Good evening. Im katy tur in washington in for chuck todd and welcome to mtp daily. No one is safe in President Trumps Justice Department. The president gave the order to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. He fired fbi director james comey. He he pressured deputy fbi director Andrew Mccabe to quit. He stepped down today. Earlier than expected and weve just learned the president insulted his wife in a phone call last year. The president pressured the attorney general Jeff Sessions to step down. And he reportedly talked about firing the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. And it looks like the president also wants a secret republican memo released. Why . His republican allies say it further undermines muellers investigation. The fbi and the justice. The House Intelligence Committee has a meeting scheduled right now where they could vote to release that secret memo compiled by republican chairman devin nunez. This is a secret memo. But it is ignited a very public fire storm on the r
Teenager girls are raising eye brows. You remember dating girls that young at that time . Not generally no. I dont remember anything like that. Would it be normal behavior back in those days for you to date a girl thats 17 or 18 . No not normal. You can say youve never dated anybody in their late teens like that when you were 32 . It would have been out of my customary behavior, thats right. In other words you dont recall dating any girls that age when you were that old . Ive said no. He also denied knowing the accuser and meeting her. Also said someone whose abusing a 14yearold should not be a candidate. If they believe this man is predatory, he said, they are guilty of allowing him to exist for 40 years. Someone should prosecute and go after them. State representative roy henry joining us now. You believe roy moore and not these women. I want to quote what you said in an interview wait hold on a second, anderson. You just gave the quote, let me back you up. Let me give the full quote
I am happy of everything hes doing for the economy at least. And what about the white house demand for its release . New information coming up. And a new report is looking at the Washington Post despite the doj warning House Republicans that this would be doing something reckless without an official review. Members of the house and chair devin nunez may have relied on questionable sources to request the fisa warrant early in the investigation. The Senior Administration tells the Washington Post that trump is inclined to have the memo released. Apparently all the rumors are that it will shed light and help investigators come to a conclusion. White house chief of staff john kelly conveyed to an attorney general during two conversations on wednesday. Msnbc has not end dindependentl confirmed this report. And last night Jeff Sessions tweeted that the republicans are only interested in obstruction. It is unclear how much of this fight well see on tuesday when the president delivers his firs
Rattling the west wing, author michael wolf on the today show. What hes saying in face of the threats from the president. The book as of 61 minutes ago on sale coast to coast. Days earlier than expected. My credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has walked on earth at this point. Reporte with us now to kick off the show, Michael Schmidt, Nbcs Kristen Welker is standing by at the white house, also onset here, former Deputy Assistant attorney general, robert driscoll, and our panel for the next 60 minutes, White House Reporter for bloomberg, shani pettypiece and nick johnson. Lets get to it and drilldown on the New York Times report. Because you need to know what is in it and what we didnt know before. So michael, i want to start off with this graphic here. This morning President Trump is telling the white house lawyer apparently back in march to instruct the attorney general Jeff Sessions to stay on in the russia probe. Nbc news has jus
Huge breaking news tonight. We have been telling you its coming, its now here, stunning reporting tonight from sara carter that we are confirming with our sources. Classify doj documents of members of congress are now reviewing, it shows widespread and extensive fisa abuses against the Trump Campaign and we have names. Heres how it all went down. The last minute, the house finally got literally within an hour, their subpoena request approved by the doj. Members of congress were able to get their hands on all these classify documents. At the last minute, Rod Rosenstein t tried to stop it by going to paul ryans office. Paul ryan would have none of it. It is more disturbing than we ever thought. At this hour, our sources are telling us that the abuse of power is far bigger than watergate. Watergate was a third rate breakin. We are talking about the systematic abuse of power, the weaponizing of those powerful tools of intelligence, and the shredding of our Fourth Amendment Constitutional R