Updates of the days news. Theres a lot more to what they did that nobody knows about yet, and mueller is going to have a lot to answer for and in ohios congressional Special Election the race is tighter after a late addition to voting tallies. Officials in Franklin County announced yesterday an additional 588 previously uncounted votes had been found in a columbus suburb. The result has given Democrat Danny Oconnor a net gain of 190 votes. He and republican Troy Balder S son are separated down from yesterday. Balderson declared victory tuesday night, but oconnor is waiting for all votes to be counted. Whatever the outcome, these two will go headtohead again in november when they compete for a full term in congress. The Trump Administration is hitting russia with new sanctions, punishing Vladimir Putins government for the poisoning of a former russian
russia has denied any involvement in the uk poisonings. The president , facing political pressure, to unleash the penalties. All of it coming as mr. Trump lawyers formally rejected special counsel muellers request for an interview, pushing for a narrow range of questions in the russia investigation. Rudy guilliani telling nbc news theres room to negotiate while calling for the inquiry to end. We do not want to run into the november elections. So back up from that, this should be over with by september 1st. Reporter Rudy Guilliani tells nbc news that his position remains questioning the president about possible Obstruction Of Justice is off limits. Among the questions now, is Robert Mueller open to more negotiations or will it subpoena the president. David. My thanks to Peter Alexander for that report. Joining us from washington is daniel lippman. I want to ask you first of all
here, how are the latest sanctions imposed on russia going to affect President Trumps budding relationship with his russian counter part . It is not going to help, but trump seems to have his own personal Foreign Policy with russia and then his administration has a totally different one thats much tougher. So trump is right in the sense that they have pursued sanctions and other aggressive actions to hold russia accountable, but he has not done that in with his you know, his voice and trying to hold putin to account for his actions, you know, in his press conferences. So it seems like trump continues to buddy up to putin even though his State Department says, you know, that they push back on these sanctions. Daniel lippman, i want to go to the other story involving Robert Mueller, the back and forth that the white house and President Trumps lawyers have had with bob mueller and his team over the prospects of an interview with President Trump. How large does the specter of a
subpoena loom at this point . If you talk to people who worked with mueller in the past, they say hes likely to pursue one of those things because he needs to get that interview with trump. And if you you know, if you listen to what he said earlier, Rudy Guilliani, you know, trump should only just answer the questions truthfully, but that almost could implicate him. So hes caught in a nowin scenario. I think mueller is waiting to find out whether he can basically tell the public that rudy and trumps other lawyers, theyre stonewalling, that we have to go to a subpoena. Does this time feel any different . This has been going on for about eight months now, this back and forth. Does the timing feel different this time around . Does it feel like were getting closer to the end of this debate . It feels like it does feel like a finale, you know. Theres a famous play, waiting for godo, that, you know, i
think about when talking about this. Remember, last year in august they were saying that the investigation would wrap up by thanksgiving. So all of these missed deadlines because they just keep finding more information to charge more people, and so i think mueller has a real decision to make about if he really wants this interview and whether he thinks courts would up hold it. You might he might subpoena, and then before it gets to the Supreme Court trump might have to give in to an interview. With that samuel beck reference here on this morning. Good to talk to you. Thank you. We are following Breaking News out of indonesia where other strong earthquake has hit the countrys lombok island. Yes, it hit midday. This quake comes less than a week after a 6. 9 quake hit the island. For more, lets go to nbc news chapman bell in london. What is the latest . Obviously this new Quake Compounding damage from the quake that just hit a few days ago. Terrible situation for the people there. Reporter it is, louis. As you were saying, sending people fleeing into the streets. Take a look at this video, this latest earthquake on lombok causing panic as villagers are seen fleeing. Theyre jumping out of cars, running for their lives. Others, you can hear praying when the earth began to shake once again. One Indonesia Official describing it as more trauma for the island. Buildings Still Standing from the previous quakes weakened, others collapsing. Todays Earthquake Measuring at magnitude 6. 