The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Donald trump saying bob mueller has a conflict of interest. Whats he referring to . A dispute i imagine he disclosed it to rosenstein when he appointed him because it involved something last year wasnt settled to this day. Thats up to the president and mueller to describe. Whats the conflict . I cant tell you. Are you saying the business Conflict Mueller and President Trump had, is that about his golf course. Im not going to go any further. Hes not going further on that. There were some specifics when guiliani talked about other alleged meetings before the trump tower meeting. The meeting with the russians, how can you be sure that the president didnt know before. Its he said she said. Nobody can be sure of anything. In a situation like this you have two things that argue against cohen. Twoonone sorry, three
like an independent contradictions. He says there was a meeting with donald junio
Other from controversial issues, from immigration issues, and theyre doing it again. Thats why we have to pass this bill so that you have clear information about whos paying for these ads and what they are. Its called the honest ads act, and its a bill im leading with senator mccain and senator warner. Senator, appreciate your time. Thank you very much. The news continues. I want to hand it over to chris. Cuomo prime time starts now. Thank you, anderson. I am chris cuomo. Welcome to prime time. Collusion is not a crime except when it is. And remember this isnt about words. Its about behavior. We have a lawmaker who is going to tell you the facts of what could be headed for anyone who did collude. He was also in that hearing today, and you will not believe what the government admitted about its plan to force families apart. Theres senator coons. Well be with him in a second. The Mueller Probe faces its first courtroom test today with
trumps former Campaign Chair on trial. Were going to
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. 18 times this month, 64 times in the last three months. I lay those numbers out because this is at the same time that the American Public sort of approval of the Mueller Probe is declining. It was 48 approval in on how mueller is handling it in march. Now its 41 , the lowest it has been. Is the president s strategy working . Well, if his strategy is to undermine confidence in the Justice Department and the institution of the legal process, then, yes, its working in some ways because he keeps calling this a witch hunt. He has the biggest bully pulpit on the planet. He is misinforming the public by saying mueller is employing 13 angry democrats. We dont necessarily know that any of these people are actually angry. The president is using his pulpit to punch down at the investigation. We are seeing the public react
to that. Mueller, because he cant respond, thats why you see the numbers go down. The president is
Up 10 points. That has now evaporated. Interesting to see who turns out, a testament to the excitement level. Thank you all. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now with ari in for rachel. Good evening. Rachel has the night off. We have a pretty big show. Today was day two of the federal criminal trial of the campaign chairman. The witnesses were several people who sold the defendant clothes and houses that he bought through secretive International Wire payments. One important thing we learned from what happened today, this judge is holding muellers prosecutors to the line, limiting their questions and how they present key evidence to manafort to the jury. A former prosecutor who tried these kinds of cases and inside that courtroom today joins me to explain if what the judge is up to could hurt muellers case. There are reports tonight about the russian woman charged with trying to carry out the government influence campaign through the nra in the u. S. And
A look at the days latest news and headlines. The president has watched this process play out. He wants to see it come to an end as he stated many times. We look forward to that happening. Bill there are so many headlines going back and forth today. We have been here many times before. You get to the end of the day and you ask yourself what changed . Has something changed today fundamentally or not . No, not a lot. We heard the president say this stuff a lot. We know that the president vents on twitter. But he is the president of the United States. He was today talking about a subordinate the Attorney General of the United States. The more the president tweets sound like a directive, the crazier everybody gets. Thats why the trump team said no, he is just venting. He has the First Amendment right to do it. He didnt say sessions has to do this. The closer it sounds like the
coming up next . You get to the end of the day and nothing changed. Byron the fact he moved some of these cases to