With the black boys, you know. The black boys not players so im not going to make it there. I kept playing and playing. I said one day im going to play baseball. Tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts right now. Tonight, the president swears he did not know about that Trump Tower Meeting in advance, while someone close to Michael Cohen tells vanity fair cohen is sitting on top of a Treasure Trove of damaging information and theres a lot more to come. For the tenth straight time the president ignored questions from reporters and thats since the trumpcohen tape came out on tuesday. Donald trumps First Ever National Security Council meeting on the topic of election safety was convened today hours after the president was invited to moscow by vladimir putin. All of it as The 11th Hour gets under way on a friday night. On a friday night good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 554 of the Trump Administration and the president escalate
On a friday night, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 554 of the Trump Administration, and the president escalates the war on his former lawyer and confidante, Michael Cohen, while denying that he had any advanced knowledge about that june 2016 meeting in trump tower. A source has told nbc news cohen is willing to tell Robert Mueller that donald trump jr. Informed his father about the meeting before it took place. Trumps son had that meeting with several russians after he was told they were coming prepared with damaging information about hillary clinton. Well, today the president responded with this so, the fake news Doesnt Waste My Time with dumb questions, no, i did not know of the meeting with my son, don junior. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam. Taxi cabs, maybe . Well explain that one. He even retained bill and crooked hillarys lawyer. Counsel. Muellers office says it pl
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from Around The World. No hint of their conditions or demands. Hes got all honestly he has all of the information that he needs. The interview will Pronide Nothing in addition to what he already has. Reporter he said the probe should be finished by September 1st but the time line is up to mueller and not giuliani. For months they have sought to limit facetoface questions about obstruction of justice. A Key Point Of Mueller Inquiry the president repeatedly rails against. That is a total witch hunt. Reporter the president out of public view again at his new jersey golf club. But keeping a close eye on the fraud trial of his former Campaign Chairman paul manafort. But tension inside of the virginia courtroom with judge ellis telling a Government Prosecutor to hurry things along. As a concession to the shortness of life, we need to get it done. Also today the Senate Intelligence committee calling on wikileaks founder Julian Assange to make hims
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. January of this year, the president s lawyers tell the special Counsel Robert Mueller in a letter that mr. Trump dictated the statement himself. Fast forward to late last month, cnn reporting that Michael Cohen is willing to tell the Special Counsel that the president did know about the 2016 Trump Tower Meeting in advance despite numerous denials from President Trump and his team. And that brings us up to speed. The president now admitting the meeting was designed to get information on an opponent, but once again claiming he did not know about it. Now jay sekulow admits he was wrong when he denied the president was involved in that first misleading statement. Listen. I had Bad Information at that point. I made a mistake in my statement. I talked about that before. That happens when you have cases like this. I think its very important to point out that in a situation like this, you have, over time, facts develop. T
Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. Zeldin. This is a very serious allegation. He misunderstands, i think, that his failure to directly sell his own shares is whats at issue. Whats at issue is his provision of nonpublic information to his son and another so that they could cut their losses in their sales. That violates the mail fraud statutes, securities fraud statutes, and there is not really much of a defense if in fact the facts in the allegation are true. Michael, this is sdny indicting a sitting member of Congress Months before an election. We know prosecutors are confident but i mean how airtight does this case need to be . Well, two things. First, we know from the from that which happened during the last 2016 election that youre
not supposed to bring indictments against congressman and other political people within 60 days. So they just sort of snuck under the 60day donor election statute. Just. Yeah. But the fact is that, you treat public corruption in the sa