Andrea, it is great to see you, congratulations on 40 amazing years. It is great to work with you. Thank you. Good afternoon to all of you, i am kasie hunt in today for craig melvin. Stop this. The president tells is Attorney General to end the russia investigation in a string of tweets on the same day his form er campaign chairmans trail. The Press Briefing should start in about 15 minutes. Well see how they respond to questions about this. Plus, russian influence, hearing on capitol hill reveals russias push to sway American Voters went deeper than we thought. We all these talks, when do we see action to stop it . Off message, the president says you need to buy an id to buy
groceries the day after his administration floats the idea of a huge tax cut for the rich. We start with President Trumps twofold twitter attacks today demanding his Attorney General end the Special Counsel investigation. He defended the target of one of the biggest Indictment Results in that probe. Former Campaig
president then kancandidate don trump knew manafort and he has known him for decades and manafort has lived at trump tower for a selected time. he did select him to go onto share his campaign without checking into that background. peter, thanks. ken dilanian tell us of the case. reporter: the jury has not told these prosecutors work for mueller. how extraordinary it is for the president of the united states to denounce his own justice department and fbi and unlawfully predicated criminal investigations over seen by his own appointee. we kind of got used to it from this president. as for the trial, it is so far from this political world in washington. right now kasie, we are deep in the world of men s fashion.
groceries the day after his administration floats the idea of a huge tax cut for the rich. we start with president trump s twofold twitter attacks today demanding his attorney general end the special counsel investigation. he defended the target of one of the biggest indictment results in that probe. former campaign paul manafort. the white house press briefing in about 15 minutes. we are expecting sarah sanders to take the podium and answer questions about why the president wants to end the probe that secured five guilty pleas and dozens of indictments. let s start with our nbc news reporter peter alexander at the white house and ken dilanian following the manafort trial in virginia. ken, i want to start with you.