Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Considered official white house statements . Well, the president is the president of the United States. So theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. At least one republican was willing to speak candidly about the reaction among many lawmakers in the capital. Every morning we wake up, he tweets something, and were supposed to respond to his tweet. Mueller is going to finish his investigation and the truth will come out. Our leadopen panel, peter baker, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. Jill colvin, White House Reporter for the associated press. John heilemann, coauthor of game change. And harry litman, former u. S. Attorney, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General under president clinton. Good evening, all. Peter, i would like to read you what sally y
soros has to say about that. gascon, the l.a. county prosecutor, says he can try äzmób)ocuq met that prosecutors can file special circumstances allegations making them eligible for life without parole. committees will evaluate extraordinary cases that could result inquñ?ñ? harsher penaltin those allowed under his policies. will: potential changes to the way things are being done in l.a. pete: it s really hard to believe, are these real changes or are they pr changes, are they changes that go away later on based on he s been very, very committed to in this left-wing view, pro-criminal view of prosecution. is the heat so much from citizens and others, maybe e recents who are now feeling the heat themselves, that he s going to change? we ll see. here is a spokesman for the los angeles county deputy d.a., right? will: right. rachel: it s really odd to see, like, a d.a
there is memos, documentation that mueller has that he s heard from those witnesses, it all feels to me like what this is about is mueller conveying the notion that, i can cut back to half of my questions on obstruction of justice because i don t actually need that much from you, mr. president, i ve already got this case basically made, it s not a position of weakness, it s a position of strength. i think that s making the president, among many other things, feel nervous and making the people around him feel even more nervous. does it get more highbrow than someone quoting the new york review of books on our broadcast? i don t think it does. thank you all for helping us out on a wednesday night. coming up for us, is the president s behavior a clue of what s to come? we ask a former fbi agent what he thinks. and later, if you were curious about those cuq s that popped up in the crowd in the president s rally wednesday night, we ll have that coming