Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. The issue of adoption, did that come up . Like i said, that was the primary thing we had spoken about in the meeting. Thats not the premise that got them in the room. Then it was essentially a bait and switch to talk about that 6789 everybody has basically said that in. The already. There is this another intere interesting thing over the weekend. Hope hicks boarded Air Force One and flew to the president s rally in ohio and back. You may recall, hope hicks resigned from the white house one day before a Congressional Committee that she had told white lies on behalf of donald trump. She is now living here in manhattan and she too has come under scrutiny for crafting that
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Interviews with political figures and news updates. Looking at. If you are looking at, as Robert Mueller had been known to do, how tweets fit into a larger pattern of obstruction of justice, the contrasting this weekends tweet and the statement that the president put out, helped put out in july of last year, obviously, will go to, you know, that argument. Does that constitute an illegal act or as jay sekulow says, is it not relevant to the law . And elli, what is elvent to the law . Its hard to tell what mueller is looking at. But we hear from a lot of reporting that youre looking at that june meeting. June 2016 meeting. Yeah, andrea, and they should be. If im prosecuting a case for soliciting illegal Foreign Campaign aid and a witness testified to exactly what the president tweeted yesterday, my next move is to say no further questions. Its really an astonishing admission by the president. He essentially admits to 95 of a crime and the other 5 is obvious. We can break it down. The pre
He says the meeting totally legal done all the time in politics but according to the email that special Counsel Robert Mueller has, this was a meeting to get information from the prosecutor of Russia On Hillary Clin Hillary Clintons campaign. How is that legal . The question is how is it illegal . A meeting of that nature constitute a violation of the law . Now critics have pounced on this, anna, suggesting that the president and his legal team are moving the goal posts despite calls for this investigation to wrap up by the president and his attorneys. We did get an indication last week that special Counsel Robert Mueller is trying to zero in and get an interview with one of the key figures that was involved in that june 2016 meeting at trump tower. Hes a russian pop star. His father is actually an oligarch with deep ties to putin. Sources indicate that for more than a year now the Special Counsel is working to secure that interview. Unclear if it actually does take place. It will be i
A recap of the days news. You have gone to a District Trump won by 11 points. That romney won by 10 points. And now, it is a squeaker. Mo, what for frz. John. You lost, we won. You have to thing about it this way. If they needed the president to get him over the hump in supremely red district that should tell you that the district was in jeopardy. The best read you could give. What that means is there is a surge of momentum at least in this area. We cant necessarily transpose that sort of rest of the nation. But it does suggest that, that the president is not as popular, because that was a plus 11 district. You are right. Except, i wantup to have more momentum. Because you are going to keep losing. Peck pick up the senate and keep the house. The plan for the republicans. More momentum. Campaign on the strength of the economy. As well as trump tax cuts. For, for the, the november mid terms. That its the hope they believe. Actually, you know, maybe holding on to the house. Through tax cu
Congressman thompson. Thank you so much. Well, thank you. And thank you for mentioning the first responders. The community has been fantastic. First responders are real heroes and heroines. They are out there everyday and their life is on the line for their community. Thank you, anderson. Than you, congressman. We wish you the best. The news continues right now. I want to hand it over to chris. Cuomo prime time starts now. Thank you, anderson. I am chris cuomo, and welcome to prime time. The gop primary for governor in kansas should have been a hohum race, that is until President Trump got involved and went against the gop incumbent in favor of kris kobach. Yes, that State Official who helped trump with that fugazi voter fraud panel. Well, the race is now a hotbed of controversy. It is too close to call. Then kobach declared victory. Then his lead was cut, and an official is blaming the Secretary Of State for getting it wrong in favor of kobach. The Secretary Of State is kris
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