Good evening once again from our nbc news het yarders here in new york. Im ali velshi in for brian williams. The president is escalating his attacks on the fbi as it becomes increasingly clear hes about to enter the new year with the russia investigation still casting a shadow over the white house. This morning the president sent out a tweet, spreading the latest theory discrediting the federal probe, saying alleged ties between his campaign and russia and linking it all back to Hillary Clinton. Wow, fox and friends, dossier is bogus. Clinton campaign, dnc funded dossier, fbi cannot after all this time verify claims in dossier of russiatrump collusion. Fbi tainted and they use this crooked pile of hillary garbage as the basis for going after the trump campaign. And the president also sent out a tweet specifically aimed at Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe including this one, how can fbi Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe, the man in charge along with leaking james comey of the phony Hillary Cli
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Good evening. Once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. Im in for brian williams. Day 341 of the Trump Administration and the president is escalating his attacks on the fbi as it becomes increasingly clear that he is about to enter the new year with the russia investigation still casting a shadow over the white house. This morning the president sent out a tweet spreading the latest theory discrediting the federal probe while tying it to the dossier that alleged ties between his campaign and russia and linking it all back to Hillary Clinton. Wow, fox and friends, dossier is bogus. Clinton campaign. Dnc funded dossier. Fbi cannot after all this time verify claims in dossier of russia trump collusion. Fbi tainted. And they used this crooked hill terry pile of garbage as a basis for going after the trump campaign. That was his tweet. Throughout the Holiday Weekend the president also sent out tweets, specifically aimed at fbi Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe including this one. Mc
Im rene marsh in for christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Good morning to you. Another round of a fight we have seen before. The president versus the fbi. President trump going on the twitter attack on the agencys Deputy Director. Trump reupped accusation is that Andrew Mccabe is bias because of political donations his wife received in the past. Mccabe is one of the agencys most senior officials and oversaw the investigation into the Hillary Clinton emails. Also, the white house is fighting against claims President Trump made derogatory remarks about immigrants. The New York Times is reporting that during a meeting with Top Administration officials, President Trump claimed that all haitians have aids and nigerians would never go back to their huts once they saw the United States. More on that in a minute. We start with shimon porkopes and the attacks on the fbi. Reporter good morning. Trumps tweets taking aim at several fbi officials, including Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe came with wor
Is a complete document. Its a very narrowly tailored memo about one specific incident, maybe true, maybe damaging, but i think its limited in what it tells you about the entire investigation. Dana chief White House Correspondent john roberts is live on the north lawn. John, what are the news worthy points in the memo . Reporter the basic premise is that an fisa warrant to surveil carter paige, a sometimes form Foreign Policy adviser to the president , was based on false information, specifically that unverified dossier who was compiled by fusion gps and Christopher Steele. Let me tell you what i think are a few crucial passages in this memo. Deputy director Andrew Mccabe who resigned from the fbi suddenly monday, testified before the Intelligence Committee december 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been given from the Court Without the steele dossier information. The memo goes on to say neither the initial application in the october 2016 or any of the renewals disclosed or e