Matter where youre from, everybody wants to be on them. Because they are prestigious in all the right ways for everybody in the senate. And so even though there are only 100 u. S. Senators in total, 26 out of the 100 senators are on the Armed Services committee. More than one in every four senators is on that committee because they all want to be on the Armed Services committee. I think they decided at one point, rather than make the Armed Services committee hard to get on to rather than make all the senators is compete, theyre just going to let everybody join. Everybody wants to be on that committee so everybody gets to be on that committee. 26 out of the 100 members of the senate. A couple months ago, at the end of february, beginning of march, a passel of National Security reporters from the Washington Post, they got in touch with every single senator who serves on the Armed Services committee in the senate. And they asked the one very specific question, they didnt want like full le
Contact us by the disgust he felt watching Media Coverage of the russia story. Not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. The russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 president ial campaign. Intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. He just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago. The story he told us is astonishing. We will be following up on it, confirming more of it and bringing you details about it this week and after. At first, heres an overview of what he told us. Media reports describe Paul Manafort as a central figure in the russia investigation due to the several months he spent as Donald Trumps campaign chairman. According to our source, thats only half true. He is indeed at the center of this investigation, but not because of his ties to trump. In fact, Paul Manafort spent years working with the Podesta Group on behalf of russian governme
Contact us by the disgust he felt watching Media Coverage of the russia story. Not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. The russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 president ial campaign. Intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. He just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago. The story he told us is astonishing. We will be following up on it, confirming more of it and bringing you details about it this week and after. At first, heres an overview of what he told us. Media reports describe Paul Manafort as a central figure in the russia investigation due to the several months he spent as Donald Trumps campaign chairman. According to our source, thats only half true. He is indeed at the center of this investigation, but not because of his ties to trump. In fact, Paul Manafort spent years working with the Podesta Group on behalf of russian governme
Meaning in some arrests. Has a number of different meanings, depending on the context. Well leave it just where we left it, rachel. Thank you, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Well, Attorney Client privilege is the privilege to refuse to answer any questions about communications you have had with your lawyer and your lawyer has the same privilege, the not reveal any communications hes had with a client. It is not a privilege to refuse to answer any questions about communications youve had with your father. Unless, of course, your father is your lawyer. Donald trump is not a lawyer. Donald trump jr. Is not a lawyer. So today, donald trump jr. Invoked the trump privilege. He told the House Intelligence Committee that he would not answer questions about communications with his father. And claimed Attorney Client privilege because his attorney was enveloped in those conversations. The trouble with that is the privilege evaporates, disappears when someone participates in the conversation who is
Negotiating behavior by President Trump. This is a diplomatic crisis that is the doing of the president himself. We continue to believe there is a very Good Opportunity for peace to be achieved. Theres no scenario in any Peace Process that jerusalem is not recognized as the capital. This is not an american first Foreign Policy gesture. This is a trump first move. This is a big day in washington when it comes to the russia investigation. The president s son donald trump jr. Is testifying on capitol hill. A closed door interview with the House Intelligence Committee today. Hes expected to face questioning about the trump familys denying reports that bob muellers team is subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for records of the president s financial dealings. New information obtained by nbc news is shedding more light on what trump junior was looking for from a russian lawyer. Russian Attorney Says donald trump jr. Asked her if she had evidence of illegal donations to the Clinton Foundation in a meetin