Trump is allegedly back at the white house. We should mention, this happens under president s of both parties. Usually a motorcade snafu. They were eventually gathered up. And we show you what we keep out back here, the Rockefeller Center tree is up and lit. A 75footer from the new york suburbs. It certainly changes the view from here at this time every year, at least for a while. And that is our broadcast tonight. Thank you so much for being here with us. And good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. And thanks for joining us this hour. In the summer of 1974, the Special Counsel who was investigating the Watergate Scandal wrote a letter to congress, to the Judiciary Committee in congress detailing what his investigation, what his prosecutors and investigators
had turned up about Criminal Behavior by the president at the time, president Richard Nixon. Now, by this point, by the summer of 1974, the president s Campaign Chairman, who would also have been his Attorney Genera
Rockefeller center they are going to light the Christmas Tree. Ainsley if you are a tourist et come on down if you live here get out of way. Traffic and lots of streets closed. Take the subway today. Steve indeed. Thank you for joining us on this very busy wednesday. Ainsley thanks. Great to be back. Steve we start with a fox news alert. Big win for republicans. Ainsley thats right that lady right there. The senator in mississippi Cindy Hyde Smith beating out mike enis i in mississippis Runoff Election. Brian Jonathan Serrie live in jackson, mississippi to break it all down. This wasnt as close as many thought. Yeah, brian, steve,and ainsley. It was a comfortable victory although somewhat closer than you might expect in a deeply red state. Cindy hide smith waste nothing time saying she is going to go back to washington this morning and get right back to work. Take a look at the race board you can see the marginal. Hide smith made goffs during gat were made as racially sensitive. Praise
Jordan, kimberly atkins, Michael Schmidt and joyce advance. Joe and mika have the morning off. Good morning to all of you. Lets dive right in. Just days after we learned the special counsel wants to scrap Paul Manaforts plea deal, President Trump is now publicly discussing a possible pardon for his former campaign chairman. In an oval office interview, President Trump left open the possibility of a pardon telling the paper, it was never discussed, but i wouldnt take it off the table. Why would i take it off the table . In that interview, the president criticized Robert Muellers investigation claiming that manafort, roger stone, and stone associate jerome corsi were all asked to lie. If you tell the truth, you go to jail, trump said. You know this flipping stuff is terrible. But i had three people, manafort, corsi, i dont know corsi, but they refuse to say what he demanded. Its actually very brave, the president said, of the trio and im telling you, this is mccarthyism. We are in the mc
Highest of compliments. What do you mean . Well, the ihooehighest of compliments in this little trade of ours is laughter in the studio to something you have said. But you got it in the studio here in los angeles, rachel. In los angeles. Thanks, you guys. I just want to let you know its working. Tell everybody their 5 is in the mail. Well, its all over. On the final day of the Midterm Election Campaign Today donald trump revealed he had no idea Midterm Elections even existed until he became president of the United States. The Midterm Elections used to be, like, boring, didnt they . Do you even remember what they were . People say midterms, what is that, right . Now its like the hottest thing. Midterms, what is that . So apparently in the trump family if anyone overheard someone saying the phrase Midterm Elections, a trump would say what is that. Donald trumps ignorance of the process has given experienced republicans even more to fear tomorrow. Politico reports that House Speaker paul
At stake here, both hotly contested races for both governor and u. S. Senate in the Sunshine State with razor thin margins being looked at. The recount is prompting protesters to take to the streets as republicans cry foul and fraud. Theyre clearly trying to commit fraud to win this election. Thats all this is. You think that is the senator himself is committing fraud . Well, its his team. Lets go right to nbc alex in Broward County, florida, where there have already been issues with the recount. The energy is certainly there right behind you. Yeah, absolutely, richard. You can see there are a lot of supporters of President Donald Trump behind me here. They take issue with the supervisor of elections brenda snipes. There were issues this morning. They got a four hour delay counting ballots and they need every minute because a deadline of 3 00 p. M. Thursday. All theyre doing right now is sorting through those ballots. Theres 3. 5 million pages worth of ballots. Taking off the first pag