administration and the president s christmas vacation under way at mar-a-lago in west palm, where he successfully beat the traffic today. he s coming off a big legislative win, heading into his second year in office with midterm elections ahead, but the russia investigation, that traveled with him on vacation. we are now learning that investigators are now themselves focusing on some of the people closest to donald trump. today his personal assistant, and this is going back decades, rona graph was questioned by staff from the house intelligence committee in an undisclosed location here in new york, not washington. this is a move democrats on the panel have objected to. they feel it should have been done in washington. mike memely is the journalist who broke the news about rona graph s questioning and he spoke with our own nicolle wallace earlier today. anybody who has spoken with trump, has met with trump, has called trump, has gone through her. one of the subjects they were
going to bring up, don junior testified before the committee on december 6th. we know that rob goldstone, who arranged that meeting, in the e-mails between him and don junior setting it up, there was a reference to rona. because if he wanted to get the incriminating information about hillary clinton to donald trump, it was through rona. that had to be one of the areas they focused on today. also, we re learning new details about the meeting with the embattled fbi 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 same mike memely of nbc news reports, quote, a source familiar with mccabe s testimony before the committee, told nbc news that mccabe confirmed that then fbi director james comey told him that trump had asked for a loyalty pledge from him. for those who need it, here s a reminder of what comey said about that during his testimony,
trump, has met with trump, has called trump, has gone through her. one of the subjects they were going to bring up, don junior testified before the committee on december 6th. we know that rob gold stostone, arranged that meeting, in the e-mails between him and don junior setting it up, there was a reference to rona. because if he wanted to get the incriminating information about hillary clinton to donald trump, it was through rona. that had to be one of the areas they focused on today. also, we re learning new details about the meeting with the embattled fbi 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 same mike memely of nbc news reports, quote, a source familiar with mccabe s testimony before the committee, told nbc news that mccabe confirmed that then fbi director james comey told him that trump had asked for a
from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 337 of the trump administration and the president s christmas vacation under way at mar-a-lago in west palm, where he successfully beat the traffic today. he s coming off a big legislative win, heading into his second year in office with midterm elections ahead, but the russia investigation, that traveled with him on vacation. we are now learning that investigators are now themselves focusing on some of the people closest to donald trump. today his personal assistant, and this is going back decades, rona graph was questioned by staff from the house intelligence committee in an undisclosed location here in new york, not washington. this is a move democrats on the panel have objected to. they feel it should have been done in washington. mike memely is the journalist who broke the news about rona graph s questioning and he spoke with our own nicolle wallace earlier today. anybody who has spoken with
justification at all he needs to fire deputy ag rod rosenstein, the man overseeing the mueller probe? nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, mike memely and kristen welker are with us. the pertinent points in the memo that stood out to you? it s pretty much what we expected because this has been leaked out in the weeks so there were no big surprises. the thesis of the memo is the applications to get a warrant from this secret court to monitor the communications of carter page were infected, they say, fatically, by the inclusion of information from christopher steele and that the fisa court should have been told that some of steele s work was under written, paid for by the hillary clinton campaign. that he had strong feelings against president trump and the failure to do that, they say, undercuts the entire justification for getting the warrants.