Haiti. The only public event on todays schedule, the signing of a proclamation to honor reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. Heres how it ended. Mr. President , will you give a statement about your comment yesterday . Mr. President , did you refer to train nations mr. President , are you a racist . Mr. President mr. President will you respond to these serious questions about your statement, sir . No. Were talking to the president , not you, sir. Mr. President , are you a racist . And thats about how the day went. And the new yorker magazine sums out where the president finds himself. The president s comments yesterday throwing things into a tailspin. Trump worked the phones thursday night calling friend and allies outside the white house to gauge reaction from the fallout from the blankhole comments. One source characterized trump as seeking reassurance. And the coverage of his comments as belligerent. The president sought insight of how the episode might resonate among his base of supp
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im caseyhukasie hunt in for br williams who has the day off. It is day 400 of the Trump Administration that brings new legal trump for two former Trump Campaign aides. The Washington Post reports tonight the Deputy Attorney general warned the white house weeks ago about problems with Jared Kushners security clearance. Were going to have more on that just ahead. But we begin with the mueller investigation. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained another guilty plea. This one from former Trump Deputy Campaign chairman rick gates who stayed on during the transition. Today gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States as well as to lying to investigators. And he admitted to secret foreign lobbying, potentially illegal mortgage schemes and helping Paul Manafort cheat on his taxes. Mueller also got gates to plead guilty to lying to investigators after he was indicted. Gates is now cooperating with the
Chosen not to release it himself. Back to the hill it goes. The New York Times reporting, mr. Trump who had a brief window to block the memos disclosure on National Security grounds was expected to Tell Congress on friday that he had no objections and would likely not request any material be redacted, according to a Senior Administration official. It would then be up to the House Intelligence Committee whose Republican Leaders have pushed for its release, to make the document public. New reporting by the Washington Post gives us some insight into how the president arrived at that decision, that conclusion. According to to the post, quote, before he had even read it, trump became absolutely convinced of one thing, the memo needed to come out. That the president did not actually see the memo until wednesday afternoon, that would be yesterday, following committees monday vote to initiate its release. That was after the president was caught on a hot mike coming up the aisle after the state
Himself at the end of this week. The story about the president s profane comments first reported yesterday by the Washington Post threw the west wing into a tailspin according to our white house correspondents, quote, two sources close to it administration told nbc news trump worked the phones thursday night calling friends and allies outside the white house to gauge reaction to falout from the blank hole comments. One described him as seeking ruassurance of the fallout and the comments as belligerent. Another said the president sought insight. That led to these tweets from the president this morning. Quote, the language used by me at the daca meeting was tough but this was not the language used. What was really a tough was the outlandish proposal made, the big setback for daca. And never said anything derogatory about haitians. Never said take them out. Made up by demes. I have a wonderful relationship with haitians. Probably should record future meetings. Unfortunately, no trust. Her
Me, its case closed on the question of russian meddling. And offering the bob mueller effectively ended the debate about whether russia did indeed meddle in our democracy. Suggesting it will become awkward at best for the president to continue to call the investigation a hoax. Now that a grand jury was convinced by bob mueller and his investigators who presented this evidence to them, and to which they responded with todays indictments. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein took to the d. O. J. Podium and announced the charges. The defendants allegedly conducted what they called Information Warfare against the United States, with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general. They used stolen or fictitious american identities, Fraudulent Bank accounts, and false identification documents. The defendants posed as political and socially active americans advocating for particular candidates. They established social media pages and groups