Investigation. All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on this monday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. As we prepare to bring to a close day 683 of the Trump Administration, tonight it was the presidency of another man that has dictated the decidedly somber tone and tenor of our capital city as this evening president George Herbert walker bush, 41, is resting in the rotunda of the u. S. Capitol as members of the public are allowed to file in and pay their respects. The casket arrived in washington late this afternoon from houston. Just a few hours ago president up from and his wife melania was among those who came to the capitol paying their respects. We will have more of course on the life and the loss of our 41st president later in it broadcast, including the fact that his passing comes at a time of such great crisis for this current white house. And soon after observing at least some period of respectful silence on social media, today the president launched an attack on twitter. And this was unique in president ial history for its content. It came as he went after his former righthand man while praising a longtime political ally. Trump actually called for his former lawyer, michael cohen, to get prison time. In response to a court filing from cohens lawyers ahead of his sentencing next week in which they asked for leniency. Trump writes, and we quote, you mean he can do all of the terrible unrelated to trump things having to do with fraud, big loans, taxis, et cetera, and not serve a long prison term . He makes up stories to get a great and already reduced deal for himself. He lied for this outcome and should in my opinion serve a full and complete sentence. One other detail that may have trump on edge. The filing from cohens lawyers also says he consulted with trumps Legal Counsel as he prepared for his false testimony about trump tower moscow. Trumps twitter rant about cohen was followed by an extraordinary message about roger stone. Reportedly under scrutiny by mueller for alleged ties to wikileaks. Yesterday stone said this about trump. Theres no circumstance under which i would testify against the president because id have to bear false witness against him. Id have to make things up. And im not going to do that. Here is trumps response today. I will never testify against trump. This statement was recently made by roger stone, essentially stating that he will not be forced by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about President Trump. Nice to know that some people still have guts. The president added this about the special counsel, bob mueller, who is a much different man than people think. And his out of control band of angry democrats dont want the truth, they only want lies. The truth is very bad for their mission. Tonight theres a yahoo news report that Robert Muellers prosecutors have told defense lawyers that they are tying up loose ends in their investigation. Either way, this could be a critical week in the mueller investigation. I know we say that a lot. Thats because tomorrow muellers prosecutors will file sentencing documents for the former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. Officials are telling nbc news that friday the government will also submit a sentencing memo for michael cohen. Also on friday prosecutors are expected to explain why Paul Manaforts plea agreement collapsed. So we could learn a lot. New reporting on manafort from the New York Times also reveals that in 2017, and people are still processing this one, he tried to broker a deal with ecuador to hand wikileaks founder Julian Assange over to u. S. Authorities. With all of that lets bring in our leadoff panel for a monday night. John heilemann, our msnbc National Affairs analyst. He is also coauthor of game change and cohost of the circus on showtime. Barbara mcquade, former u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of michigan. And chuck rosenberg, former u. S. Attorney himself, also a former senior fbi official. Welcome to you all. Barbara, as you read the material in the president s tweets, what does it read like you to . Well, i think those who are saying this gets close to obstruction of justice have a point here. You know, if you were to say these things privately, i think many people would raise an eyebrow about obstruction of justice. And i dont think it makes any difference that they were said outwardly. I dont know that anyone would charge him for any one of these statements alone. But when you look at the pattern of behavior it all makes a compelling case i think for obstruction of justice. A jury would be told to look at the totality of the circumstances and draw fair inferences as to whether the person had a corrupt intent when they were talking about witnesses or the outcome of a case. And i think that these two tweets fall into that pattern along with many others like the firing of jim comey, the alleged request for a loyalty pledge, and so i think this just adds to the pile of evidence that would suggest there may be obstruction of justice here. Chuck, ill give you the fact that it takes some getting used to coming from an american president. Az keep calling it, this scorsesean language about rats in effect and people turning and remaining strong under questioning. But having says that, keeping what barbara just said in mind, does this read to you actionable or does