Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Over 30 hours with the white House Counsel, misspelled only, with my approval for purposes of transparency. The Washington Post reports that mcigans own lawyer has told the Trump Legal Team, mcgahn does not believe he implicated the president in any legal wrongdoing when he spoke to the special counsel. Meanwhile the president s lawyer is now in Damage Control mode. Earlier tonight, he explained that and he the president s former attorneys are now aware of what was in mcgahns testimony. John dowd got a political version of what mcgahn said during that period of time. John, of course, because of what happened over the weekend, went through it thoroughly. Ive been on the phone with him for hours and gone over it with him. When it first came out, i didnt know the details of what mcgahn said. Now do i. I knew not to worry because if the president said anything criminal to the counsel of the white hou
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. Day 578 of the Trump Administration. And tonight the president of the United States is coming off a vicious string of personal attacks, comparing people to dogs and rats and calling Robert Mueller discredited and disgraced. He is neither. And now tonight the president is talking about what is at the heart of all of it. The russia investigation. Now that he knows his white house lawyer has testified fully before the mueller team. This afternoon, reuters interviewed President Trump. They report, he is, quote, worried that any statements under oath he provides to special counsel Robert Mueller could be used to bring Perjury Charges against him. Quote, trump echoed the concerns of his top lawyer in the probe, Rudolph Giuliani, who has warned that any sitdown with mueller could be a perjury trap. Reuters quotes the president as saying association if i Say Something and he, meaning comey, says something, and it is my
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class. in order to address those issues as a public servant, i think it is important for me to try to make an effort as best i can to understand the views of those i disagree with. we will look for your work and your writing. thank you for coming in and talking. thank you. zachary wood, our guest tonight. coming up there is something in the area this evening from west to east across this country that actually explains a lot. when we continue. for your heart.
as a public servant, i think it is important for me to try to make an effort as best i can to understand the views of those i disagree with. we will look for your work and your writing. thank you for coming in and talking. thank you. zachary wood, our guest tonight. coming up there is something in the area this evening from west to east across this country that actually explains a lot. when we continue. we re back with the last thing before we go tonight, and we sure hope you are having a good summer wherever home is or
higher education used to be a place where ideas went to thrive. increasingly, they are where controversy or contrary views go to die. dangerous places full of triggers, fearful of snow flakes melting on contact. all of this is part of the subject of a new book called unkrengsorred by zachary wood. he gave a ted talk on this subject that more or less, to make a long story short, catapulted him into wider awareness and a new job as an assistant editor at the atlantic. he is a barkley fellow at the wall street journal. we left out the best part. he is a 2018 graduate of williams college and getting here and getting there wasn t easy. he grew one one parent struggling with mental illness. in high school he traveled on public transportation four hours from his home every die a private school in the maryland suburbs and back. this is important. the sub title of his book is, my high of, an uncomfortable conversations at the intersection of black and white america. and we are so happy to hav