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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Which george h. W. Bush was. And by not going partisan, george w. Bush helped remind us just how starved we are for decency in American Public life. And im going to leave you with that picture, get ready to put to rest one of our points of light, one of my points of light, the 41st president. Thanks to nancy, brett, nick, elise. Thats it for this hour. Im any coko nicolle wallace. Mtp daily is next with chuck todd. Good evening, im chuck todd here in new york. And welcome to mtp daily. Moments ago, president george h. W. Bushs remains arrived by train in college station. Next is a Burial Ceremony at the george bush president ial library. We will be keeping an eye on these proceedings as the 41st president is officially laid to
rest in a few minutes. Well take you back there, but were going to begin tonight with yet another piece of reporting that raises questions if the trump administrations Foreign Policy is for sale. It raises other questions about whether bob mueller might be invest
to overturn the 2020 election. he was the congressman who tried to get trump s chief of staff mark meadows to investigate the conspiracy theory that italian satellites were swapping out trump s votes for biden votes. he is the congressman who met with mark meadows before mark meadows literally set fire to papers in his office. he was the congressman who introduced an obscure employee named jeffrey clark to president trump in an effort to get him to appoint the malleable mister clark is attorney general and help steal the election. trump ultimately did appoint him to serve as attorney general for one hot second, by the way. we know that now. congressman perry was also one of the people president trump talked with about going to the capital on january 6 and one of the people who asked president trump for a preemptive pardon after january 6. and then when the house january 6 committee
congress should be using its powers to go after president biden and his family. look, we are the rule of law team. we believe in the rule of law. team rule of law. yesterday speaker johnson laid out plans to weaponize the house oversight powers for retaliatory investigations against democrats and president biden as sort of a republican response to trump s conviction by a jury of his peers in new york city and you can bet that a good chunk of those investigations will probably come out of the house committee on the weaponization of the federal government. again, every republican allegation is actually a confession. but what makes all of this so much worse is that these revenge fantasies aren t just coming from speaker johnson and fellow republicans in the whack you do house conference. this is where the whole party
subpoenaed congressman perry to ask him about all of the above, perry refused to comply. but wait, there is more. last year the fbi seized congressman perry s cell phone as part of the special counsel investigation into attempts to overturn the 2020 election. to this day congressman scott perry is in an ongoing lawsuit against the department of justice, trying to keep the doj from using the information on his phone. but, rule of law. this guy is one of the guys speaker johnson believes should be overseeing the fbi and then there is the other guy, congressman ronny jackson. he was the white house physician under president trump. you remember him? he s the one who put out glowing statements about how healthy president trump was and how he just might live to be 200 years old. ronny jackson is now a far