Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Thats a really good thing. Now were being hindered by the russian hoax. Its a hoax, okay . Earlier this week he wrote, quote, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now. Bob mueller is totally conflicted and his 17 angry democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to the usa. His concern about Paul Manaforts financial crimes trial comes out in this posting. Quote, Paul Manafort worked for Ronald Reagan, bob dole and many other prominent respected political leaders. He worked for me for a very short time. Why didnt government tell me he was under investigation . These old charges have nothing to do with collusion. A hoax. But trump reserved some of his sharpest attacks for his critics, the news media. Even these horrible horrendous people say look at it, it looks l
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. This presidency, we will ask a celebrated historian if there is anything to celebrate in the history that we are witnessing. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. Day 561 of the Trump Administration and the end of another week brings a new sign of Robert Muellers increasing interest in one of Donald Trumps veteran advisers. His friend of 40 years, roger stone. Nbc news reports that according to a source with direct knowledge, a member of muellers stone met with a stone associate named kristin davis. She first came to prominence when the tab lights nicknamed her the manhattan madam after she said she provided prostitutes to the rich and powerful including a governor of new york. Davis said in july that the mueller representative who
contacted her lawyer asked if she would accept a subpoena or if the fbi needed to serb it to her. She sai
contacted her lawyer asked if she would accept a subpoena or if the fbi needed to serb it to her. she said she would accept it. she worked if are stone for many years and others had already been subpoenaed. i am the godfather to her 2-year-old son. she knows nothing about russian collusion. wikileaks collaboration or any other impropriety related to the election which i thought was the subject of this probe. davis was at least one of stone associates said to be on mueller s radar. they remain interested in that june 2016 trump tower meeting and wants to talk to the russian singer who helped set it up. reports of a new angle in the russia investigation. the ongoing negotiations over a possible mueller interview and the trial of trump s former
to lying to federal agents. exactly like ken said, this sends a very strong message not to lie to mueller s team. he has a ton of documents, resources, human sources, to work with, and the plea deal today, or the guilty plea today from this guy, this lawyer, really shows that he s honing in yet again even more so homi on manafort s work in ukraine. essentially has to do with a report he fihired this law firmn 2012, a trial against victor n yanocovic. whether this was illicitly financed. in the indictment of paul manafort and rick gates there was a clue back in october this was always going to be on mueller s radar. he alleged that paul manafort and rick gates funneled $4 million through offshore kpaechbs into skaden s pocket to