Yes, the president wasnt a part of this decisionmaking process and we would refer you to the fbi where Christopher Wray serves as the director which as i said last week, and ill repeat again today, the president has full confidence in him and has put the decisions at the fbi in his hands. But her answer defies the reality that the president is very much involved in personnel decisions for his new fbi director chris wray. The president tweeting four times his antimccabe sentiments and making these comments to reporters last week. Should mccabe go, mr. President . Should mccabe go . Mccabe got more than 500,000 from essentially Hillary Clinton. And is he investigating Hillary Clinton . So should he go . Do you remember, did anybody here many of my speeches where i talked about mccabe, he was the star of my speech. This isnt now. I said, a man who was more or less in charge of got the wife got 500,000 from terry, terry is hillary. And, yeah, i mean do you regret having him as your fbi dir
However much her father and boss savaged Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail, tonight the Senior Advisor to the president , a Public Servant who also happens to be the president s daughter, has an email problem. Specifically, the Washington Post reporting that ivanka trump sent hundreds of emails last year to white house aides, cabinet officialsed, and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a white house examination of her correspondence. White house ethics officials learned of trumps repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails gathered last fall by five cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit. That review revealed that throughout much of 2017 she often discussed or relayed official white house business using a private business account with a domain that she shares with her husband, jared kushner. The article continues, the discovery alarmed some advisers to President Trum
Testimony continues to cause a heap of trouble for the president , and it may not be over. And weve got a former Russian Ambassador with us tonight to share what he knows about putin, what he fears about our relationship with russia, and what diplomacy looks like when practiced correctly, as the 11th hour gets under way on a tuesday night. And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 782 of the trump administration, and tomorrow the president s former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort appears in federal court for the second time in less than a week to hear a judge decide his second federal prison sentence. This one for the charges that mueller brought against manafort, d. C. Federal court. He was indicted back in october of 2017 for conspiracy, moneylaundering, lying and failing to register as a foreign agent. Nearly a year later during the early days of his trial, he pleaded guilty to the two conspiracy charges, entered into a deal to cooperate with m
washington post. joel colvin for the associated press, and harry litman, former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general under president clinton. he also happens to be the creator and executive producer of the new podcast talking feds which we assume to be a tip of the hat to different burn. starting with the process of what happens with michael flynn. flynn wants a delay in sentencing. the mueller folks say we re done with him. what s the consequence of this? well, it s odd, because the first thing you want to know is have they milked him for all the information. that gives the biggest clue about where the probe is. and normally you would think that if flynn is saying i m needed for a trial in 90 days, that the prosecution would be seconding it. on the contrary, they ve said no, we take no position. he s on his own. so it looks to me more like a bid for flynn to persuade the court who remember was harsh on
but probably. no i think we ve wasted enough time on this witch hunt, and the answer is probably. we re finished. with that let s bring off our lead-off panelist. joel colvin, white house reporter for the associated press, and jeremy peters, political reporter for the new york times. kim, trump, you were there, and i don t mean to dredge this up, but you know this already. trump said to his rally crowds during the campaign that the hillary clinton e-mail fraccus would turn out to be bigger than watergate, that it would result in an administration consumed by investigation, and now what are we to make of tonight s headline? well, it s quite ironic, isn t it, that we have the exact same situation, an explanation that would have helped that she would have known that these were the rules. i suppose she was under a rock