The diplomatic crisis for america amid cay can osin venezuela. And the unbelievable reason floridas secretary of state just resigned. Im not calling him a racist, im sifrmly saying the racists believe hes a racist. When all in starts now. Good evening from norb. The president is losing the fight over the Government Shutdown. The longest and potentially most damaging in this nations history and the more he tries to make his case, the bigger the hole he digs for himself and the country. Two Different Senate measures failed today as expected. The surprise was in the republicancontrolled chamber where they hold a commanding muyort sthrks democrats bill got more votes than the president s. It is more evident the president s position is getting weaker and as the situation grows increasingly desperate frrks thousands scraping by, a security concerns mount, especially over the nations strained aviation system, the Trump Administration also notes, its being blamed for the situation. Probably in
Testify against the president. Fbi agents, unpaid we should point out, arresting stone just after 6 00 this morning. Seven counts in the indictment against stone, including false statements to investigators and witness tampering. The indictment also contains a lot of colorful anecdotes about a very colorful operative. The mueller team says that stones intimidation tactics including telling one person, prepare to die. The indictment says that stone threatened this persons dog. Even telling him to do a godfather ii reference. In a statement to nbc news, his lawyer said this, quote, there were no charges of russian collusion. These were charges they brought specifically to go against roger stone. They started looking atlution a and if they had found collusion they would have found it. Big picture though, this indictment is as much about the president as it is his longtime confidant. Its about how corrected the campaign was to stone and how connected stone was to those hacked emails and ru
Judiciary Committee Barr said hes reviewing the report and may be able to provide themes to the principal cuclusion this weekend. Hes committed to as mutranspar as possible. Since be appointed, mueller has achieved a remarkable record. 13 russians indicted for influence. 12 Russian Military officers indicted for that seminal moment, the hacking of democrats and distributing the stolen material and uncovered an extraordinary ring of criminality surrounding the president of the United States. His National Security advisor pleaded guilty. A Campaign Foreign policy aid pleaded guilty. Long time advisor pleaded guilty. His Deputy Campaign manager gity, his Campaign Manager serving serving seven and a half year sentence. Nonetheless a lot of questions remain about what happens next. Individual aspects are still unresolved. Like mike flynn and rick gates cooperation deals. And their status is still unclear. And of course theres the content which remains as of this moment the biggest mystery o
A. M. Joy will be back tomorrow at 10 00 a. M. Up next, alex witt with the latest. Have a lovely afternoon. Well see you tomorrow morning. Thank you so much. A today day to all of you. Its high noon in the east. 8 00 a. M. In the west. Looming Court Battles and political unrest. The fallout from the president s National Emergency. The master dealmaker left to spin the outcome, and democrats with a new direct warning today. In the hot seat, syrah sanders grilled by the special counsel. The one question she might have been forced to answer. Plus the Deputy Attorney general was definitely very concerned about the e at that point in time. And thats not all. What else, the former acting fbi director is saying about this bombshell 25th amendment conversation. Alexandria ocasio cortez. Some democrats colleagues have a very different take. Developing this hour, a legal and constitutional battle brewing after the president declared a National Emergency to build a border wall without congression
Order. He says the Citizenship Question will not appear on the census form that is sent out to every american household, but that hell still gather the citizenship data that he wants. Here is how he put it. I am hereby ordering every department and agency in the federal government to provide the department of commerce with all requested records regarding the number of citizens and noncitizens in our country. They must furnish all legally accessible records in their possession immediately. Now the problem is according to expert, trumps executive order mirrors what the federal government already does and is able to do when it comes to that kind of data. Trump also blamed those who opposed him in his census fight launching some pointed attacks on democrats. Are you a citizen of the United States of america . Oh, gee, im sorry, i just cant answer that question, and thats after spending billions and billions of dollars. There used to be a time when you could answer questions like that very