it just read foolhardy . Brian, i always keep what barbara says in mind. It reads to me actionable. For precisely the reason that barbara stated. The hardest thing for prosecutors to do is prove intent. And as barbara noted, one way you prove intent is by looking at pattern of conduct. So one hyperbolic or scorsesean tweet at a time, no, its not sufficient. No one of those tweets is. But when you lay them on top of each other or you lay them end to end or whatever sort of metaphor you prefer, thats your passport and thats how you show intent. One false tax return is probably not actionable. But filing false tax returns for a decade is. Because in the latter scenario, brian, youve shown a pattern of conduct and it takes away the excuse that it was an accident or a mistake. John, your role around here is often to answer the question what is going on here. We have the body of a former president en route to washington today. The current president saying all this on twitter. Trying to effect a jail sentence with a federal judge. And again kind of supporting someone for not cooperating in a federal case in his own government. Look, there have been moments in this presidency where the hand of fate and mortality have given us some contrasts that have been the subjective much discussion. The death of john mccain is one example. And now the death of George Herbert walker bush is another. Where to try to summon an idea in your head that either one of those men, one who was president , one who wanted to be president very much and could have been, would ever have been behaving in a way that was remotely within the solar system as our current president is is beyond most peoples comprehension. Anybody who knew those men or even anyone in the American Public who watched them on television with any degree of care or acuteness. Look, i think we are you know, were seeing this reporting that says were in the endgame. I think the president recognizes that were in the endgame. You look at the calendar now. Were going to see in short order, were going to see filings from the mueller team that relate to the manafort plea deal being rejected and why it was rejected. Were going to see Michael Cohens sentencing. Were going to see a detailed filing on the matter of Michael Flynn. All before christmas. Were going to see all those things. And as the calendar compresses and we look up and realize were now a year since President Trumps lawyers were telling him and telling the public it would be over by a year ago and its not over. And things have just gotten worse and worse and worse. I think the president s behavior is symptomatic not just of the kind of potential legal violations that chuck has talked about and others have talked about, barbara has talked about, but also of a man who may be finally starting to see the writing on the wall. Barbara, its not exactly sexy of our viewers at 11 00 eastern time to promise them Court Filings coming up in the next several days. But the truth is were getting Court Filings in the next several days. Tell us, help us understand what they may say and what we may know by this time next week. I agree. They might be very enlightening. When someone is sentenced it is customary for the prosecutor to write a sentencing memo that tells the judge all about the persons conduct, misconduct, and cooperation. All of the good things that the person has done by way of cooperation and all of his crimes, including whats known as relevant conduct. For example, even though Michael Flynn was only charged with and pled guilty to false statements, he may have done some other things that the parties will agree get discussed as relevant conduct. All of that gets included in a sentencing memo. Same thing for michael cohen. Were going to learn about not only all the things he did but all the information about his cooperation as well. And with regard to Paul Manafort i think were going to find out, Robert Mueller has promised to share the crimes and lies that caused them to sever their relationship. I think all three of those documents are going to be very enlightening and start to fill in some of the pieces of the puzzle. Exactly there along those same lines, chuck, you are often telling us that mueller has told this story in slow motion but in real time but these filings from his associates. Do you expect by the end of this week a new chapter will exist . I think well have more pieces of the puzzle. The funny thing about this jigsaw, brian, is that we dont know what the box top is. We dont know what the final picture will look lick. But mueller has been filling in pieces of this as we go. And heres the important thing about it. I hope people appreciate the level of professionalism and dignity that bob mueller and his team bring to this task. Its not an easy one. Theyve been pilloried by the president of the United States. Im sure they would love to speak out, defend themselves. But the only thing they do over and over again is quietly and in a dignified and professional way speak in court. Were going to get a lot more of the puzzle pieces this week. I dont aennt think were goint all of them. And im not sure were at the end yet. I think theres more to come. Wow. That gets our attention. Can you help us out a little bit . Well, this is what im getting at. We believe there are clues the mueller team wants to charge other people. Corsi perhaps or stone perhaps. If