Be grilled on capitol hill, as nbc news learns russianbacked election posts on facebook potentially reached onethird of all americans. And gridlock. The fema chief peppered with tough questions from lawmakers today on the governments response to the string of devastating hurricanes. Meanwhile, the fbi is now looking into how that Small Montana company landed that huge contract to restore puerto ricos power. Well get to those stories in a moment but we start at the white house, trying to undercut the special counsels case. While putting the countrys focus, trying to put the countrys focus on President Trumps agenda this week. His asia trip. His federal pick. Tax reform. Anything basically other than those two indictments and guilty plea. A short time ago, the president refusing to take questions from reporters. Are you going to pardon manafort . Thank you, thank you, everybody. Whats your reaction about George Papadopoulos thank you very much. Your reaction to the mr. President . Thank
Employment peop multiple people. The Democratic National committee were donald trump made a plea to russia. Russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Questions like, why did the thencandidate ask that . Did somebody tell him to . Was it scripted . Was donald trump trying to give himself cover for what he already knew was about to come . Investigators also want to know if he knew Hillary Clintons campaign chairman, john podesta, would be targeted later. Nbc news reached out to the white house and the president s legal team. Well have their response in just a moment. Witnesses tell us trumps longtime confidant appears to be a key focus. Contacts with wikileaks and if he ever met with julian assange. One witness says he wanted to know if there was a scheme. Was stone working on the side for trump after he officially left the campaign . That witness felt they were trying to figure o
All the democrats fault. Mr. President , what about the daca kids . Should they worry about whats going to happen . They had this great opportunity. Democrats have really let them down. Its a shame. Now people are taking advantage of daca. Fact check. Undocumented immigrants who come into the country now cannot, as he said, take advantage of daca. Only those in the country before 2007 are eligible for the program. Its written down, its on the books, its all right out there. President trump was also the one who originally pulled the plug on the program. Remember when he wanted to Work Together on a deal . I feel having the democrats in with us is absolutely vital, because this should be a bipartisan bill. This should be a bill of love. Truly, it should be a bill of love. Lets debrief with our team of reporters. Katherine lucy is a White House Reporter for the associated press. Ashley parker is a White House Reporter for the washington post. And an msnbc political analyst. And ken vogue
A system. Fema warning it will be the strongest storm to car get the carolinas in decades and thats saying a lot. Where it is headed. When it should arrive and what to expect to see on the ground if you live in its path. Also, tremendously big. Thats President Trumps characterization of the storm. He insists that the feds are totally prepared. So, are we ready . Americas storm and rescue infrastructure will most certainly be tested with lives potentially on the line. Femas director just minutes ago telling my colleague Andrea Mitchell that people are running out of time. Well get to that part of the story in just a moment. But we start, we start with the storm of a lifetime. Thats what the National Weather service continues to characterize it as. A dangerous cat 4 storm right now about 485 miles southeast of where i am standing right now. The storm massivement bigger than the entire state of michigan. With 130mileperhour winds. Expected to make landfall friday morning. People are prepa
The next front in the fight between the trump doj and congress over transparency. Here is barr today. Did the white house see the report before you released your summarizing letter, has the white house seen it since then, have they be briefed on the contents beyond what was in your summarizing letter to the Judiciary Committee . Ive said what im going to say about the report today. Will we have the complete report or are you going to be selective as to what you give members of congress . You mean the unredacted report . Uhhuh. No, the first pass at this is going produce a report that makes the redactions. Jerry nad suggesting if barr does what he is promising and delivers a redacted report to congress in the coming days, he will face a subpoena and a court fight. Congress has need of the entire report including the grand jury material, including all the including everything. And i presume well get the redacted report within a week. When we do so, if we dont get everything, we will issu