Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Chairman, Paul Manafort. He has pleaded not guilty, but heres why this really matters. The first trial to come out of the Mueller Investigation will give us the most detailed snapshot yet of what cards Robert Mueller really has. And as soon as this week, the president s lawyer says he could decide whether to sit for an interview with the mueller team, although weve heard that one before. Right now the president s not happy with mueller. Donald trump firing off a whole bunch of tweets, trashing the investigation, offering up new details, too about his previous claims of mueller conflicts of interest, claims the Justice Department has shot down. Lets go to the white house with nbcs kristen welker, here to get us started. Rudy guiliani had more to say about all of this, just a couple of hours ago, including what seemed to be a shifting of the goalpost, no . Reporter it was striking, hallie, to hear Rudy Guiliani, yes
chairman, paul manafort. he has pleaded not guilty, but here s why this really matters. the first trial to come out of the mueller investigation will give us the most detailed snapshot yet of what cards robert mueller really has. and as soon as this week, the president s lawyer says he could decide whether to sit for an interview with the mueller team, although we ve heard that one before. right now the president s not happy with mueller. donald trump firing off a whole bunch of tweets, trashing the investigation, offering up new details, too about his previous claims of mueller conflicts of interest, claims the justice department has shot down. let s go to the white house with nbc s kristen welker, here to get us started. rudy guiliani had more to say about all of this, just a couple of hours ago, including what seemed to be a shifting of the goalpost, no? reporter: it was striking, hallie, to hear rudy guiliani, yes, seem to shift the goal posts on this key issue of collusion. as y
special agent. it s totally appropriate for a special agent of the fbi who is supposed to be above reproach to be writing that. we tell our children whatever you put in your e-mail, nothing is private. if you are working on an investigation this serious, you should not be saying that. but the ig specifically found that there was no evidence that any decision or action taken by any of the agents, strzok, page, anybody else was affected by political bias. do you there that will stop trump from tattooing this. no, he lies about everything. here s the problem, it s the strzok and comey breaking all the rules. it was a terrible thing did he for the department of justice. that s the way i look at it as a prosecutor and somebody who wants the justice system to appear fair. do t does taint the whole justice system. here s my big question, why didn t he whether he found out anthony weiner had some stuff it, husband and wife were
giuliani directly said and on the other side a proper professional investigation saying nothing and answering nothing. the good guys are not winning this public debate. the one thing we know because of this report is that mueller will be very cautious when he does his release. if he can t get it done by august 1, there won t be a people till after the election. are you going to having a shut down? august 1st is the magic date, but yes. julia. the lessons learned from this it is probable we could be in a similar situation. we have a president his party going through midterms, he ll be facing another election in 2020. there are countless investigations into him and his businesses and to his lawyer we saw today. so it could be possible that you could be in this position again where federal investigators. how about state investigators? or the state investigators. in new york city. i don t think they re bound. i don t think they re worried about the congressional sched
i am absolutely certain that have from everything i know about that investigation. michael cohen i think would tell you he s got nothing incriminating with the president and really they should stop going after him. they re torturing the guy. the reality is they re trying to frighten him. bank fraud, mail fraud, the works. we all watch perp walks. we watch him walking past the cameras looking very sad. yep. what s up? rudy says he s in if the corral. i don t think so. look, i think that every time rudy giuliani opens his mouth and says something, half the time he s wrong. the more analysis we do on everything that rudy says pertaining to this investigation takes us off the game. emmett flood is doing all the work. who is? emmet flood. rudy is the one out there spouting his mouth. again, half the stuff. would you say that if he were here? of course i would. just checking. john brabender. everything keeps talking about he looks unhappy. did he get raided.