Here. And the real problem is donald trump is not the closer. He cant call these people up and say, hey, ive done so much for you, you need to vote for this for me. This is not going to sway senate republicans. Darlene, a lot of the opposition in the bill isnt something that the sweeteners will necessarily be able to fix. A lit more money here or there to alaska or maine. The critique is more fundamental from Susan Collins. So how does senator graham and cassidy get over the hurdle . Thats a good question. You mentioned Susan Collins and rand paul who is always for repeal and his opposition to this bill now is based on the fact that it does not entirely repeal obamacare. So i dont know how you flip him on that basis. And can President Trump close the deal . That remains to be seen. This is one of several headlines moving forward throughout the day here. What is happening on the health with health, happening on the
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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. This presidency, we will ask a celebrated historian if there is anything to celebrate in the history that we are witnessing. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. Day 561 of the Trump Administration and the end of another week brings a new sign of Robert Muellers increasing interest in one of Donald Trumps veteran advisers. His friend of 40 years, roger stone. Nbc news reports that according to a source with direct knowledge, a member of muellers stone met with a stone associate named kristin davis. She first came to prominence when the tab lights nicknamed her the manhattan madam after she said she provided prostitutes to the rich and powerful including a governor of new york. Davis said in july that the mueller representative who
contacted her lawyer asked if she would accept a subpoena or if the fbi needed to serb it to her. She sai
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Publication insisting that gucifer had nothing to do with russia. He was bolstering a Russian Disinformation Campaign designed to cover up a russian attack on the United States. That is what roger stone was doing in the summer of 2016. To be the status of mueller and agalarov. They are his business partners. It is emins idea to bring ms. Universe to moscow. And a deal is cut. And agalarov. Leverage. Agalarov has leverage here. Emin wants something. He has wanted to be big in the United States. He is a middle level pop star and son of an oligarch so that has helped his music career. One of the reasons he linked up to the contest is he was hoping to make it big. And being part of that event will help. He has one coming up in a couple of months so if he wants to retain the ability to perform in the United States that is a point of leverage that mueller will have on him and his father has interest here too. Does that square with what you have been r
Program ended. That was in 2011. The seven men and two women all have military experience and are seasoned veterans of space. They will fly in tap seouls developed by spacex and boeing, both companies are slated to launch their missions next year. Nasa ended the Shuttle Program after 135 missions. Since it ended, nasa is paying russia about 70 million per seat to carry astronauts to and from the International Space station. [ music playing [ music playing ] we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. In helsinki, i had a great meeting with putin. As i have said consistently, russia attempted to enter fear with the last election. Now were being hindered by the election hoax. The president is taking Decisive Action to defend our
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lesson is to be seen. i think the points made on the show are valid. he s used to a public limelight not necessarily a courtroom. this man was direct messaging gucifer 2.0 and lying about it. gucifer 2.0 is accused of being a russian asset. exactly. and so this is somebody who knows exactly how social media works, knows exactly what he s doing. for him to say well, somebody put it on my phone and i wasn t and the judge made that point. interestingly. you don t ignore the context of who roger stone has been all these years. roger stone essentially said what gloria said. you know what you re doing. you know when you put a picture of me and crosshairs, that s not accidental. and then apologizing, it s still out there. it s all classic roger stone stuff. he has pushed that out into the national consciousness of his reporters.