and lonnie chen of stanford university. welcome to meet the press. announcer: from nbc news in washington. this is meet the press with chuck todd. good sunday morning. we ll take a look today at what to expect when you re expecting the mueller report. from the moment he was appointed special counsel two years ago, washington has existed in a kind of a political limbo. the white house has been working overtime to discredit the investigation why while democrats are dreaming of a watergate-type gotcha moment. this reminded us of the hurricane model maps with projections prescribing landfall from washington to florida. we decided to track mueller report projections. many democrats are hoping it s a category 5 whopper. a direct hit on washington, d.c., taking down president trump and spawning more storms and tornadoes that impact other trump confidants. that is one possibility. another is that hurricane mueller sideswipes and hits
contact between the two, cohen and trump, unlike other longstanding advisers to the president who wandered in and out of the white house in the early weeks. as 2017 passed, mr. cohen grew frustrated with his lack of access to the administration. in march, mr. cohen confided in friends he felt undervalued by mr. trump and questioned whether he should continue his work as a lawyer for the president, said a person familiar with the matter. what s the ring of truth to you, knowing the players here as you do, from this piece of journalism? i do think it s clear michael cohen felt left behind. this is someone who played an important but unofficial role in the campaign, had designs on a significant white house job. even told people around him he thought he could be chief of staff. instead he s blocked from the white house by reince priebus and steve bannon, ends up on the outside. then proceeds to try to make some money off his association with the president. but there s no question that he
crooked, and i just wasn t getting braces again. then i discovered smiledirectclub. it s easy to just grab it and go and i can change it on the road. i did photoshoots with my aligners in and you can t see them. a smile is a first impression, that s why i think having a great smile is so important. welcome back. after, shall we say, a turbulent 17 months in the white house that has seen historic unrivaled levels of staff turnover, president trump has sought counsel from an atypical if not totally unexpected source. this week s new york magazine reports that trump and the fox news show host sean hannity speak on the phone most weeknights. they write, quote, i was told by one person that hannity fills the political void left by steve bannon. the report also quotes a former white house official who says, hannity and fox create a feedback loop that puts trump in
and that s kind of the spirit, and i m sure that s what s going on with mueller and his team. they re not paying attention to the room. and the other thing that struck me is about the grand jury, you know, the detail about them taking notes and listening attentively. this is what goes on in grand juries and in courtrooms all over the country. these are our fellow citizens. hundreds of times a day. i mean these are ordinary american citizens. so when you hear trump and his team talk about, you know, the witch hunt by the prosecutors who are out to get him, who all donated to hillary, well, guess what? the people who are really, you know, ultimately the ones who if there were an indictment of anyone would vote on that indictment and who get to ask questions and help direct the investigation, sure, it s the prosecutors. but grand jurors can ask for evidence. they can ask questions of the prosecutors, ask them. those are ordinary american citizens. so it really shows sort of the
we ve shown that the united states of america will do what s right, and so we have. reporter: president trump appeared in a recorded message, saying the embassy move from tel aviv keeps a campaign promise. the united states under president harry truman became the first nation to recognize the state of israel. today we officially opened the united states embassy in jerusalem. congratulations. reporter: jerusalem is a divided city. palestinian arabs in the east, jewish israelis in the west. today the u.s. recognized israel s claim to all of the city, forever. president trump is now entering into israel a history books. previous u.s. administrations had promised to do this move, moving the embassy here to jerusalem, but had deferred the decision, fearing it to cause an outbreak of violence in the volatile middle east. and today that s exactly what happened. tear gas and bloodshed in the