Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. This presidency, we will ask a celebrated historian if there is anything to celebrate in the history that we are witnessing. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. Day 561 of the Trump Administration and the end of another week brings a new sign of Robert Muellers increasing interest in one of Donald Trumps veteran advisers. His friend of 40 years, roger stone. Nbc news reports that according to a source with direct knowledge, a member of muellers stone met with a stone associate named kristin davis. She first came to prominence when the tab lights nicknamed her the manhattan madam after she said she provided prostitutes to the rich and powerful including a governor of new york. Davis said in july that the mueller representative who
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$130,000 what i did each an every time is go straight into mr. trump s office and discuss the issue with him when it was ultimately determined this was days before the election that mr. trump was going to pay the $130,000 in the office with me was allen weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the trump organization he acknowledged to allen he was going to pay the $130,000 and that allen and i should figure out how to do it i mean, it s been in front of our eyes for a very long time. no one ever refuted trump s role in this. the southern district of new york puts in writing trump is the director of the hush money scheme this isn t in dispute.
of members of congress increased more than tenfold to 902,625. the times saying in just the first few month of this year, capitol police opened 1,820 cases based on potential threats to lawmakers. joining me now is juanita tolliver and msnbc political analyst mark leave vich, staff writer at the atlantic and author of thank you for your servitude. i thank both of you. juanita, your reaction to trump s violent and racist attacks on mitch mcconnell and elaine chao. why is it still so shocking to hear? that s exactly right, we shouldn t be surprised, but in a post january 6th reality, where we know his supporters take him literally, argue in court that he summoned them there to commit violent acts on the capitol,
they could take this literally as well. the piece you mentioned earlier, name. that doesn t require fan attic. requires someone who believes in trump. what s also interesting i think it s important to mention that s on both sides of the aisle. where we see trump attacking mcconnell, that s something that i think is only going to continue if he is showing people that they have permission to do that. and what s really, really frustrating i think and that voters are paying attention to, is this juxtaposition of trump and the republican party s making violent rhetoric and racism a part of their republican party while you have the juxtaposition with president biden down in florida, down in puerto rico, providing aid to people in need. that is something i think voters are going to be paying attention to and taking with them into the polls in november. marking you just heard senator rick scott s refusal to condemn s trump s words. your take on why he won t
the kim jong-un letters. and as the doj investigates, trump is trying to once again delay the special master appeal. the doj asked to expedite the ruling on the balance odd seized documents. trump s lawyer rejecting, writing trump will be prejudiced if this appeal is expedited. it s unclear how he ll be prejudiced for a ruling to come sooner rather than later, but this is the trump playbook, delay, delay, delay. joining me now, neal katyal. good to see you. what do you think are trump s chances to get the 11th circuit to reject the doj s request for an expedited appeal? the doj already rule on the classified documents portion of judge cannon s order, so it s the balance of the order appointing the special master, that the doj wants to have heard on an expedited basis. so first of all, thanks for having me. i know i won t be on segment