combination of health care and climate change. i get i m most surprised about how little people are concerned about the investigations into president donald trump. i heard one voter here in wisconsin bring up what s happening with the manafort sentencing. there s a little bit of concern here. but on the climate change, it s not cut and dry. i think voters are reckoning with a changing climate. kasie r, that doesn t mean they believe full stop in climate change the way the scientific community describes it. yes, the mississippi river is getting pretty high, throughout the midwest, nebraska, iowa, we have a lot of flooding. i think on the democratic side, activists are trying to push their lawmakers to be more pro-green new deal, to do more on climate. here in wisconsin s third congressional district, the lawmaker here failed to endorse the green new deal. that answer was disappointing to some but satisfying to others. it s an issue that most people were talking about, the
trial. shimon prokupecz, what happened today? the judge, we waited to see if she would take up the issue of the violation of the gag order. the judge decided today was not the day she would take up this issue. she wanted to keep it to a scheduling conference, which it was always supposed to be about. she set a trial date. november 5th. there was also some scheduling issues she took up. that was it. the big question on whether or not roger stone violated the gag order concerning this release of a book that he never notified the court about, that s still an issue that s on the table. the judge saying today she just hasn t had time to dive into the issue. keep in mind, she just came off the manafort sentencing. that could be why she needs more time to decide on whether or not he violated it. another key member of the mueller investigative team all of a sudden announced that he is
in jail and criticizing his defense from the bench at yesterday s sentencing. i do happen to think, once again i don t know why this judge has not recused herself. but that s just me. i don t get it. i don t get how it especially yesterday with what she said at the manafort sentencing. it seems to me that she can t be nonbiased if they get to a sentence. harris, that s all it got for you. [laughs] s be when you have done so much the last couple days on this. great job, catherine. thank you very much. thanks for having me, as always. harris: absolutely. that was today overwhelmingly approved a nonbinding resolution calling for the doj to make that mueller report public when the special counsel s russian probe is complete. this, as we are now learning that top mueller prosecutor andrew weissmann will be stepping down soon. the latest sign, perhaps, that the probe may be nearing its end. it would mean i was in prayer, formerly deputy director of public affairs for the doj.
he is still free to fund raise for his defense and his innocence but cannot discuss the special counsel case charges he lied to congress about his communications about the hacked democratic emails. for now, judge amy burman jackson sit aside the issues surround go ahead stone s book the myth of russia collusion and whether it violated the gag order. outside the court special trump aide questioned whether the same judge could be neutral after handing paul manafort another three years in jail and criticizing his defense team from the bernanke. bench. i don t know why this judge has not recused herself but that s just me. i don t get it. i don t get especially how yesterday what she said at the manafort sentencing. it seemed to me that she can t be non-biased if they get to a sentence. neil, that s all i have got for you. stay tuned because i m sure there be more tea leaves to read tomorrow.
evidence and indictment, their attorney would be telling them, you don t stand a great chance at trial. your better option is to plead. he has an option not available to most defendants and that s the president of the united states holding out the opportunity for a pardon at the end of this. the usual calculus a defendant might make is up ended here by the fact he has a chance for no jail time at all if he just never cooperates and talks about the president, and the president, you know, comes through on at least what is an implied pardon that he s been talking about publicly and by some reports privately. there s also news out of the special counsel s office because all of washington and the rest of the country remains on mueller report watch, right, as the house vote goes down on capitol hill. and betsy, our nbc news team have confirmed that a top prosecutor, andrew weisman, the guy in the courtroom yesterday for the manafort sentencing, is moving on. he s stepping down from that ro