2 by the countrys Geological Agency as they described it as shallow and powerful but causing no concern for tsunami. The u. S. Geological survey measuring at 5. 9. Whatever the magnitude, it will create more difficulty for authorities due to additional damage from the after shock. This is just days after a quake with a magnitude of 7. 0 that was later revised to 6. 9 hit the island on sunday. The chief of the provisional Search And Rescue agency saying the death toll from this earthquake now stands at 227. It is likely to climb though, this number. Some figures have topped 300 deaths in some reports, but more than 150,000 people have been made homeless since sundays quake, thousands of homes destroyed or damaged as people seek refuge under tents. Louis. Chapman, obviously an extremely critical situation. We hope people get the help they need. Thank you for your reporting. Still ahead, a ruling affecting parents and children separated at the u. S. Mexico Border under the Trump Administration zero policy. We will have those details. Plus a warning from bill nelson. He says some russians have
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and thought he had done so in this case. U. S. Attorney said he believed the transcript would back him up, saying ellis had allowed both the case agent and the expert to remain. Ellis snapped, quote, i dont care what the transcript said. Maybe i made a mistake. Dont do it again. Well, a federal judge is continuing the freeze on deportations of reunited families. The judge overseeing the reunification of migrant families separated at the u. S. Mexico Border decided yesterday to keep in place his order temporarily barring the Trump Administration from deporting parents and children. Justice Department Lawyers argued that continuing the freeze hinders the work of immigrations and custom immigration and custom enforcement. The u. S. District judge halted Deportations On July 16th after the aclu asked reunited families be given seven days to determine how they want to proceed with their immigration or asylum
claims. A vulnerable Red State Democrat is siding with President Trump in the upcoming fight on the border wall funding. Indiana senator donnelly says that trump should get more than the 1. 6 billion said aside for the border wall. He tells politico he, quote, does not want under any circumstances a government shutdown, a move the president has threatened should he not receive enough funds to fulfill his campaign promise. While the moderate democrat supported trumps Immigration Bill and other related legislation, his support puts increased focus on other Red State Democrats ahead of november midterms. For now the Funding Fight is put on hold as the gop works on passing less controversial spending bills and keeping the congressional majority. Republicans plan to take on trumps border wall after the midterm elections. Lets switch gears and get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Bill, a hot day for the entire country, but actually the pacific northwest. Yes, it is probably the hottest day of the summer for many people and close to record highs in boise in the next two days could approach their alltime hottest temperature ever recorded. Here we are with excessive heat warning from boise to yakima, also portland and areas of northern montana, which by the way there are excessive heat warning from death valley to los angeles. If you talk to anyone from northern california, san francisco, Napa North Wards rg all are complaining about the air quality because of all of the fires, and this big dome of High Pressure is sitting overhead. When you get the heat domes the air is not flowing. All of that smoke is trapped here In The Valley areas. It is horrible for anyone with respiratory problems. We need to get this trough off the west coast on shore to change the weather pattern, and it will happen in the next couple of days but not yet. Today, interior of washington, 106. Redding, near the carr fire, 103. 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In milwaukee, the brewers have a bash in first inning against the padres with aguilar, shaw and ames hitting backtobacktoback home runs. They beat san diego in this one 84 as well. An independent league in fargo, north dakota well go to and another colorful response to an ejection. One day after a Home Team Player put a trash can behind home plate in place of the umpire, that same umpire tossed an opposing manager for arguing his call at third base. The manager speaks his mind on the field but doesnt leave without taking third base with him, a little souvenir there. He gave it away to a fan on the sideline. I like the way this one ends better than the other one, david. At least he gives it to a kid. Tough week for that umpire. Yeah. Louis, thank you very much. Still ahead, President Trump once again touting the red wave, claiming a Victory Streak for republicans. We will see what critics have to say about that. 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