that happens and they want to go to trial, which is their constitutional right, that could be months and months away. And if they want to flip those people, get them to cooperate, that would have to follow a conviction. There are probably some loose ends that hes tying up, brian. But if others are charged and go to trial, this thing aint over. See, john heilemann, this is why we have legal guests of this caliber. And then on the journalism side we have a guy like you. And question number two to you is this. What is it likely be environmentally for this president . He is one of five in the national cathedral. In midweek, a week that will see the kinds details come out that barbara and chuck are talking about. You know, the president has not exhibited i would say, and ill speak here with great understatement. Has not exhibited always grace under pressure in public settings. Its obviously been galling to him to have been excluded for instance from the mccain funeral. The notion hes going to be at least allowed to attend this funeral must give him some degree of comfort, although hes not being asked to spaerks and im sure that is galling to him on another level. I think the president is remarkably unreflective. Hes remarkably unintrospective. Hes always thinking about himself but hes not thinking about how other people think about him. He is a classic narcissist. And i neap in the strict psychoanalystic sense. He has no sense of how people see him. Its possible that for any other normal human would be a remarkably awkward moment, to be seated among the other president s and heads of state and grandees that he won be feeling the things you and i would be feeling under similar circumstances. Its also possible given his state right now of agitation and rage that regardless of whether he has that sense of reflection he will still be in a world of hurt and a world of discomfort as he sits there stewing in the understanding that hes not and i think does understand this. That hes not like the rest of them. And, this ladies and gentlemen, is the new week of coverage we begin effective here tonight. To john heilemann, to barbara mcquade, to chuck rosenberg. Our thanks. 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In moscow his death provoked an outpouring of nostalgia saturday for an american leader who chose careful diplomacy over brinksmanship as the postwar order was thrown into disarray. Russians recalled bygone days of summits, treaties and transatlantic statecraft, a contrast to the present tableau of disruptions and uncertainties from the trump white house. With us tonight john mclaughlin, former Deputy Director of the cia, who also happened to serve as acting director in 2004. And john, lets start on the news. On russia. I wanted to ask you this a few days back. And then well get to 41. What we learned about russia in the past several days means among other things, especially in your line of work, theyve known for two years that the president had someone around him who was telling a lie about russia. Thats right, brian. It is classic russian behavior to take that kind of thing and use it against someone. You know the term kompromat. Some people say isnt that a little like Opposition Research in our political system . No. Opposition research is generally done to weaken an opponent. When the russians collect information like that, knowing that someone is lying when the American Public doesnt know about it, they think of that as levera leverage. Leverage. In that period of time had this never come to light now that its out in the open, perhaps that leverage is weakened or gone, but had this never come to light that would be important leverage under the american president , as would be the exchanges that took place between donald jr. And russia prior to the famous trump tower meeting. Had that never come to light, that would be something in the russians pocket to use as leverage in a crucial situation with us. Now lets shift to the reason i will probably see you in washington in the coming days. And that is the death of your former boss at the cia. And on that subject, while this is going to differ a bit in tone from our current president here is 41 about half a dozen years ago talking about his time at cia. A very happy thing in my life. And because i love the short time i spent there. And i have Great Respect for cia and for the intelligence community. And when i was Vice President and president as the ultimate consumer of intelligence i saw how great once again saw how great they are. John, you were a junior man at cia in 1975, i believe. When he started as your boss. Tell us about the bush era at the Central Intelligence agency. The cia was about as flat on its back as they have ever been. In 1975 when george bush came as director, there had been congressional investigations that left a string of accusations out there that had the American Public thinking terrible things about cia and for that matter the congress as well. People even talked about abolishing the cia. Actually, im going to read you a sentence that someone gave me just before i came here tonight that george bush himself wrote to a friend before he came to cia. I wrote it down. He said to a friend, i honestly feel my political future is behind me. But hell, im 51. And this new job gives me a chance to really contribute. So he came in there at a time when it was not politically popular