The wall street journal is now reporting former Trump National security adviser general Michael Flynn general flynn is a wonderful man offering to testify in exchange for immunity, when you are given immunity, it means you have probably committed a crime. I think its very, very unfair whats happened to general flynn. Now that we know that its his own staffers who were briefing devin nunes. It now raises more questions about whether the white house is actively interfering in this investigation. If i start going down the path of confirming and denying one thing, were going down a very slippery slope. Thats why you have press conference, buddy, to answer questions. Every day in this investigation you wake up and think its going to be one kind of day and it turns out to be quite a different kind of day. There is a big bombshell that dropped tonight in the Ongoing Investigation into the trump campaigns alleged collusion with russia in its interference with the 2016 election. The wall street
Tweeted this. Terrible it just found out obama had my wires tapped. Nothing found. This is mccarthyism. All hell broke loose and on monday at the i director james comey was asked about the tweet. With respect to the president s tweets i have no information that supports those tweets and weve looked carefully inside the fbi. He was savaged by the media. He was essentially called the drunken liar. He clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gym bottle. Check out the cover of this weeks magazine. President trump made a wild claim on twitter. Nor is there any credible source about intelligence who believes the charge. Of the on the steps she did claims. The charge is untrue and he knows its not true. Lec should. They couldnt just keep their powder dry until all of the facts came out. So on thursday devon nunez dropped this bombshell. On numerous occasions intelligence needed he collected information about u. S. Citizens involved in the trump transition. Details about u. S. Persons
Are outnumbered. Eric i am outnumbered, but what a great day. So much going on. Sandra lets get right to it. Todays big hearing on russian meddling, saying they will go wherever the intelligence leads us. Richard burr and mark warner announcing they will pressure 20 people over time. Among them, President Trumps soninlaw, Jared Kushner who serves as a white house senior advisor. Paul manna fort and possibly michael flynn. Meantime, senator warner giving a preview of heart how far rusn interference went. If you google russian hacking, he wouldnt get fox or abc or new york times, what you get is 4 out of the first five newspapers that popped up were russian propaganda. Sandra he was asked if he could lead a fair investigation. Having served as advisor on the trump campaign, can use a hand over heart you can oversee an impartial investigation . Absolutely. Ill admit that i voted for him. Ive got a job with the United States senate. I take the job extremely seriously. I have confidence in
Are you getting any reaction to the president s tweet and what it really could mean . Reporter yeah, so, that tweet wasnt subtle by any means, kate. No. Reporter but look, there was actually intent behind it and i think its worth walking through whats happened the last couple days to lead to this point. The basic rationale here is between house leadership, between house leaders that kind of watched the Health Care Bill just implode last week, and the white house who saw the same exact thing, theres a recognition, that basically, they need to figure out some way, somehow to get those Freedom Caucus members, those three dozen members who are kind of proudly intransigent on bills that they dont believe meet their conservative threshold to come into line. If you listen closely to Speaker Paul Ryan this morning on an interview with cbs, kind of said the same thing. Take a listen. That this Republican Congress allows the perfect to be the enemy of the good, i worry well push the president in
Wednesday night. Its one of those wednesdays. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 468 of the trump administration. We have breaking news that were going to break down on several fronts for you tonight. Well catch you up on all of them. Were going to begin with a stunning admission from Rudy Giuliani about that 130,000 hush money payment to the adult film star Stormy Daniels. This money was paid to ms. Daniels, you recall, by Donald Trumps personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. He used a household line of credit, his own money to pay him. You may recall that on air force one, april 5, just a few weeks back, the president told reporters on air force one he had no knowledge of the payment. Well, appearing with sean hannity tonight, here is what Rudy Giuliani said on fox news just a short time ago. That money was not campaign money. Sorry, im give you a fact now you dont know. Its not campaign money. No Campaign Finance violation. They funneled it through