useful, not to say that other things in the new york times aren t useful, but this is the hot button issues to avoid according to the new york times. the midterm election results, the migrant caravan, health care, the kavanaugh fight, the economy. anything that s happened in the past six months you should avoid talking about at your thanksgiving table. by the way, i would encourage all of you watching and listening to print that out. brett, the conversation around your table during the holidays, do you talk politics? is this something that comes up at all? yeah, sure, but we all agree so it s a lot easier. we re all on the same side of these questions. i think it s a matter of your emphasis on discuss until finally one of the kids says, okay, we re bored with politics, let s talk about something else. and one of the things that i ve been trying to do just on a personal level is separate my disgust with the president, his policies and his behavior, with my view about his supporter
thanksgiving eve to you. craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york city. now what? president trump has finally and officially answered robert mueller s questions about russia, but not about possible obstruction. trump s lawyers say it s time to wrap it up. so after 18 months of waiting, will they? and trump backlash, the president dedefending his handling of saudi arabia. some senators in his own party aren t having it. this hour a brand new interview with the saudi foreign minister. and talking turkey and politics as many of our family get ready to gather around the thanksgiving table, a lot of us are deciding whether it s even wo worth it to talk about politics. we ve got just the guest to talk about the state of our national conversation. we ll get to that in just a moment. we start with the president finally answering robert mueller s questions after 18 months of investigation. however, the answers only cover the time period of the 2016 campaign. that leaves a lot of uncov
essentially the foreign minister basically telling me that they re satisfied with the response they ve seen from president trump, and certainly one of the things that they re really focused on going forward is whether or not there might be a political solution for example for the situation in yemen. they say they re hopeful of talks even those thugh these th haven t worked in the past. i thought it was interesting he seemed to skirt the issue. he seemed to be pretty satisfied with what he s hearing from the trump administration. hadley gamble in riyadh. thank you so much for the preview. do appreciate your time. happy thanksgiving. family, food and politics. as we get ready to give thanks and spend some time with our loved ones, should we talk politics? we re family, and we ve been family a whole lot longer than trump s been in office and that we ve been in this divisive political climate.
current, some incoming republican lawmakers, they are distancing themselves from president trump, including senator mitt romney of utah. our country is defined by human values, by principle above convenience. senator bob corker of tennessee says he sees the white house as a quote, public relations firm for the crown prince of saudi arabia. senator rand paul, saudi arabia shouldn t be rewarded for the butchering of a dissident. lindsey graham, senior senator from south carolina calling the saudi prince, the saudi crown prince a wrecking ball in the middle east. are there concerns there in saudi arabia that the senate could end up taking action perhaps even going so far as to block a government funding bill that does not include sanctions against saudi arabia? i directly asked the foreign minister about this. i said you ve got democrats, you ve got republicans both sides of the aisle are pressing the trump administration to do more with potential sanctions on saudi arabia. are you worr
mueller team isn t saying. but how forthcoming? that s a question, mark, and will it be enough, also a question mark. kelly o donnell, west palm beach for us. thanks as always. now to that bomb shell new york times report. president trump reportedly wanted the justice department to prosecute fbi director james comey and hillary clinton. he discussed this with his ex-white house counsel don mcgahn in the spring. the president has repeatedly pressed officials on the status of the investigations, that includes then chief of staff matt whitaker. he s now the a.g. trump, quote, has continued to privately discuss the matter. it mirrors what the president has publicly said about comey and clinton. comey is a leaker, and he s a liar, and not only on this stuff. he s been leaking for years. he is guilty of crimes, and if we had a justice department that was doing their job, the