Papadopoulos a nobody. Listen to Donald Trumps personal attorney jake sekulow. Let me say this. First of all, George Papadopoulos served on a committee. A lot as you know, campaigns have committees with various people on it. He was not a Senior Adviser to the Trump Campaign. Now they have a significant problem on their hands because in order to believe that what sekulow says, youd have to ignore what donald trump himself said on march 21st, 2016 when he named the members of his Foreign Policy Advisory Team in an interview with the Washington Post. If you want i can give you some of the names. I would be delighted. I wouldnt mind. Do you have that list so i can be more accurate with it. Okay, ready . Walid farris, who you probably know. Ph. D. Advisory to the house of representatives caucus. Hes a counterterrorism expert. Carter page, ph. D. George papadopoulos, hes an oil and energy consultant. Excellent guy. Excellent guy. Youd also have to ignore what you see with your own eyes. This
Thats not an allegation. Its fact. Papadopoulos admits it. Now the administration has been insisting all along theres no evidence of collusion with russia. Papadopoulos a nobody. Listen to Donald Trumps personal attorney jake sekulow. Let me say this. First of all, i dont remember papadopoulos served on a committee. A lot as you know, campaigns have committees with various people on it. He was not a Senior Adviser to the Trump Campaign. Now they have a significant problem on their hands because in order to believe that what sekulow says, youd have to ignore what donald trump himself said on march 21st, 2016 when he named the members of his Foreign Policy Advisory Team in an interview with the Washington Post. If you want i can give you some of the names. I would be delighted. I wouldnt mind. Do you have that list so i can be more accurate with it. Wally ferris, who you probably know. Ph. D. Advisory to the house of representatives caucus. Hes a counterterrorism exert. Carter page, Geor
Times, mr. Mueller learned about the episode in recent months as his investigators interviewed current and senior former white house officials. Before heading home from davos this morning, President Trump disputed the report. Mr. President , why did you fire Robert Mueller . Why would you want to fire Robert Mueller . Fake news, folks, fake news. Typical New York Times fake story. The report has been confirmed by nbc news, the Washington Post, cnn, the wall street journal, even fox news. It does raise troubling questions. Is it obstruction or at least part of a pattern of obstruction to do what he did and where are republicans . Hasnt the president crossed a line here . Will trump try to do it again. If he was willing to before, why not now when it appears the investigation is sniffing close e er and closer to trump. Then theres the question of honesty. If the reporting it true by multiple news organizations, President Trump wasnt telling the truth, was he, when he said this last augus
He is drunk on power. He really is. And calls the president s move an attempt to scare and silence others who might dare to challenge. My guests, the man at the center of the controversy, john brennan. Plus, late word that president Trumps White House counsel don mcgahn has been cooperating extensively with Robert Muellers russia investigation. One prosecutor calls this like having keys to the kingdom. Ill talk to President Trumps current lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Joining me for insight and analysis are Washington Post columnist eugene robinson, nbc news political reporter carol lee, hugh hewitt, host on the salem radio network, and Yamiche Alcindor White House Correspondent for the pbs news hour. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Announcer from nbc newinon, show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. No ordinary august. We have a big show. John brennan and Rudy Giuliani. We are going to get to both of them in a moment. It was almost a half
But first, as we were saying, weve got this breaking news about steve bannon and his apology to the president. After remarks of bannons were published in that tellall book. Lets go right now to mike allen from axios. Mike got the exclusive interview with bannon. Mike, with a welcome to you. What is this all about and what do you think is behind this apology from steve bannon to the president . Well, alex, steve bannon knew that if he was going to be a leader of the conservative movement, he needed to try to fix things up. So at the very top of this statement, alex, he is praising the president s son, donald trump jr. , who as you know is very popular with the trump base. And it goes on to say that he regrets that he waited so long to walk back the comments of the book. So he doesnt deny that he said anything. There is not the word sorry in apology, but this is steve bannon trying to get back in the good graces of the trump family. He says that he defended trump and trumpism and he says