Providing information to federal prosecutors. Weisselbergers ties to the president go back decades. He acted as trumps financial gatekeeper overseeing the trump oregon and trump foundation. Now he has been granted immunity and is talking to prosecutors about hush money payments to two women ahead of the 2016 president ial election. This a day after trumps longtime media ally david pecker accepted his own immunity deal and two days after his former lawyer implicated him in a Campaign Finance violation. Yesterday, i said the walls were closing in on this president. Today this is how Time Magazine is illustrating a presidency in peril. They filed this cover in the deep. Our in deep. Excuse me. The New York Times reported that Manhattan District Attorneys Office is considering criminal charges against the Trump Organization, and two senior executives. A probe would focus on the documentation of 130,000 payment to trumps longtime Attorney Michael Cohen and whether Business Records were fals
Winning the democratic nomination in florida has been a shot of adrenaline for the Democratic Party base coasttocoast today. It absolutely makes that one governors race a big national story. A point of National Focus between now and election day in november. Were going to talk this hour with the dean of Florida Political reporters who is and i say this in a nice way. He is a freaking cynical guy. Definitely ive seen everything you cant surprise me kind of guy. He today told us Andrew Gillum winning that race in florida and what it means for florida and democrats, broadly, is something he has never seen before. And he never says stuff like that. I know this is one candidate, one campaign, one race. But there is something about that surprise result in that one race last night na has grabbed even the most jaded political observers by their lap els and shaken them up. We will be talking about that, some of the reasons behind what happened there coming up. In addition, that Andrew Gillum ra
Confidence vote on her leadership. Also, im happy to tell you that Colin Powells top aide joins me to rebut Donald Trumps attack on this navy s. E. A. L. Who helped kill Osama Bin Laden. But, we begin tonight right now with important developments in this battle between President Trump and the Justice Department, a fight that as we all know by now has defined Donald Trumps first term, at least ever since he fired the fbi director and sparked bob muellers probe, and trumps new pick for attorney general is now under new pressure tonight. Ky tell you three Democratic Senators suing to block this appointment, including senator Richard Blumenthal who joins me in a moment. His effort zeros in on a technicality. But the larger battle is over. Matt whitakers criticisms of this Mueller Probe, which trump claims he didnt know about despite Donald Trumps habit of watching tv news and yes, fixating on criticism of bob mueller. Did you know before you appointed him that he had that record that was s
Morning that she may be thinking about getting into the race. Weve got a busy 10 00 a. M. Hour and our team is here covering all of it. We start in washington with the white house on defense, on the receiving end of a bunch of news that might mean more problems for the president. First, brand new nbc news reporting on the simmering frustrations inside the Justice Department and a dispute inside the special counsels office itself. Some members of mulers team frustrated with the attorney general, questioning why he didnt use more of their findings in the letter to congres congress. Thats as some on barrs team say the special counsel fell short of that task. Democrats demanding six years of the president s business and personal tax returns. At least one Administration Official saying theyll work to protect the president s privacy, setting up what will almost certainly be a court battle royale. Lawmakers now looking for documents and a facetoface with one of the top organizers. We have a l
Veteran tonight about how a politics of this is getting tough for the president s party. And this day in the life of californians in the fire zone. No power, no school, no home to return to. No telling how far an ember will carry. Tonight it meant fire swirling around the library and grave site of a former president. All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday evening. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,014 of this trump administration. Another day of nearly hourly developments in the krimpeachme inquiry including more testimony, and the clock is under way toward tomorrows initial vote of the house. This is a resolution to lay out the impeachment process in effect. In the meantime and looking ahead tonight, House Democrats have told former National Security adviser john bolton they want him to testify about the Trump White House and ukraine. Tonight boltons lawyer says hes not willing to appear voluntarily but that he stand