Our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 208 of the trump administration. And on this day after, the president spoke his mind on White Supremacists and nazis and their like, there was a palpable feeling among millions of citizens today that america took a step back this week. The office we normally look up to lift us up, provide moral leadership instead has given hate groups the validation and recognition they have craved ever since the very first men to don a hood and light a cross. The president today stayed out of sight. He managed to escape new york. Hes back at his new jersey golf resort. We do have some new journalism to report on tonight, some of it coming out as we were coming on the air that speaks to his state of mind and the state of this white house. Late tonight, Ashley Parker and robert costa of the Washington Post gave us this headline. Trumps lack of discipline leaves new chief of staff frustrated and dismayed. Of course, some of that was visible in realtime yest
And on this day after, the president spoke his mind on White Supremacists and nazis and their like, there was a palpable feeling among millions of citizens today that america took a step back this week. The office we normally look up to lift us up, provide moral leadership instead has given hate groups the validation and recognition they have craved ever since the very first men to don a hood and light a cross. The president today stayed out of sight. He managed to escape new york. Hes back at his new jersey golf resort. We do have some new journalism to report on tonight, some of it coming out as we were coming on the air that speaks to his state of mind and the state of this white house. Late tonight, Ashley Parker and robert costa of the Washington Post gave us this headline. Trumps lack of discipline leaves new chief of staff frustrated and dismayed. Of course, some of that was visible in realtime yesterday as general kelly kept his head down and seemed to wince more than once what
Met with chinas president and said the Trump Administration can and does talk directly to pyongyang. A Senior Administration official said the president s tweets do not change the white house commitment to a diplomatic approach. Traveling with the president and joining us right now from bransburg, new jersey not far from the president s private golf club where he is this weekend. The tweet said to his top diplomat i dont waste your time on diplomacy. How is this not a direct contrast to a white house commitment of a diplomatic approach . Its hard to wrestle with that question. There are mixed messages coming out of the administration. As we learned many times before, the tweets are considered to be an official statement from the white house. The fact that the president is going out there and essentially telling his secretary of state via twitter not to bother with diplomatic negotiations is certainly standing in stark contrast to what Rex Tillerson said yesterday in beijing. Lets liste
Paul manaforts short period of time with donald trump came after decades of being Business Partners with trumps good friend roger stone. After years and years of lobbying for foreign auto kra sis including in the ukraine who imprisoned his election opponent. Literally locked her up. Now the long awaited manafort sentencing memo from Robert Mueller has arrived and the special counsel was unsparing in his assessment. The memo calls manafort a hardened and bold criminal who spent years trying to legitimize the questionably installed ukraine government without registering as a foreign lobbyist as required by law. While trying to hide millions of dollars he earned from the irs. The memo says manafort committed multiple crimes while leading Trumps Campaign and while out on bail before trial including witness tampering. Mueller details how in the course of hiding his illgotten gains manafort lied to almost everybody. Tax preparers, bookkeepers, banks, the department of justice, the fbi, speci