Has concluded his investigation of russian interference into the 2016 election and related matters. It then continues. The special counsel has submitted to me today a confidential report explaining the prosecution or decoration decisions hes reached as required. Im a position to advice you of the special counsels principle conclusions as soon as this weekend. Thats obviously crucial. Separately, barr, continues, i intend to consult with Deputy Attorney rosenstein and potential counsel mueller to derm what information can be released to the public and Congress Consistent with the law including the departments longstanding practices and policies. I remain committed to as much transparency as possible, and i will keep you informed as to the status of my review. We have a team of reporters standing by. Evan perez is with us. Abbey philip live outside the white house. Laura jarrett, manu raju live on capitol hill. And i want to start with evan. Evan, a couple of crucial things. Youre being
Up being of crucial importance when it comes to picking the next president of the United States. Florida, of course, a state won twice by barack obama and then narrowly won by donald trump in 2016. But florida and south florida in particular and miami in particular particular are home to a massively diverse field of voters, and that is also, i think, a key part of the calculation here. Miami, of course, has a large africanamerican population. Africanamerican voters have long been basically the key that unlocks general election possibilities for democratic contenders in general elections. But miami is also a majority latino city. 70 of the population in miami is hispanic. And that Spanish Speaking and latino population in miami is itself really diverse. And so the Democratic Party choosing to site their first debate for the 2020 campaign here in miami, its basically a de facto challenge to all these candidates to make sure they are competing for all different kinds of latino votes. And
Paul manafort already convicted on multiple felonies, already facing a likely prison sentence of seven to ten years. The drama underlying todays hearing for manafort is that he could be facing an additional decade in prison on top of the seven to ten, which really, i mean, when you start adding it up, that could already be the whole enchilada da if youre already 70 years old. On top of his other sentence if the judge in his case concludes that he breached his plea agreement by lying to prosecutors after he had agreed to cooperate with them so manafort himself was in court today. We got these great sketches by the great courtroom artist manafort was allowed, as you can see here, was allowed to wear a suit this time instead of his jail jumpsuit. He is now whitehaired as you can see, hes using a cane reporters at the hearing today described him as heavily leaning on that cane but with all the prosecutors there and with manaforts whole defense team there and with manafort himself in the co
Whether donald trump was actually a russian agent became tangible enough for a counterintelligence investigation to be opened into the sitting president. Nine days known to be of interest to robert s. Mueller. Nine days that forever changed the life and career of our guests this hour, former Deputy Director and former acting director of the fbi, Andrew Mccabe. Day one, may 9, james comey is fired. Two days later trump sits down with lester holt and said russia was on his mind when he fired comey. That same day we learned the New York Times trump asked comey for a royalty pledge in a dinner. Comey wouldnt give the president what he wanted. Day four trump tweets, james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. Day seven, we learned from the Washington Post trump revealed highly classified information to russian officials in the oval office. We would later learn in that same meeting trump admitted to the russians that firing comey rel
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 762 of the Trump Administration and new reports tonight now indicate special Counsel Robert Mueller could present his longawaited report on the russia investigation within the next few days. Lets just take a second here and put it another way. This is a big change for one of the focal points at this network, on this broadcast, and for millions of americans each day. What will it be like not looking at this same chain of pictures every evening . Well have more on all of it in just a moment. But we begin with a related topic. The latest revelations from former acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe. Earlier on this network he talked with our colleague Nicolle Wallace, who is among those standing by to join us, and for the first time he President Trump purportedly drafted himself as an attempt to justify the firing of former fbi director james comey may of 2017. Something that i havent discussed before and im very car