Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Over 30 hours with the white House Counsel, misspelled only, with my approval for purposes of transparency. The Washington Post reports that mcigans own lawyer has told the Trump Legal Team, mcgahn does not believe he implicated the president in any legal wrongdoing when he spoke to the special counsel. Meanwhile the president s lawyer is now in Damage Control mode. Earlier tonight, he explained that and he the president s former attorneys are now aware of what was in mcgahns testimony. John dowd got a political version of what mcgahn said during that period of time. John, of course, because of what happened over the weekend, went through it thoroughly. Ive been on the phone with him for hours and gone over it with him. When it first came out, i didnt know the details of what mcgahn said. Now do i. I knew not to worry because if the president said anything criminal to the counsel of the white hou
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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not have a throwing stand on at the end of the day. where do you think the president got the idea he could run the mueller investigation? and how would that work exactly? well, he has, i think, a constitutionally sense of the presidency. he believes basically presidency cannot be constrained by law. of course, that s antithetical to american tradition and he can do this in numerous ways. one of the ways we need to be concerned about, brian, is that the president could try strip the security clearances of bob mueller and his investigators. of course, they hold those security clearances because they re conducting a counter intelligence investigation. they have to have successes access to information. it is a way the president could try purport to undermine the investigation. there was an effort on the hill at this hour led by senator mark warner of virginia.
for a living. now he s just reduced to shilling for a president who may not have a throwing stand on at the end of the day. where do you think the president got the idea he could run the mueller investigation? and how would that work exactly? well, he has, i think, a constitutionally sense of the presidency. he believes basically presidency cannot be constrained by law. of course, that s antithetical to american tradition and he can do this in numerous ways. one of the ways we need to be concerned about, brian, is that the president could try strip the security clearances of bob mueller and his investigators. of course, they hold those security clearances because they re conducting a counter intelligence investigation. they have to have successes access to information. it is a way the president could try purport to undermine the investigation. there was an effort on the hill at this hour led by senator mark