to see how they re doing. a lot of damage. interestingly, jim, one thing to we do e-mailed me this which came from the national emergency management agency hout there where you are. they basically tell us it is the islands where the problems are. a lot of power lines down, a bridge out here and there, a report from cat island that all power lines were down and no telecommunications. so it sounds like the large islands have done pretty well. the smaller islands, either we don t know or they have had some problems. that s right. it s probably going to be another at least into tomorrow where they re able to get a sense. people can only get to those islands it s hard to communicate there. you know the first thing to happen is power is out. they don t even know that they re really facing yet. trying to send out the trucks. really, until tomorrow they can get out there, maybe get some planes out there. it s going to be tough for them to know the real impact on the bahamas.
the kind of thing that kislyak was under orders by his boss, putin, to try to get information about. kislyak was doing exactly his job, which is basically meeting with people in the trump campaign, trying to get information about how that campaign would actually deliver on some of its rhetoric during the campaign if it was elected. so that way putin can make a decision about what he thinks of this relationship. so the meetings that you know about between sessions and kislyak, that kislyak is reporting on, how many meetings are there, and when were they? well, there was a meeting in i don t know how to characterize the first encounter. so there is a vip reception before trump gives his first foreign policy speech in april. right. that was at the mayflower hotel. in washington. so there s an encounter there that kislyak reports on in which they discussed campaign matters. there s a second encounter in july. this is on the sidelines of the republican national convention. it s in
campaign may have been carried out by independent russian hackers whom he described as patriotically minds, insisting the russian government was not involved. putin went on to say that hackers are free people, just like artists who wake up in the morning in a good mood and start painting. amid growing anticipation for comey s appearance next week, we re learning for the first time about a possible meeting during the campaign between the russian ambassador to the u.s. and the president himself. five current and former u.s. officials told nbc news they are aware of classified intelligence suggesting there was some sort of private encounter between trump and his aides and the russian envoy. on the sidelines of a foreign poll si policy speech last year at the mayflower hotel. it s been reported previously that then candidate trump greeted the ambassador sergey kislyak during a vip reception before the speech where jared kushner and jeff sessions were also in attendance. but this is the fir
current and former officials telling us there is some classified evidence to the contrary. and now we know that the congress is investigating. the fbi is also interested in this meeting. this was a widely understood meeting. it was reported on at the time. nbc news was there. it was a foreign policy speech that trump gave. before the speech there was a vip reception. kislyak and other ambassadors were there. why is trump giving a speech at a russian leaning think tank way back last march? i mean this russian, russian, russian thing, what is it about? i ve been made to understand that s one of the reasons the fbi is interested in this meeting. was this the beginning of how russians tried to infiltrate the trump campaign? who hooked him up with dmitry sames? unclear. this is right around the time the democrats noticed their network had been hacked. i mean if it was the government with the new guinea i mean why so much russian, russian, russian, all through the campaign, rig
host of a.m. joy on weekends on msnbc. ken dilanian, i want you to take us over what nbc news is reporting tonight, adding to all of this. absolutely, lawrence. and first i want to be very clear about one thing. jeff sessions adamantly denies that he had a meeting with sergey kislyak at that mayflower hotel event. his spokesman denies it on the record. and this is one of the reasons, you know, i ve known about this and i ve been reporting on this meeting for a while as i think have some other reporters in this town. and there has been a lot of haziness about what exactly congressional investigators were learning. and that s why i was really glad to see senator al franken on your show last night go on the record and say look, we have reason to believe, that s the phrase he used, that this was not as had been first reported. recall that this was a speech that donald trump gave during the primary, sponsored by a russian friendly think tank. and before the speech, there was a vip recep