with new details about donald trump s alleged mishandling of classified documents. this time, during his time as president. nbc news has no exclusively obtained a copy of ex homeland security aide miles taylor s upcoming book, in which he accounts 2018 meeting with the national security advisor john bolton. during that meeting, then white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders and heard bolton s office, told him that trump just shared classified information to reporters, while discussing the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. sanders told bolton that the president had picked up documents relating to intelligence on khashoggi s death, and displayed the. them, taylor writes, but the reporters were unlikely to have been able to read the text. according to the book, bolton yeah gasped at first, but breathe a sigh of relief when sanders told him that there have been no cameras in the room. but as taylor writes, quote, we were all disturbed by the laps lapse in protocol
that tweet, be there, we will be wild. it was a tweet that set up a violent chain reaction that resulted in a deadly attack on our government. cnn is not reporting the special counsel is asking witnesses about a contentious oval office meeting on december 18th, 2020. more than a month after the election, and mere days after the electoral college made official the decision of the american people. in short, that trump had lost the election. in that moment, the disgraced ex-president had two paths. he had door number one, admit head on that his campaign met the end of the line, keep in pace simple peaceful transfer of power. behind door number two, not just fall, but vaults into the abyss, commit to antidemocratic measures. of course, we all know the rest of the story. on this night in december, this crucial juncture, the six-hour cage match essentially unfolded deep inside the white house. on one side, it would summon trump s own white house team, quote, crazy. as you know, peo
environment. that s fine, yeah, they are both important in their own way. in different ways, some important for tomorrow, less than yesterday. i don t even know what i mean by that. have a great weekend, chris. you too, alex. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. this january 6th rioter, the one in the queue shirt at the front of the pack here, his name is douglas austin johnson. he has now famous for having chased capitol police officer, eugene goodman, up the stairs in the capital. he actually did not even know what building he was invading on january 6th. this is me touching the white house. bring the white house! that s what we do! touching the white house, very close but still a few blocks down pennsylvania avenue, mr. johnson. anyway, despite not knowing where he was, johnson didn t know why he was there, wherever there was. this is from his interview with fbi agents two days after the attack on the capitol, quote, i went in there, i wanted, you k
not to bring ukraine into the nato family now at this moment in the middle of the war. ukraine now promises it will not use the american supplied cluster munitions in russia. it comes as the controversial weapons divided congress. they want these as self-defense to use against russians in their own country of ukraine. i don t see anything wrong with the, these weapons would be a game-changer. cluster bombs should never be used. that is crossing a line. we would risk losing our moral leadership. also new today, treasury secretary janet yellen returns from china after a weekend of high stakes meetings. the secretary is optimistic progress is being made to shore up tense relations. i had a very construct a visit. i received a warm welcome and had a very substantial series of meetings. an objective of my trip was to explain the national security is something that we can t compromise on and we will protect. capitol hill is bracing for a potential far-right feud as marj
president. nbc news has no exclusively obtained a copy of ex homeland security aide miles taylor s upcoming book, in which he accounts and national security adviser john bolton. during that meeting, then white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders and heard bolton s office, told him that trump just shared classified information to reporters, while discussing the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. sanders told bolton that the president had picked up documents relating to intelligence on khashoggi s death, and displayed the. the reporters were unlikely to have been able to read the text. according to the book, bolton gassed at first, but breathed a sigh of relief when sanders told him that there have been no cameras in the room. but as taylor writes, quote, we were all disturbed by the laps in political and poor protection of classified information. that new information comes on the heels of another revelation made by an ex trump official on this very network last