saying the feds didn t have a good enough reason to include a census citizenship question, trump orders the d.o.j. to get it back in. neal katyal helps us make sense of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i m ali velshi in for brian williams. day 895 of the trump administration. there could not be a more stark split screen on the eve of the nation s 243rd birthday. on the left preparations for trump s july 4th salute to america are under way on the national mall in washington, d.c. a celebration featuring tanks, military flyovers, and a speech from the commander in chief taking place as his administration is in the throes of a full-blown humanitarian crisis on the right of your screen on the nation s southern border. the president has promised our
in those early scary days of recreating our republic. when our country was small but our soul was large, large enough and gutsy enough to declare to the whole world that all are created equal. and that s hardball for now. tonight it s a scene from a blockbuster movie, not a celebration on the national maul ahead of donald trump s spectacle at the national memorial. meanwhile, these are pictures migrant children have drown b e based on their time in detention centers. and an about face on the census after a supreme court ruling saying the feds didn t have a good enough reason for including a citizenship question, trump orders the doj to get it back in.
can go under oath and find out what this testimony means. nines is making serious charges here that courts were not given the full information about where this information came from. you noted earlier the timing that s laid out in this memo. they note that carter page wasn t the fisa warrant wasn t approved until november. that s right. the whole republican theory of this is that this is the fruit of the poisonous tree. if carter page finds out this is corrupt, then investigation is invalid. what is now the mueller investigation began in july 2016, and the feds didn t start looking at carter page page until october 2016. does this give donald trump what he needs to fire rod rosenstein? i mean, it shouldn t in any rational universe. do we live in a rational universe? look, you can look at this
documents, michael flynn says a senior transition official said open the dialogue with the russian government. that was in december. flynn resigned in february after the white house said he lied to the vice president and other administration officials about his conversation with the russian ambassador. the feds didn t name the senior official in court documents but abc news investigative reporter brian ros reports that president trump himself directed flynn to contact the kremlin. fox news has not confirmed this. during a news conference in february, the president said he did not direct flynn to speak with the russian ambassador and said that flynn was just doing his job. here s that exchange. did you direct mike flynn to discuss sanctions with the russian ambassador? no, i didn t. mike was doing his job. he was calling countries. and his counter parts. so it certainly would be okay if he did it. i would have done him to do it. i didn t direct him but i would