Reporter. She is the coauthor of our exclusive nbc news report from just last night on Robert Mueller asking witnesses if trump knew with these hacked democratic emails before they were released. Also back with us, jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. And we welcome back to the program, cynthia alneya, a federal prosecutor and a Justice Department veteran. Welcome to you all. Carol, about tonights story, what is its central impact the your view . Well, as you mentioned, this hacking and leaking strategically is the worst part. So this is significant in the sense we knew this was happening. But if mueller decides to move forward with an indictment, to me the key question is whether or not there are any americans that are tied to this. Its one thing for him to indict russians who will probably never be extradited and come over and
stand trial in the United States. Its an entirely different ball game if there are americans named or unnamed should he decide to do an
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Believes the now released tape that Michael Cohen captured between himself and the president was tampered with. Giuliani offering really no evidence to back that up. He also said that there are some 183 such cohen tapes, but that the one that we have now heard is the only one that the president , trump, can be heard on. Really what he is doing is keeping up his rapidfire Character Attacks on Michael Cohen. It would seep that this is all really designed to remove the sting of cohens latest assertion that President Trump knew about this june 2016 trump tower meeting between members of his own campaign and the russian lawyer and russian advocates with this promise of the ex change of damaging information on hillary clinton. Caitlyn, let me turn to you and ask you about this latest attack Casting Doubt on the recording. You feel a bit whipsawed after that recording was out. We heard it. We had reactio
the dow historically does, and that is goes up, but big questions what s going to happen in the new year. calls for recession is still out there. questions over what s going to happen with the federal reserve latest policy moves, but if you can pop the dow up on the screen, are you concerned, dan, that with all this talk that the federal reserve has put out there that we are going to see a few rate cuts in this presidential election year that perhaps the market has run up too far too fast? we are probably going to see some rate cuts this year and average americans will feel that in less of a charge on their credit card balances, auto loans will become a little more friendly, if you want to buy a house, mortgage rates presumably will continue to fall. but getting back to my earlier point about the stock market going up over time, even if there is trouble this year or next year, or even both years, if you are 40 years old and you are saving for your daughter s wedding or for retirement
family in return for policy moves in ukraine. that is the allegation. it s a stunning document. if you go through it piece by piece. it s only four pages long. i recommend that you read the whole thing. but now it appears to have been back burnered, buried, covered up, whatever you want to call it, because it barely saw the light of day if it wasn t for some that kept digging. there are demands now from a number of corners for a special counsel since the fbi seems to be not pursuing this case. the joe biden bribe allegations need one now writing miranda devine echoing what joe zeigler, the lead case agent in the hunter probe testified to as well. watch. i still think that a special counsel is necessary for this investigation.
more troops, the president saying he wants to designate $50 million for an unexpected urgent migration need. new asylum restrictions they are considering family detention. the president knows he s going to be sharply criticized from a political perspective, the policy moves, how is next week going to be as bad? they essentially have been preparing for this moment sibs the start of the biden administration. and the steps that you re seeing them take is trying to show that they are taking efforts trying to put steps into place to address the issues that will arise around the lifting of title 42. this is not just a logistical issue, but also a political one. you saw as rosa described there, awe howe cities are being overwhelmed by migrants that have come in now. there are more waiting across the border. what you re seeing the white house trying to do is showing they are taking steps. the president is going to face a major political headache when it