Disclosure, make it complete. What we have here is a slow bleed. Tipping point . Opponents of the republican healthcare bill need to peel off one more republican vote. And the bill goes down. Can Mitch Mcconnell hold his line . Do you think the new version is better than the old version . I think its worse. It does not make sense to do a major rewrite of a vital Entitlement Program without having any hearings or consideration of the implications. So thats something that is a major reason that i find myself unable to support the bill. And odd couple, two former president s and their unlikely friendship. The best thing can happen to you in politics, is to be consistently underestimated. I was pretty good at that. And good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. We have a lot of breaking news today. What donald trump jr. Left out of his account of that controversial june 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer at the height of the campaign. Nbc news has learned the lawyer in that meeting was ac
Will like this. Nums are not dead. Living proof of that. Great to see you. Put down your phone. All right. Have a great afternoon. And a happy friday afternoon to you. This is everything. You remember that phrase. Its what donald trump jr. Told the world the day he released are the email exchange dealing with a meeting with that russian lawyer. That statement ended up being less than completely forthcoming. Just like his previous accounts of that day. There is a pattern of half truths developing here. Alice of today we now know there were two more people in that election season meeting than we first thought. Nbc news has learned one of them is a russian american lobbyist and former soviet counterintelligence officer who is suspected by some u. S. Officials of having ongoing ties to russian intelligence. That person denies any current ties to russian spy agencies. Lets take a step back, though, and retell this story as donald trump jr. Himself has told it. There are cure os tiz, parts t
Knew about the email chain more than three weeks ago. Hours from now a former Trump Campaign advisor will be in the hot seat before he testifies behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee as lawmakers get ready to request for documents from Jared Kushner and trump junior. Lets begin with jeff zeleny. Reporter good morning, pamela. President trump, as you said, has wrapped up his whirlwind 30hour tour of paris. Five or six hours of that were spent oneonone with the new french president , Emmanuel Macron, during a meeting at the palace over dinner last night at the eiffel tower, and today during the parade. This was a new moment, new test of the relationship of the two leaders here. Despite all of the respite from the russia investigation, thats exactly whats awaiting President Trump when he returns back to the United States this afternoon. New questions about who knew what and when about the meeting between Trump Campaign associates and a russian lawyer and the emails t
Senate candidate accused of sexual abuse. Republican roy moore has no plans to drop out of the Alabama Senate race, as he has said, and the white house appears to have his back. Nine women have come forward, claiming they had encounters with roy moore. The accusers were young or in their teens at the time. The allegations go back decades. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders maintaining today that its a call for the voters to make. Would you be pleased if roy moore wins his senate race in alabama. Would the white house be pleased with that outcome . Look, obviously, the president wants people, both in the house and the senate that support his agenda, but as ive said, and as the hatch act prohibits me from going any further, we certainly think that this is something that the people of alabama should decide and im not going to be able to weigh in anything further beyond those commence. Former white house adviser steve bannon has been in moores corner since the gop primary and the daily
Good morning, its 6 00 in the east. 9 00 a. M. Out west. Heres whats happening, new twist today in the russia investigation may cast an even longer shadow on the white house. The trump camp keeps downplaying the role of former adviser George Papadopoulos. A new video suggests otherwise. We will bring that to you. Two former president s with fresh criminal of donald trump today. Plus they reveal for the first time who they voted for in the election examining the winners and losers in the new republican tax plan. Will the rich get richer and what does it men for the deficit . Those details ahead. But we begin with new reaction from President Trump on Key Developments in the russia investigation as they threat on the overshadow his historic first trip to asia. In a new interview airing tomorrow, he had this reaction when asked if he would ever fire special Counsel Robert Mueller is there well, i hope he is treating everything fairly. If he is, when you talk about innocence, i am truly not