Midterm elections. You know, the ones were involved in now funded by a Russian Oligarch whos known as putins chef. The charges against one of the financial ringleaders were announced just moments after the nations intelligence chief put out a statement, a joint statement, warning of foreign interference of russia, china and others. One wonders if they put out that warning knowing what was coming from the Justice Department and well get into that in a moment. Joining me from the courthouse where the charges were filed is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. Pete, this indictment is not a mueller indictment and yet it does involve somebody who mueller has indicted. Walk me through this. Reporter sure. Back in february you remember muellers prosecutors brought charges against a number of russians and a russian company, concord, which is run by that Russian Oligarch nicknamed russians chef because he started in the food business. They say that he was involved in raising money and
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 663 of this trump administration, and talk of a power struggle amid an imminent white house shakeup is getting louder and more frequent now. Now were hearing about a new force behind the push for personnel changes and that would be her. First lady Melania Trump. Today her office publicly called for the firing of Deputy National security adviser Mira Ricardel seen here at the white house as recently as this afternoon at an event. Stephanie grisham, first ladys Communications Director issued this statement about ricardel. It is the position of the office of the first lady that she no longer deserves the honor tonight the white house told our colleague, hallie jackson, that ricardel has never met the first lady and made no indication that ricardel has left the administration. Nbc news also reports tonight chief of staff john kelly may soon leave the white house. You may have heard this before a time or two,
Were live here in washington. One full week after america voted. The 2018 midterms continue with cliffhanger contests still unfolding and new results about to come in from california. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer with jake tapper. Were here in the cnn election center. Over the last seven days weve gotten a fuller picture of the First Nationwide vote of the Trump Presidency and the historic power shift thats happening right here in washington. Democrats retaking the house of representatives by a wider margin than was evident on Election Night. Theyre also doing better in the u. S. Senate than first thought, even as republicans maintain control there. This is the state of play in the house. Democrats have a majority right now of 225 seats. Republicans have 200 seats. Ten hospital races remain undecided tonight. Democrats are leading in six of those races. If they win all six, theyll have a pickup of 36 seats, widening what
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 663 of this trump administration, and talk of a power struggle amid an imminent white house shakeup is getting louder and more frequent now. Now were hearing about a new force behind the push for personnel changes and that would be her. First lady Melania Trump. Today her office publicly called for the firing of Deputy National security adviser Mira Ricardel seen here at the white house as recently as this afternoon at an event. Stephanie grisham, first ladys Communications Director issued this statement about ricardel. It is the position of the office of the first lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this white house grisham said. Nbc news has detailed reporting tonight about this latest development and other rifts within the white house. Ricardel has gotten into several disputes with the east wing. Also over the first ladys trip to africa in october. More on that later. Tonight the
Ran a Strong Campaign in a really trump district, he did not win his congressional race but he was first out of the gate after the election in saying he is definitely going to run for president in 2020. He made it officially official, right away. Right at the closing moments of the elections we also saw a new thinly veiled sort of president ial political ad from billionaire Michael Bloomberg where he speaks at length directly to the camera. After contributing tons of money to Democratic Candidates for this years elections, and telling the press that he is definitely a democrat now and he plans to stay one this time, Michael Bloomberg isnt explicitly saying yet that he is definitely running for president. But that is clearly what he is gearing up for, and he made that clear just as people were going to the polls. Progressive populist senator Sherrod Brown of ohio, he won his senate race on tuesday night, his reelection race, despite republicans targeting him heavily and despite ohio oth