this investigation much longer with months of litigation. and so to me, by demonstrating a willingness to negotiate, it does seem to me like he doesn t want the fight of a subpoena. jennifer, the scope memoranda, is this possibly be careful what you wish for? because if it becomes public and it shows mueller has a huge latitude, who gets helped by that? it could be. it could be. i mean if that memo becomes public, i think that memo describes in a fair amount of detail why the special counsel is being allowed to investigate what he s being allowed to investigate. so i think he probably doesn t want that out there because it s probably pretty damning to the president. you know, whether he wants to see it himself, just the legal team so that they know exactly what they re facing, i m sure that they want to see it, which is really outrageous. i mean when does the subject of a criminal investigation ever get to see an internal memo describing that investigation? it s absolutely unheard
mueller probably recognizes that if he doesn t do a voluntary interview and subpoenas him, it s going to really prolong this investigation much longer with months of litigation. and so to me, by demonstrating a willingness to negotiate, it does seem to me like he doesn t want the fight of a subpoena. jennifer, the scope memoranda, is this possibly be careful what you wish for? because if it becomes public and it shows mueller has a huge latitude, who gets helped by that? it could be. it could be. i mean if that memo becomes public, i think that memo describes in a fair amount of detail why the special counsel is being allowed to investigate what he s being allowed to investigate. so i think he probably doesn t want that out there because it s probably pretty damning to the president. you know, whether he wants to see it himself, just the legal team so that they know exactly what they re facing, i m sure that they want to see it, which is really outrageous. i mean when does the subj
about wiretaps in trump tower when what s publicly known is requests for lifting names inside fisa warrants and talking about embedding people inside of a campaign when what s publicly known was much short of that. mieke, given your past experience with intelligence community product on the hill, how uncomfortable are you with this discussion of informants in the public sphere with how close to naming the guy two major publications have come tonight? i m very uncomfortable with this. the identities of people who are confidential informants are very closely held. in a congressional investigation, when there s an ongoing investigation, they won t even talk to you about that information because they re trying to protect the integrity of the investigation. and we really do worry about the ability to get people to
effort by mueller s team. it is right that since they re negotiating with the president, it suggests they re coming close to a final phase of the investigation. but in terms of receiving witne seeing witnesses come and go from mueller s headquarters, i have yet to see any indication that this is an investigation that s ramping down. brian, we saw donald trump kind of sarcastically congratulate america yesterday. we saw him go there even further today on twitter. one of our producers went ahead and checked the weather for washington tomorrow morning. it appears showers may make golf impossible. does that mean we re looking at perhaps more twitter activity tomorrow? i m sure if the president is housebound because of the weather, that he ll be spending a lot of time watching television and writing on twitter. we also have to remember that there was a rainy weekend in
and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. tonight the death toll is ten in santa fe, texas, following this nation s latest mass school shooting. the accused gunman is in custody. he is 17. we ll have a live report from texas ahead in this broadcast, but first we begin with what was day 484 of the trump administration and the president s new attacks on the fbi stepping up the pressure on the bureau and the justice department as part of his latest moves to cast doubt on the entire russia investigation as led by robert mueller. today the president issued these messages raising the possibility of a government informant who was inside the 2016 campaign. quote, apparently the doj put a spy in the trump campaign. this has never been done before, and by any means necessary, they are out to frame donald trump for crimes he didn t commit. not long after that, there was