Joy. Travel back with me to just under a year ago. When the word that was on everyone republican oos mind and every block of tv and fox news was unmasking. It all started in late march when nunez, the california congressman leading the russia investigation orchestrated a media spectacle with a press conference on the white house lawn. It was around the same time that donald trump had concocted a bogus story about president obama wiretapping him at trump tower. And that day he provided crucial backup to trumps false claim with the announcement that he had just come from briefing the president on intelligence reports. Revealing that members of his campaign and Transition Team had been incidentally surveilled by u. S. Intelligence as they surveilled foreign entities. Those Trump Associates had been victims of unmask iing. You could be forgiven for not realizing there was nothing remarkable or scandalous about any of this. Its all pretty routine for spy agencies for when they wiretap a for
Their whole investigation is over as of today, surprise, and having declared the investigation over today, they somehow today also completed their 150page report on the results of their investigation. What they have concluded is there was absolutely, positively, no collusion by the Trump Campaign and russia for sure. And maybe putin wanted hillary to win. Who could say . People who are supposed to be intimately involved in this investigation, they had no idea this was happening or coming tonight. The wall street journal was first to report the white house might be quitting the russia investigation and just announcing that its done. In response to that reporting from the wall street journal, the democrats on that committee were like, what . Theyre doing what now . The investigations over . A senior democratic staffer on the committee telling the wthe street journal as of this afternoon, quote, we have not been informed that there will not be any more interviews conducted or that the inv
Edge, not sure who will still have a job tomorrow. One official is telling axios, this is the most toxic working environment on the planet. Tonight whether you work for this administration or whether youre a republican up for election come november, are you more than a little worried about your job prospect. Politics right now in this country is about one man people have strong feelings about him. You may have noticed that. Right now that man, wants to get rid of the people he chose and replace them with people who will not restrain him, who will let trump be trump. That means between now and novembers elections he is not going to change. Harry truman had a sign on his desk, it said, the buck stops here. But it seems this president doesnt realize that. He constantly fails to take the blame for the chaos he himself is creating. The blame for the race in pennsylvania that should never have been lost by a republican. Or the one in alabama that should never have been won by a democrat. The
In a dead heat. The geeft for republicans could be evidence of a exactic wave in the midterm elections. Nbc News White House correspondent jeff ben set in moon township, pennsylvania where the president will soon speak. The crowd seems to be growing behind you. Looks like a fullhouse so far. Almost, frances. I tell you i spoke to one of the supporter here for this event and i asked him outside what do you want to see . He said he wants to see a show. And judging from Previous Campaign style rallies from this president we can expect some of that. But the president has serious work to do. He has to rev up the republican base, more to the point the trump base to come out and vote for rick saccone, the republican running for the open congressional seat in pennsylvanias 18th district. In the last couple hours or so the president put on twitter a message that i think gives a pretty good preview of what we might hear. The president saying heading to moon township, pennsylvania, to be a good p
President and anything beyond that, because they are active investigations im not going to go further with that. Fact check, false. The guilty plea is damning precisely, because it was about things that took place while he was working with trump. One of the felonies came just this month when he lied to bob muellers team while trying to cut that deal with him. Reince priebus also trying another version of this distancing, which is what were seeing under fire from the trump white house. Here priebus was claiming that gates was actually only involved in busywork. More logistics, event planning, things that were going on behind the scenes, a lot of the busywork was what rick, i saw, did. That is, of course, a far cry from the general election when trumps top advisers were touting how he was in the top four. In trump tower today, the top four, man further aafort, gates and myself, we met on any number of issues. That is the person who says he is guilty, rick gates. Keep that in mind as the