Well. Jon meacham, always such a pleasure to have him as part of our broadcast, especially on a consequential friday night. That is our broadcast indeed for this friday and for this week. Thank you for being here with us. Have a good weekend. Good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. A couple of hours ago, maybe even less than that, i was standing knee deep in a trout stream in tennessee. But now its mueller time and so im in a studio in the great state of tennessee. The trout are basically just as safe as they were when i was flailing away at them ineffectually this afternoon. But now it is listen, its this is history. This is a reason to stop fishing and go to work. Our job tonight as a country sort of or at least what
everybody in the country is going to be doing tonight is trying to figure out what it means that the report of special Counsel Robert Mueller has finally been submitted. Weve heard it said so many times that it was imminent, that it was done, maybe it
And there was a surprise. At least with 62 of the vote in, there so far is a surprise in terms of the result. And this young candidate, who had zero name recognition less than a year ago, less than six months ago, and still has zero name recognition in a large part of the country, has a story to tell. Maybe its a good place for him to tell it right after the state of the union. Maybe its a good place to tell if the iowa results are going to be stretched out over several days rather than released once at midnight on a monday in january or in february. So i think its obviously the Iowa Democrats screwed up and theyre going to have to answer for it. But the ultimate impact of what happens here is going to depend both on the results and the way this keeps trickling out. Hes been at 62 and its like netflix. Its been buffering for like five hours. He cant say whats actually happened. Again, i feel bad for sort of mayor pete, but i will say this. He is in a really unique position now to see i
Tonight. The president is at maralago for the 29th time at president , 175th day there as president. In washington, a fairly explosive day at the usually quiet Justice Department. A second straight day of completely mixed signals, including what appears to be a slow Rolling Campaign to seize increasing amounts of control over politically charged cases. They are numerous. The New York Times was the first to report that trumps ag bill barr has tapped and outside prosecutor to, quote, scrutinize the criminal case against President Trumps former National Security adviser michael flynn. Barr installed a handful of outside prosecutors broadly reviewing the handling of other politically sensitive National Security cases. They go on to say over the past two weeks, the youd sioutside prosecutors have begun grilling line prosecutors about various cases. You may recall flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi during muellers investigation of ties between the Trump Campaign and russia and all thos
Good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,121 of the trump administration. That leaves 263 days to go until the 2020 election. Two other quick numbers here tonight. The president is at maralago for the 29th time at president , 175th day there as president. In washington, a fairly explosive day at the usually quiet Justice Department. A second straight day of completely mixed signals, including what appears to be a slow Rolling Campaign to seize increasing amounts of control over politically charged cases. They are numerous. The New York Times was the first to report that trumps ag bill barr has tapped and outside prosecutor to, quote, scrutinize the criminal case against President Trumps former National Security adviser michael flynn. Barr installed a handful of outside prosecutors broadly reviewing the handling of other politically sensitive National Security cases. They go on to say over the past two weeks, the outside prosecutors have begun grilling line pr
All of it as this valentines Night Edition of the 11th hour gets under way. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,121 of the trump administration. That leaves 263 days to go until the 2020 election. Two other quick numbers here tonight. The president is at maralago for the 29th time as president. His 175th day there as president. Back home in washington, another fairly explosive day at the usually quiet Justice Department. And a second straight day of completely mixed signals including what appears to be a slowrolling campaign to seize increasing amounts of control over politically charged cases, and they are numerous. The New York Times was the first to report that trumps a. G. , bill barr, has tapped an outside prosecutor to, quote, scrutinize the criminal case against President Trumps former National Security adviser michael flynn. Barr has also installed a handful of outside prosecutors broadly reviewing the handling of other political