That president obama ordered the tapping of mr. Trumps phones before the election. This has to do with the giant russian cloud over the white house. A new poll out this morning show two in three americans want a special prosecutor to launch an investigation into alleged contacts between russian officials and the Trump Campaign. It comes at a time when the president has a long list of things he should or would like to be dealing with. The next couple hours he could release his revised travel ban. This morning the administration is responding to a new provocation from north korea, launching several new missiles overnight. Were covering this all. Lets begin in washington with kns chief Political Correspondent dana bash. Dana, a remarkable, historic request from the fbi director to the Justice Department. Please correct the president he seems to be saying. Thats right. We dont know the answer as to whether the Justice Department will do that. Now, we can also look at kind of the way things
He vehemently denied it. Now its time to move forward with working constructively with russia. Kevin corke is live on the front lawn. Reporter if you want to drill down on other actionables, i think it will raise eyebrows. The president has agreed to press russia on cybersecurity. He has been active talk about what happened at the g20 and actionable items on what may be coming down the pike. The president saying putin and i discussed forming a cybersecurity unit. How about that. So that election hack and other negative things will be guard. That declaration coming out of the much larger and longer than expected meeting. Reince priebus said putins meddling denial does not mean its the end of the story. It means we are not going to forego progress simply because we have a disagreement in regard to this meddling in the United States election. What it means is we need to move forward with things like a ceasefire in syria which will save a lot of lives. Which we are doing. Reporter let me s
Well good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 187 of the Trump Administration. And the president s spent his evening in youngstown, ohio, in a state that helped deliver him the presidency. The white house called tonights speech a salute to american heroes. The president called obamacare a nightmare, took a jab at congress, not getting much done. Then joked about his possible future on Mount Rushmore along with what he thought we would say about it. Sometimes they say, he doesnt act president ial. And i say, hey, look, great schools, smart guy, its so easy to act president ial. But thats not going to get it done. In fact i said its much easier, by the way to act president ial than what we are doing here tonight. Believe me. And i said and i said with the exception of the late great Abraham Lincoln, i can be more president ial than any president thats ever held this office. That i can tell you. Its really easy. Every single president on Mount Rushmore
Administration. And the president s spent his evening in youngstown, ohio, in a state that helped deliver him the presidency. The white house called tonights speech a salute to american heroes. The president called obamacare a nightmare, took a jab at congress, not getting much done. Then joked about his possible future on Mount Rushmore along with what he thought we would say about it. Sometimes they say, he doesnt act president ial. And i say, hey, look, great schools, smart guy, its so easy to act president ial. But thats not going to get it done. In fact i said its much easier, by the way to act president ial than what we are doing here tonight. Believe me. And i said and i said with the exception of the late great Abraham Lincoln, i can be more president ial than any president thats ever held this office. That i can tell you. Its really easy. Every single president on Mount Rushmore here is what i do. I ask whether or not you think i will some day be on Mount Rushmore. But no. But
Staying quiet . Good afternoon, welcome to the lead. Im going to begin with our politics lead ramping up its efforts to turn the spotlight away from questions about itself and investigations into possible collusion with russia or possible obstruction of justice and the firing of fbi director james comey and to instead highlight matters pertaining to the previous president and the woman whom mr. Trump defeated for the presidency, Hillary Clinton. President trump today tweeting, it is now commonly agreed after many months of costly looking that there was no collusion between russia and trump. Was collusion with hc, a couple of points there, that of course is not commonly agreed. Its still being investigated. Second, the investigation is not just about russia and trump. Its also about the trump team, people like Paul Manafort and carter page and on and on. The white house has made it very clear they want all of you to look elsewhere. Theres still no evidence of collusion between the presi