The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Leadership criticisms for this president that we know about, lets be clear and fair. Anger, ego, incompetence, thats not enough. The higher bar here is corrupt intent in a persons mind. So mueller is saying, like any careful prosecutor, he must question trump before he can conclude his work. And tonight trumps lawyers are leaking their new ongoing negotiations with mueller to show that as of tonight, theyre not accepting this full interview yet. So theyre using two tactics. Leaking information with their new letter to mueller about a kind of a narrower counteroffer, and also talking to each other, these lawyers, in a radio callin show, an appearance that can only be described as another bizarre chapter in one of the most bizarre live action legal defenses of a president in our history. We give you the unusual scene this morning. Rudy giuliani joining trump lawyer jay sekulow on sekulows r
and he has an ally in jared kushner and in israel. in the uae. and in egyegypt. these are people who would not like to cause a major controversy to a friend. to someone they hope will deliver a broad expansive peace in the middle east. there has been a working theory in a mbs will be this practicing nat sthis this pragmatic leader. he ismournizing. a practicigmatic hope. aend he is a transformative figure. and since it is founded, it has worked one way where the sons, brother to brother to brother to
reason why they re keeping him in there until he comes out and then they ll arrest him for bail skipping. they don t have charges that have been made public. a lot of people don t think there are charges. remember, this is not the roman empire. in the roman empire in rome you had laws for roman citizens and different laws in macedonia and egy egypt. everybody is subjected to the same laws. the first amendment, whether it s someone from the bbc or somebody from the london times, they get the benefit of the first amendment. so does he. let me read to you from the indictment just to make sure we re clear on this. organization 1, this is the mueller indictment. organization 1 releases 20,000 e-mails, it says stolen from the dnc network. wikileaks released 20,000 e-mails as is well known july 22nd from the dnc. right. do you have any reason other than your affinity for assange to doubt this material? i believe that that stuff was released. where it came from i have no idea. i cert
ease. yeah, a lot more at ease. answered the questions, took questions from some of the lesser known outlets first, but got around to the bigger outlets. did answer questions, sort of in a full throated manner. several times he asked about the move of the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem and made it clear that that was not a done deal yet, at least from his point of view. yeah, it was more of the type of comfortable press conference that we are used to seeing, a sharp contrast from the saturday, which, by all accounts, was did not go well for him or for the administration. e lise, you ve done a lot of reporting on this potential move of the embassy. sean spicer said, we re just beginning the process of studying it, followed a kon verve sha conversation that the president had today with the president of egy egypt. clearly, not in favor of moving
yeah. i think this transition and this what s it like, though most exciting in the last 40 years. what is it like being surrounded by all that gold all the time? do you feel like you are in egy egypt? pharoah s egypt? there s a lot of gold. i spent most of my time in new york in his office. i know. it s busy and it s cluttered and piled high with papers and there s been a steady stream of some of the most interesting and accomplished men in the country. we saw al gore, and that was a surprise. ivanka set that up. al gore went by there, and is are you guys rethinking what the president-elect said on climate change? i think he made his position very clear on that. i think what you see happening