I think they were talking about the adoption of little attorney generally kisliak. This morning donald trump jr. On defense. The president s son has hired a lawyer following new details about his meeting with a kremlin connected russian lawyer. A military plane crashes in rural mississippi. All people on board are believed to be dead. The debate over health care continues on capitol hill, and Police Arrest at least 80 protesters with opposition growing. Changes may be on the way this week. Good morning. Its tuesday, july 11th. Well, another day, another glaring headline. This time the New York Times reports before arranging a meeting with a kremlin connected russian lawyer, he believed he would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, donald trump jr. Was informed in an email that the material was part of a russian government effort to aide his fathers candidacy. Now, according to three people with knowledge of that email, the times learned of the email from three peop
Vegas hotel suite . Investigators still searching for a motive. The worst mass shooting in modern u. S. History. 58 people plus the gunman are dead. Nearly 500 injured. The gunmans life still slouted in mystery. We are learning more about his recent activities. They say paddock investigated shooting locations in chicago and boston. The person close toast him has now been interviewed by the fbi. She denies any knowledge of paddocks plan. He never said anything to me or took any action that i was aware of that i understood in any way to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen. It never occurred to me in any way what so ever that he was planning violence against anyone. We have the latest with correspondents in las vegas and washington. Lets start with pete williams. Lets start with this word that there were possibly two other locations that paddock reportedly researched. Yes. Thats all we can say about them, that we dont know if what his intention was. They see
Whether the president s public humiliation of his attorney general might have been part of a pattern to obstruct justice. Well have that Washington Post report. And Nuclear Saber rattling from Vladimir Putin. Putin saying listen to us now as he threatens the u. S. With a new line of Nuclear Weapons that he says the u. S. Could not defend. You know its a busy morning when russias claim of an invincible Nuclear Threat is the third thing we mentioned. But lets start with the gun debate. My colleagues are on the white house and capitol hill. Casey hunt is down in the hallways talking with lawmakers, democrats and hunt is down in t hallways talking with lawmakers, democrats and republicans. And they are sounding bewildered. Listen to john cornyn from last night. We are actively soliciting the support for our bill. There are several republican senators who voted against it in 2013 who have told me they are reconsidering. So im hopeful about that. I think the president is very aggressive. I w
Met with muellers team today. Hes the highest ranking official to meet with the special council so far. He is seen as a key player in understanding the president s acces because he was present for many meetings including discussions on firing former fbi director james comey and white house meetings with russian officials. He was also privy to have white house internal documents. Priebus, you may recall, left his chief of staff post back in july and on another front tonight, in an nbc news exclusive, there are new details on the money trail having do with russia and former Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort. It reveals that 26 million changed hands in the form of a loan between a company linked to manafort and the oligarch, a billionaire with close ties to the kremlin. The loan brings the total of their known business dealings to around 60 billion over the past decades. Oleg is the same man as the Washington Post, ored last month that manafort offered to give private briefings to duri
Hes not yet indicated what measure hes willing to sign. As soon as we figure out what he is for, then i would be convinced that we were not just spinning our wheels. All of this is happening as protesters gather on capitol hill, at least 82 people demonstrating in support of protecting the d. R. E. A. M. Ers have been arrested. Lets get right to Kelly Odonnell from the white house this afternoon. We just heard from senator Lindsey Graham who said he will not support another continuing resolution to push this government funding debate for another month because he said we can have a daca bill on the president s desk in 24 hours if that is what the goal is. But the question seems to be what is the goal . Reporter well avoiding a Government Shutdown is in everyones interest and the period of leverage is heightened in these waning days until the midnight on friday deadline where you have someone who has been at the seat of the table for Immigration Reform for many years. Not just this itera