to do so. He picked people up. He was the kind of guy you all the things you heard about him were in evidence there. Little things like he would ride the same elevator the troops rode every day instead of taking the directors private elevator. He was a runner. So youd bump into him outside. Hed pull you into his office for a quick briefing on something. Hed have a saturday Morning Coffee with young people like myself then just to take the temperature of the place. And he repaired the relationship with congress. In that one year he did Something Like 50 congressional briefings on the hill. And out of that came something that we did not have then in our country, which was really organized and important congressional oversight. In that atmosphere and with his encouragement that the congressional oversight committees were created for the first time. So hes revered there. I was out at cia today on another matter, and i noticed as i walked in across the iconic seal in the lobby that they have moved his signed picture from the wall where it normally is over to the center of the lobby at the tocchet steps. So you see it as you come in. Next to a bust of george bush. The compound is named after him. And people have been putting flowers there. So hes a revered figure. In his remarks in 1999 when the compound was named after him, i took a look at those. He said some moving things. But the one line that stuck for me, he said i came here and this place became part of my heartbeat. I thought that was you know, he just was a remarkable individual in that regard. And it frankly doesnt surprise me, brian, that the russians have this reaction because i happened to have briefed george bush a couple days before the berlin wall came down. He was going to a summit with gorbachev. And even then it was evident in the way he talked about it and thought about it that while he was realistic about everything and protective of u. S. Interests he also knew that gorbachev would be quite tender because of the way the satellite countries were dissolving. And he knew he had to handle him very carefully and respectfully in the way he handles handled his american friends. He was better at predicting that it turns out than his own political future. John, thats why we wanted to have you on tonight. To talk about the former director. As a former director yourself. John mclaughlin, thank you, sir, for coming on our broadcast tonight. And coming up, the first president bush was a decorated veteran who always remained close to the military. Well talk to one of his former military commanders and the former president s biographer when we come back. Ok ill admit. I didnt keep my place as clean as i would like cuz im way too busy. Whos got the time to chase around down dirt, dust and hair . So now, i use heavy duty swiffer sweeper and dusters. For hardtoreach places, duster makes it easy to clean. It captures dust in one swipe. Ha gotcha and new sweeper heavy duty cloths lock away a twice as much dirt and dust. It gets stuff deep in the grooves other tools can miss. You know what . My place is a lot cleaner now. Stop cleaning. Start swiffering. Will be. Lets speak english. While this is no night for name calling its been well established that donald trump is no friend of the bushes. A close ally of the bush family said on television tonight that in inviting President Trump to 41s funeral the bush family was saying to this current president , this is how its done. And so while he will not have a speaking role this current president will be one of five u. S. President s in attendance at the national cathedral. According to a bush family spokesman there will be eulogies from george w. Bush, former canadian Prime Minister brian mulrooney. Former senator alan simpson of wyoming. And president ial historian jon meacham. With us tonight the aforementioned pulitzer prizewinning author and historian jon meacham. Jon is the former president s biographer and the author of destiny and power the american odyssey of George Herbert walker bush, which i admit a number of us are now rereading for a second time. And retired fourstar u. S. Army general barry mccaffrey, decorated combat veteran of vietnam and a former battlefield commander in the persian gulf who served of course under the command of his commander in chief, george h. W. Bush. Jon, do you think that inviting 45 was one of the last official acts of 41 . I think its part of the ambient reality. George Herbert Walker bush, the first president he met was eisenhower. Theres a wonderful picture of him talking to mamie eisenhower, actually. Used to hang on the stairway up to his office where hes big and charming and shes clearly being charmed. Through President Trump he always had an extraordinary deference to and respect for the office. The last thing he would want would be to embarrass or somehow cause any sort of pain to the incumbent president. And so i think its a totally characteristic gesture on the part not just of the late president bush but also the family at large. General mccaffrey, you and 41 have a couple of things in common. You both went to phillips andover. And you both made the choice for the u. S. Military, though in entirely different eras we hasten to point out. Then there comes a day when you are placed in command of the 24 account infantry prior to desert storm, give or take 25,000 u. S. Troops. Tell us what that was like as