Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Thats a really good thing. Now were being hindered by the russian hoax. Its a hoax, okay . Earlier this week he wrote, quote, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now. Bob mueller is totally conflicted and his 17 angry democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to the usa. His concern about Paul Manaforts financial crimes trial comes out in this posting. Quote, Paul Manafort worked for Ronald Reagan, bob dole and many other prominent respected political leaders. He worked for me for a very short time. Why didnt government tell me he was under investigation . These old charges have nothing to do with collusion. A hoax. But trump reserved some of his sharpest attacks for his critics, the news media. Even these horrible horrendous people say look at it, it looks l
that s a really good thing. now we re being hindered by the russian hoax. it s a hoax, okay? earlier this week he wrote, quote, attorney general jeff sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now. bob mueller is totally conflicted and his 17 angry democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to the usa. his concern about paul manafort s financial crimes trial comes out in this posting. quote, paul manafort worked for ronald reagan, bob dole and many other prominent respected political leaders. he worked for me for a very short time. why didn t government tell me he was under investigation? these old charges have nothing to do with collusion. a hoax. but trump reserved some of his sharpest attacks for his critics, the news media. even these horrible horrendous people say look at it, it looks like the academy awards. you ever see this?
static in terms of his approval ratings. so it s going to be on the basis of every last republican turning out, particularly every last base supporter. i think we can expect to hear more and more of what we heard last night. you ve covered a story or two in the pantheons of donald trump. and just yesterday after his intelligence community came out and talked about the russia threat he came out and called it a hoax. where does this rank in the trump weeks of his presidency? i actually think it s no worse as some of the worst. but when you look at it substantively it was really important. because when you think about it here we are more than a year and a half after he s taken office, and we re coming up on two years after he was elected.
tweets saying that attorney general sessions should stop the investigation is an active act of obstruction of justice. i also think that his tweet that the hoax about hoax and the manafort trial, saying that there s no collusion there and the trial s a hoax, could be seen as jury tampering. he is clearly playing to his base and doing everything he can to undermine the russia investigation. he has done nothing to protect the country, and i think it s a serious problem for him from a legal perspective. it s really bad. jonathan lemire, as we say in new jersey just for a little bon mat, the staff for the 4:00 p.m. hour put together a collection, this is not necessarily everything, a collection of some of the things that were said in wilkes-barre that were not true.
the unanimous consensus of the intelligence community, of this country is that we were attacked by our bigger adversary, russia. and for the first time in the past week he presided over a meeting the first time, a meeting of his national security council. it lasted somewhere between under an hour, maybe just a har half-hour before he went off to bedminster for his golf club for last weekend. so this week because the administration feels so on the defensive they re not doing enough. we re just three months away from a mid-term election where the intelligence community is saying that russia is continuing to try to subvert our elections, they bring five top national security officials before the press corp in the briefing room to say something the president himself has never said publicly. that was a tablo that should