anyone whos in there has access, and is around for to hear various things. The idea that somebody, a staff or senior staffer would go into the meeting and use a smart phone to
this is not sean spicers book which is a loyal showing to the president. The exact opposite. Response earlier this year is like wash, rinse, repeat. They always say when someone is doing something they dont like, that they had limited contact. Werent really that close. So its kind of seeing this again. If you have not heard enough, you will hear much more this weekend, shes joining chuck todd, sunday on meet the press. Before we go. Lets wrap up quick. Carol, what our sources are telling us. What are your sources saying . The president has been positive about the outlook for the midterm. Ive spoken with a republican outside the white house that said privately he seems a little less confident and that hes gets internal briefings but also calling around to people outside to say whats up with this race. How does it look. All of that suggests that as weve seen in the past, the president s inclined to rely on his own instincts perhaps and more than the experts, but also things arent as rosy as his twitter feed might lead you to believe. What are your sources telling you . Mine are telling me democrats want to attack Supreme Court nominee brett kavanaugh. On his stance on voter id laws. Thank you both for being on our show. Unfortunately our last one from somerville, nursew jersey. I want to thank you for watching us. A huge thank you to the amazing crew. All of them, putting this together behind the scenes. Dave, paul, and thank you to the crowd. Amazing group. And some Amazing Stories back there. Including for example, molly and