York. Im Steve Kornacki in for Brian Williams tonight. Day 491 of the Trump Administration, and tonight President Trumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is taking new aim at the russia investigation, telling the Associated Press that trumps legal team, quote, wants a briefing on the classified information shared with lawmakers about the origins of the fbi investigation into russias meddling in the 2016 election. Trumps lawyers may take the information to the Justice Department as part of an effort to scuttle the ongoing special counsel probe. Also that, quote, the white house hopes to get a readout of the materials next week. Giuliani telling the a. P. He wants to know about the use of a longtime government informant who approached members of Trumps Campaign about russian efforts. He says that if it was inappropriate, special counsel Robert Muellers entire probe may be illegitimate. Giuliani added the white house may press the Justice Department to, quote, reevaluate the investigation. Yesterda
Top of the gop field in 2016, is now behind bars. Paul manafort is spending his first night in a virginia jail, this after a federal judge in washington, d. C. , revoked his bail privileges and ordered him detained. All of this coming after allegations from Robert Muellers Team Manafort had tampered with witnesses in the russia investigation. Manafort is already facing charges of Money Laundering, fraud, and conspiracy and has pleaded not guilty to all of those counts. He will now be held in pretrial detention until september. The criminal case against manafort is not directly connected to allegations about Russian Election interference, but his role in the campaign and his ties to russianbacked politicians have made him a target for muellers team. Reporter Josh Gerstein of politico, who is standing by to join us, sums up the importance of this latest development, writing, sending the 69yearold manafort to jail could boost the pressure on him to cut a deal with mueller, whose main task
Day 512 of the Trump Administration. It is the top of the gop field in 2016 is behind bars. Bawl manafort is spending his first night in a virginia jail after a federal judge in washington d. C. Revoked jail pref l privileges. His role in the campaign have made him a target for muellers team. He is standing by to join us, summed up the lest. Wow, what a tough sentence for Paul Manafort. What about crooked hillary and all of the others . Have unfair. Manafort a few miles from the white house. It has nothing to do with our campaign. I tell you i feel badly about it. I have known him a long time. We have great people. Paul manafort. He didnt need to do that. He said this is something special. Paul manafort has done an amazing job. Where is paul . Paul manafort. Rudy giuliani had his own thoughts telling the New York Daily News when the whole thing is over things might get cleaned up with some president ial pardons. Giuliani later wait. Listen. He is not going to pardon anybody in this inv
Paul manafort is spending his first night in a virginia jail, this after a federal judge in washington, d. C. Revoked his bail privileges and ordered him detained. All of this coming after allegations from Robert Muellers Team Manafort had tampered with witnesses in the russia investigation. Manafort is already facing charges of money laundering, fraud, and conspiracy and has pleaded not guilty to all of those counts. He will now be held in pretrial detention until september. The criminal case against manafort is not directly connected to allegations about Russian Election interference, but his role in the campaign and his ties to russianbacked politicians have made him a target for muellers team. Reporter Josh Gerstein of politico, who is standing by to join us, sums up the importance of this latest development, writing, sending the 69yearold manafort to jail could boost the pressure on him to cut a deal with mueller, whose main task is to determine whether the Trump Campaign coordina
Good afternoon. Im trace gallagher. Sarah sanders is expected to take the podium any moment now. Were hoping to here more about the meeting with President Trump and kim jongun. Well see what happens, whether or not it happens. If it does, it will be a great thing for north korea. If it doesnt, thats okay, too. Whatever it is, it is. Trace the president made those comments with south korean president moon last week. North korea cancelled the talks with the south and threatened to call off the meeting with the president. First the joint military exercises were blamed. And then kim said he didnt want onesided talks about giving up nukes. And then he said the remarks from john bolton would use the libya model with north korea. Moammar qaddafi gave up his Nuclear Program and then rebels ousted him and killed him. Vice president pence told fox news that kim will only end up like qaddafi if he doesnt make a deal. President trump would be the first sitting president to meet with a north korean