interviewed in iowa, where he first really kind of publicly came out about john mccain saying he didn t think he was a war hero because he d been captured. that was one of those moments early on in the campaign. i remember covering it. where you heard a lot of chatter of everyone saying this is it, this is it, he s gone, no candidate can possibly recover from this kind of thing. and we saw that that didn t happen. trump didn t really feel any consequences from it. so he has learned that these kinds of attacks are effective in distracting the media, in creating a firestorm when he wants to distract, and don t really have any personal consequences for him. and counselor, here we are on a wednesday night. you can go back and find media reports that always say it s coming next week for weeks into the holiday season. am i correct that there s no real rules of the road here? mueller s free to send in a five-page outline with exhibits, a 500-page binder, 5,000 pages if he wants, the only ru
senator and have never in your life managed more than 100 people. i think this is an executive position that requires executive experience. mayor pete buttigieg gets tonight s last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. tonight trump goes after mueller again, and it s personal. he says 63 million americans voted for him and none for mueller. then he went after a top adviser s husband again. then he attacked john mccain in a military setting in front of a silent crowd of ohio voters who once chose mccain over obama. the president complained he didn t get a thank you for john mccain s funeral. and tonight the question, is any of it, is all of it being driven by fear that the mueller report will be completed and sent off at any moment? with us tonight to talk about all of it, the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, preet baa rara as the 11th hour gets
he turned it over to the fbi hoping to put me in jeopardy. he voted against repeal and replace. he voted against at 2:00 in the morning. remember, thumbs down. we said what the hell happened? i endorsed him at his request, and i gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted. which as president i had to approve. i don t care about this. i didn t get a thank you. that s okay. we sent him on the way. but i wasn t a fan of john mccain. trump today also kept up his criticism of conservative lawyer george conway, the husband of kellyanne conway, one of the president s senior and longest-serving advisers. conway has been using posts online to raise alarms about the president s mental health and his fitness for office. trump was asked about that as he left for ohio. i don t know him. he s a wack job. there s no question about it. but i really don t know him. i think he s doing a tremendous disservice to a wonderful wife.
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the united states naval academy to this country. and no matter what donald trump says, no matter how he says it, to him he says it or tweets it in any lifetime in any moment john mccain will be the bigger and the better man. it s that simple. and it gnaws at him at every turn. you can hear the derision when he said and i gave him the funeral he wanted. really? you gave him a funeral he wanted. john mccain didn t need donald trump to give him a funeral. the nation was fully prepared as we watched this man exhibit the kind of strength, even at the moment of his own ending that again was not about mccain. it was about a country. he talked about the country, lifting up the country. it s just the petiness of a