Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Chairman, Paul Manafort. He has pleaded not guilty, but heres why this really matters. The first trial to come out of the Mueller Investigation will give us the most detailed snapshot yet of what cards Robert Mueller really has. And as soon as this week, the president s lawyer says he could decide whether to sit for an interview with the mueller team, although weve heard that one before. Right now the president s not happy with mueller. Donald trump firing off a whole bunch of tweets, trashing the investigation, offering up new details, too about his previous claims of mueller conflicts of interest, claims the Justice Department has shot down. Lets go to the white house with nbcs kristen welker, here to get us started. Rudy guiliani had more to say about all of this, just a couple of hours ago, including what seemed to be a shifting of the goalpost, no . Reporter it was striking, hallie, to hear Rudy Guiliani, yes
Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Or distorted what happened in the election campaign. But what is Donald Trumps core point that he wants to say even more than no collusion, no collusion, no collusion . It didnt change a vote. So this is a problem. So if they had stepped up their game in 2016 and the Obama Administration was asleep at the switch, maybe they did change some votes. Trump is not stupid well, i wont say stupid or not. Trump wants to deny that russia could have had an influence in 2016 and theyre saying russia could well have had an influence. I understand that some of us are being too cynical about this briefing, but again without the president on it, how do you take it credibly. If makes a big difference. If it were the president , it would be Something Else. The white house continues to want to say and they say this repeatedly, this administration has been toughe
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Trump tower meeting between allegedly his son and some russians and some other folks. And it is true that parts of that investigation have blossomed into whole new areas, such as the manafort trial, which has nothing at all to do with the original russia investigation. In fact its one of the bases that manafort asked the judge to throw that case out, that it exceeded the power of the Special Counsel. So its hard to say what exactly Kristin Davis has information about, because the scope of this investigation is so broad. Just to give a little better sense pulling back the curtain from my conversations in my day job working over at the white house, in a series of conversations i had late this week with sources close to the president , they all tell me that the president s frustration specifically as it relates to paul manafort, remember that specific case he attacked as a hoax on twitter earlier this week, is in the
week. the belarus leader alexander lukashenko said the transfer of tactical nuclear weapons from russia to belarus has started. what do you think that signals right now about moscow s strategy? obviously this is a scare moscow s strategy? obviously this is a scare tactic. - moscow s strategy? obviously this is a scare tactic. if - moscow s strategy? obviously this is a scare tactic. if the - this is a scare tactic. if the russians wanted to use nuclear weapons to hit ukraine, they could do so now. they don t need to move them to belarus. it s a way of demonstrating they have them. it may also be a way of defending the leader of belarus. there is enormous discontent in that country, this war is not popular there, and belarus is effectively an ally of putin. i think it s a sign that they feel under threat, they are worried about the coming counteroffensive. it s a pr game designed to scare people. it s a pr game designed to scare maple- it s a pr game designed to scare eole. ., , sca
wanting to get into the pr game, but it really looks like keeping a close circle was damaging. it has been damaging optically. it s important to point out, and kimberly kind of touched on this, in terms of this search that happened at president biden s delaware home, the thinking is it will be short-term pain with long-term gain, because they re being transparent, but i ve been sitting in i have the briefings water torture. yes, day after day after day of drip, drip, drip. the white house counsel on s office wants to be careful. they did start to shift their strategy, but there are key questions that still remain unanswered, including why it took two months for the world to learn about this. i want to talk about another issue, the supreme court investigation. i want to put up there their first when it was a grave assault on the judicial plods, following up on all available leads. the marshall s team involved additional forensic investigation, but the team has to date been u