Good day, every one. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Robert muellers prosecutors are silent no more. The team now venting to the new york time, Washington Post and nbc about welcome barrs rosy summary of their two year investigation. The first public break between the Justice Department and muell muellers office. Trump is weighing in on blasting the New York Times and the Justice Department is trying to defend the attorney general saying the Mueller Report given to him was quote marked confidential on every page to protect grand jury information could not be released publicly. Then repeating what the attorney general said before to congress that he does not believe the report should be released in a piecemeal fashion. Not really addressing the point here. Nbc White House Correspondent Kristen Welker joining me. Ken, youre reporting on our team at the mueller and justice fronts today. You have some new reporting taking all of this a bit farther in terms of what frustration the prosecu
Lets just jump right in. How do you etan elephant one bite at a time. The russian government interfered in the 2016 president ial election in sweeping and systematic fashion. The special counsels investigation established that russia interfered in the 2016 president ial election, principally through two operations. First, a russian entity carried out a social Media Campaign that favored donald j. Trump and disparaged Hillary Clinton. Second, a Russian Intelligence Service conducted computer intrusion operations. Against entities employees and volunteers working on the clinton campaign. And then released stolen documents. The investigation also identified numerous links between the russian government and the Trump Campaign. The investigation established that the russian government perceived it would benefit from a trump presidency. And worked to secure that outcome. And that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through russian efforts.
He warns of traffic and further delays. Our country is full. Were full. Our system is full, our country is full. Cant come in. Our country is full. Strong reactions from the candidates for the democratic nomination crisscrossing the country this week. This is a very serious threat to our economy, to our democracy, to our way of life in this country. Thats beto orourke in iowa. Mayor petes campaign is picking up steam. The 7 million man is rallying voters in New Hampshire. Freedom doesnt belong to one Political Party, especially when that Political Party has just experienced a hostile takeover by a president with authoritarian tendencies. Plenty of people weighing in on joe biden, including President Trumps supporters. A protrump Group Released a new ad saying bidens behavior is unacceptable and should instantly disqualify him from running. The groups name is independent republicans of new york, or irony. Elliott williams was a Deputy Assistant attorney general and lisa, walid shalid is
Good evening, rachel. Do you know how we know you live in western massachusetts . Hmm . Its not your eastern accent, which really is no accent at all. You call him richie neal because he is the local congressman up there in massachusetts. He is my congressman, he is. He has a large area in a very small state because there isnt very much of us in massachusetts. He is richie e. Neal but ive always known him as richie neal. Thats how ive always known him. There are questions among democrats who are saying, what is chairman neal doing . He has the right to demand these tax returns and he isnt doing it. You can see it is just a meticulously crafted piece. He has found exactly what tax returns and tax return information he wants, especially beyond the personal returns from the trump businesses. And that surely took quite a while to figure out exactly which trump businesses to go after. What do you make, lawrence, of the fact especially because youve known him for a long time. What do you mak
The page and no explanation for the photo was given. Governor northam first put out a paper statement apologizing for the photo saying the decision i made to appear as i did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now. Well, when it quickly became clear that wouldnt cut it, the governor put out a oneminute video apologizing, taking responsibility and pledging to work hard to regain the trust of virginians. But the calls for northam to step down continued apace and from within the Democratic Party. Several democratic president ial candidates called on northam to resign and so did the naacp and the black caucus had a meeting with northam late friday night that did not go so well because they left that meeting calling on him to step down. As friday night turned into saturday morning, the question seemed to become not if Ralph Northam would resign but when. When word came the governor was planning a press conference, early saturday afternoon, everyone assumed it would