that s tonight s last word. the 11th hour starts now. and making their case that trump didn t obstruct justice. plus speaking of the special counsel, he has more help. mueller has reportedly called in the irs. and paul manafort s notes from the scrutinized meeting with donald trump jr. and russians. the 11th hour on a thursday night begins now. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 224 of the trump administration brings new information about the russia investigation. specifically, what evidence special counsel robert mueller has in front of him, who he is
but a very generous of mexico to offer help at this challenging time for citizens down in texas. thank you very much mr. secretary. you re absolutely welcome. and we are here to help. we are neighbors. friends and that s what friends do. that was yesterday at the state department. that s tonight s last word. the 11th hour starts now. tonight, the wall street journal breaks new details on how the president s attorneys have been meeting with robert mueller. and making their case that trump didn t obstruct justice. plus speaking of the special counsel, he has more help. mueller has reportedly called in the irs. and paul manafort s notes from the scrutinized meeting with donald trump jr. and russians. the 11th hour on a thursday night begins now.
investigation by the special counsel. he has built a strong team, a large team, experienced team. and it appears from everything we are learning that working in a careful hurry to figure out whether or not charges ought to be brought and figure out what to report to congress which with will ultimately hold the impeachment decision in its hands. michael is to too wide ranging? you know the president did warn that robert mueller will cross a line if he starts getting involved in donald trump s financial affairs. well robert mueller is getting in manafort s financial affairs. one assumes about the moscow hotel in donald trump s moscow affairs. there s been questions in the past about special prosecutors before. what we had before is the prosecutors were appointed for an indefinitely period of time and they had the abilitying to on and investigate whatever he wanted. but based on the pliks what s going on in the country mueller could investigate a lot of things for a lot of times and t
impeachment. it was decided by our special prosecutor at the time that we should not indict, that impeachment was the correct procedure for the sitting president. since then, the case with ken starr took years and went from a real estate deal to a blue dress, so showing how broad the investigation can be, he has a memo that says it would be perfectly proper to indict a sitting president. so mr. mueller might be able to do that. but he also has the option of
work together zbloolgts jeremy that s really the first salvo of that sort. because there are a number of states that can claim some sort of harm if this is still having to do with the russians attempting to intervene in american elections. there are a number of states targeted by the russians according to reports we ve seen. so robert mueller has a lot of ammunition if he wants to start partnering with state attorneys general in guaranteeing donald trump either can t fire him out of this thing or can t pardon his way out of it. this is clearly as my knowledge said a sprawling, ride-ranging and aggressive investigation by the special counsel. he has built a strong team, a large team, experienced team. and it appears from everything we are learning that working in a careful hurry to figure out whether or not charges ought to be brought and figure out what to report to congress which with will ultimately hold the impeachment decision in its hands. michael is to too wide