Exposures. With this report, that trumps digital operation asked Julian Assange directly for help naflt new report. Woodruff saying there is the closest known connection between Trumps Campaign and assange. Julian assange claiming to be a publish we are the same rights as any other news organization. There is a finding that Russian Military intelligence related material to wikileaks as a conduit. It is an explosive move if they asked asergeant to coordinate on releasing emails and it shows potential intent if he finds that related crimes occur. Lets be clear. Nbc news has not obtained the emails cited in this report. And often these stories include denials but tonight i can tell that you Julian Assanges response where he addresses the claim, says no denial. He says we can confirm an approach by Cambridge Analytica. So for the first time Julian Assange confirming that Donald Trumps team approaching him and he rejected it. The report that the Trump Campaign was going to these lengths for
Reporter it is sort of a sense of surprise here at the white house simply because theres a big difference between declaring a Public Health emergency and declaring a president ial emergency under the emergency the National Emergency act. Much more sweeping powers, the president has, under the emergencies act, including waiving privacy laws and waiving medicare regulations, and creating the ability to have more beds to treat substance abuse. While the Public Safety emergency, the Public Health emergency we will hear about today is much more limited. We have had a number of those, and a number of those are in effect right now around the country, but the first time the last time a Public Health emergency of this type was declared goes all the way back to 2009. So the white house pushing back this morning on the idea that they have reneged or changed direction, nonetheless its clear that the white house believes a Public Health emergency is the right way to go on the Opioid Crisis. It open
Colluding with russia is a story that does not ever go away. Hillary clinton totally denied this. Total phony. This idea that it is a fake dossier, thats just not true. The uranium is sell to russia, that is watergate, modern age. Of all the things we talked about, this has more teeth. This gives President Trump the ability to muddy the waters on russia. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. All right. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is your new day. Its thursday, october 26th, 6 00 in new york. Growing connections between possible connections between the Trump Campaign and wikileaks. Sources tell cnn, a Data Analytics Company Working for the Trump Campaign did seek access to thousands of Hillary Clintons emails she kept on this private serve isser while secretary on of state. Meantime, President Trump slaming Hillary Clinton and the democrats for denying that they knew of an effort to dig up dirt on him after it was revealed they
Tapes without them ever actually having to do so. Weve talked about this on the show before. It was called the stennis compromise to avoid releasing the tapes, nixon offered the special prosecutor a deal. The white house would not hand over the tapes but they would listen to the tapes themselves, type up written summaries of what they said was on the tapes and then they would cross your heart, pinky swear they were accurate and there was nothing else damming on the tapes at all and in case you were a coldhearted scenical jerk and wouldnt take president nixons word for it, well, for you cynics there would be a verification process, a pronixon senator named senator john stennis would personally, individual listen to the tapes. He would compare the tapes with the written summaries that have been drawn up by the Nixon White House and senator stennis would personally sign off attributing, right . He would listen to them. You could use his own integrity to tell whether those written summarie
President leaked to the president. The warning, do not congratulate Vladimir Putin on his reelection. The president is said to be furious. Hes already under fire for congratulating the russian leader. Its not clear if he didnt see or just disregarded the warning from his National Security team. Now the white house says whoevers behind the leak could be fired or worse. The incident has revived the president s belief that individuals within the administration are trying to undermine him. He took to twitter once again today to slam the russia investigation. As if all that wasnt enough, the president is also facing serious legal challenges from a trio of women. The lawsuits all stem from allegations of Sexual Affairs or harassment. Lets go to our chief White House Correspondent jeff zeleny. Update us on the fallout over the leaked warning against congratulating putin. Wolf, theres no question the president is said to be furious about this, as are many of his top advisers, including white h