Who met with the president s family and Campaign Team to deliver dirt on Hillary Clinton now describes herself as a lawyer and informant for a top kremlin official. This is brandnew reporting from Nbcs Richard Engel and is based on emails that show that the russian lawyer in question Natalia Veselnitskaya has now recanted her earlier denials of russian government ties. She acknowledged to nbc news that, quote, i am a lawyer and i am an informant. Since 2013 i have been actively communicating with the office of the russian prosecutor general. The significance, of course, is that the trump tower meet Sergio Garcia a known flash point to be under investigation and scrutiny by special Counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation into possible obstruction of justice and collusion. To help us understand how richards reporting impacts both the special counsel investigation and essentially renders incomplete or irrelevant the House Intel Committee report, we have some of our very best reporters
So the top two finishers yet to go forward get to go forward. It wasnt clear for republicans that they would have anyone at the top of the ticket so they could drive out support for their candidates in november. Now it looks like certainly for governor, there a t the top of the ticket. A businessman, john cox will be there. Then on the senate side, he will face gavin newsom. On the senate side, diane fine seen would face Kevin De Leon Dianne Feinstein would face Kevin De Leon or jim bradley, not well known from laguna miguel. That will come to play. The bigger question for the house of representatives, there were ten seats that democrats nationwide were targeting. Seven of those districts that Hillary Clinton won where republicans were serving. It wasnt clear because of the mad rush of democrats into all of those races and you had the top ten top two primary system that the vote was so split among so many races that it wasnt clear that a democrat would advance in a now attacks pierce t
Bilateral negotiations with canada and france. This is before the big summit with the North Koreans. Lets say a doue powwow. This is going to be an more. Interesting opening act, my friend. The g7 getting more interested by the day. Who would have thunk it . President trump set to go to ater this week the g7 meetings. Trade will loom large. Now we know of two different bilateral meetings set to take place. President trump will m Emmanuel Macron and also with justin trudeau. Im told a phone call between the president and the french leader could be described as tough and theres a separate report out this morning descris the latest phone call between trudeau and the president as testy. Briefing reporters, the economic adviser larry kudlow tried to down play these trade tensions. The meeting of the finance ministers got contentious enough as the g6 plus one as in the u. S. Being the outlier. Kudlow, likened the current environment that one big family that having a moment. Were talrything t
Pardons. Is that right, john . Traditionally, dana the end of the year and hands out pardons. This president president likes to d them seems that way. He pardoned jacks johnson, the conservative film maker denish dsouza. Just to make the differenceation here, commuting a johnson does not pardon someone. It lets them out of jail. Youll remember from the bush administration, president bush commuted the sentence of Scooter Libby but did notardon he him. On alice hnson, Kim Kardshian came to the white house on may 30th to meet with President Trump on it. He she was talking about Prison Reform with ied kushner and requested that alice johnsonsennce be commuted urntly in alaba and t offender convicted of drug conspiracy and money laundering, part of a cocaine trafficking operation in tennes1996. In commuting her sentence, the white house says that johnson h accepted responsibility for her behavior and has been a model example in prison. The president is considering a petition for matthew cha
28 pickups so far for the democrats. 15 seats remain open. Were watching them in realtimement the headline already known thank god for the women on the democrat side. If thats what youre following if not for the women who won the party tonight, you would not be in the position youre in right now if youre a democrat. Thats the story for you. Thats who youre going to thank when you see these headlines. The u. S. Senate side, very different story. And they see themselves getting a comfort cushion there that is fueling the president s feelings that he did historic gains tonight on the senate side. So what are we watching in terms of house seats . Lets go to phil mattingly. There are a lot of races that arent just close but are like within 1 close, right . Yeah. One of the races that were looking at is georgia six, right . Yep. Theres been a development there. Lets start on that race. Lets set it up. Theres 15 outstanding races. Thats why you only see a little color here. Democrats are lead