Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Not going to lie. We have a lot again tonight. Day 467 of the trump administration, and tonights breaking news comes from the Washington Post. Robert costa, whos standing by to join us in a bit, and his colleague carol lentic report that Robert Mueller has raised the possibility of a president ial subpoena with trumps legal team. That gets your attention. Costa and len ig write, quote n a tense meetsing in early march with the special counsel, President Trumps lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing russias interference in the 2016 president ial campaign. But special counsel Robert Mueller responded that he had another option if trump declined. He could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury according to four people familiar with the encounter. Muellers warning. The first time he is known to have mentioned a possible subpoena to trumps legal team s
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Not going to lie. We have a lot again tonight. Day 467 of the trump administration, and tonights breaking news comes from the Washington Post. Robert costa, whos standing by to join us in a bit, and his colleague carol lentic report that Robert Mueller has raised the possibility of a president ial subpoena with trumps legal team. That gets your attention. Costa and len ig write, quote n a tense meetsing in early march with the special counsel, President Trumps lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing russias interference in the 2016 president ial campaign. But special counsel Robert Mueller responded that he had another option if trump declined. He could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury according to four people familiar with the encounter. Muellers warning. The first time he is known to have mentioned a possible subpoena to trumps legal team s
Confidence vote on her leadership. Also, im happy to tell you that Colin Powells top aide joins me to rebut Donald Trumps attack on this navy s. E. A. L. Who helped kill Osama Bin Laden. But, we begin tonight right now with important developments in this battle between President Trump and the Justice Department, a fight that as we all know by now has defined Donald Trumps first term, at least ever since he fired the fbi director and sparked bob muellers probe, and trumps new pick for attorney general is now under new pressure tonight. Ky tell you three Democratic Senators suing to block this appointment, including senator Richard Blumenthal who joins me in a moment. His effort zeros in on a technicality. But the larger battle is over. Matt whitakers criticisms of this Mueller Probe, which trump claims he didnt know about despite Donald Trumps habit of watching tv news and yes, fixating on criticism of bob mueller. Did you know before you appointed him that he had that record that was s