The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Why would the American People believe what youre saying about the fbi when the president says that the investigation on the Special Counsel is a hoax, and the Press Secretary yesterday said there was a lot of corruption within the fbi, do you have any respondent to those statements coming from the white house . Well, i can assure the American People that the men and women of the fbi, starting from the director all the way on down are going to follow our oaths and do our jobs. That wasnt an answer to the question asked. The fbi director sidestepping the question about trumps attacks on the mueller probe, attacks that have been escalating as the pressure appears to escalate. The Manafort Trial is under way. Reports indicating a trump mueller interview is looking more likely. Well get to all of that tonight. Start with the warning from trumps very own intelligence officials, a warning that l
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. We havent seen that in a while. So unlike this white house really. Any chance well get answers to any of these big russiagate stories making headlines today . Well, we got plenty of questions on those topics. Its likely Sarah Sanders, particularly as it relates to the personal opinions on the mueller investigation, whether he will do an interview that she will kick that over to his outside counsel, Rudy Giuliani who has spoken to nbc news in the last several hours. Giving us a sense of where things stand. Effectively saying there was a letter from muellers team to the legal team representing the president. And there will be some narrows of the course of the topics, but they will still focus on collusion and obstruction of justice. I think it was last in may when he said it, walking on the south lawn that hes open to talking about all of this with robert mueller. That new reporting for the new york times, insisting
that was huge for michael cohen to have a threat to his family members, and he wasn t going to do that. he cut the deal he cut, and then he was hoping to speak to robert mueller. i want to add another example in the russian investigation that we could not make up if we tried. a russian pop star followed along whose billionaire father had ties to putin, and now, in the june? he worries robert mueller will recall. a new interview quote, at this point on monday, i received information from my lawyer that if i do arrive, he can t guarantee the safety of my
the transition when trump s incoming national security adviser michael flynn was communicating with the russian ambassador about sanctions imposed on russia by the obama administration. yet the president-elect kept claiming i have no loans, no dealings, and no current pending deals. reporter: giuliani causing another stir sunday, telling jake tapper it is possible cohen did discuss his congressional testimony with the president ahead of time. if he had any discussions with him, they d be about the version of the events that michael cohen gave then which they all believe was true. i believed it was true. i still believe it may be true. but you just acknowledged that trump might have talked to him about his testimony. and so what if he talked to him about it? now, in a completely separate bit of russian news, emen agolarov, russian pop star who initiated this now-infamous trump tower meeting in 2016 with members of the trump campaign, he announced a sad turn of events, he s
was true, they were talk iing about the fact that buzz feed had reported it. so this was an attack i think for mueller on his own work product and i think he was sending a warning shot is that don t be telling people what my files reflect and what i m doing. because i m going to come back at you. let me turn the page. this russian pop star who who organize d the meeting canceled his u.s. concert after failing to reach a deal with mueller. tell me r more about that and why it s cig. that s right. he s a russian pop r star. he was sent to launch his u.s. four-city concert tour this saturday, but posted a message to instagram and i spoke with his attorney, who said that the reason why he canceled this tour is because they failed to reach an agreement with mueller and congressional investigators who want to speak to him. everyone wants to talk to him because he s the one that sent