Happy new years eve. Im Griff Jenkins joined by rachel camposduffy and Jason Chaffetz, good morning, guys. Jason good morning, happy new year. Rachel good morning, happy new year griff and jason. So excited to be here with both of you here. Jason kiwi style. The kiwis are getting it done in new zealand. Everyone is looking forward to 2021, griff. Griff absolutely. There is so much to look forward to. We will ask you at some point to tell us at foxnews. Com what you are looking forward to. But, before we get there, we too indeed have some news. So lets turn now to the standoff on capitol hill over Coronavirus Relief. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell slamming the brakes on 2,000 checks for millions of americans. The Kentucky Republican saying. Rachel i dont have i dont have any feed. Griff griff path to passing the senate. Lucas tomlinson is live in d. C. With more as the measure sits in limbo. Lucas, good morning. Parting shots here on capitol hill as Senate Majority leader accusi
From special Counsel Robert Mueller referring the issue to essential l essentially authorities in new york having determined it didnt relate to the russia probe. Thats part of whats getting under the president s swin. The president up and tweeting about all of this this morning, again calling this a witch hunt and saying that attorneyclient privilege is dead. Now hallie the terms of a fact check over attorneyclient privilege its worth know thing that noting that to get a warrant for an Attorneys Office its a high bar and you have a lot of people looking at this saying it doesnt relate to attorneyclient privileges at all. But the big question looming over all of this, does this mean that well see firings of top Law Enforcement officials from the attorney general to the special council. Sara and is easy said overnight the president s words stand on their own. Its significant because hallie as you know and i know, the white house is usually quick to dismiss any talk of the president firin
Threatening to leave the lot . Well get into it in this hour of Shepard Smith reporting. President trump confirms that he reimbursed Michael Cohen who paid hush money to Michael Cohen to pay off Stormy Daniels. The document does not mention the payment to daniels. Last month, President Trump denied knowing about the payment. Did you know about the 130,000 payment to Michael Cohen . Then why did he make the payment . Michael is my attorney. You have to ask him. Do you know where he got the money . Earlier this month, President Trumps attorney rudy guliani said that the president paid cohen back. That was money that was paid by his later, the way i would do out of his law firms funds. The president reimbursed that over several months. The white house has said President Trump denies having a sexual relationship with daniels. Lets get to john roberts. Hes live with the news on the north lawn. John . Trace, good afternoon to you. Going through the documents here and putting together the pie
Need to halt the Nuclear Ambitions and destabilizing ambitions taking place in iran. As most of you know, we ended the iran deal, which was one of the worst deals anyone could imagine. Thats had a major impact on iran and substantially weakened iran. We hope that at some point iran will call us and well make a new deal, maybe we wont. Iran is not the same country it was five months ago. That i can tell you. Theyre no longer looking so much to the mediterranean and the entire middle east. They have big problems that they can solve probably much easier if they deal with us. So well see what happens. We did discuss iran. We discussed israel and the security of israel. President putin is very much involved now with in the discussion with netanyahu and working something out with surrounding syria and syria, specifically with regards to the security and longterm security of israel. A major topic of discussion was north korea and the need for its to remove its Nuclear Weapons. Russia has assu
It asks when the treason trials begin. And then theres the new reporting tonight on trumps written answers to muellers questions. All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday evening. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 678 of the trump administration. And we have new reporting from the wall street journal tonight. The story outlines what may have led to the collapse of the plea agreement between the extrump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and Robert Mueller. Manafort now stands accused of lying to the feds. He is facing years in a federal penitentiary. The journal reports manaforts alleged lies have to do with his personal business ties and his work pre2016. Manafort allegedly made inaccurate statements about his communications with Konstantin Kilimnik said people familiar with the matter. Mr. Kilimnik, who mr. Mueller charged earlier this year along with mr. Manafort, was trying to influence the testimony of two witnesses aga