A look at the days top news and headlines. Opinion, its ridiculous the corruption and dishonesty with the witch hunt, the president has watched this process play out but he also wants to see it come to an end as he stated many times. We look forward to that happening. Dana i understand why she would want to answer it that way, last week we found out that muellers team is looking at the president s tweets to see if there was a pattern of obstruction. This is just his opinion, just fighting back, its not obstruction. Amazing when you have the white house under siege like this one, much as with the Nixon White House or the Clinton White house, the way in which the team there comes to reflect the attitude, the language, the perspective of the boss. And you can hear it there, and the loaded words and the hard language. This is a white house under siege and this is an administration that is ready to fight, fight, fight. The problem for trump is the same as it is with, you know, all of that s
The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. And then actually never really does do it. Like release his taxes, right. Then theres other cases where it overrides all common sense, all of his advice and everybody else and does do it. The big question is, is he going to do it in this case . We dont know what donald trump were fog to get on that particular day. Although his staff does say and his attorneys do say that his tweets, in effect, and his public statements amount to his own testimony so far and you can just read his tweets and read his mind and thats something muler is doing, to see if theres any condemning statements hes made in those tweets. Hes been warned about that for a very long time. The president continues, you know, to tweet. Whether he is saying disparaging things about the process, his own intel community, all of that. How will mueller use these tweets to his advantage . Even if they never get direct q a from the president . Yes, well, the twe
Ill speak with congressman of the Armed Services committee. And our correspondents and specialists are all standing by with full coverage. Lets begin with jim acosta covering the president in new jersey. The president still hasnt made up his mind apparently about talking to mueller. What is the latest . Reporter thats right. It doesnt sound like it. He just wrapped up a Round Table Discussion on the issue of Prison Reform over at his golf club in new jersey. He didnt take questions from reporters about subjects like the mueller investigation. So what we have now here is the latest reality tv cliff hanger from President Trump. The president is keeping the country in response. Will he or wont he sit down with Robert Mueller in the Russia Investigation . Its the question of the moment for President Trump. The president Isnt Signaling to reporters which way he is leaning on whether to tell what he knows about the Russia Probe To Special Counsel robert
mueller. Instead he is letting the res
Tomorrow. You can reach out to me any time on social media. Hardball with Chris Matthews starts right now. Up all night. Le lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Dont do the crime if you cant do the time. Didnt people around donald trump Pay Attention to crime show warning. If you committed federal crimes you could be squeezed by federal prosecutors to rat. Didnt donald trump know if he did business with such people he would be the fall guy. Which gets us to the president s predicament this thursday evening. No man is an island. No man except increasingly now President Trump. The acceleration of his own legal exposure is leaving him isolated. Paul manafort is now convicted
of financial crimes. Former fixer lawyer Michael Cohen has pled guilty to tax fraud and Campaign Violation which is he says were directed by the president himself and now would appear the water around trumps island are rising fast. That sentiment is evident in the new cover of Time Magazi
Well. Jon meacham, always such a pleasure to have him as part of our broadcast, especially on a consequential friday night. That is our broadcast indeed for this friday and for this week. Thank you for being here with us. Have a good weekend. Good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. A couple of hours ago, maybe even less than that, i was standing knee deep in a trout stream in tennessee. But now its mueller time and so im in a studio in the great state of tennessee. The trout are basically just as safe as they were when i was flailing away at them ineffectually this afternoon. But now it is listen, its this is history. This is a reason to stop fishing and go to work. Our job tonight as a country sort of or at least what
everybody in the country is going to be doing tonight is trying to figure out what it means that the report of special Counsel Robert Mueller has finally been submitted. Weve heard it said so many times that it was imminent, that it was done, maybe it