The penalty of perjury. And some they provide a road map of potential leads that the special counsel is exploring to ultimately determine whether the president colluded with russia or obstructed justice. According to the New York Times, muellers questions emerged from the ongoing negotiations whether President Trump will ultimately speak to prosecutes. They were read by the special counsel investigators to the president s lawyers who compiled them into a list. That document was provided to the times by a person outside mr. Trumps legal team. And while the questions themselves are fairly broad they could represent a legal minefield for a president known to stretch the truth. Today, in an attempt to distort the news in his favor, President Trump incorrectly claimed that none of the questions related to potential collusion with russia. So disgraceful that the questions concerning the russia witch hunt were leaked to the media. No questions on collusion. Oh, i see, you have a made up phony
Trump once again sowing uncertainty and confusion with his contradictory comments. In two tweets this morn, the president appeared to target the fisa act and he appeared to back the program. This after the white house in an earlier statement voiced support for section 702. Which allows the government to intercept and collect communications of foreigners abroad from American Companies without a warrant. Moments ago, the Lower Chamber voted 256164 to extend the Surveillance Program for six more years. All of this, all of this action coming amidst the backdrop of drama created by President Trump and his continued comments on the russia investigation and whether hell talk to special counsel Robert Mueller. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is at the white house for us. Nbcs kacie hunt is on capitol hill. Kacie hunt, lets start with you. I understand we have some breaking news on daca. What do we know . Craig, thats right, our Capitol Hill Team here has been talking with senators and senator jeff flake t
President trump has tweeted quite a bit this afternoon saying again there was no collusion and this morning at a conference in germany top officials took shots at each other over these charges. Trumps National Security adviser h. R. Mcmaster had this to say. As you can see with the fbi indictment the evidence is now really incontrovertible and available in the public domain. Now, just minutes before Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said this, quote, i have no response. You can publish anything and we see those indictments multiplying, the statements multiplying. Until we see the facts, Everything Else is just blabber. Meanwhile, in russia the countrys president ial envoy for Information Security further denied the allegations. He told russian state media, quote, there are no official claims, there are no proofs for this. Thats why they are just childrens statements. For more on this story now lets bring in nbc news National Security and intelligence reporter ken delanian. Ken, wa
Urging congress and the president to act. Now is the time to get on right side of this. We begin today with the growing gap between President Trump and members of his cabinet and his party, all of whom say it is now clear russia did interfere in our election. President trump, however, spent the weekend going after everyone from the democrats to the fbi to Oprah Winfrey. Vladimir putin was not mentioned once, which makes one wonder why. I got a great team here to break it all down. Lets start with nbc White House Correspondent kristen welker. I want to ask you what this says about the president s frame of mind, looking all of these tweets, what does it say about how hes thinking about the russian story and that indictment on friday in particular . Hi, david, well, good morning to you. It is clear this issue is increasingly getting under the president s skin. Its clear his frustration is boiling over. We saw hi, as you just said, play the blame game throughout the weekend, tweeting, blam
Mueller is investigating. Why does that matter . Well, you probably know this as youre watching the news. This is the very first time bob mueller has demanded documents relating to trumps businesses. Now a lawyer for the Trump Administration falsely called this old news. But did add, they will fully cooperate with all investigations including special counsel muellers. Now the story suggests something more. It suggests that for at least some reason, somehow, bob mueller felt the need to put pressure on that socalled promise of cooperation. He didnt ask for these documents, which you could legally do, he demanded them by subpoena. This very big story is out in the open tonight, only because of reporting from the New York Times which notes that it is simply at this hour not clear why he would go directly for a subpoena. A senior congressional source told me tonight, though, that it could be muellers way of trying to make it Crystal Clear to every staffer at the Trump Administration they c