Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. This is a threat we need to take extremely seriously and to tackle and respond to with fierce determination and focus. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders told nbc news today that President Trump instructed his team to speak at todays news conference. Asked when the president made the request, sanders didnt respond. And its important to point out, just last friday the president met with his National Security council on Election Security for less than one hour. After the meeting, the white house released a statement that said the administration would not tolerate foreign interference in elections. But it did not mention russia by name. Lets bring in our leadoff panel. Jeremy bash, former Chief Of Staff at the cia and the pentagon
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Should is, thats rudys latest talking point. Was this Performance Today something long in the works, they were asked to submit their remarks, or were they asked to change the topic from the mess the president created yesterday with his Early Morning tweet about getting sessions to end the russia investigation . I think this has been building for some time. We saw dan coats a week or two ago raise some alarm in that interview with Andrea Mitchell in aspen. Weve seen alarm is a good way to put it. Let me show you his answer about helsinki. Lets watch that. In the runup to the helsinki summit, u. S. Officials, ambassadors to nato, ambassadors to russia, said the president would raise the issue of malign activity with president putin. He didnt discuss that, at least at the press conference. Youre saying today that the president has directed you to make the issue of election
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And they all know that The 11th Hour with Brian Williams starts right now. New tonight, raging against the media. Donald trumps pennsylvania barn burner. He claims hes being riddenered hindered by the russian hoax. Meanwhile, back at the white house, the president s top intel and Law Enforcement officials show a united front and say what trump wont, that russia poses a threat to our upcoming elections. Also new tonight, Robert Mueller is looking to speak to another person with ties to that Trump Tower Meeting. And ivanka trump, off message, on her white house low point and a break from her dad on a popular talking point. The 11th hour on a thursday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc headquarters here in new york. Im Nicolle Wallace in for brian tonight. Hell be back tomorrow. Its day 560 of the trump administration. And President Trump just wrapped up a rally in pennsylvania where he ramped up his attacks on the
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could add to the pressure would be former sebcretary of defense. do you expect your old bosz to speak out or general mattis, who is in the middle of a book tour, do you expect to hear from any of them? i guess we all want to hear what secretary mattis wants to say but i suspect you re right there. i think former secretary pin etta has been more outspoken than the others. but what i would like to see is other retired generals speaking out particularly about the war of families, we have the war on education and children, but we re getting to the heart of what the military is about, it s about its people. i would like to hear from retired military leaders from a substantive standpoint on why this is the wrong policy. emily jane fox, mark mentioned the war on children in an op-ed on the washington post that goes like this, even without trump s baby jails and
about why you shouldn t put the kids in the facilities in the first place. just to make a quick point, the man we just saw speaking on fox is the one going to take over the system of sort of baby jails basically that they re using because they can t process people out into the hhs system fast enough. so just today, the head of the acting head of customs and border patrol resigned. that guy is moving over to take the job. you see this huge amount of turnover even in the midst of this crisis. but indeed, the problem is that none of these you re not supposed to be under the tenets of the flores agreement, this settlement how long you can hold children. none of these kids are supposed to be in detention for more than 72 hourses. they re supposed to be moved very quickly into hhs and the office of refugee resettlement. is fact that there is a lot of people coming an the border is not an excuse for failing to do that. the reason. right.