Career. Bill and attorney general Jeff Sessions speaking out after President Trump called him out over the handling of the fisa situation. If you and bill want to grab a coffee we have a lot of to talk about at 9 00 in the morning. Jeff sessions will be here at the white house today for an opioid summit. The president not scheduled to be at that summit but the president can always do a bit of a driveby. On the hope hicks resignation is a big deal because shes one of the people closest to the president other than family through the election and used to press his suits and she has been burning the candle at both ends for three years, 24 7, 365. Her personal life became fodder for the media through no fault of her own and told the White House Committee shes told white lies on behalf of the president and the president wasnt particularly happy about it and we dont know if that plays into her decision. Yesterday morning she told the president it was simply time for her to go on. In a stateme
Investigation. The 11th hour on a wednesday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 405 of the Trump Administration, and it will take us all of this next hour just to tell you what has happened this evening. There are major developments on several fronts, heres a look at the headlines from again just the last several hours. Nbc news has learned exclusively that Robert Mueller is asking witnesses if mr. Trump had advance knowledge about emails stolen from the dnc and the clinton campaign. That reporting comes from our own colleagues, katy tur and carol lee. The Washington Post reporting tonight mueller is also looking at trumps apparent efforts to oust attorney general Jeff Sessions from his post. Just today, the president said his own attorney general was disgraceful. And then tonight, the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, the very man, shows up in a very public, highend d. C. Restaurant, and he brings along a very special guest. Ax
Thats right. Several more. And the reason that photograph was taken is one of the things were going to be examining in this hour. Photographs like that are not innocent coincidences in washington. No. And ive never seen Noel Francisco and Rod Rosenstein in the same place before so to be with Jeff Sessions and corner table someone take our picture, i doubt its a coincidence. Right in the middle of one of the moments where donald trump is once again attacking his own attorney general. A little show of force on the part of the justice department. Who knows maybe they do it every wednesday. Thats what it looks like. Thank you, rachel. Well, the white liar is out. Hope hicks, who told the House Intelligence Committee that she has told white lies for the president of the United States is leaving her job at the white boyfriend after those accusations of Domestic Violence became public. She fought to save her boyfriends job inside the white house. And because the Trump White House is filled wi
Our newsroom, our sort of cubicle farm to work on my show is in sort of the corner of the building here and way down at the other end of the floor is the folks from chris hayes show and around the corner theres a couple of other shows. Were all very rarely looking at the same thing at the same time. But when the hope hicks story broke at the time, you heard something that was like a stadium wave all the way down the hall, oh, oh, oh, oh, as the news went down the floor. Theres been lots going on. We had a whole show about it. And then this just happened. This is big news that has just broken from the New York Times. Just in the last hour. You see the headline there, kushners business got loans from companies after white house meetings by jesse drucker, kate kelly and ben proteus. Heres how this piece starts tonight. Quote, early last year a private equity billionaire started paying regular visits to the white house. Joshua harris, the founder of Apollo Global management. During that pe
Another public shaming from the president. Now new reports bob mueller might be watching this very closely. And Jared Kushner is back in the headlines, this time for multi Million Dollar loans. His Family Business received after Holding Meetings inside at the white house. And the president now looking for his fifth communications trekt her after long time aide hope hicks also quits. Good morning, everyone. In an extraordinary oncamera discussion on school safety, President Trump, leaving lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pretty stunned as he unleashed his negotiating tactics in in realtime on how to reform gun laws in this country. At several points, the president not only sided against his republican colleagues, but the nra, as well. Under pressure after parkland, President Trump taking on his own party and the National Rifle association. And im a fan of the nr are a, but that doesnt mean we have to agree on everything. Mr. Trump, at a free wheeling hourlong meeting trying to get s