His way, but thats now how our government works. And we begin today with this potential political bombshell. President trumps former National Security adviser offering to talk to congressional lawmakers. But what does he know . Why does he want immunity . And what could it all mean for this white house . I have a great panel to help me break it all down. Lets go right to Nbcs Kristen Welker live at the white house for us. What exactly is Michael Flynn saying and how is the administration reacting . Well, Michael Flynn, the former ousted National Security adviser is agreeing to testify if he gets immunity. Now, i want to go back to a point that you made at the top, chris. Look, asking for immunity does not necessarily mean that youve committed some type of a crime or that you have something to hide. However, ironically on meet the press last year, flynn said that it likesly does mean that you committed a crime. So the optics of that, not great. But look, his lawyer sent out a Statement
The podium and say that president bush resigned the waiver to the Jerusalem Embassy act. President trump, as a candidate, made this one of his central planks as far as his relationship with israel. There were questions about what kind of friend toeuz rail will President Trump will. He signed the waiver, as so many president s had in the past, but then today he changed things around even though hes signing the waiver. That waiver has to be signed all the way up to an embassy in jerusalem was opened. The president said were going to begin the process to move the embassy and for the first time, recognize jerusalem as the capital of the country. Listen to what the president said. Today we finally acknowledge the obvious. That jerusalem is israels capital. This is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality. It is also the right thing to do. Reporter nothing more than a recognition of reality because, for israelis and for the israeli government, jerusalem has long been the capital. T
Yes, the president wasnt a part of this decisionmaking process and we would refer you to the fbi where Christopher Wray serves as the director which as i said last week, and ill repeat again today, the president has full confidence in him and has put the decisions at the fbi in his hands. But her answer defies the reality that the president is very much involved in personnel decisions for his new fbi director chris wray. The president tweeting four times his antimccabe sentiments and making these comments to reporters last week. Should mccabe go, mr. President . Should mccabe go . Mccabe got more than 500,000 from essentially Hillary Clinton. And is he investigating Hillary Clinton . So should he go . Do you remember, did anybody here many of my speeches where i talked about mccabe, he was the star of my speech. This isnt now. I said, a man who was more or less in charge of got the wife got 500,000 from terry, terry is hillary. And, yeah, i mean do you regret having him as your fbi dir
New legal jeperdy for the president and his personal lawyer for the very first time we know the president s name is on a search warrant in an fbi investigation. Lets go right to abbey phillip live at the white house for the latest. Abbey . Reporter good morning. We are learning some new depails about that search warrant that authorized the raid on Michael Cohens home and office this week. Apparently federal investigators wanted to know what documents or any communications that cohen might have had with President Trump about the access hollywood video, thats that video in which then donald trump bragged about groping women. It was released about a month before the 2016 election and its not clear what exactly theyre looking for, what there might be but they are apparently looking for any evidence of communication with cohen and the president about that tape and perhaps if there was any effort on the part of cohen to suppress the release of that tape which was ultimately leaked by some ki
Cancelling the june 12th talks writing based on the tremendous anger and open hostility i feel its inappropriate to have this long planned meeting. You talk about nuclear capabilities, the president wrote seeming to address kim jongun but ours are so massive, i pray to god they will never to have be used. I am hopeful we can continue to have conversations and put this back on track so we can get to place where we can achieve the outcome. Former u. S. Ambassador to south korea joins us on the phone. The cancellation dramatic. Secretary mpompeo said there wee conversations last night. At the state Department Yesterday at 3 00, yesterday afternoon, i was with pompeo and his chinese counter part. They were talking about the planning proceeding and saying this is a historic moment. We have to take the opportunity for piece to make history. What happened. I think you make an important point. Just laths night white house officials here told me among others that they were still going ahead wit