Business news and analysis. For, and the russians provided. So it seems in all fairness if youre looking at the Trump Campaign, youd want to be looking at the other side too if you want to know what russia is up to. Why dont they . Trish, in all fairness, what youve seen the special counsel do is follow the facts where they lead. You have publicly indictments, evidence that the Russian Intelligence Services tried to infiltrate the Democratic Campaign to release emails to help the Trump Campaign. Fbi agents have corroborated, brought it to a grand jury. I dont think you can criticize that piece of this investigation. Why are they not looking to the hillary side . If youre going to talk about collusion and believe that somehow that russian Attorney Meeting at trump tower with jr. Equating to collusion, why wouldnt it be by the way, they werent paying for anything in that meeting. That meeting happened out in the open for everyone to see. There were security cameras, security guard, an em
Running. Thats tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts right now. Tonight donald trump and his new Jersey Golf Club after a wild ride of a week moving the goal posts on collusion calling for an end to the Mueller Investigation and a full on assault on the media all while his own team beats the drum warning of the russia threat. Plus new developments in the Paul Manafort case. The testimony today that compelled his wife to leave the courtroom. And after another stunning week in this presidency well ask a celebrated historian if theres anything to celebrate in the history we are witnessing. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 561 this was of the trump
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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. And Senior Reporter for the Washington Post,er rinne blake and anna palmer. Carol, let me go to you. You are writing now about how the president sees this interview with Robert Mueller, how his legal team sees the interview. Heres the thing, Rudy Giuliani is talking and talking and talking about this. You know whos not . Roberts mueller. Thats absolutely true, hallie. Robert mueller has been silent and the president s lawyers have been la quashs. But one thing has not changed and thats the essence of donald tru trump, which is he believes hes his best lawyer and own best pr guy and own best thinker and diplomat and in this instance, he does believe and has as we were reported back in the spring, has always believed that if he could just sit down with these people, he could straighten this all out and explain no collusion, this is a hoax. Now, his lawyers also have changed slightly in the sense that some put their
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. That and 300 billion after that. Basically the entire u. S. Trade relationship with china. Initially on the next tranche of 200 billion, the president was thinking about Levying Attacks of 10 . This afternoon were going to learn that the president is going to up that to 25 . The belief here among his trading Economic Team that china continues to be a bad actor when it comes to trade and they need very strong influence, if you will, to try to get china to change its ways. Listen to what Sarah Huckabee sanders. The president has made some head way the e. U. In terms of lowering trade barriers, taking steps towards levelling the Playing Field. Does the president and his team believe that is possible with china without taking some real punitive measures . Wed like to see the Playing Field levelled. The president as both he and i think about 15 members of his administration have said
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The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Order is, territory now. And i wonder if theyve had a chance to explain to the president what you reported last week, that under this beefed up postenron witness tampering law, he may have more exposure than he understands. They seem to be leaning on a First Amendment defense, which is not going to hold up if your reporting holds up hes being scrutinized for the way these fit together. What Rudy Giuliani said today is this is ridiculous, the clip you played. The Idea Obstruction by tweet. He said it was bizarre and idiotic and there was nothing to it and the president can express his opinions. The thing about the president and obstruction and collusion, you know, interference or whatever you want to call it is the president usually focuses on the russia question. He says, this is a witch hunt. There was no collusion. He repeats that over and over again. The thing is that does the president rea