Step to shield two of muellers key targets. A president ial pardon. New york times reporting today the president s personal attorney john dowd raise theed the idea of manafort and flynn as mueller was building cases against those two men. John dowd who resigned just last week reportedly discussed potential pardons with the lawyers last summer. Since then, of course, flynn pleaded guilty to lying to investigators and is now crucially cooperating with muellers probe. While manafort faces two separate criminal trials on dozens of charges including Money Laundering and other financial fraud. Dowd denies the times story which was reported by five of the papers top journalists and attributed to two unnamed sources. Jay sekulow the last man standing also claims pardons have not been discussed and ty cobb who represents the white house, hes a taxpayer funded employee, in the russia probe released a very carefulfully worded statement. I have only been asked about pardons by the press and have r
Million . Well sort through all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 699 of the Trump Administration. Here we are, one away from 700 days in office. Just ahead tonight well have the latest on the backlash over the president s decision to pull u. S. Troops out of syria. And just a short time ago the Senate Passed a continuing resolution to keep the federal government funded until at least february, something short of a profile in courage. It now goes on to the house. More ahead on that as well. But we begin with brand new reporting from the Washington Post on the Mueller Investigation involving veteran trump ally and adviser roger stone. Post says the mueller team wants a copy of stones testimony, his official testimony before Congress Last year. A sign that the special counsel may be getting closer to charging stone with a crime. Reporter manuel roy franzia, who will join us in a mom
And delaying the deposition. A judge grants trumps lawyer more time to respond to Stormy Danielss lawsuit. Does the president s claim to know nothing about the hush money payment offer an opportunity . President trump are doubling down on his threats of tariffs on china sending the dow down nearly 600 points. And an announcement of sanctions on Russian Oligarcholigarchs. President trump is shrugging off damages this tariff policy may cause to investors. Lets to go our senior correspondent. In response to the president s threat, weve sustain stock market reacting. The white house paying close attention to the dow being down more than 500 points. Today press secretary Sarah Sanders when asked if the white house wants a rid the war with china, she says the white house does not want that. President trump is not backing down. Announcing thursday night he is threatening an additional 100 billion in tariffs against china. Even if those threats rock an already volatile stock market. The easies
Floor, but what is most important is that the first family is okay, and the one seriously injured that we know of so far is all of the injuries that we are aware of at the moment, but of course this is coming to you in the last 15 minutes. Jeff bennett, our white house correspondent, joins us now. We were speaking with your good colleague, monica alba, just moments ago. She was filling in what she knew and what the white house was saying in reaction to this. There is, of course, the tweet that came from President Trump. What are you seeing and hearing . Enchs we have not seen the president today. He sent out a couple tweets, and he tweeted fire at trump tower, confined. Firemen and women did a great job. Thank you. Remember, Melania Trump, and barron trump spent the first few months of the presidency living there in trump tower. We understand their penthouse occupation the first top several floors of that building, and they stayed behind so barron could finish up the school year. He at
Breaking his silence on the Stormy Daniels saga, and an attorney for the adult film star says the president s words will help their case against him. In the first comment, the president said he did not know about the 130,000 in hush money paid to daniels. Fears of a trade war with china rising again. President trump says hes considering tariffs on another 100 billion worth of chinese goods. Will this lead to negotiations or escalation . And the u. S. Takes aim at wealthy russians with ties to Vladimir Putin. The Trump Administration imposing sanctions against severen russian oligarchs, a Dozen Companies they own or control and 17 senior russian government officials. And thats where we begin. Cnn has Team Coverage of the sweeping russian sanctions. Our correspondent evan perez will connect the dots with special counsel Robert Mueller. Well explain how it all came together, but first lets go to our Senior Correspondent michelle kra zaczynskkosinski. She has the list. We have energy giant