your commander in chief was george w. Bush, george h. W. Bush. Brian, if you remember, it was a time of enormous anxiety. The iraqis, having seized kuwait, were well entrenched. They had a gigantic ground army with modern equipment. What was alleged at the time to be the Fourth Largest Air force in the world with very modern aircraft. Theyd been at war for seven years. So when we went in initially, we thought we were on the verge of a outnumbered battle. But one of the things that was enormously comforting to people like me, and id met president bush several times. Was knowing that when you looked at the Senior Leadership of the u. S. Government principally our commander in chief, you know, who had seen warfare, when we lost 400,000 killed in world war ii. We also had the chairman of the jcs, Norman Schwarzkopf wounded in combat pape lot of confidence in people running the government. Secretary baker. That was the atmosphere within which we deployed to war. Then of course i had the president on the ground with me at thanksgiving. It was a marvelous experience. Thousands of troops in a natural amphitheater in the sand dunes, and in case barbara bush and the president and Brent Scowcroft and the Senior Leadership of congress and we felt mighty good about this man. Jon meacham, patti davis was on tv tonight, and she was talking about the mourning process for a public family. Talking about her own experience with her dad and her mom. And now the bushes with the first lady and the president. Theres public grieving, which you are forced to share with all of us onlookers in hd live television. Imagine how intrusive any of us would find it in someone brought a single iphone to a funeral of one our family members and tried to snap a picture. And then multiply that. So i guess im asking about their ability to proceed with whats going to be painful private grieving. This has been their north star for 3 4 of the american century. Absolutely. And i remember in mrs. Bushs diary, barbara pierce bushs diary he had writes about the kennedy funeral in 1964 and rfks funeral in 1968 and reflecting on just the issue you raised about how painful it is for mrs. Kennedy, for Jacqueline Kennedy and then for Ethel Kennedy for the children and now glaring and upsetting that must be. Interestingly, the bushes are shaped by a tension between two forces. One is absolute dignity. And the other is absolute tear duct activity. Its incredible. President bush would cry if there was a heavy dew or if he lost a golf ball. He was an incredibly emotional man. All of the kids kids. All of the children are like this. President bush used to call it the bawl club, bawl. So i think theres going to be a lot of that. One of the things that strikes me most is while there was a great difference between the public persona at least in his political career for president bush and his private self, one of the reasons i wanted to write about him is i found him to be such a quietly persistent persistently charismatic figure. And then he had not been seen that way back in the dana carvey years. Its pretty clear to me, though, that of the next generation what you see is what you get in many ways. So theres not some great secret private drama going on i dont think. Can i tell one story to general mccaffreys point . Of course. The sunday night before the air war began, in january of 1991, president bush is up in the treaty room, which he treated he used as his study. And he had kind of an lbjesque three or four tvs inside an armoire. At least he covered them up. I guess thats the difference between a democrat and a republican in that sense. And he was watching cnn. So dominant at that time. And saw parents hugging their kids as they were going off to desert storm desert smeehiel which was about to become desert storm in a matter of i think 72 hours sxep was writing in his diary. And his mind looking at those images went straight back to 1942, when the only time he ever saw his father cry, prescott bush, was when he, prescott bush, took george h. W. Bush to pennsylvania station to put him on the train to go to basic training in chapel hill, north carolina. And as president bush recalled later, there i was, scared little guy, going off, didnt know anybody. And he understood what was going on at the deployments unfolding in 1991 because he had experienced a deployment in 1942. Character in many cases is destiny. And so is experience. General . Well, id add to that while we were deployed not only did the president come visit us in the field before the attack started but he also went to fort stewart, georgia and visited our families. So my wife jill spent the day with him. And you know, the entire experience, thousands of people came from all over coastal georgia to see his presence, his talk to the families. And you know, at the end of the day it was clear he literally loved these families and was look out for them. Just i think an american nobility at the end of the day. Ive worked with a lot of sxrnts admired all of them. But this is one of the finest characters weve ever had in public life. Jon, i know the general joins me in wishing you i dont know. I guess you wish someone luck. Because the view youre going to have looking out at five president s and that very sad bush family is going to be really something. And well be watching and hanging on every word and supporting you as you go. Jon meacham, general