Mcdougals story would have been National Enquirer gold, and his decision not to run it was purely to help donald trump. Joining me now, nbcs Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse, former federal prosecutor paul butler is back with me. Former assistant new York Attorney general Tristan Snell is in studio, and Jeremy Soland, criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor. Im going to start with you because youre a Defense Attorney and youre new to this table. Its a challenge, right, no matter how many times the defense keeps going back and back and back to david pecker, trying to show this wasnt about the campaign, which is what you did, this is standard operating procedure, they said that over and over and over again yesterday. Let me give you one of the later pieces of back and forth, and this is steinglass trying to, again, disprove that bove had just done, the Defense Attorney. How many, meaning of these stories, did you coordinate with a president ial candidate for the b
News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Mueller lately. Seems like every ten days or so, this whips back up. You have the manafort trial, as jeff mentioned. I also think he probably doesnt distinguish too much between what mueller is doing and what prosecutors in new york are looking into with cohen. You have that sort of implied threat from cohen over the trump tower meetings. And all this stuff is together. Also at a time when we know his team wants him to focus on what mueller is doing as far as election hacking. We know that trumps team wanted him to try to own this issue, to focus on what we have now, over two dozen russian nationals and companies that have been targeted by mueller. It seems like some real work is being done there to sort of unwind what happened during the 2016 elections, but its hard to for this administration to focus on that or do anything
of New Washington rules. So we dont Know If Mueller will abide by that traditional thinking. But peop
Has found when the boxes came back from north korea. A very meaningful, important moment for that Mcdaniel Family and for all americans its an honor to show it to you. Thanks for joining us, everyone. Im dana perino. Up next, shep smith. Shepard its noon on the west coast. 3 00 here in New York City where republican congressman is facing a judge on charges of Insider Trading. The lawmaker denies he did anything wrong. Were live at the courthouse. President trumps lawyers making what they are calling a Counter Offer for an interview with the special counsel Robert Mueller. Ahead, the details on what they call the last chance to avoid a possible subpoena of the president. And the star witness on the defense at the trial of President Trumps former Campaign Chairman. But rick gates says he has a very good reason to tell the truth about everything Paul Manafort did. Lets get to it. Shepard smith reporting live from the Fox News Deck. And first from the Fox News Deck this afternoon a sitting
A look at the days news and headlines. A look at the days news and headlines. Dont want to put him in a position where he might injury himself, perjure himself or blow up the investigation and thats where Rudy Giuliani is. A possible circumstance for a sitdown. He has been clear when he said listen, the president could decide to do this but im not so sure they will actually let him do that. Well be watching as it all unfolds. Sandra more on that coming up. Kevin corke at the white house. Bill the trump team announcing a new round of sanctions against russia to hold russia responsible from a nerve attack that may have caused the death of a british woman and trying to kill a former spy. This move has to please the u. K. And some others in europe, i believe. Absolutely. Theresa may had been urging the Trump Administration to take tough action against russia after this poisoning, yution of
a Chemical Agent on british soil. This has to be seen in a much larger context, which is President Tr
she was there for key moments, including the response to this story about the trump tower meetings. there s a lot you can imagine lawmakers would like to ask her. the assertion of executive privilege is going to be tested in the courts and we ll see how far it gets. the president has had a tough time convincing courts their executive privilege applies when congress has an investigation underway. and joel payne, one of the things that happened last night also is the appearance of don jr., who is a major surrogate and very popular with the base. but this is part of what he said in going after joe biden. let s watch. the problem is, joe, you ve been in government for almost 50 years. what was the good one last week? remember joe biden comes out, well, if you elect me president, i m going to cure cancer. wow. why the hell didn t you do that over the last 50 years, joe?