administration, and president trump assured everyone today he doesn t need to prepare very much for the upcoming nuclear summit with north korea. just hours after launching a fresh round of attacks on the russia investigation. we are also following a new report from the new york times tonight that details how associates of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort are abandoning him as special counsel, robert mueller, closes in. we ll have more on that in just a moment. first, the president s all-out barrage against special counsel robert mueller s team, the obama administration, and, of course, former fbi director james comey. the president wrote on twitter, in part, quote, isn t it ironic getting ready to go to the g7 in canada to fight for our country on trade, capital t, then off to singapore to meet with north korea and the nuclear problem. but back home, we still have the 13 angry democrats pushing the witch hunt. there has never been a group of
again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 504 of the trump administration, and president trump assured everyone today he doesn t need to prepare very much for the upcoming nuclear summit with north korea. just hours after launching a fresh round of attacks on the russia investigation. we are also following a new report from the new york times tonight that details how associates of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort are abandoning him as special counsel, robert mueller, closes in. we ll have more on that in just a moment. first, the president s all-out barrage against special counsel robert mueller s team, the obama administration, and, of course, former fbi director james comey. the president wrote on twitter, in part, quote, isn t it ironic getting ready to go to the g7 in canada to fight for our country on trade, capital t, then off to singapore to meet with north korea and the nuclear problem. but back home, we still have the
people and how our government functions. and who is acting honestly. i think at the same time that we investigate russia and same time we investigate donald trump s actions regarding james comey, we also have to remember that there is a lot of unanswered questions about eavesdropping on republican presidential candidates during the 2016 election by the obama administration. and both lindsey gram and rand paul have said they ve been informed by people in the intelligence community that they were subjects of investigation and eavesdropping. so let s investigate everything f you re looking for the truth with a capital t, everything should be looked at including what happened on the other side of the aisle in the 2016 campaign. i know someone, john wloshgs is hopping out of his seat in front of the television camera in washington, d.c., right now. i know he is. you know me too well and john knows me, too. there is no other side of the aisle here. in 2016, we saw a foreign power attac
working-class, middle-class people who are pretty well off, frankly and just were angry at the media. they re angry at president obama. the grievances were not exactly tied to their economic status. and the grievances were not really tied to race, i should say. they were that the country is being betrayed from within by barack obama. there s one man i didn t get to quote in the article who started to weave a theory about how gas prices were artificially suppressed before the 2008 election, that he tried to explain how the economic crisis happened in ways that didn t make a ton of sense unless you think they, capital t, they are out to get us. and that is a sentiment that is not really tethered to one little group of the country. it was pretty big in this room. okay. hunter, you wrote on this plan to get 100% of the black vote. which i m just going to go out on a limb and predict doesn t happen. but i do think this. there s been all this reporting about how all over the place donald t
tied to their economic status. and the grievances were not really tied to race, i should say. they were that the country is being betrayed from within by barack obama. there s one man i didn t get to quote in the article who started to weave a theory about how gas prices were artificially suppressed before the 2008 election, that he tried to explain how the economic crisis happened in ways that didn t make a ton of sense unless you think they, capital t, they are out to get us. and that is a sentiment that is not really tethered to one little group of the country. it was pretty big in this room. okay. hunter, you wrote on this plan to get 100% of the black vote. which i m just going to go out on a limb and predict doesn t happen. but i do think this. there s been all this reporting about how all over the place donald trump has been in his career positionwise, and i do think that were he to win the nomination i think he would just etch-a-sketch it up, shake it and just be completely