Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Comes from giuliani, who attempted to downplay the criminal aspect of collusion with the russians. Rather than deny that collusion took place, he now today argued that collusion isnt illegal. Lets watch. Ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. Its not. Collusion is not a crime. I dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime. The hacking is the crime. The hacking that certainly is the original the president didnt hack. Of course not. Thats he didnt pay them for hacking. Its so much fun. An apparent shift in strategy. Giuliani now appears to be saying that collusion is not so bad after all. You saw him there chuckling about it. And also 150e78d to undermined the credibility, however, of President Trumps frequent and categorical denials that there was no collusion. Which has been a familiar refrain from
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. On. Reporter after the jury is seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. Were not going to hear Opening Statements today. Its possible we could hear them tomorrow or thursday. Got it. Pete williams. Thank you very much. Let me bring in National Political reporter for the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst. Two msnbc contributors. Charlie savage. Let me go over briefly this reminder about Paul Manafort and why the Special Counsel is interested in him. Starts with donald trump. He hired Paul Manafort to run his president ial campaign in march 2016. Prior to his work on the Trump Campaign, manafort did political work overseas. Some for the prorussian
highlights which as you indicated, rick gates, all eyes will be on him. He was the right hand man to manafort. What hell have to do in order to fulfill his cooperation agreement, for the government
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Guiliani described the supposed meeting, then said it never happened. And he once again reiterated the president knew nothing about the meeting in advance. Tonight, Rudy Guiliani seems to be muddying the waters about what meetings may have taken place before the now controversial june 2016 sit down between donald trump jr. And the russians. Guiliani brought up for the first time another meeting without the president three days before the russians met at trump tower. Guiliani claims reporters have been asking questions about its occurrence, and guiliani is trying to make clear it did not happen. There wasnt another meeting, that has been leaked, but hasnt been public yet. That was a meeting, alleged meeting three days before. He says there was a meeting with donald jr. , with jared kushner, with Paul Manafort, with gates, and possibly two others in which they out of the presence of the president discussed the meeting w
coordination, collusion, conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia. the fbi couldn t come up with anything internment how long does it take to confirm what jim comey already knew. why did he take 22 months and $30 million for this investigation. he was trying to find obstruction of justice. and, if they could approve obstruction of justice, they couldn t and didn t say so in their report. shannon: this is a guy who has a great track record. if there was an intention to forget the president and not merely investigate the facts. what do you make of that? 22 months, $30 million, $19 most of them democrats, 500
testimony, his announcement is proof of what bar has said, the characterization? when adam schiff speaks you shouldn t. he is the guy who sought russia behind every tree. russia did interfere in the election but trump didn t collude with the russians but he told us he did, mueller said no he didn t. is the chairman of the dollar stone caucus. the democrats in the house of lost their minds when it comes to trump. the mueller report is done, it is over, no collusion between trump and the russians but adam schiff will not stop until he destroys this presidency. is going to your backlash to that thinking. william barr is one of the finest people i have ever known. he was attorney general on bush 41 s watch. he has the best credentials anybody could hold. is a good man. is not the problem. this insane desire to destroy everything trump is hurting the country. they won t work with trump on the border wall even though they supported it when obama was president so i disagree with adam schiff