nbc news falsely edited the president s comments that russia was on his mind when he fired fbi director comey. here is what president trump said to lester holt. i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it, and, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. and here is president trump s attorney jay sekulow claiming that not everything is 100% when it comes to this interview. you know when there are interviews there are edits and i ll tell you without disclosing any detail when you review the entire transcript it s very clear as to what happened. if this is this how jay sekulow wanted to end his career as a good lawyer? look, i have to law of because where was this defense a year ago? where was this defense a year
president trump s aggressive language on tuesday. they will be met with fire and fury. the tough talk was not reflected in the president s defense budget. he cut $300 million per missile defense while the house armed services committee added $2.5 billion, the defense authorization remains bottled up in congress. from their august recess, congressional critics slashed out of the president s aggressive words, most noting it was an alarming departure from two decades of more measured presidential responses. look at what it s gotten us. there s no more room for this president to kick the can down the road. in the cold war, many believed peace was kept through the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, the belief that neither side wants to commit suicide by starting a nuclear attack. many defense hawks doubt kim jong-un thinks that way. in which case, the best defense a be a good offense. bret: thank you. a major development tonight in the investigation of the special
president trump s aggressive language on tuesday. they will be met with fire and fury. the tough talk was not reflected in the president s defense budget. he cut $300 million per missile defense while the house armed services committee added $2.5 billion, the defense authorization remains bottled up in congress. from their august recess, congressional critics slashed out of the president s aggressive words, most noting it was an alarming departure from two decades of more measured presidential responses. look at what it s gotten us. there s no more room for this president to kick the can down the road. in the cold war, many believed peace was kept through the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, the belief that neither side wants to commit suicide by starting a nuclear attack. many defense hawks doubt kim jong-un thinks that way. in which case, the best defense a be a good offense. bret: thank you. a major development tonight in the investigation of the special
the defense looks a little nervous because the jury keeps asking for the particular testimony, they haven t complained about being deadlock since yesterday morning, so perhaps they re getting closer to a verdict, and they can return a verdict on any one of those three counts, and that would be okay with the judge, by the way, if they don t reach a verdict today, and keep deliberating, they will be back here again on saturday. melissa: well, on saturday. we assumed it was monday, but on saturday, wow. thank you so much for reporting, we appreciate it. let s bring an attorney john, i want to start with the cosby case, because we re talking about that right there. i mean that is interesting. so they haven t said in the last 24 hours that they are deadlocked, since they were sent back, and they keep asking for different testimony, rick saying it is starting to make the defense a little nervous. what do you make of that? it probably should make them a little nervous, the way that i am r
defense is also requesting that any evidence filed by the prosecution now should not be allowed into court since the deadline has passed. this is including that piece of evidence that s being tested for dna. doug is saying, prosecutor saying it is critical to both parties in this case. so, esther will this request stick and what are the chances of the first-degree murder charges being dropped by the way? well, as to the new piece of evidence, it depends on what the discovery deadlines were and how egregious the failure to provide this in timely manner is to the defense. obviously very prejudicial to have it come in at the last minute. it is possible that the judge will give the defense a continuance in order to allow them to test the evidence themselves or have enough time to reevaluate the defense theory in order to incorporate the new piece of evidence. as to first-degree murder, it is unlikely that the judge before the trial will go on his own or