The controversial dossier had been corroborated. Memos that dont draw into dispute really anything james comey has said publicly, that the president asked if he could back off the flynn investigation. Unclear if the release of the memos served the purpose the trump allies thought it would. It is clear, they havent changed the president s mind. Overnight he wrote they show clearly that there was no collusion and no obstruction. Wow. Cnns shimon is in washington. The memos were released after i went to sleep. Theyre an interesting read. I was still up, john. I started to read them. Really they give us an insider account of those meetings, some seven meetings that the president conversations that the president had with the former fbi director. And some new details. Comey has talked a lot about this on his book tour now and tv interviews but there are new details that we learned. One of those you mentioned is that the president in one of those conversations was questioning the judgment of
Don mcgan. But he played a significant role and a person who is advocating for the president to do a sitdown interview with the special counsel Robert Mueller. After some deliberation, ty cobb decided he would retire. I havent had a chance to talk to him yet but he told me a while ago he was looking forward to going back home to south carolina. In a statement, Sarah Sanders saying, for several weeks ty cobb has been discussing his retirement and last week he let chief of staff kelly know he would retire at the end of this month. He is going to be replaced by emmet flood. Lets put up his c. V. Or the prominent points of it. He clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia and was president clintons impeachment lawyer. Represented dick cheney in the Valerie Plame case, among other things. You knew him then, he also worked in the White House Counsels Office under counsel fielding. So coming back in the white house is familiar territory for him. So why emmet flood . Rudy giuliani who was just doing a
Contingent of High School Students from washington, d. C. , maryland, northern virginia, that have gathered here to have their voices heard on this 19th anniversary of the columbine massacre. Im joined by caroline, theyre both from falls church, virginia. First time, what is it that made you decide to come out here, leave school today and have your voice heard . Im just very passionate about guns and gun laws. I think we need to have stronger gun laws, make it more difficult to buy guns. Right now, im 18, i live right across the street from walmart and i can go buy a gun and i dont think thats okay. I think the youth are the movement that is going to change and better our country, so i think that it is very important that students get out and be active. Did you feel like this was something you were always passionate about or was it the School Shooting in parkland, florida, that really got your attention and made you feel like you had to become more active . Ive always been passionate a
Thats how President Trumps legal team says theyre feeling tonight thanks to Rudy Giulianis 24hour media blitz starting with the bombshell that President Trump paid Michael Cohen back the Stormy Daniels hush money. Funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. Oh, i didnt know he did . Yeah, he fired comey because comey would not, among other things, say that he wasnt a target of the investigation. We got kim jongun impressed enough to be releasing three prisoners today. Jared is a fine man. You know that. But men are, you know, disposable. But a fine woman like ivanka . Come on. Each one of those statements leaving a trail of chaos on the president s own team. For example, the president , of course, said not even one month ago that he did not know about the Stormy Daniels payment. And those american hostages . The white house says it cant confirm theyre being freed today. Cnn is learning members of trumps legal team are angry tonight saying giuliani was not prepared, winging
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 727 of the Trump Administration. Day 26 of our other tally, this Government Shutdown which will roll into day 27 at the end of this hour. There was a lot of news but no movement on the shutdown today, and well get to all of that in a moment. But first, that sound you may have heard about two hours ago, especially here on the east coast, that was the sign of goalposts being moved. Rudy giuliani appeared on cnn tonight and talked about the russians, about collusion, and the Trump Campaign. You just misstated my position. I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign yes, you have. I have not. I said the president of the United States. There is not a single bit of evidence the president of the United States committed the only crime he could commit here, conspired with the russians to hack the dnc. Only thing we can say here is that happened. And well talk about t