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today the russia investigation took a major step forward. for the first time a member of the president s inner circle faced questions on capitol hill. put another way, this investigation has now come within one man of the president. he is arguably the closest man to the president. white house senior adviser and son-in-law jared kushner spent more than two hours with the senate intelligence committee and then he made a public statement saying he never colluded with russia. it comes as trump pours the pressure on his own attorney general, jeff sessions, who rekuzed himself from the justice department s russia investigation months ago. a decision the president has not been able to get past. . he wrote about sessions on twitter this morning, referring to his own attorney general, mind you, as our beleaguered attorney general. and tonight the washington post as a new report headline, trump leaves sessions twisting in the wind bile berating him publicly. it reads in part sessions ....
this is the movie of comic books, like he s playing a president. he s doing this thing, which he s talking away action heroes talk, not the way presidents talk with the power of life and death in their hands. we ve turned to the north koreans and kim jong-un, if he takes a provocative measure, if he fires on guam, i think we re going to take military action. i m almost sure the president can t retreat from this position. once military blows are exchanged, i think the chance of going to all-out conventional war are significant. he still doesn t have a usable nuclear capability. i don t think we re going to go there. but i do think the president is saying he s prepared to go to nuclear conflict. one of the more chilling moments on this network today. and with that, let s bring in our leadoff friday night panel. welcome to all. matthew, can you walk us through the evolution of donald trump s language of this week? first of all, we note that we can only hope the expression lo ....
operators this week, but and i called one individual usually pretty connected and said any upcoming attacks that we don t know about? have you run the traps as well? well, i ve been focusing on the mueller trump russia news tonight, brian, but it s just so remarkable that there are so many possibilities here because of the posture of this administration. north korea, iran, yemen. we re taking military action in countries around the world where we haven t been before. you know, they re really leaning on the balls of their feet here in terms of the military and people are wondering, you know, what could be next. yeah. i think that s why people were so concerned when they backed away and looked at the substance of what the president said tonight. counselor, help us turn the corner into the mueller investigation. so mueller s associates have found the author of the dossier. we learn this a day after there were complaints in the senate that they haven t found, nor is he cooperati ....
a spokesman for manafort says it s 100% false to suggest this meeting including any discussion of contributions to the trump campaign or the republican party. when donald trump jr. talked about the meeting he called it nothing and manafort said he was on his phone most of the time. the whole contact took how long? 20 minutes or so. 20 minutes. and jared left after five or ten. yes. like she said and paul manafort. on his phone. the whole time. like i said it was pretty apparent this is not what we were in there talking about. it does appear manafort was on his phone to take notes. nbc s reporting says manafort ses notes typed on a smartphone described by one source as cryptic were turned over to the house and senate think you know. i m not answering about any particular eggs vexes. i can t talk about that in a classified setting. i want to be careful in open setting. i carefully chose the words. like look i ve seen the tweet about tapes lordy, i hope there ar ....
for the u.s. there s a guy on social media pretty well connected to the military about what the president might be talking about is a counter attack on niger where we lost these three special u.s. operators this week. i called one individual who is usually pretty connected and said, any upcoming attacks we don t know about. have you been running the traps? i ve been focusing on the mueller, trump news tonight. it s remarkable there are so many possibilities. north korea, iran, yemen. we re taking military action in countries around the world where we haven t been before. they re leaning on the balls of their feet. people are wondering what s next. i think that s why people were so concerned when they backed away and looked at the substance of what was said. counselor, help us turn the corner into the mueller investigation. mueller s associates have found the author of the dossier. we learned this after they haven t found it nor he is cooperating with them. does the muell ....