Inside the Trump White House from the president himself. The 11th hour getting underway on a monday night. On a monday night, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 284 of the Trump Administration and the special Counsel Robert Mueller has his first guilty plea and he has handed down his first indictments in a case that is clearly just getting started. And today came the most serious charge yet, that a foreign government, russia, had information damaging to Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of stolen emails not yet known to the world and a member of the Trump Campaign worked to put the russians in touch with the Trump Campaign inner circle. The day started with news of two people being indicted, former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his longtime business associate rick gates, shown here prior to the republican convention. Both men are facing 12 charges, including conspiracy against the United States, Money Laundering and being an
Campaign manager Paul Manafort and associate rick gates charged with 12 counts in a 31page indictment. Tonight, what were still learning about Robert Muellers sprawling investigation and where its headed next. And new reporting this evening on the reaction from inside the Trump White House from the president himself. The 11th hour getting underway on a monday night. On a monday night, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 284 of the Trump Administration and the special Counsel Robert Mueller has his first guilty plea and he has handed down his first indictments in a case that is clearly just getting started. And today came the most serious charge yet, that a foreign government, russia, had information damaging to Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of stolen emails not yet known to the world and a member of the Trump Campaign worked to put the russians in touch with the Trump Campaign inner circle. The day started with news of two people bein
That is being led by the u. S. Attorneys office in manhattan. One more detail from this extraordinary new report before we bring in the reporter who broke that news. Quote, people close to mr. Trump and mr. Cohen regard the warrant as an attempt by the special counsel robert s. Mueller to pry into mr. Trumps personal life, using other prosecutors as his proxy. Mike schmidt, one of the reporters who broke this news joins us now. Take us through this report and help us understand how it builds on the reporting that youve done and your colleagues have done this week about the raid of mr. Cohens home and offices. What are they looking for so, they were looking for a wide range of things, stuff related to Stormy Daniels, but stuff related to other women who had reached these nondisclosure agreements, these secret ways that Michael Cohen was paying people in exchange for their silence. They are asking for stuff related to the Parent Company of the National Inquirer, what role was the Nationa
Good evening once again from the nbc headquarter here in new york. This was day 414 of the trump administration. And theres new reporting tonight about negotiations to set up a possible interview between the president and Robert Mueller, the special counsel in all of this. This comes to us from all wall street journal correspondents rebecca ball hp house and Peter Nicholas report that trumps legal team is trying to work out a deal with mueller. Well be i joined by Peter Nicholas in a moment. They note that a person familiar with the discussions are, quote, seeking to negotiate a deal with special Counsel Robert Mueller that uses an interview with the president as leverage to spur a conclusion to the russia investigation. The president s legal team is considering telling mr. Mueller that mr. Trump would agree to a a sitdown interview based on multiple considerations, including that the special counsel commit to a date for concluding at least the trumprelated portion of the investigation
Day 432 of the Trump Administration, and President Trump remains uncharacteristically silent over alleged affairs with a porn star and playboy magazine. For a president who normally lacks steely message discipline he is exhibiting steely message discipline through the white house. And officially through the Briefing Room podium. He has denied affairs with Stormy Daniels and karen mcdougal. President trump denies Stormy Daniels allegations and pointed reporters to the president s outside counsel. She was also asked about the president not punching back on this issue. Have you sat down with the president to talk about Stormy Daniels . What has he told you that he wants us to know about on this topic . As i just said, and as weve addressed on a number of times, the president has denied these allegations, i dont have anything further to add you also called him a counter puncher many times. Why has he not punched back on this one. I didnt say he punches back on every single topic. If he did