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
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. Day 372 of the trump administration. President back at the white house tonight after his trip to davos. He had a busier than usual week ahead. It includes formally unveiling his latest immigration proposal delivering the first state of the Union Address as president and attending a retreat with house and senate republicans. All of it now against this backdrop of the latest big story, the white house has been forced to react to. The New York Times exclusive last night that the president ordered the firing of Robert Mueller but for his white House Counsel who said if he goes, i go and so it was never carried out. While the times broke the story, similar accounts and confirmations followed from nbc news, the washington post, fox news. Today the president had the opportunity to respond to these reports. Will you pfeiffer fire Robert Mueller . Did you want to fire Robert Mueller . Fake news, folks, fake news. New york times fake
Mike memoli is the nbc news journalist who broke the news about rhona graffs questioning and he spoke with our own Nichole Wallace earlier today. Anybody who has spoken with trump, has met with trump, has called trump has gone through her. And i think we know one of the subjects that they were certainly going to bring up, don jr. Testified before the committee on december 6th. We know that rob goldstone, the publicist who arranged that Infamous Trump tower meeting, in the emails between him and don jr. Setting that up there was a reference to rhona. Because if you wanted to get the incriminating information about Hillary Clinton to donald trump it was through rhona. That had to be one of the areas they focused on today. Also, were learning new details about the house intelligence committees interview with the now embattled fbi Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe who worked directly under james comey for a time. Wednesday mccabe spent nearly eight hours with the intel committee, and the very
Not at all how he envisioned kicking off year two in office. He began just three days ago with a storm of twitter messages, including this one. Quote, north Korean Leader kim jong un just stated that the Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times. Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that i too have a Nuclear Button, but it is much bigger and more powerful one than his and my button works. Well, that may have been an attempt to project an image of control. Events beyond the president s control quickly took over. Fire and fury inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff dropped like a bomb on the west wing, painting a scathing picture of the president and his administration. In an exclusive nbc interview, wolff talked about his impressions of the white house. Everybody questions his intelligence . Let me put a marker in the sand there. 100 of the people around him. The one description everyone game, everyone has in common. They all say he is like a
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 405 of the Trump Administration, and it will take us all of this next hour just to tell you what has happened this evening. There are major developments on several fronts, heres a look at the headlines from again just the last several hours. Nbc news has learned exclusively that Robert Mueller is asking witnesses if mr. Trump had advance knowledge about emails stolen from the dnc and the clinton campaign. That reporting comes from our own colleagues, katy tur and carol lee. The Washington Post reporting tonight mueller is also looking at trumps apparent efforts to oust attorney general Jeff Sessions from his post. Just today, the president said his own attorney general was disgraceful. And then tonight, the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, the very man, shows up in a very public, highend d. C. Restaurant, and he brings along a very special guest. Axios describes it this way, a show of solidarity with Deputy At