the circle of trust. i guess stating the obvious there are fewer people on the inside that they feel they can trust. that s right, brian. one of the things president trump said in the last few days came in that q & a session he had with reporters on air force i friday of last week, and what sticks out to me is he said, look, when i go into meetings now, i look around the room and see, who do i recognize? the implication there is if he doesn t recognize you, if he doesn t know you, then he doesn t trust you, and he s very careful about what he says in audiences with people he doesn t know, with faces he doesn t know. there has been an effort, and this predates the woodward book, by the way, an effort the last few months in the white house to try to cut down the number of people who are in the room for some of these serious discussions involving the president because they re so sensitive to information leaking out. so the national security adviser
current negotiations with prosecutors were unclear, including whether he would provide any information about the president. even before this news broke the russia investigation was clearly on the president s mind early this morning. president trump attacked the investigation on twitter. notably before commemorating the 17th anniversary of 9/11. also tonight, bob woodward is out talking about his new book as the white house continues to push back hard on his reporting and sourcing. earlier this evening woodward sat down with rachel maddow in this studio and talked about the remaining mystery about what went on during mike flynn s short tenure in this white house. is it clear to you from your reporting for the book why they waited 18 days after getting that warning about flynn from the justice department? i think sometimes decisions are not made, but they did fire him. ultimately. yeah.
under investigation all for things that happened way before they were ever any part of a campaign. if they get manafort on a 2006 tax charge again, i understand they are trying to get my father and they ll do anything they can to get that. so, phil, you see there the line of argument. this is about things that happened well before we got here. well, that s not quite true, brian. he could make that argument about paul manafort, certainly. he was convicted on charges that did not have to do with the trump campaign. but papadopoulos, trump campaign adviser, and you can just go down the list. look at all the indictments that mueller has had against russians, russians who were interfering in the election. there were over a dozen of them that were announced just before president trump stood on stage in helsinke with president putin of russia. so that argument is not quite right. and, you know, donald trump jr. sits there, and i take him at his word that he s not worried about going
summer that president trump has been concerned about his son s legal fate, not necessarily that he ll end up in jail but certainly concerned that he may have done something wrong, may have inadvertently wandered into legal jeopardy as some of trump s associates have described that to us. we ve heard that plot from day to day. thank you very much. coming up, we ve been talking about the graphic we ve put on the corner of the screen already tonight. we re going to go to the national hurricane center. they will give us the very latest on the plot line of hurricane florence. then later, the unusual gesture by the president on a day when gestures take on added importance in this country. the 11th hour just getting started on this tuesday night, september 11.
get-go, does he not? he does. he has a relationship where it s hard to see it as anything other than the president using 9/11 for his own personal gains. he, of course, during the campaign famously said that while the towers went down, muslims in new jersey were celebrating. that was not true at all. and actually my colleague peter baker had a really great detail in his piece about the speech day which pointed out that on 9/11, president trump who, of course, was not president then but a real estate developer in new york, that when the towers went down, his building was now the tallest in all of manhattan. so the tragedy was used to promote his own agenda, and we re seeing it again today. rudy giuliani shiz lawyis his l. so pumping up rudy giuliani and