That does it for our show. Rachel h rachel. Dont go anywhere. Hardball with Chris Matthews is up next. Power trip lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington. Breaking news from the Associated Press. Just broke the news reported that Omarosa Manigault newman has more than tapes. Just broke. We begin the other big story news tonight. Obsessed with power. President trump appears ready and willing to use his office to punish enemies like omarosa. Scare others including his own people into submission. Having revoked Security Clearances, trump is weaponizing the presidency. Axios reports President Trump has become enamored with power. Consultation with anyone else. When it comes to yanking Security Clearances it is a power that is uniquely and solely hiss. Matches his idea of how the presidency ought to be. Pure power and instant
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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Over 30 hours with the white House Counsel, misspelled only, with my approval for purposes of transparency. The Washington Post reports that mcigans own lawyer has told the Trump Legal Team, mcgahn does not believe he implicated the president in any legal wrongdoing when he spoke to the special counsel. Meanwhile the president s lawyer is now in Damage Control mode. Earlier tonight, he explained that and he the president s former attorneys are now aware of what was in mcgahns testimony. John dowd got a political version of what mcgahn said during that period of time. John, of course, because of what happened over the weekend, went through it thoroughly. Ive been on the phone with him for hours and gone over it with him. When it first came out, i didnt know the details of what mcgahn said. Now do i. I knew not to worry because if the president said anything criminal to the counsel of the white hou
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Former Chief Of Staff at the cia and at the pentagon. Robert, i would like to begin with you. What is the degree to which the trump camp was Caught Off Guard by just the idea of 30 hours of don mcgahn testimony in front of the special counsel . Its not tonight trump camp Caught Off Guard. It was mcgahn himself a year ago who was found this whole strategy by john dowd and ty cobb, the president s lawyers, to be off. Mcgahn didnt agree with the Cooperation Strategy when it came to the mueller probe. He advised against it. He went along with the cooperation, setting the over 1 million documents from the white house and offering his time. In fact, i saw mcgahn go into muellers Office Around 6 00 a. M. One morning when i was staking it out. He was fully cooperative then and ever since. Theres some reporting. Hey, joyce, cobb and dowd, their decision to waive
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Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. Three of the names included the word senate, which meant which appears to mean that they were trying to go after certain senators, Certain Senate offices. Its not clear because microsoft did intervene in what looks like an early stage which senators they might have gone after. We do know last month, we heard that Senator Mccaskill of missouri, one of the most vulnerable democrats, was targeted also by Russian Military intelligence. We have not heard from the white house yet today. We have heard from the kremlin. Of course, you can imagine they did come out denying any knowledge of this hacking group, of the hackers many its. It says, from the u. S. We hear there was not any meddling in the elections. Whom exactly they are talking about, what is the proof and on what grounds are they reaching such conclusions . Think about t
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. Day 578 of the Trump Administration. And tonight the president of the United States is coming off a vicious string of personal attacks, comparing people to dogs and rats and calling Robert Mueller discredited and disgraced. He is neither. And now tonight the president is talking about what is at the heart of all of it. The russia investigation. Now that he knows his white house lawyer has testified fully before the mueller team. This afternoon, reuters interviewed President Trump. They report, he is, quote, worried that any statements under oath he provides to special counsel Robert Mueller could be used to bring Perjury Charges against him. Quote, trump echoed the concerns of his top lawyer in the probe, Rudolph Giuliani, who has warned that any sitdown with mueller could be a perjury trap. Reuters quotes the president as saying association if i Say Something and he, meaning comey, says something, and it is my
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