barry mccaffrey. Thank you, gentlemen, both. Coming up, it has already made for uncomfortable moments and uncomfortable comparisons because the death of our foreign president comes during this particular presidency. Well talk about contrasts when we come back. America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. Thats part of what we were talking about. President george h. W. Bush at his own inauguration in 89. This week bush is being remembered as the last of his kind and a stark difference to the leadership style of our current president. While bush 41 encouraged that kinder, gentler nation, President Trump came into office with his talk of american carnage at his inauguration. Having already declared the American Dream in his words is dead. And as the Washington Post headline points out, honorable, gracious and decency. In death bush becomes a yardstick for President Trump. With us to talk about it tonight, david jolly, both a former member of congress for the state of florida and a former member of the republican party. And phillip elliott, politics correspondent for time magazine. Gentlemen, good evening to you both. Congressman, ill start with you. Already i notice tonight on fox news theyre doing segment after segment on all the networks where the bush tributes are coming at the expense of donald trump. So well put that out there. You spoke today about how 41 has elevated our country in death. He has. We are recognizing tonight a loss. A loss of tankly Adult Children who lost their father. Grandkids who lost their grandfather. A nation who lost a president. And we honor him with the highest honor of draping an American Flag over his coffin, a flag for the country that he served. So that ordinary people may pass by. So that ordinary people might pass by as his body lays in state on the very rostrum that was created and constructed for abraham lincoln. But we also recognize that bush 41 was a member of a very exclusive club. And if we are honest tonight, it is a club that really does not hold much respect for the current occupant of the white house, donald trump. The gift that bush 41 gave us tonight, not donald trump but gave us as a country, is he invited donald trump into that club. Donald trump will be a part of the Memorial Services for bush 41, honoring alongside Donald Trumps predecessors the passing of bush 41. We know the tension. We know the very strong disconnect between the bush family and donald trump. But bush 41 in his passing gave us as a nation the gift of reminding us of civility and the ability to invite others in despite our differences. Phil, of all things, trump mocked points of light. The volunteer and civic and Charitable Organization that has raised so much and changed so many lives. So well start the conversation there by saying i wish wednesday were going to be just a simple way of everyone reminiscing about another president and another time. But its going to be fraught in so many ways. As you pointed out earlier today. First time we think well have trump and Hillary Clinton in the same place since inauguration day. That is correct. And that is going to be a very awkward conversation to say the least. President trump continues to have rallies declaring he wants Hillary Clinton to be locked up. It will be on everyone involved to see how much of an adult they can be. And in this we have an opportunity that perhaps we did not have with senator mccains funeral, that pointly the mccain family did not have President Trump there in the front row. He will be there now. He will be part of the president s club as Michael Duffy and nancy gibbs coined it in their history of this ultra exclusive fraternity. And its going to be interesting to see if President Trump rises to the occasion. He has been known to do so. In fleeting moments he has been known to comport himself to the norms of the office. I would suspect that there is a lot of conversation in the west wing preparing him for what is expected of him not just in this moment but this will live in history and a lot of people not just reporters but historians when we look at this digital footage when the next generation meacham comes and looks at this, how did the president of the United States conduct himself in the august Washington National cathedral. Jon would say that is redundant. He is the next generation meacham as he has no plans to stop writing books every two weeks. I hope. And our mutual friend nancy will be part of our coverage as well this week. Both of our guests have agreed to stay with us. Were going to sneak in a quick commercial break. And coming up, after skipping an all senators braefg laiefing la the cia director gina haspel will address the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi tomorrow in a meeting for a small group of senators as the business of washington comes roaring back. 