We also have new information on the gunman. Federal agents have spoken to his wife and nbc news has learned that nor mateen told the fbi she once drove her husband to the gay nightclub down the street from where im standing because he wanted to scope it out. She claims she tried to talk him out of it. And a short time ago, president obama, as we have arguably never seen him, after he called the gunman, an angry, disturbed, unstable individual, he unleashed on donald trump and on his recent rhetoric, specifically when it comes to the phrase radical islamic terrorism. If theres anyone out there who thinks were confused about who our enemies are, that would come as a surprise to the thousands of terrorists who weve taken off the battlefield. So theres no magic to the phrase radical islam. Its a political talking point. Its not a strategy. I want to start back in washington with nbc news political director chuck todd, host of mtp daily and of course moderator of meet the press. Chuck, youv
Sales to people on the terrorist watch lists. So well have the latest on this ongoing filibuster, including a live interview with one of the Democratic Senators who has been in on this fight today. Thats coming up in just a moment. Nobody knew this was coming. Its been a big surprise today. It continues into this evening as we speak. Gun politics also got briefly confusing today when republican president ial candidate donald trump said he would meet with the nra to talk with them about people on the terrorist watch lists being able to buy guns. Now, theres no indication that this indicates any real breakthrough in terms of government opposition to reforms like that one, but it is an interesting and indeed Unexpected Development on a day that had a lot of those. We also just got in some brand new polling, which you have not seen anywhere. Were going to break it exclusively here tonight. It sheds a little bit of light on the Hillary Clinton versus donald trump president ial race. It shed
Exposures. With this report, that trumps digital operation asked Julian Assange directly for help naflt new report. Woodruff saying there is the closest known connection between Trumps Campaign and assange. Julian assange claiming to be a publish we are the same rights as any other news organization. There is a finding that Russian Military intelligence related material to wikileaks as a conduit. It is an explosive move if they asked asergeant to coordinate on releasing emails and it shows potential intent if he finds that related crimes occur. Lets be clear. Nbc news has not obtained the emails cited in this report. And often these stories include denials but tonight i can tell that you Julian Assanges response where he addresses the claim, says no denial. He says we can confirm an approach by Cambridge Analytica. So for the first time Julian Assange confirming that Donald Trumps team approaching him and he rejected it. The report that the Trump Campaign was going to these lengths for
Washington. Reporter some lawmakers received briefing saying that iran was preparing to strike u. S. Forces using proxies in iraq and possible missiles on board ships. U. S. Officials that have seen signs that iran has loaded missiles onto at least two ships that had been removed. Foreign passport holders work with exxon mobil has started evacuating an oilfield in southern iraq which followed the ordered evacuation of u. S. Embassy personnel from the u. S. Embassy in baghdad. The warning to commercial airliners flying over the wider persian gulf is a reminder that 30 years ago the u. S. Mistook an iranian passenger jet for a warplane while protecting commercial ships in the they killed all 290 people on board with missiles. President trump pushed back on his report to his angry with his National Security team. They put out summary false messages that iran is totally confused. I dont know, that might be a good thing. Speak to the present offer to negotiate with iraniansthe message deliv