Hillarys lawyer. I wonder if they made him help the choice. T the president steered clear of this topic during his event at the white house today designed to highlight economic numbers. As trump wrapped up Kristen Welker asked him about Michael Cohen. Is Michael Cohen telling the truth . Is Michael Cohen telling the truth . Is Michael Cohen telling the truth . As we say its been ten times now the president has ignored reporters questions since the Cohen Audio First aired tuesday evening. Theres only been three White House Press briefings in the entire month of july. On the cohen front politico reports the president advisors have been taken aback by cohens no holds barred approach and his willingness to publicly reveal potentially devastating details of his private conversations
with the president. Asked to describe the mood among trumps close confidants, one person close to the president replied simply not good. Trump is enranged over the cohen revelations. Emily jane fox who is standi
On a friday night, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 554 of the Trump Administration, and the president escalates the war on his former lawyer and confidante, Michael Cohen, while denying that he had any advanced knowledge about that june 2016 meeting in trump tower. A source has told nbc news cohen is willing to tell Robert Mueller that donald trump jr. Informed his father about the meeting before it took place. Trumps son had that meeting with several russians after he was told they were coming prepared with damaging information about hillary clinton. Well, today the president responded with this so, the fake news Doesnt Waste My Time with dumb questions, no, i did not know of the meeting with my son, don junior. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam. Taxi cabs, maybe . Well explain that one. He even retained bill and crooked hillarys lawyer. Counsel. Muellers office says it pl
The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. Bazarly during the last week. A twitter storm thats kind of Unpres Tented from him. All about the Mueller Probe sw threatening to fire mueller while his attorneys are out sayi saying weir hes on a totally different track from his attorneys and it seems like hes worried about a family member. And how much hes starting to tweet. He tweeted the Phrase Witch Hunt a combined 36 times in june sw july. And that was up from april and may. Sw hes calling out muellerer by name. If the president s son is in trouble, how far to you think he would go to protect him . Look, again whereby toepbt want to get into these hypotheticals. I think it was silly by the way to take that meeting. Doesnt rise to the level of criminality. But im not a criminal defense attorney. He clearly has been ratcheting
up the rhetoric and the pace of his arguments against Whats Going On with the russia probe. Sw i think the reason isnt because he t
senator in massachusetts to introduce legislation to clear johnson s name. for the record, she was convicted and sentenced to death. her punishment was, eventually, thrown out. but as one of the 8th graders notes, despite the witch trials ending, the superstition remained. quote it s not like after it ended, people didn t believe in witches, anymore. they still thought she was a witch and wouldn t exonerate her. their civics teacher says it is an effort part of a bigger lesson about acceptance. this that is all the time i have for today. i m alicia menendez. i m going to see you back here tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern for more american voices but for now, i hand to over to my colleague, joshua johnson. hello, joshua. as soon as you used the phrase witch hunt, i was like i know the story. i don t know about you but that gives me huge hope for the future. yes. those eighth graders, you can trust them with anything. they were amazing. so, very cool. thank for ending with that stor
for today. i m alicia menendez. i m going to see you back here tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern for more american voices but for now, i hand to over to my colleague, joshua johnson. hello, joshua. as soon as you used the phrase witch hunt, i was like i know the story. i don t know about you but that gives me huge hope for the future. they were amazing. so, very cool. thank for ending with that story, alicia. you have a good night. hello to you. it is good to be with you tonight. wish we could start with a more pleasant story but we, of course, start with afghanistan because president biden met with his national security team today. theys discussed the security situation there and counterterrorism operations. pennsylvania congresswoman susan wild will join us to consider what happens now. plus, covid remains a critical situation in alabama. and also, in florida. today, that state passed 3 million confirmed cases. florida s governor is giving some school districts 48 hours to drop