Hillary clintons. It came in a federal grand jury indictment of 13 russians and three russian companies. According to the mueller indictment, at defendants operations included supporting the president ial campaign of then candidate donald j. Trump and disparaging Hillary Clinton. Among the charges, conspiracy to defraud the United States, the indictment provides a comprehensive blueprint of that conspiracy, detailing exactly how the russians conducted Information Warfare against this country starting back in 2014. Those methods were described today by the Justice Department official who oversees the special counsels probe. Deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. The defendants allegedly kunged what they called Information Warfare against the United States. They used stolen or fictitious american identities, Fraudulent Bank accounts and false identification documents. The defendants posed as politically and socially active americans. Advocating for and against particular candidates. The
With the russian. Plus, news of a new steel memo, revealing memos of russian interference in trumps choice for secretary of state. And why a russian coach currently in jail on thailand could crack the russia investigation wide open. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. A former trump aide who recently spent hours being interviewed by Robert Muellers team thinks the special counsel has something on the president of the United States. Sam nunberg is a name you probably heard a fair amount today if you were checking the internet at all, and he is a political consultant who was fired from the Trump Campaign in its early days way back in 2015. A couple of days ago he was questioned by muellers investigators for over five hours. Today in a live phone interview on this number, he told my colleague katy tur that he concluded based on those questions that mueller has the goods on his former boss, president donald j. Trump. You sat there in that room being questio
President ial campaign of then candidate donald j. Trump and disparaging Hillary Clinton. Among the charges, conspiracy to defraud the United States. The indictment provides a comprehensive blueprint of that conspiracy, detailing exactly how the russians conducted Information Warfare against this country starting back in 2014. Those methods were described today by the Justice Department official who oversees the special counsels probe, Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. The defendants allegedly conducted what they call Information Warfare against the United States. They used stolen or fictitious american identities, Fraudulent Bank accounts and false identification documents. The defendants posed as politically and socially active americans advocating for and against particular candidates. They established social media pages and groups to communicate with unwitting americans. The russians also recruited and paid real americans to engage in political activities, promote political c
Plus the news breaks from New York Times, the president speaking to rod porter, the disgraced former aide out because of spousal abuse as donald trump hopes to bring him back to the west wing. And Stormy Daniels goes after it in a court filing. Good evening once again from our news headquarters here in new york. Day 431 of the Trump Administration and the dwindling legal team of this president are back in the news. Another high Profile Defense firm declined to take on the lead counsel in this case writing a prominent chicago defense attorney said monday he declined an invitation to lead President Trumps legal Team Responding to special counsels Robert Muellers investigation. Tonight nbc news has received this statement from attorney dan webb, quote, President Trump reached out to dan webb and tom buchanan to provide legal representation. They were unable to take on the representation due to business conflicts, however, they consider the opportunity to represent the president to be the
Have very strong borders and we have to change our laws and were working on doing that. We had a trade deficit of almost 500 billion last year with china. We cant continue to allow this to happen where hundreds of billions of dollars is taken out of our country and our system. I want to get out, i want to bring our troops back home. I want to start rebuilding our nation. We will have as of three months ago 7 trillion in the middle east over the last 17 years we get nothing, nothing out of it. Talk about going back to campaign mode. Today he resurrected comments that launched his campaign. Lets watch. Remember my opening remarks at trump tower when i opened, everybody said oh, he was so tough. I used the word rape and yesterday it came out where this journey coming up women are raped at levels that nobodys ever seen before. They dont want to mention that. Trump seems to be returning to the guiding principle that got him into office in the first place he alone can fix it. Theyve given yo