The president invited Democratic Leaders Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi into the oval office. A turn on the cameras, and informed them he was ready to shut down the federal government in order to get a border wall. Heres what happened next. One thing i think we can agree on is we shouldnt shut down the government over a dispute, and you want to shut it down. The last time, chuck, you set it down. No, no, no. I dont want to do what you did. I will shut down the government if i dont get my wall, none of us you want to put you set it you know what i will say . Yes. If we dont get what we want, one way or another, whether it is the review or military, there anything you want to call, i will shut down the government. Okay. I disagree. I am proud to shut down the government for voter security, because the people of this country dont want criminals and people that have s of problems and drugs pouring into our country. I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. Im not going to
Besos in writing . I have the letter. Ill read it for you. Friday adjacent. What do you say . Lets get after it. All right. So this comes directly from the office of the special counsel. They say that Paul Manaforts 2016 meeting while he was Campaign Chair with an alleged russian operative named constantine kilimnik. They say its not a throw away. Its not a detail. Its at the heart of their investigation. And there is new evidence emerging tonight. Muellers team says it has proof that the president s former chair continued doing work related to ukraine in 2018 after he was indicted. Think about that. He continued to keep in touch with kilimnik and discuss ukrainian politics through last year. Ukrainian politics means russian politics because that was the context of the discussion. How to do things through ukraine that would be good for russia. Where does this come from . A transcript of a closed door hearing on monday. The big question, did the president know about the manafort meeting
Besos in writing . I have the letter. Ill read it for you. Friday adjacent. What do you say . Lets get after it. All right. So this comes directly from the office of the special counsel. They say that Paul Manaforts 2016 meeting while he was Campaign Chair with an alleged russian operative named constantine kilimnik. They say its not a throw away. Its not a detail. Its at the heart of their investigation. And there is new evidence emerging tonight. Muellers team says it has proof that the president s former chair continued doing work related to ukraine in 2018 after he was indicted. Think about that. He continued to keep in touch with kilimnik and discuss ukrainian politics through last year. Ukrainian politics means russian politics because that was the context of the discussion. How to do things through ukraine that would be good for russia. Where does this come from . A transcript of a closed door hearing on monday. The big question, did the president know about the manafort meeting
Said theyd pick things up today. Republicans to put it mildly were not pleased. I want the members on both sides of the aisle to think about what has happened over these last two days and to search their consciences before we cast our final votes. Therefore, the committee will now stand in recess until tomorrow morning at 10 00 a. M. , at which point i will move to divide the question so that each of us may have the opportunity to cast up or down votes on each of the articles of impeachment and let history be our judge. The committee is in recesses. Mr. Chairman, mr. Chairman, there was no consulting from the Ranking Member on your schedule for tomorrow, which youve just blown up schedules for everyone. You chose not to consult the Ranking Member on a schedule issue of this magnitude . So typical. This is the Kangaroo Court that were talking about. We have special coverage here from nbc news headquarters in new york. Nicolle wallace will be with us in just a moment as well. But i want
The second question, however, whether the president illegally interfered with the special counsels investigation, Robert Mueller was far less clear. In fact, mr. Mueller wrote explicitly his report does not exonerate the president. He left that decision to the attorney general who decided in just two days that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. That decision is already sparking hard questions while President Trump, however, is going on the attack threatening his critics. This was an illegal takedown that failed and hopefully somebody is going to be looking at the other side. So what now . Will the president and his Administration Push for a new investigation, perhaps even a new special counsel to investigate the investigators . Will the president feel emboldened to pardon those in his administration, including Michael Flynn who have pleaded guilty to federal crimes. Conversely, will democrats feel chastened and pull back on this and other probes of mr. Trump . Finally, will