Rev, that was heartbreaking reminder about tia coalman. Thank goodness we can pray for her. What a future she faces. I know shell love everyones support and prayers. Good evening. Im alex witt. 6 00 a. M. Out west and here is what is happening. Newly unprecedented documents and one of the early targets. Ill talk to the journalist that broke that story. The Michael Cohen tape with president ial candidate talking about that playboy model. The latest on what is on that tape from someone in the know. The public has spoken. A new poll with a snapshot of what america thinks about that putin trump summit. It also significauggests how mue care. Two take, National Intelligence backtracking on his response when he heard the president ial invite to washington. Reaction and details now here on msnbc live. New this morning, details from the doj showing how investigators justified surveillance and a former Trump Campaign aid carter page. The 400page document was made public last night after requests
President trump announced hes going to pull troops out of syria, something putin wants more than anything. It could not get better for putin today. And trump in a new white house video tonight sticking by his syria announcement. And he did it on a video. He didnt speak to the nation, he didnt answer questions on the decision, hes not answering questions from congress, no, he hid away and put out a video. Heres a clip. Weve won against isis, weve beaten them back badly and now its time for our troops to come back home. He could say it as much as he wants to say it but he said that without taking questions to anyo anyone. His own party is livid. This is a terrible mistake. Its an obamalike move. There isnt anybody thats stunned by this precipitous decision, like you just woke up and made it. That shock and anger again from his own party. Coming in response to trumps twitter announcement that hes going to withdraw those u. S. Troops fighting isis in syria. So the original tweet, quote, to
To a woman causing as a wealthy russian over the course of several hours they discuss boosting the partys Election Results with the help of russian financing. Well the video has left austrias Coalition Government between the conservatives and the far right populist in shambles the Freedom Party have made no secret of their desire for closer ties with russia in the past but the footage reveals just how far they were willing to go for power so how close are europes right wing parties to russia our reporter went to vienna to find out. Vienna has long been a bridge between europes east and west. Decades after the cold war its still a playground for foreign agents who employ methods like the one that helped topple austrias Freedom Party. Political scientist and hunch accost off is also based in vienna hes an expert on the influence moscow exerts on europes far right far right organizations and paul says. Some of the few. Political forces in europe that are still ready to cooperate with the
People close to the president to interfere in the investigation. According to newly unsealed court filings. In that filing, they say flynn informed the government of multiple incidences where either he or his attorneys received communications with persons connected to the administration or the congress that could have affected both his willingness to cooperate. They provided a voice mail records of one such communication. Nbc news notes its the first public acknowledgement that a person connected to capitol hill was suspected of impeting the investigation. Flynn was one of the earlier witnesses to cooperate with investigators, he is awaiting sentencing for lying to the fbi about discussing u. S. Sanctions with the russian ambassador. The judge overseeing the case ordered prosecutors to publicly release a transcript of flynnys phone call from russia as well as a full transcript of a voice mail from trumps lawyer. Wow. Now the Washington Post report that is the lawyer who left that voice
Stage combined. What are the moderators going to do if you go over your time . Turn off your mic. Just talk. It must be how he was prepped. Look at granholm. A shot at me. I dont think voters say oh, well, he talked 65 seconds. Only supposed to talk 60. On that point. On the minor point, he just looked rusty. Now, that may change, right . Hes going to do more of these things. Cnns debates are in a month. But he looked rusty to me. He should be the fulcrum of that debate and he felt at times secondary and at times like a punching bag. He very rarely looked like he was in command, at least to me. You know, sometimes as a metaphor, jennifer, you need to get woken up in a fight, and sometimes you can get your bell rung in a fight and it actually focussing you. Youre like, all right, now i have to be on. Do you think that has potential for joe biden or is what we saw tonight basically where he is . No, i think that totally has potential for that. I mean, like it would for anybody. I mean, r