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Despite what the Trump Administration has said about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the role the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman may have played in the killing, there are still senators in both parties who remain apparently unconvinced. After being noticeably absent from last weeks briefing the cia director gina haspel is coming to capitol hill tomorrow to brief a small group of senators. Haspel traveled to turkey in october, you may recall, and reportedly heard that audio recording of the brutal murder. Tomorrows briefing comes just days after a wall street journal report revealed that the cia intercepted several messages between the crown prince and an aide directly involved in the murder. Our guests are still with us. David jolly, phillip elliott. David, what would be rigorous . What would be the right path in this . And how has the Trump Administration affected even this . I think the senate is on the right path, particularly Lindsey Graham. Brian, i had the opportunity to Lindsey Graham to meet with the crown prince in his private quarters about two years ago. Lindsey graham was a true believer in the crown prince who has since become somebody who does not believe in him at all. Lindsey graham took great offense to the fact that gina haspel, whose agency suggested that the highest likelihood is that the crown prince directed the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, noticed when gina haspel refused to brief the senate Lindsey Graham said im withholding my vote fromfrom any critical legislation ha has to pass the senate by end of the year. I think the administration has realized between Lindsey Graham and jeff flake saying im withholding my vote because you wont protect mueller its a numbers game. The question for Senate Republicans is this. Once you get the briefing that suggests our cia believes the crown prince is behind the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, now youre in the same position donald trump is. Now the eyes of the world are on the United States senate to say what are you going to do about it . That will be a corner republicans might find themselves in come tomorrow night. Phillip, how about something completely unrelate though it is Foreign Affairs . Im going to be quiet for a moment and share with our viewers, in the weekend of coverage this moment may have been lost. This was supposed to be an extended appearance for a photo op with the president of argentina and our president at the end of the g20. It got a lot of talk. He just took off and left the president of argentina. Phil, with your knowledge of the beat and such things political, wheres our standing at the end of this weekend around the world . Well, we got out of there. The president was able to spike the football. He got to announce that we have apparently a new trade deal with china. We havent seen any of the details from it. But the president is telling us that this is happening. The calming of the trade war. Although there was some confusion today about when exactly the tariffs would the dates that we should circle on our calendar. They had to walk back. Larry kudlows remarks to press. We got the president back on u. S. Soil. Which is always its always a challenge. These International Summits are exhausting. And if the worst thing we find out happened is the president broke decorum and protocol, weve certainly seen worse. Previous summits weve seen him shove World Leaders out of the way so he could be at the front of the pack. This breach of protocol doesnt even its not even in the top ten in how i see it. Philip has learned the art of optimism in the trump era. And i think we should go out on that quote because its been a fairly subdued broadcast all night. To our guest david jolly and philip elliott, both regulars around here, gentlemen, thank you both so much. Coming up after a break, a dedicated servant to the very end. The last thing before we go tonight is that photo yesterday that just took our breath away. It helps to understand it, of course, if youve ever loved a dog. And that of course means youve been loved by a dog. That is sully, who served president george h. W. Bush as service dog. And hes lying there in front of the former president s casket. We then saw sully arriving with the family today at Andrews Air Force base. And as we watched the pictures we wondered aloud how much do they know . Is sully just as sad as the humans who are missing this man so very much . Just from his photos on social media, it is clear sully is a very good dog. Hes met former president s. Hes celebrated birthdays and christmas with equal gusto. Sully is a 2yearold lab. Yes, he was named after the miracle on the hudson pilot. He was raised by a group called americas vet dogs, headquartered on long island, new york. And sure enough, sully went on to serve one of americas foremost veterans. After 41 lost barbara, his wife of 73 years, and because the former president has been in a wheelchair for years due to parkinsons, the family thought a service dog would help. Indeed, sully opened doors and picked things up and learned how to press an emergency button in case of emergencies. And yes, he had customized socks. But most of all, the two were just friends. And provided sully understands that his first friend is now gone, that hell see him again someday, sully has new friends waiting for him at walter reed, where other veterans will now get to know the unconditional love of a very good dog. That is our broadcast for tonight. Thank you so much for being here with us. Good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. Michael cohen is lying and hes trying to get a reduced sentence. The president attacks michael cohen. Hes a weak person. And grooms roger stone. Theres no circumstance under which i would testify against the president. 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