And defended the words he used to explain that decision in the report he sent to merrick garland, the attorney general. I said President Biden was old and he had a poor memory because thats what i saw when i interviewed him, hur keeps on saying. Anticipating that testimony, the white house released a transcript of that interview between President Biden and Special Counsel hur hoping to refute those findings. So lets get into it. Find out exactly what that transcript says. Also what democrats and republicans got out of todays testimony. Joining us now, nbc News White House correspondent, mike memoli and lisa rubin. First off to you, mike. You read the whole transcript. I tried to get you on the show yesterday, you couldnt come on. You said you were doing Something Special in secret. Now we know what it was. You were reading the transcript. Does it line up with the way hur described the interview . Certainly in the mind of democrats, no. Thats part of what the reaction was and what we sa
Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
The mid-terms pretty much changed the calculation. biden overperformed or the democrats overperformed in a way that i don t think was necessarily expected by many on the right, just because of history and tradition when it comes to the flipping of the house, but i do think that going into this next election cycle things are going to be different and a lot harder and i think the biden administration recognizes those who are on the campaign recognize this , some republicans are giving them assist, we see desantis, you know, culture warring as much as he possibly can but for the most part, the democrats have a much steeper hill to climb. this go-around than they did before unless we see republicans not taking lessons from the mid-terms running again on things like abortion rights. that was unfortunate for them and pretty much an achilles heel. the other problem democrats have the president has very low numbers and their question about his age, so thanks so much. up next twitter is out,
The Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act just moved through the U.S. House of Representatives, supported by a weird bipartisan coalition. This is very, very good news.