Office of president of United States and will preserve, protect and defense the constitution of the u. S. Except where nobody gets killed or robbed. His point is basically that a crime is a crime is a crime, correct . Exactly. I think you see through georges tweet a commonality, again, between he and i. Even though we come from very different sides of the aisle, but a common belief, a core belief in the rule of law in america. And thats a belief that Rudy Giuliani himself shared as a prosecutor. I dont think he was only putting murderers behind bars. There are whole Statute Books being enforced every day. And it would turn our nation upside down to adopt giulianis new position. Thank you very much. I now hand it over to chris cuomo. Thank you, i am chris cuomo. Welcome to primetime. We have new information tonight. The Special Counsel wants more answers from the president of the United States, and he wants them in person. The president s legal team said it was open to more questioning,
National championship in atlanta, but the presence of donald trump could steal the show. What the commander in chief hopes to accomplish. We begin this hour with some breaking news. Steve bannon apologizing to President Trump and his family for remarks he made in Michael Wolffs new book, fire and fury. Well, that apology includes, i regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding don junior has diverted attention from the president s historical accomplishments in the first year of his presidency. That first year documented in salacious detail in fire and fury, which he defended yet again this morning on nbcs meet the press. I went into this and a decent part of the country went into this, his entire staff went into this thinking maybe this can work. Its different, even peculiar, but who knows what can happen here. And that was exactly my frame of reference. I would have been delighted to have written a contrarian account here, donald trump, this unexpected pres
Antigovernment protesters did battle again. Back to you. Welcome to americas news headquarters from washington, im Kristin Fisher nice to be with you. Leland good to be with you, good to be, but at home. The armynavy game is coming up and the president is headed there. Kristin thats right. Leland good to be with you, im leland vittert. We begin with the fallout over the new filings from special counsel Robert Muellers office and federal court. Ellison barber is at the white house with the president s reaction. Jacqui heinrich on the new documents targeting Michael Cohen. And the mueller team says former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort, what hes told others, and we begin with garrett. They claim that Paul Manafort lied on multiple ways on multiple occasions, accusing him of lying about five issues, 125,000 payment that he made through a Political Action committee to cover a debt that he owed. His interaction with a russian ukrainian political consultant who allegedly has ties to russian
Im alex witt here at msnbc. We have new word from the Trump Officials today saying north korea is stepping up its Nuclear Production. There is a good reason why leaking intelligence is a criminal offense in this kun. It harms the United States when it happens, it gives away a lot of information to our adversaries. Ill just say this, not answering the specific reports weve seen over the weekend, but i will say this. Were using the full range of our capabilities to understand what north korea is doing. And on this topic, joining me right now, nbcs courtney kooby. You broke this story for two of your colleagues. What is north korea up to . Right now u. S. Intelligence is confident of two things. Number one, north korea, rather than decreasing their enrichment of uranium, they are actually enriching it in one location. And the United States is ready to receive the scope of their Nuclear Program and a lot of the specifics of it. One of the u. S. Intelligence officials that my colleagues ken
Wikileaks. We know that while the russians were trying to sway the u. S. Election, they were reaching out to key members of trumps family and key members of his campaign. According to the latest Court Documents, the russians offered trumps personal Attorney Michael Cohen political sin si a wealthy russian family offered donald junior dirt. He wrote in an email to trumps son quote this is obviously very high level and Sensitive Information but it is part of russia and its Government Support for mr. Trump. At no point that we know of at least did a Single Member of trumps family or his campaign alert anyone, not even the fbi about these contacts and offers of help. Instead, in some cases, we know they accepted the help. Trump junior famously responded to the offers of clinton dirt by emaili emailing, if its what you say i love it and set up a meeting at trump tower. Jared kushner was there and Paul Manafort and a russian government attorney who describes herself as an infor informant. Tr