politicsnation tonight s lead, the turnin point. right now, donald trump is huddling with his attorneys in florida. and getting together his defense for possible crimina indictment they could come as early a next week according to the new york times for people with knowledge of the matter have said, hi lawyers say they have no plans to meet with the manhattan district attorney s office after prosecutors invited trum to testify before a grand jury next week about the hush money payments majoring his 2016 presidential campaign to actor damage stormy daniels. years after and alleged sexual in a fair. which trump has denied former chunk fixer michael cohen, who served time i prison for charges relate to those hush money payments, met with prosecutors for the 20t and final time yesterday ahead of his grand jur appearance on next week. meanwhile, current trump attorney joe tackett pinot tol nbc news this weekend, his client is an extortion victim. and that neither of them believe c
A Texas Church Service killing more than twenty people. Also a mountain of leaked documents show how the super wealthy and Big Companies hide that money in tax havens. Also has been our leader has an astronomer accuses saudi arabia of forcing the lebanese Prime Minister to resign. And protests ahead of a key meeting in germany on Climate Change. Good to have you with us we begin the news with a mass shooting at a church in the texan town of Sutherland Springs more than twenty people dead now police say the shooter walked into the church during a service and opened fire at least seventeen others were injured in the attack including children the gunman is apparently dead while john hendren is our correspondent live for us in washington d. C. With more on this it is a developing story john the citys sticks fluctuating according to different sources i mean what do we know about the timeline and in deed about those that have died and injured. Well so that we know very little more than we ha
Asia. Will the president get more help from china in reining in north korea . We will take a closer look this morning. Hows minority whip steve cusco lease joining us with his take on the tax reform bill and also i will ask him about breaking news overnight. Dozens of highranking officials arrested in saudi arabia in an anticorruption crackdown by the countrys future kang. Included saudi prince. We are looking ahead right now on sunday morning futures. In the next two weeks we are expecting get the senates version of the tax plan. Republicans are putting on a fullcourt press this week after the house g. O. P. Put out the details for their tax reform plan. The measure described by some as the most sweeping changes to our tax system in decades. Vice president mike pence was in york pennsylvania yesterday to help sell the plan to small business. After his speech he sat down with the foreign exclusive interview. The Vice President said the measure is a great starting point but they are goi
Resolve whatever his problem is. Whether its an exwife, an exgirlfriend, some type of challenge within the church well find out and say it makes no sense whatsoever. And there are going to be individuals that are watching this coverage for the next few days that are going to say, hey, this guy ranks number so and so on the list of all time killers maybe i can beat that list and thats the mentality of mass murderers that we deal with in this country. Well find out who he is. Well find out why he did it. And it will make no sense to us whatsoever. Yeah, were awaiting this press conference to get more information about that individual as well. Hopefully, we will. I know everybody by the way has been anticipating this special by Richard Engel which was supposed to start about right now, some on explosive new ties to russia, amazing reporting by Richard Engel. As you know the news cycle is constantly changing. It is not going to be airing right now, but will be airing at 10 00 p. M. Tonight
Wasnt something spur of the moment, the killer came in with the contention of taking out his plan on the congregation of that church. And it begs the question, of course, why that church . You know, if hes from some other location, which youve discussed with other witnesses, and he was apprehended or killed in guadeloupe county or the next county north, why that church . He probably would have driven past many Christian Churches on a sunday morning in that part of south texas. So theres some connection to that church, theres some reason to go to that church. What is that . Is that a personal reason . Is he trying to get back at someone there . Is it familyrelated . Is it hate . You know, what dylann roof did, he drove many miles to get to the mother of Emmanuel Church to commit his act because it was, it was much a political assassination of the reverend as it was a hate crime. There are motivations that could have a lot of reasons, but there is a reason in the killers mind that he wen