And what im concerned about is someone who doesnt want to try to relitigate 2016, but wants to make sure our country is protected in 2018 when you dont have someone in the white house whos kind of leading a whole of government approach. It means that our response to these kind of actions by russia and for that matter other nations that may try to copy russias efforts, those National Security efforts are undermined by this kind of aversion in the white house to face the reality. Also tonight, another Washington Post report says that music promoter Rob Goldstone who set up that june 2016 trump tower meeting with the president s eldest son and several different russians offered to broker a meeting between donald trump and Vladimir Putin right after mr. Trump announced he was running for the white house. President trump has been outspoken about his admiration for putin. The russian leader dismissed the
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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Chairman, Paul Manafort. He has pleaded not guilty, but heres why this really matters. The first trial to come out of the Mueller Investigation will give us the most detailed snapshot yet of what cards Robert Mueller really has. And as soon as this week, the president s lawyer says he could decide whether to sit for an interview with the mueller team, although weve heard that one before. Right now the president s not happy with mueller. Donald trump firing off a whole bunch of tweets, trashing the investigation, offering up new details, too about his previous claims of mueller conflicts of interest, claims the Justice Department has shot down. Lets go to the white house with nbcs kristen welker, here to get us started. Rudy guiliani had more to say about all of this, just a couple of hours ago, including what seemed to be a shifting of the goalpost, no . Reporter it was striking, hallie, to hear Rudy Guiliani, yes
Rage with this . And saying farmers are saying its okay, we can take these tariff, the hitter that getting, i havent heard a farmer say that. Says the guy with a 757 jet. And it can be revoked by congress they have a voice to play here if they want to play it. If they hate this Trade Policies so much, they can do something about it. And every day, we see people cowering in the corner, we see someone like the commander who told the truth in front of the Senate Committee and in front of america. And as long as we have one person telling the truth, every day, getting that news out, we have a chance. That does it for us this morning, Stephanie Ruhle picks up the coverage. Thanks, mika, joe. Hi there, im Stephanie Ruhle. Facebook says it has found dozens of fake accounts, all part of a Covert Campaign to attack the American Democratic process. Surprise, surprise, just before the 2018 midterms. Was it the russians again . And what can actually be done to stop it . That has everything but the
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Jeopardy for the president. Were learning more about the trumpmueller relationship. The day after he interviewed Robert Mueller to be the director of the fbi, trump was in an Oval Office Meeting when an aid announced that mueller had been appointed the Special Counsel to investigate the Trump Campaign. Trump and Attorney General jeff session, who attended both meetings were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. The president immediately blasted sessions for not knowing the announcement was coming and challenged how the person he just interviewed for the fbi job and who trump had said he had a past dispute with over Golf Club Fees could now be investigating him, the person said. Now, we dont know if trump had turned down mueller for the fbi job at this point. But we do know that Christopher Wrey wasnt named until a month after. Read on the man, he knew he would also be
A look at the days news and headlines. Manafort into paying his American Express bill and may have fraudulently submitted personal expenses to be paid by the trump inaugural committee. The defense team says they exposed him as unreliable. After all the laws youve told you expect this jury to believe you . Gates said im here to tell the truth and take responsibility for my actions. Mr. Manafort had the same path. I am trying to change. He says if there are charges of financial funny businessman fort always knew where the money was. The judge jumped in to say manafort wasnt that great knowing where his money was if gates was able to steal as much as he was admitted to stealing. Gates was told that the Manafort Defense Team will have at least another hours worth of questioning for him this morning starting at 9 30 local
time. We dont know who the mueller teams next witness would be that they might call. We know they plan to wrap up their case, rest their case sometime this week. Sandra. S