Russia investigation, sources telling nbc news during the campaign a banker with ties to Vladimir Putin reached out to Jared Kushner about setting up a meeting with President Trump as well as highlevel Campaign Officials on the sidelines of the Nra Convention last may. The overture was part of an email chain kushner failed to disclose to congressional investigators. Theyre also trying to figure out how that banker ended up seated next to donald trump jr. During a private dinner at the Nra Convention. Kushners lawyer pushing back on the accusation by Senate Judiciary chairs that his client hasnt been forthcoming, sending them a letter last night about that email exchange. His lawyer points out that kushner responded to a Campaign Official at the time saying, pass on this. A lot of people come claiming to carry messages. Very few, we are able to verify. Now i think we decline such meetings. Nbc has more. Reporter the significance of this is really twofold. One, its another example of Jar
A whole new standard for judging those accused of Sexual Assault or harassment. Press secretary Sarah Sanders making the argument that those who admit to wrongdoing are guilty, but those who simply deny the allegations and say their accusers are the liars are innocent. Listen to this exchange at todays press briefing. If its fair to investigate al franken, and the allegation made by his accuser, is it also fair to investigate this president and the allegations of Sexual Misconduct made against him by more than a dozen women . Look, i think that this was covered pretty extensively during the campaign. We addressed that then. The American People, i think, spoke very loud and clear when they elected this president. But how is it different . I think in one case, specifically, senator franken has admitted wrongdoing and the president hasnt. I think thats a very clear distinction. Its a clear distinction. To put it another way, sanders is saying, take the president at his word. Which is prob
That the policy process is a train wreck at this juncture. We have a playbook for these kinds of situations, alisyn, we did this when i was at the white house and this is not the first time that there have been threats from iran during the Trump Administration. President trump is trying to blame this all on john bolton, he doesnt like taking ownership of issues when things dont go well, but he was the one who made the decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. He was the one that tweeted memes from game of thrones when we reimposed sanctions on iran most recently. You think those two things led to where we are with tanks today . I think that they certainly helped escalate tensions with iran and where we are today and he is now trying to take a different approach and to say that hes open to talking with iran because things have gotten to this skrung tour, but the policy process is not working. There is, again, a playbook for these kinds of situations. You get the intelligence in o
Historic efforts went unrewarded and overshadowed by the cohen testimony. Did that bother him . Apparently say. Hes been talking about democrats at great length lately. He said theres no collusion. All of these investigations are in search of a crime. Democrats have no evidence to impeach President Trump. Ridiculous. He was quoting there devin nunes, the congressman from california. The president took that tack at cpac this weekend. Two hours long plus. He touched on his frustration with the mueller probe, which he said is baseless. But they fight so hard on this witch hunt, this phony deal that they put together. This phony thing that now looks like its dying so they dont have anything with russia. Theres no collusion. So now they go and morph into lets inspect every deal hes ever done. Were going to go into his finances. That they are. On capitol hill, the democrats insist that more investigations are frankly a very good way to compel transparency. The white house have seems to use t
Officials throughout the region to get our communities back on their feet. We lost children, mothers, fathers, neighbors, and friends. If i would have come home earlier i would have been in the middle of it. He was the reason i lived. The reason i got up. Bill Jonathan Serrie leading our coverage. What do we know about the victims thus far . Authorities very quickly were able to make visual identifications on all but six of the victims. The coroner hoping to establish positive i. D. S on the remaining six using fingerprints. Take a listen. We know who those individuals are. Weve talked with the families and as of 12 noon today i have none reported to me as still missing. We think we have everybody. One of the victims has been identified as a fourth grader by the name of taylor thornton. Friends have set up a gofundme site to help pay for the funeral and other expenses. That site raised more than 30,000. A lot of people wanting to help out, bill. Bill they might need more help than that