Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. A source says Michael Cohen is prepared to tell Robert Mueller that donald trump knew about that meeting before it happened. He did not participate in any meeting about the russia transaction. The president . The president did not. Im happy to tell him, he wasnt there. He wasnt at the meeting. The meeting with the russians. How can you be sure that the president didnt know beforehand . Youre saying its just a he said, he said. Nobody can be sure of anything. Earlier this evening, a long time former Trump Organization employee said this about the possibility of such a meeting occurring without trumps knowledge. Based on my experience working with trump and everybody that worked for trump, something major, something newsworthy, something press worthy, would always go before trump. Always. I think that he would have told donald about the meeting and then if it didnt amount to anything, it would have
The 11th moThe 11th Hour gets on a monday night. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 557 of the Trump Administration, 99 days now until the mid term elections. And this might go down as the day we witnessed a change resulting in the new defense strategy. On the part of the trump team. Its about something Rudolph Giuliani has started to say, and tonight, mark at the New York Times has put it this way. In the days after the 2016 president ial election, Donald Trumps advisers had an unequivocal message about contacts between russians and members of the campaign team. There were none. In the ensuing months as numerous such communications were revealed the message changed. There was no collusion with russias effort to disrupt the election. On monday President Trumps
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Which was four of the six. That meeting never ever took place. It didnt happen. Its a figment of his imagin
seen given how much money they have at their disposal. which really raises a good question about what is the trump strategy going to be about rousing the base. is it going to be shutting down the government? i don t think so. he said he s willing to go out six days a week if that s what it takes. will there be interest? and what else? is it calling brian williams and jeremy peters and jim warren the enemy? i m not sure if that gets you there and we don t know what other possible event could happen that plays a part in all this. but what is the strategy? for rousing the base. and can it overcome what seems to be a pretty substantial lack of popularity, which is why people like peter rascomb, going for a sixth term, traditionally safe republican district just outside chicago, is running as hard as he can away from the incumbent president. well put. two very smart gentlemen helping out our conversation tonight. our friends jeremy peters and jim warren, thank you both.
republican civil war, a magnitude of which we have not seen given how much money they have at their disposal. which really raises a good question about what is the trump strategy going to be about rousing the base. is it going to be shutting down the government? i don t think so. he said he s willing to go out six days a week if that s what it takes. will there be interest? and what else? is it calling brian williams and jeremy peters and jim warren the enemy? i m not sure if that gets you there and we don t know what other possible event could happen that plays a part in all this. but what is the strategy? for rousing the base. and can it overcome what seems to be a pretty substantial lack of popularity, which is why people like peter roskam, going for a sixth term, traditionally safe republican district just outside chicago, is running as hard as he can away from the incumbent president. well put. two very smart gentlemen helping out our conversation tonight. our friends jere
president trump s threats of a shutdown came days after his private meeting with the republican leadership in the house and senate. afterward the president said he was open to delaying the border wall debate until after the mid terms. it s an issue that vulnerable gop candidates, for that matter, all gop candidates, would like to avoid in the lead-up to november. and nbc news wall street journal poll found a majority of people surveyed disagree with the way the president has handled border security and immigration. 51%, 41%. and axios report out today puts it this way. for some vulnerable republicans running in swing districts not only does the trump bag of tricks not work for them but they believe it actively hurts them. with us tonight to talk about it, jeremy peters, political reporter for the new york times, and jim warren, a veteran print journalist and political commentator. we ll get into his line of work in just a minute. so, jeremy, you don t teach political science th