Ultimately help or hurt the prosecution . And from Vice President ial hopeful full two admitted puppy killer, kristi noem is political stops seems to be tanking as the trump vip stakes enter a pivotal stage. Im dan a bash. Lets go so behind the headlines and Inside Politics first step, 20,682 votes. That was joe biden is 2020 margin of victory over donald trump. And the critical swing state of wisconsin four years earlier, trump took this date by about the same amount. Now for context 20,000 people fills less than a quarter of the Green Bay Packers Land Bove Field is why doe biden is in wisconsin today for the fourth time this year, hes unveiling a 3. 3 billion. Thats why billiondollar investment by microsoft with a not so subtle shot at donald trump. Now, back in 2018, than President Trump was in the exact same spot to announce a huge Manufacturing Facility by Foxconn Trump said it would be the Eighth Wonder Of The World instead, it was mostly abandoned. Cnns jeffs in milwaukee, geoff
Guests coming in and out of trump tower. It is like a second white house right now. It really is. It is a manhattan white house in waiting you might say. And donald trump just wrapped up a very important meeting with the japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe. Who just wrapped up his own comments on that meeting just a short while ago here in mid town manhattan. They had a lot to talk about from trade to National Security issues in asia. But keep in mind as you also mentioned donald trump has had a number of very interesting at any time lysing encounters throughout the day today. Encounters that suggest he knows he has Fence Mending to do. A signal is being sent that the president elect just might be ready to put the scorched Earth Campaign behind him and perhaps engage in some healing. In addition to his meetings with Foreign Policy heavy weights like Henry Kissinger donald trump has been sitting down with his rivals and critics from the primaries. Nikki haley, under consideration for Sec
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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president downplays it and suggests the whole thing is a hoax and turns withering scorn on the media there, suggesting that we were treating him unfairly. reappropriating fake news. no longer a report that he thinks is inaccurate, but unfair or unkind to him. and therefore labeling us sort of his enemy. though he didn t use enemy of the state, he described us as disgusting horrible people. this is the white house as you said. it s a working vacation. he made a series of phone calls to lawmakers. we didn t lay eyes on him. a day after behaving himself on twitter like he did today, we all expect it won t just be the news media, but the russia probe that followed him throughout the white house and bed minster. you covered the tour deforce in wilkes bury.
he called it a hoax. where does this rank in the short history of bad weeks? i actually think it s no worse, really, than some of the worst. when you look at it substantively, it was really important. when you think about it, here we are more than a year and a half after he has taken office. we are coming up on two years since he was elected. the unanimous consensus of the intelligence community is that we were attacked by our biggest adversar adversary, russia. for the first time in the past week, he presided over a meeting. the first time a meeting of his national security council and it lasted under an hour. maybe just a half hour before he went off to bed minster to his golf club for last weekend. this week, because the administration feels so on the defensive that they are not