The Trump White House has showed us something weve never seen before from any white house. Today it was the silence from donald trump and his administration after a white house official, kelly sadler, mocked senator john mccains brain cancer saying that mccains opposition to trumps nominee to lead the cia doesnt matter, hes dying anyway. There was strong rejection of sadlers comments but not a single word of it came from donald trump or the Trump White House. In a normal white house, mocking a veteran over a cancer diagnose would get you a public apology or get someone fired but the Trump White House is not a normal white house so we got this. Reporter does the white house not think you need to condemn these remarks . Again, im not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. Are you saying she didnt say this . Again, im not going to validate a leak out of an internal staff meeting one way or another. Why not just apologize to senator john mccain . I
Not be there. I want to get it finished. The prize i want is victory for the world. Harris washington correspondent rich edson has more from the state department. Rich . Good afternoon, harris. Secretary of state mike pompeo met for 90 minutes this afternoon with kim jong un. When he left that meeting the reporters traveling with him asked him if he secured the release of the three americans. Pompeo would only cross his fingers. Shortly after that, an official arrived at the hotel to inform him that kim jong un decided to grant amnesty to release tony kim, kim haksong and kim dongchul and added they should be careful not to make the same mistake again because it was a hard decision to release em. They boarded a plane and are seeing a doctor. Pompeo said when they made the announcement they were leaving the north korean air space, the three men were thrilled. They are back to the United States and President Trump expressed the appreciation for the sign of good will. President trump a sp
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 474 of this Trump Administration brings new allegations that President Trumps personal lawyer took half a Million Dollars from a russian oligarch. Much more on that in just about 30 seconds. But first we want to catch you up on tonights primary races across the country. If youve been watching, you know weve been keeping a close eye on that West Virginia Republican Senate primary. President trump weighed in on that contest, urging voters to choose anybody but Don Blankenship. It appears they have done just that. Nbc news has called this race for Patrick Morrisey tonight in West Virginia. Blankenship, the coal baron excon came in third. We have complete results from Steve Kornacki at the big board coming up a bit later on in our broadcast. Back to our lead story. More on this bombshell news that the Company Michael cohen used to pay 130,000 to a porn star also received massive sums of money from an Investment Fi
Discovery mechanisms that are already under way in his lawsuit for Stormy Daniels that could have obtained this information. Right. So its really striking to see, and its been confirmed by the New York Times. Yes. And that was i mean, youre to be talk to him. I do not want to delay you. But when this came out today, everybodys reaction was one, what does it say . And two, how could he possibly know this . How could he obtain this information . So thats why it became its always important to get corroborating news, right . But when the New York Times and nbc news both came out and said that both those news organizations had obtained financial documents that corroborated what avenatti was claiming, that makes this not just intriguing, that makes this really, really important. And i am dying to see what he has to say to you about it tonight. Any technique, suggestions about how i can drag out of him how he got this stuff . He is sitting right beside me. Just whisper here. Youre better at g
Pushing back against the kind of pressure hes been under. Thanks so much for doing this, mr. Deputy attorney general. As you think about the importance of separation of powers on law day here, any reaction to the news that certain members of the House Freedom caucus have talked about drafting up articles of impeachment despite your best efforts to comply with their document requests . They cant even resist leaking their own drafts. Would you like to elaborate on that . I saw that draft. I mean, i dont know who wrote it. I can tell you different people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time, and i think they should understand by now the department of justice is not going to be extorted. Were going to do whats required by the rule of law and any kind of threats that anybody makes are not going to affect the way we do our job. We have a responsibility. We take an oath. Thats the whole point. Everybody in the Department Takes that oath. We have 1