How important this process is, to getting confirmation, as we saw what happened in 1986. More importantly, i think he took head on a lot of the critics and criticism of decisions that hes made and votes hes cast. And i thought in particular, with cory booker becoming historic, you saw the first sho for the 2020 democratic nomination for president. Lets just put that on the table. Certainly, thats part of the drama and theater of what he chose to do. But i also found it somewhat ironic that just in january of 2016, in legislation that he cosponsored with mr. Sessions, that celebrated those who walked from walked the selma mile, if you will, that he referred to him as it was a great honor to work with him and that he appreciated his commitment to civil rights. And yet now sees him as he referred to him as a danger
with danger to our country, as hes been quoted to say. The politics is not lost here. I think everyone in this town understands that. And to have this staged the way it was wit
Capitol hill and a news of donald trump finally admitting that russia was behind the russian hacking. And that russian operatives claimed to have allegedly have compromising information about to the president elect. Here is what he had to say about that issue and the russia hack. The heads of the Intelligence Agency provide you with twopage, and do you accept that Vladimir Putin had a hand in it and how do you handle a leader accused of that. First of all it was classified, we had many witnesses this that meeting, many of them with us and i will say again i think it is a disgrace that information would be let out. I saw the information, read the information outside of that meeting. Its all fake news. Phony stuff, it didnt happen and it was gotten byopponents of ours, you know because you and other news organizations got it out and i will tell you not within the meeting but outside of the meeting somebody released it. Number one should have never entered paper, but i read what was relea
Might happen as the 11th hour gets under way on a friday nigh night. Good evening from our nbc news Head Quarters in new york. This was day 687 of the Trump Administration and lets say this at the outset, each and every night on this broadcast where the russia investigation is concerned this may have been the most consequential day so far. Prosecutors from the president s own Justice Department accused him of engaging in a felony. Three new Court Documents fired by Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors in the Southern District of new york detailing trump, Michael Cohen, and Paul Manafort and have shed new lights on the investigation and what could be an existential threat to this administration. Trump tried to get out ahead of it between 6 00 and 10 00 a. M. This morning with tirade on twitter. Individual one is how our president is referred to in Court Documents. Mueller filed a document that indicated cohen met with the special counsel seven times and has, quote, provided relevant a
Way and kelly answered some questions about the president s conduct. Its unclear which of these developments triggered the president s tiride this morning but he unleashed a harsh batch of attacks on mueller, his investigators and his political rivals. Here are some of the highlights. Will Robert Muellers bigtime conflicts of interest be listed at the much to his republicans only report . Will andrew weismans horrible and vicious prosecutorial past be listed in the report. Will the scathing report written by james comey, by the man who n charge of the case, Rod Rosenstein who also signed the fisa warrant, a big part of it . Its worth noting the fleft United States of america smears two former fbi directors and his own Deputy Attorney general in just two short tweets. Joining us to discuss it all from the white house, Nbcs Kristen Welker whose byline is on that story we started with. Also Chuck Rosenberg, a former u. S. Attorney and senior fbi official. Former u. S. Attorney joyce vance
According to the documents, President Trumps former attorney, mielk cohen, broke Campaign Finance law when he paid off two women who claimed to have had an affair with trump, and he paid these women at the direction of trump is the allegation. Heres the key line. Cohen himself has now admitted with respect to both payments that he acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual one. Individual one is donald trump. The president says the news filings are good for him. On the mueller situation, were very happy with what we are reading because there was no collusion whatsoever. There never has been. The last thing i want is help from russia on a campaign. Very onesided situation. I think its all turning around very nicely, but as far as the report that we see, according to everybody ive spoken to i have not read it theres absolutely no collusion, which is very important. To be clear, these three Court Filings were released last night. Two are on mielk cohen. The third is on