Reporting from the wall street journal on the possibility of an interview between President Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller. The journal reports trumps attorneys hope to decide whether he should testify by may 17, the oneyear anniversary of the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said monday. Mr. Trumps legal team has long been divided on whether he should dwee. Gary mr. Giuliani said, every day we swing a little different on whether the advise mr. Trump to talk to mr. Mueller through the though the suggested he suggested, rather, that recent developments in the probe have made him more leery. The journal goes on to report, in an informal practice session, mr. Trumps lawyers were only able to walk him through two questions given the frequent interruptions on National Security matters along with mr. Trumps loquaciousness. Also tonight, nbc news reports Rudy Giuliani has confirmed on the record that special counsel mueller has rejected an
To win the governors race. All of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a thursday night. And good evening, once again, from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 651 of the trump administration, and five days ahead of election day, the president said tonight that although two maniacs had disrupted the momentum of the midterm campaigns, one with pipe bombs, the other with an ar15 in a synagogue, he feels the momentum coming back. More on that in a moment. But first tonight we begin with the looming existential threat that hangs over this administration. That would be the russia investigation, and specifically this latest reporting from the New York Times that may further connect the dots between the Trump Campaign for president and russia. This is new reporting about veteran Trump Advisor Roger stone, friend of the president for 30 years, and his links to wikileaks and the Trump Campaign during 2016. One of the coauthors, Michael Schmidt, is standing by to join us. The times i
News headquarters here in new york. Day 473 of the trump administration, and there is new reporting from the wall street journal tonight on the possibility of an interview between President Trump and special counsel mueller. The journal reports trumps attorneys in the russia investigation, quote, hope to decide whether he should testify by may 17, the oneyear anniversary of the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said monday. Mr. Trumps legal team has long been divided on whether he should agree to a sitdown interview. In an interview, mr. Giuliani said every day we swing a little different on whether to advise mr. Trump to talk to mr. Mueller though the suggested he suggested, rather, that recent developments in the probe have made him more leery. The journal goes on to report, in an informal fourhour practice session, mr. Trumps lawyers were only able to walk him through two questions given the frequent interruptions on National Security matter
News contributor, guy benson. Everybody knows guy and marie will cohost ben sen and harf, which is launching monday. I heard that somewhere. Its going around. Yeah. Good for you guys. Benson harf. Com. We should hire you. Yeah. Shes the new spokeswoman. I love it. Lets get to it. President trump reacting after Rudy Gulianis relation that the president reimbursed his personal attorney for those payments to the porn star. Heres the president this morning. Rudy is a great guy. He just started a day ago. He really has his heart into it. Hes working hard. Hes learning the subject matter. Hes going to be issuing a statement, too. Hes a great guy. He knows its a witch hunt. Thats what he knows. Hes seen a lot of them. He said hes never seen anything so horrible. He started yesterday. He will get his facts straight. Hes a great guy. All right. Many in the white house say they first learned about the reimbursement from gulianis wednesday night interview with sean hannity here on fox. Yesterday
Countrys allies are so rattled by this decision, what theyre likely to do in response and why this is such a banner accomplishment for the american hardliners who have been hoping for and working for an actual new u. S. War with iran, ever since they started the last new u. S. War in iraq 15 years ago. And speaking of 15 years ago, in march 2003, while the george w. Bush administration was ordering the invasion of iraq, this man was captured in pakistan, he was soon named as the master many mind of the 9 11 attacks. In cia custody, he was tortured for weeks over 15 different sessions. He was water boarded 183 times. He was forcibly fed through his rectum instead of being given food as food. He was kept awake for a week. Kept awake for a week while they kept him standing with his hands chained to the ceiling. We remember the Bush Administrations complicity and facilitation of the torture program because officials like Vice President dick cheney cheered for it at the time, and because Bu