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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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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Are leaving their homes or they are trying to get out tonight. Here is governor rick scott just a short while ago. Every florida family must prepare to evacuate. I cannot stress this enough. Get prepared now. Know your evacuation zone now. This is a catastrophic storm that our state hasnt seen. It has already killed a lot of people in the caribbean. Dont think you can ride out this storm. Martha do not think that you can ride out the storm. There is the president being briefed in his office today on irma. That was a short while ago. Also, he address these dire circumstances. We dont know exactly where its going to be landing, where land fall will be, but we think that we are as wellprepared as you can be. We are with everybody in florida, we are working very hard, we have tremendous talent and tremendously brave people there, and hopefully it is going to work out all right. Well see over the next few hours. Martha that we will. Irma has already unleashed a trail of death and destructio
Accountability in the investigation of the investigators. Welcome to fox news at night. I am it henry in for shannon bream. Former colleagues like Katrina Pearson make wild claims about the president. Pearson will reveal new information about amarosa in a moment. The charges and counter charges. Three separate interviews including two tonight. Amarosa has more tapes to release suggesting Robert Muellers special Counsel Office has contacted her. I have plenty. Reporter anything mueller would like to see . If his office called again the investigation by mueller anything they want. You think he should be impeached . At this point yes. Reporter she continues contradictions in her book, she writes someone told her during a taping of the apprentice years ago donald trump used a racial slur, then she claimed she personally heard it, now she says he used the and word multiple times. It rolled off his mouth like when you first heard the access hollywood tape, you never imagined he talked that w
Accountability in the investigator of the investigators . Will investigate. Hello and welcome to fox news night. I am ed henry in for shannon bream. We begin with the latest insider account of the white house. Omarosa Manigault Newman is a former colleague of katrina pierson, making wild claims by the president. Person will reveal that new information i mentioned about omarosa in a moment. But first, lets go to trace gallagher. Good evening, trace. Good evening. In three separate interviews including two tonight, omarosa Manigault Newman continues to indicate she has more tapes to release, even saying on msnbc that Robert Mueller is a special Counsel Office has contacted her. Watch. Oh, i have plenty. Anything mueller would like to see . Speak out of his office because again, i will share it. Anything that they want, ill cooperate. Do you think trump should be impeached . At this point, yes. She also continues or contradictions. In her book, she writes, someone told her that during a t