Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Thats a really good thing. Now were being hindered by the russian hoax. Its a hoax, okay . Earlier this week he wrote, quote, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now. Bob mueller is totally conflicted and his 17 angry democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to the usa. His concern about Paul Manaforts financial crimes trial comes out in this posting. Quote, Paul Manafort worked for Ronald Reagan, bob dole and many other prominent respected political leaders. He worked for me for a very short time. Why didnt government tell me he was under investigation . These old charges have nothing to do with collusion. A hoax. But trump reserved some of his sharpest attacks for his critics, the news media. Even these horrible horrendous people say look at it, it looks l
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. This presidency, we will ask a celebrated historian if there is anything to celebrate in the history that we are witnessing. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. Day 561 of the Trump Administration and the end of another week brings a new sign of Robert Muellers increasing interest in one of Donald Trumps veteran advisers. His friend of 40 years, roger stone. Nbc news reports that according to a source with direct knowledge, a member of muellers stone met with a stone associate named kristin davis. She first came to prominence when the tab lights nicknamed her the manhattan madam after she said she provided prostitutes to the rich and powerful including a governor of new york. Davis said in july that the mueller representative who
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murdered in 2018. the u.s. are warning travelers who are traveling across border, know exactly where you are going. what were they doing there? apparently the family was traveling separate i to another near by story to other families. we simply athasee a family and extending their family. this one cartel mistaken the caravan for another cartel and opened fire and had that horrific traffic. thank you so much. really difficult story. okay, coming up, the trial of trump s associate roger stone is underway. it is off to a dramatic start. no surprise. you want to discuss the drama? okay, just making sure.
i assume you have not had a chance to go through it to find out what headlines we didn t know yet. reporter: i can tell you we ve reported on the broad outlines of ambassador taylor s syste testimony. one of the reasons he s among two of the first witnesses that the american public will hear from next week is because he points directly to the existence of a quid pro quo. he told house investigators based on our reporting that president trump directed officials to tie the delivery of that foreign aid meant for ukraine to counter russian aggression, to tie that and the offer of that white house meeting, that coveted white house meeting between presidents trump and zelensky, that that was directly tied to having ukrainian officials open investigations into the bidens, investigations that would be politically damaging to them and politically beneficial to president trump. he also told house investigators that there were three officials
whether or not they want to push a perjury claim. normally when you offer this, many people take it. if they come clean a lot of circumstances people say we ll give you a pass despite the fact you violated the law because now you are admitting to the truth. has he admitted to the whole truth or are as more witnesses come forward or documents, evidence coming forward, are we going to hear other in con si e inconsistency. here is trump s void. why would democrats want that? i don t know if they don t. we have not heard the whole