might happen as the 11th hour gets under way on a friday nigh night. good evening from our nbc news head quarters in new york. this was day 687 of the trump administration and let s say this at the outset, each and every night on this broadcast where the russia investigation is concerned this may have been the most consequential day so far. prosecutors from the president s own justice department accused him of engaging in a felony. three new court documents fired by robert mueller and federal prosecutors in the southern district of new york detailing trump, michael cohen, and paul manafort and have shed new lights on the investigation and what could be an existential threat to this administration. trump tried to get out ahead of it between 6:00 and 10:00 a.m.
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and, you know, he knows the truth. and i think the truth is going to come out. and that s what, you know, set off this tweet storm this morning from trump. i think he s sensing that, too. i think the big picture point i would make, this is bringing home to me this idea that the business and the political interests here are so intertwined, and we ve been talking about this since cohen pled guilty and we heard about the trump tower, moscow deal going on at the same time as the campaign, i really think that the link between those interests trump s business interests and what happened with russia is starting to become clearer and we re going to see that come more into focus and that s central to what mueller is doing. frank s what s your sense of how much mueller knows? how far along he is? to get to that last redaction in plain sight, redacting without
requires this kind of redaction and even filing something under seal. that could mean there s classified intelligence involved. it could even mean theoretically that someone with the last name of trump or kushner is in this thing. and mueller doesn t want to fall into the comey trap and unnecessarily taint a public leader when he doesn t need to do that. so we see reference to person number one, right? we see redaction. why is that happening? be patient. it s there. the other thing is it s a strategy by mueller to ensure his continued existence. if it was all about filing a report with whitaker or william barr, the next attorney general, we don t know where that report goes, it could go in a shredder but mueller is filing in a court and the fact that it s redacted or under seal my frustrate us but it s with a judge. it s not redacted to the judge, it s in the court system, it s locked in forever and that s a