In a completely rigged russian election, we learned from the Washington Post that donald trump did make the mistake of congratulating the nondemocratic ly elected head of the russian government. But was it a mistake . It would have been a mistake from any other president. But its been the goal of President Trump since the start of the campaign to cozy up to president putin. It doesnt look like a mistake with donald trump. It looks like a deliberate, consistent choice. Donald trumps public behavior with and about russia and Vladimir Putin has always been peculiar to put it mildly. We dont know if the Trump Campaign violated the law in conspireing with russia and russian agents to win the election. But we know donald trump behaves as if he is owned by Vladimir Putin. So today it was an aide to Vladimir Putin who revealed in the do not congratulate phone call a couple weeks ago, donald trump invited Vladimir Putin to the white house. When our president s spoke on the phone it was trump wh
About the shooters six weeks before the shooting trump used the admission to continue his crusade against the fbi. Tweeting, very sad that the fbi missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida School shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove the russian collusion with the Trump Campaign. There is no collusion. So heres the thing. The fbi is a federal agency employing approximately 35,000 people. Many of them investigate major crimes, murder, cyber crimes and like and, yes, they are supposed to follow up on tips about potential Violent Crimes like the massacre in parkland. Indeed, someone at the fbi failed to follow up on just such a tip called into the public hotline in january about the parkland shooter. But its an entirely separate part of the fbi that investigates Counter Intelligence. Things like a president ial campaign colluding with the russians. Mr. President , those kids werent about you. But the Russian Campaign was very much yo
A guilty plea in the muller probe the 11th hour gets underway. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. This is day 397 of the trump administration. News on the mueller front, the Mueller Investigation of russia and a matter involving the president s soninlaw and chief of staff. First off tonight, Robert Mueller has obtained a new guilty plea as he investigates russias interference in the 2016 election. Before today, three people have already admitted their guilt to the special counsel. Former National Security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump Campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and a california man richard pineto. Now alex van der zwaan, the soninlaw of one of russias wealthiest men has pleaded guilty of lying to the fbi. Well have an explanation of this prong of the story for you just ahead. Today, we also saw the white house answering questions for the First Time Since muellers extraordinarily and extraordinarily detailed indictment of more than a dozen russ
My friends and siblings to see if they made it out alive. I dont want to know about 17 people who lost their lives from something that could have been p prevented. One person should not take away the dreams and aspirations of bright people. And never again should parents send their children to school to never return home. Never again should students fear going to school. Never again should such a tragedy occur. On behalf of the entire Stillman Douglas chapter, we express our deepest condolences to the families of the victims and every student of our community. Four of the 17 angels were part of our family. Words can not describe how much we and the entire community will miss you, and to the our, both of our victims who are recovering, ben and samantha, we hope that you have a very speedy recovery. All right. You were listening to people there spontaneously talking about, talking about the shooting that claimed 17 lives there in parkland, florida. Our Martin Savidge is there in the crow
We need to Pay Attention to the fact that this is not just a Mental Health issue. He would not have harmed that ma students with a knife. A powerful message and messenger, i am going to talk to that young lady, emma. She lost friends during the shooting, her voice rang loud and clear on guns. This morning, the special counsel indictment. Chairman of the over sight reform committee. What this indictment tell us that some of us have known all along. Russia is not our friend. Russia tried to subvert the fundamentals of our democracy. For those of us supported bob mueller from day one and says give him the time and resource to do his job, this is exactly what we wanted him to do. The chairmans comments came out by a series of tweets of President Trump reeling against the critics. In one tweet, i never said russia did not meddle in the election, it may be china or another country or group or 400 pound genius sitting in his bed playing with his computer. The russian hoax was that the Trump C