You dont believe that to be the case . We acknowledge the threat, it is real, it is continuing. And were doing everything we can to have a legitimate election. If you dont catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it is very hard to say who did the hacking. With that being said, ill go along with russia. Could have been china, could have been a lot of different groups. Make no mistake, the scope of this foreign influence threat is broad and deep. Ive seen it described as two administrations. John mclaughlin says were seeing orwellian. You have senior advisers saying over and over again as you heard there. And then you have the president saying something entirely different. What do you make of it and what is the lasting effect of that . One thing that we didnt see in that clip is even john bolton said that the president supports our efforts and top priority. Exactly. But that is not true because the
of law, but court of public opinion. And he is really good at that about tapping into his base.
Ayman Mohyeldin hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. He walked that fine line. He was just very critical of the investigation. Not going after mueller in a personal kpcapacity. But with the tone of the tweet we just read, he is really trying to assign mueller a motive as to why hes going after trump eluding to things like he didnt get the job, Nasty Business Relationship that went sour between the two men. Do you think this is a different tactic now that were seeing that hes building up for the past several months . Hes been going after mueller for a while. I do think were at a critical moment here. Theres a lot of of expectation that mueller is building to some more indictments, to some more cases and theres that Obstruction Report that he has been working on for some time. And theres a generally belief that hes not going to do anything after labor day. He doesnt want to be accused of interfearing in the election in the same way that james com
Private. Something that would make any citizen without regard to party very concerned tonight. Allegedly abusing the power of office to try to shut down a probe into his own white house. Words that apply to nixon that undid his presidency and words that are advanced tonight. Lets get into the story. You may know if you watch this news program, we dont typically tweet Donald Trumps tweets as news stories because most of them are not news. Many of them are not factual, some of them are outright lies and a great many of them are ploys designed to hijack the conversation, distract the media or troll the notion. Up front, this is why weaver doing Something Different tonight. President trump is telling the Attorney General to shut down the mueller probe. Hes stating it in public and in writing that Jeff Sessions should stop the probe now. To be clear, if donald trump made that order in a private meeting with Jeff Sessions, or on a phone call to the doj or held a Big Press Conference on
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Updates of the days news. Directly intersects with the news of the day about there being potentially a second premeeting for the russia trump tower meeting. Rick gates is one of the names that Rudy Guilliani slipped and revealed in the series of interviews yesterday. What is the significance of Paul Manafort dropping his case against robert mueller. He was trying to have this case dismissed in court, saying that Robert Muellers jurisdiction did not extend to what he is actually charging Paul Manafort with . As i understand, he dropped those charges yesterday. It just seems he is increasingly finding himself to be more cornered and he doesnt have a lot of options to fight back at this point, and this is all getting back to that original goal of trying to squeeze manafort and get as. Information as possible out of him as they move closer hopefully to doing an interview of the president himself. That is still very much on the table. Also, heidi, why is it that Paul Manafort you think hasn
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Many months later, thats after the inauguration, after the election, when fbi director james comey went down to the hill, where he was testifying and said, yes, there was an open probe. By that time, the fbi had also initiated a separate but related investigation and that has now been broken much into public view, much more, because the break came with this very curious indictment of a woman named maria butina. Now, she was suspected as an unregistered agent of the russian government. That she was trying to mount this covert influence operation through a conservative group, a Gun Rights Group in the u. S. Tonight, the same reporter who had the Breakthrough Scoop about the Steele Dossier has a new and obviously provocative question. Did alleged russian spy, maria butina, cause a Leadership Shake up at the nra . The backstory here is an fbi dive, prior to the fact of trump becoming president , into russian attempts to inf