Mueller contradicting the trump barr claims, the reigniting of the impeachment debate, two mueller aides debating his approach. Ill be anchoring it at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on sunday night. I hope youll consider joining us. Dont go anywhere right now, because hardball is up next. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington with that horrific breaking news now out of Virginia Beach. Theres been a Mass Shooting at the Municipal Center there. 11 people are dead. According to police, the suspect, a current city employee, was also killed. Police say they believe the suspect acted alone. Were going to keep an eye on that and any developments out of that news story out of Virginia Beach. And now to tonights politics. The word tonight is that the trump partisan allies on capitol hill want to rough up Robert Mueller. The reason is politics. The president s allies wanting to discredit the Special Counsel and diminish his findings. They want him to testify before the congress where they can assaul
America. We talk about testing of the guardrails. In most cases the guardrails of democracy have held up. In this case we might find out that bill barr broke one of those guardrails and we are still dealing with it. All right. This is as good a place to end as any. My thanks today to joyce, frank, matt. That does it for this hour. Thank you so much for watching not just this hour but all day long. Were grateful to all of you. Mtp daily with my friend chuck todd starts now. Well, if its wednesday, its no ordinary hump idea. Its meet the press daily. And we are in the center of a break news storm right now, sort of the postmueller wrapups. Youre looking live at capitol hill where in just a few moments we expect to hear from house
speaker nancy pelosi, jerry nadler, and adam schiff after muellers historic testimony. The biggest question perhaps is what do democrats do now . As we speak, weve been getting tape of the president who is speaking to reporters at the white house. No surprise he
Investigation that july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack Hillary Clintons email, something for the first time they did five hours later, correct . Correct. And you also found that on august 2nd, mr. Manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence. Mr. Kilimnik gave him internal Campaign Strategy aware that russia was intending to do a misinformation social media campaign. Correct . Not certain of the time. But the fact that that meeting. The meeting took place is accurate. And your investigation as i understand it, also found that in late summer of 2016, the Trump Campaign in fact devised its strategy and messaging around wiki leaks releases of materials that were stolen from the Democratic National committee, correct is it. Is that from the report . Yes, its according to mr. Gates. Yes. Thank you. You also talked earlier about the finding in your investigation that in september and october of 2016, donald trump jr. Had email communications with wiki leaks now ind
Thank you. Volume 2, page 76, correct . Ill leave the answer to our report. So thats a yes . Is it true your investigation did not establish that any members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in election interference activity, volume 1, page 2. Volume 1, page 73 . Yes. Thank you. Although your Report States collusion is not a specific offense and you said that this morning or a term of our in federal criminal law and experience is, in the colloquial context are collusion and experience essentially synonymous terms. Youre going to have to row peat that for me. Collusion is not a specific offense or a term of art in federal criminal law. Conspiracy is. In the colloquial context, collusion and conspiracy are essentially synonymous terms, correct . No. If no on page 180 of volume 1 of your report you wrote collusion is largely synonymous of conspiracy and that crime is set forth in the general conspiracy statute. You said at your May 29th Press Conf
Being in san juan. That does it for Andrea Mitchell reports. You can follow u us mitchellreports. Here is stephanie ruhle. Thank you very much. Former mueller is set to testify on the hill in less than 48 hours. What do lawmakers want want . Well be speaking to one of those members whos set to grill him. President trump is still attacking four congresswomen of color. Now calling them troublemakers. Well dig into trumps strategy. The 2020 candidate says the economys lights are blinking red. Well look at senator Elizabeth Warrens plan. President trump just spoke with reporters ahead of a bilateral
meeting with kazakhstan Prime Minister. He spent some time blasting Robert Mueller in front of congress. Mueller is due to testify on wednesday in front of the houses judicial and Intelligence Committee. Joining me now is kristen welker. She was just inside the oval office minutes ago. After the Mueller Report was released, the president said i am totally exonerated and all set and he moved on.