Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Chairman, Paul Manafort. He has pleaded not guilty, but heres why this really matters. The first trial to come out of the Mueller Investigation will give us the most detailed snapshot yet of what cards Robert Mueller really has. And as soon as this week, the president s lawyer says he could decide whether to sit for an interview with the mueller team, although weve heard that one before. Right now the president s not happy with mueller. Donald trump firing off a whole bunch of tweets, trashing the investigation, offering up new details, too about his previous claims of mueller conflicts of interest, claims the Justice Department has shot down. Lets go to the white house with nbcs kristen welker, here to get us started. Rudy guiliani had more to say about all of this, just a couple of hours ago, including what seemed to be a shifting of the goalpost, no . Reporter it was striking, hallie, to hear Rudy Guiliani, yes
okay? witch hunt. where have we heard that before? also last summer, whitaker tweeted his approval of an npr article suggesting that the public might never learn mueller s findings because the attorney general could simply decline to release his report, and he wrote this. he said, article is correct. it will be very difficult to ever see evidence discovered by mueller grand jury investigation. okay? whitaker also weighing in on allegations of mueller conflicts of interest. here s what he said to anderson. bob mueller does have ethical duties as an admitted lawyer to practice law, and so did jim comey. so there are other rules in addition to the doj rules and regulations. and if bob mueller had these conflicts which were described in the beginning of this segment, that could raise some situations that i hope he s analyzed before he accepted this
where have we heard that before? also last summer, whitaker tweeted his approval of an npr article suggesting that the public might never learn mueller s findings because the attorney general could simply decline to release his report, and he wrote this. he said, article is correct. it will be very difficult to ever see evidence discovered by mueller grand jury investigation. okay? whitaker also weighing in on allegations of mueller conflicts of interest. here s what he said to anderson. bob mueller does have ethical duties as an admitted lawyer to practice law, and so did jim comey. so there are other rules in addition to the doj rules and regulations. and if bob mueller had these conflicts which were described in the beginning of this segment, that could raise some situations that i hope he s analyzed before he accepted this
very significant. it does seem a little peculiar that rudy, if that is what happened, would disclose it in this way. although he seemed to be saying that cohen was lying about this meeting anyway, so he was bringing it up just to bat it back down. but why even go down there. what s that s puzzling about this. there is also this piece, broadly seen under the umbrella of president trump and his legal team, rudy guiliani, escalating now. in the last 48 hours, attacks against the special counsel and attacks against the investigation, and attacks against michael cohen. i think i ve actually been on the set and literally said those words before the escalation piece. that s because it keeps happening here. what are the pieces of escalation is this idea of conflicts of interest from robert mueller? if you have a little bit of dejavu, there is reason for that. the president had alluded to this. the new york times reported out some of these illusions a couple months ago. here are the spe
kushner. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who oversees this investigation said this in front of lawmakers just recently. mr. chairman, if there were any conflicts of interest brought to our attention, i would discuss it with mr. mueller and then there could be review within the department, if there were credible allegation of a conflict of interest. and so i m not aware of any disqualifying conflict of interest. yeah, i certainly haven t seen any disqualifying conflicts of interest here. and i think the thing to keep in mind is that the president when he sends out these tweets, this is a shotgun approach. he is saying here s a whole bunch of things that in his opinion should disqualify mueller. he s not playing to a district judge to try to disqualify mueller. he is playing to the court of public opinion. i think from the president s mind, if he just starts making these attacks on bob mueller, he s got this, he s got this, he s got the golf club, the job, his law firm. some r