Another week comes to a close. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 302 of the Trump Administration brings new indications that Jared Kushner, the president s Senior Adviser and soninlaw, arguably the closest man to the president in the west wing, appears to have been telling less than the whole truth when it comes to the campaigns contacts with russian officials. Settle in, this is involved. New reporting tonight from two of our own, ken dilanian and carol lee of nbc news, it says kushner did not reveal an attempt to reach out to the Trump Campaign from a russian banker who is close to president Vladimir Putin and who has been accused of having ties to organized crime. This comes just one day after the top democrat and republican on the Senate Judiciary committee sent kushner a letter saying that he had failed to turn over documents to the committee requested last month. Among those missing documents, Communications Concerning a russian back doo
Trouble the bill will face, especially in the senate which is why last night that the hour when the Senate Finance committee was voting on the tax bill President Trump dramatically changed the subject to something he was sure the news media would prefer to talk about. The president is so desperate to turn voter attention away from whats actually in the tax bill that he changed the subject to his own history of Sexual Assault. He knew thats what he was doing when he sent out two tweets at this hour last night attacking senator al franken. He knew everyone would point out the hypocrisy of trump attacking franken and not saying a word about roy moore and, of course, the hypocrisy of donald trump of all people attacking anyone about sexual matters after trump himself was caught on tape confessing and bragging about Sexual Assault. Donald trump knew exactly what his tweets last night were going to do to the coverage of the tax bill. And we will get to the news about al franken and roy moore
White house but we begin with craig palcot with the reporting on what is happening today. Hello. Reporter hi, bill. Hi, sandra. Real authentic is what is be described as the author of north korea but warns the devil is in the detail. Probably the most significant thing to come out of kim jongun is the suggestion theyre willing to discuss giving up their Nuclear Weapons if there was a guarantee of the security of the regime and an agreement towards a summit next month amid assurances they will not target the south and its the first time kim jongun has raised the possibility of getting rid of nukes and the freezing of testing nuke and missiles during talks. Our contacts are saying its just talk and theres a lot of questions. For example, what would constitute a guarantee withdrawal of u. S. Troops from south korea is a nonstarter and how would the denuclearization be verified and that would be on the agenda. And the ball now is in the u. S. Court. For example, when we were in south korea
Office and the hotel room of mr. Cohen. It wasnt just information about payments to a former porn star, magazine companys deal with a playboy model. It wasnt just allegedly about bank records, it was about communications between cohen and his client, donald trump, about that access Hollywood Tape that threatened to derail the president s campaign. Remember almost immediately after the tape was released, wickileaks published informatio damaging to Hillary Clinton. Jim acosta is with us from the white house. What are you learning about mondays raid . Reporter weve confirmed that fbi agents that raided the home, office and hotel of Michael Cohen saw communications that mr. Trump had with cohen and others regarding the infamous access Hollywood Tape that captured the president making lewd remarks about women a month before the election. Now according to sources familiar with the matter, the warrants specific reference to the president is the first direct known mention of the president in a
His client trump about that access Hollywood Tape. Cnn jim acosta has the story. What are you learning about mondays raid. Reporter we are confirming that fbi agents who raided, sought communications that mr. Cohen had with trump and others. Regarding the infamous specific reference to the president is the first direct reverence to the president. So this is obviously, you know, a story that a lot of people thought would not come back to haunt the president , but appears to have merged with this Mueller Investigation in the way that the white house is not happy about. Do we know why they would have been interested in this information or why they were looking for information about the tape or attempts to keep it from coming out . Reporter one of the sources that we talked to said the warrant also referenced an investigation into wire fraud and bank fraud. Cnn reported that fbi agents removed cell phone, financial files, business documents. The search warrant sought communications between