Sexual misconduct claims against him completely false. And were live in vietnam as President Trump is half a world away from the problems back home in washington. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. And good evening once again from the nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 295 of the Trump Administration, and tonight it is now clear that the attention of Robert Mueller is, for the time being at least, bearing down on mike flynn, the retired u. S. Army general who was one of the stalwarts of the Trump Campaign effort and who served as National Security adviser for 24 days in the west wing. Nbc news reports today mueller is investigating a possible deal between senior turkish officials and flynn during the president ial transition. This report says in part, quote, four people familiar with the investigation said mueller is looking into whether flynn discussed orchestrating the return to turkey of a chief rival of turkish president erdogan who lives in the u. S. Flynn was of
The right time to reup the question, is anything sacred. When scandals and mistruths are served up in gargantuan proportions. Hes not a war hero. Hes a war hero. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured. I dont know what i said, i dont remember. If you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say, probably she wasnt allowed to have anything to say, you tell me. I just start kissing them, its like a magnet. And when youre a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. You do whatever you want . You grab them by the [ bleep ]. They went out and bought a big yacht, and they had a very interesting life. Im not going to tell you what he did because youre boy scouts. Should i tell you . You had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. Wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out,
Night begins now. And good evening once again from the nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 295 of the Trump Administration, and tonight it is now clear that the attention of Robert Mueller is, for the time being at least, bearing down on mike flynn, the retired u. S. Army general who was one of the stalwarts of the Trump Campaign effort and who served as National Security adviser for 24 days in the west wing. Nbc news reports today mueller is investigating a possible deal between senior turkish officials and flynn during the president ial transition. This report says in part, quote, four people familiar with the investigation said mueller is looking into whether flynn discussed orchestrating the return to turkey of a chief rival of turkish president erdogan who lives in the u. S. Flynn was offered upwards of 15 million to be paid directly or indirectly if he could complete the deal according to two sources familiar with the meeting. Flynns lawyers released a statement about the
Jongun. About 30 miles from the dmz border to the north. Easily the most tense stop of his 12day asian trip. And back home, the crush of russia related events, and record low numbers in terms of polling responses on what this president has done or not done in office thus far. A new cnn poll says 36 of americans approve of the job trump is doing as president. A new low for him in this poll. 58 disapprove. Its one of several polls out just these past few days showing record low numbers. Nbc news has him at 38 . Pew research, 34 . Fox news, 38 . On the russia front, the issue that will not go away, Paul Manafort and his associate rick gates back in court today. The judge decided they need to stay on house arrest. He did make one exception for gates. Hes allowed to leave home tomorrow just for enough time to vote in the virginia gubernatorial election. Nbc news also has some new reporting on special counsel Robert Muellers investigation. The headline on this one reads, mueller has enough e
Maralago, yesterday . Reporter so he was actually at his golf club in West Palm Beach where he goes every day from maralago to play. He had come off the course, played with his son eric and pro golfer jim herman. They had had lunch and i had gone up and talking to him. You know, he was very proud of the tax bill at the end of the year. I think that obviously, for many reasons, probably in part because he did not have a significant legislative aco accomplishment in 2018. I said, if you want to talk about that, why dont we talk about that on the record . Then when he was done with lunch, we sat down and talked oneonone about ha. Were you surprise, michael, there was no support staff around him . Did you have to go through formal channels to get the interview . Reporter no, i wasnt surprised. Its been clear from the beginning of his trip, i came down here, he hasnt really made a lot of news. Its been clear there wasnt much staff around him. This has been a lightlystaffed trip compared to,