Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Washington post also reports tonight the white house is preparing an Executive Order that authorizes the president to punish foreign interference in u. S. Elections. The post writes, quote, the eightpage draft order appears to be an effort to stave off aggressive legislation, including a bill introduced in congress this month and to quell criticism that trump seems to give more credence to russian president Vladimir Putins denials of interference than to u. S. Intelligence agencies conclusion to the kremlin sought to undermine the 2016 election. That comes to us as Florida Democratic senator bill nelson, whose running in a tough reelection fight, tells the tampa bay times, quote, russian operatives have penetrated some of floridas Election Systems ahead of the 2018 mid terms. He said any further information is classified. Today the white house actually did impose new sanctions on
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Offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton, he wrote no details or supporting information was required. Later, emails between don junior and the man who organized the meeting said it was supposed to damaging email on Hillary Clinton. Quote, if its what you say, i love it. To get out ahead of that story, don junior changed his line again. The information they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton i thought was political Opposition Research. Just after this we heard this from trumps lawyer. The Statement Released was donald trump jr. And his lawyers. The president was not involve in the that. The president was not involved in the drafting of that statement. It came from his son. July 31, trump himself personally dictated the statement. Then hater this year it was revealed trumps own lawyers admitted in a momentumo to Robert Mueller that yes, the president himself did dictate the trump tower statement but added there was no collusion. This weekend, the president s same lawyer jay
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Crimes security fraud. An individual, a donald Trump Nominee who is occupying put in place by the chief judge of the district because the president did not get these nominees through the Senate Quickly enough. So it wound up the individual chief judge in the Southern District pointed mr. Berman permanently. And quite clear that we follow the facts regardless of politics. If there is evidence that you violated the law, you will be prosecuted. Making frantic phone calls to his son, the allegations pretty amazing. Caught on tape. Thanks for joining me. Caught on tape. Thanks for joining me. I am joined by elizabeth
together. All of the intentional actions they took to hide information from the government to defraud banks to increase the amount of money they had access to. And confessed on the stand to stealing from the man he worked for to a tune of a lot of money. Michael cohen has been raided by the fbi. He is awaiting his fate one way or another
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. And cause significant negative economic consequences for iran. And from intern to loyal deputy to arch nemesis, Rick Gates Set to face the heat from the lawyers it had as they crossexamine the former Campaign Aide one day after his testimony. He sat in the alex andrea, virginia courtroom on monday. Manafort glared at him from the defense table. Theyll likely paint him as an untrust worthy testify interested character. Take a look at just what rick gates did and what he said about manaforts crimes and his own. Remember that, and his own. Hes no good guy. He said he had a total of 15 Foreign Companies owned by manafort from the United States government. Companies gates said z Russian Oligarchs paid millions into,
was asked about a meeting between manafort and members of congress that took place years earlier. A meeting gates falsely claimed never actually happened. In his testimony, he admitted to the lie, but point
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Million, which means theres about 16 million unaccounted for. That was unreported to the irs, so hes not paying taxes on that. A lot of that was money that he made from his work for ukraine overseas, and then funneled that through Bank Accounts in cyprus. We know that he used a lot of those funds to pay for that lavish lifestyle we heard about last week and early this week. Things like his Ostrich Jacket that has gotten so much attention in this trial. Who doesnt want an Ostrich Jacket . Ashley parker, as this case moves forward, the question of whether President Trump is going to be talking to bob mueller, it seems to be stuck in the mud. This is the president s tweet today. This is an illegal brought rigged witch hunt run by people who are totally corrupt and are conflicted. It was started and paid for by Crooked Hillary and democrats. Phon