And gun violence specifically. And he laid out a number of things he would like to see in that. And so now were hoping congress will continue working with us and put a strong piece of legislation forward. Im going to take one last question. Hey, hold on. The president s headed over to speak at the opoid summit here momentarily. One last question. Sarah. Thank you. So according to the white house, this morning between south korean president moon jaein and President Trump, moon jaein briefed him on the interkorean talks, the south korean government is also saying that they plan to send a special envoy to north korea soon. How does the president feel about the dialogue with north and south korea, does he welcome it or is he concerned and does he feel that president moon is being too soft on north korea . The president wants to continue working with south korea as a strong ally. We have no daylight between the two of us. Well continue those conversations. Again, the ultimate goal is to den
An active collusion investigation relating to Paul Manafort, but it also shows the scope as relates to Paul Manafort did go beyond russia. Here is what the memo says . First it says the special counsel is authorized to investigate allegations that manafort committed a crime or crimes by colluding with russians. Then it also says, and this is outside of the russia scope, perhaps, that mueller is authorized to investigate manafort for money he received while working for the prorussian head of the ukraine. As we know now, manafort has been charged with the money he made from that work. His attorneys are arguing that mueller has overstepped his jurisdiction by bringing those charges because it has nothing to do with the russia investigation. Clearly what this memo shows is that the special counsel was authorized to go ahead and investigate manafort for those issues. We have that part of it. The memo itself is heavily redacted, correct . It certainly is heavy, heavily redacted. We only see
Well, good evening ronce again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. Day 383 of the Trump Administration and these past 48 hours have been Something Like a ror shark test for this white house. To begin with, the president today threatened a government showdown, seemed almost to promote a Government Shutdown if congress does not crack down on illegal immigration. Even as negotiators worked on a deal to keep the government funded past the deadline of midnight thursday. If we dont get rid of these loopholes where killers are allowed to come into our country and continue to kill, gang members, and were just talking about ms13, there are many gang members that we dont even mention. If we dont change it, lets have a shutdown, well do a shutdown and its worth it for our country. Id love to see a shutdown if we dont get this stuff taken care of. If we have to shut it down because the democrats dont want safety, unrelated but still related, they dont want to take care of our military, shu
President among them. Hes not said a thing about it on twitter. In fact, he hasnt said a thing in public since friday. We are getting new word on what hes saying privately about this. Speaking of private conversations, cnn has learned that one person the president has been speaking with is rob porter, the senior aide pushed out of the white house after reports of Domestic Abuse. The president it seems is pining for a return. Lets go to abby phillip live at the white house this morning with word on what the president does think about the Stormy Daniels saga. Reporter it was a huge ratings bonanza, but the white house is playing coy about whether or not the president actually watched it. The Principal Deputy secretary raj shah said he couldnt speak on whether the president watched the interview. The clips have been on the television nonstop for the last day. This is a president who we know is an avid watcher. He has according to the Washington Post has watched the interview and has been
This unalso in the summer of 2016, also featuring don june, or, but no russians. Instead, reps from the middle east and apparently they also wanted to help donald trump win the election. Plus, happening this hour, gina haspel officially takes over at the cia. President son h President Trump is on his way to the podium in langley. The president takes on a former cia director who backs haspel big time and well see if the president has anymore to say about his demand for the doj to look into whether the fbi spied on his campaign for political reasons. He had plenty to say over the weekend on twitter in a whole bunch of tweets taking on the investigation calling it a witch hunt once again saying there was no collusion with russia, all leading up to that request, you could call it, for the doj investigation. I want to start with jeff who is over on the north lawn of the white house. Jeff, we heard from Rod Rosenstein just within the last couple minutes. Anything newsy . Reporter nothing new