Questions under oath, answering 100 . But what would his lawyers say now . Heres abcs chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl tonight. Reporter as the president traveled to nashville today to talk up his tax cut, a potentially Major Development in the russia investigation. Abc news has confirmed that special Counsel Robert Mueller met with the president s lawyers and told them he is likely to request an interview with the president himself. News of that december meeting was first reported by the washington post. In the past, the president sounded almost eager to tell mueller his side of the story. Would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of the events . 100 . Reporter so if Robert Mueller wanted to speak with you about that, youd be willing to talk to him . Id be glad to tell you exactly what i just told you, jon. Reporter he was asked about it again just this weekend. If Robert Mueller asks you to come and speak with his committee personally, are you committ
Wall. Mexico will pay for the wall. I think theyll end up being happy to do so. The wall just got 10 feet higher. We love it. We are going to build the wall. It will be a real wall. A real wall. Who is going to pay for the wall . Mexico. Who . Mexico. The back and forth between boss and top kick on the president S Immigration position has not help Congressional Republicans get any closer to a deal that would solve the daca problem and keep the government opened. If no deal is reached there will be a shutdown of the government tomorrow at midnight. Casey hunt on capitol hill gives us the update. I did talk about baby food because this Chief Of Staff talks about the president as this Cartoon Character that has to be made into a person by
language about haiti and africa. So what you have now is a Democratic Party thats bg been given a rational for this potential shutdown, the brew ha over the last week has energized their base and made it easier for democrats to say we cant work with this
The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. Fierce once again. Ana. Thank you, dan, for that report. The weather he talked about is crucial here. The fires they create their own weather systems. And video from the ground can help us show just how deadly and dangerous this fire has become. Its hard to explain just how large its gotten. And this might help. The video was recorded today by a passenger on a flight from sacramento to seattle. That is not a cloud there. That is a plume of smoke. Cnn meteorologist is joining us from headquarters. Help us understand how large and how powerful this inferno is. Well, ana any time you have a fire whats going to happen is its creating its own localized weather environment. And this is a big, big challenge. You showed that picture or the video a secretary ago. But i want to drill into the picture. Because you can see the Towers Clouds from the plane. Okay so the plane flies around 30,000 feet. You can see the clouds
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. It is now under way. The director of National Intelligence said in a recent speech that the Warning Lights are blinking red and the Digital Infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. And here we see the incursions coming. Russian hackers have now already targeted at least three candidates in this years 2018 midterms. Reports one of the targets is missouri democratic senator Claire Mccaskill. So highway donald trump doubts much of this is even occurring, his pentagon chief does say there are secret actions now underway to combat it. What is the government doing to halt russian interference in the next elections . Yeah, im not at liberty to explain what were doing in that regard. Just rest assured there are actions under way to protect our elections or to exposeness
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Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. He was indicted for payments made to a mistress, how much stronger would an Election Fraud kbas in this instance if you throw in cohens testimony . They tell me it would be much stronger for the following reasons. They say these were not made to the campaign, they were made to keep them from john edwards wife. Michael cohen prepared to go into court and say yes, these payments were related to the campaign. Motherover the payments from john edwards were two years before he ran for president. These happened just a few months before the election, and there is a tape now where it is being made clear to him that this
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Tower in 2016. This contradicts the president and juniors accounts, so if this is a true, how damaging could this be . Im not sure how big of a deal it would be when it comes legally i think there could