With the russian story and found zero proof, so now they go for Obstruction Of Justice on the phony story. Nice. Thats trump in tweet. Joining me now are three National Security reporters, charlie savage, adam entous and shane harris. Shane, youve got the story which follows up on what we had last night, that the Special Counsel is looking at the president for Obstruction Of Justice. My question is how do you have to add to that . What you have now is you have the president both trying to convince Director Rogers of the nsa to come out and shoot down these issues of collusion, but also privately still continuing to doubt the very intelligence that the nsa collected that led to the conclusion that russia interfered in the election. Weve seen trump publicly talk about the fact he thinks theyre nothing to russia, but to know that hes now saying this privately and continuing to argue with one of his intelligence chiefs about that, i think really reveals the degree to which this has
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Resigned tonight. The robust way he stood up to the Trump Administration and to trump himself on ethics issues and the president s unprecedented financial conflicts of interest. His name is walter shoeb. He said he was not forced out of the Office Of Government Ethics. He basically says hes leaving because the u. S. Governmentestics rules are not Strong Enough to allow him to stand up to what this president and his family are doing so he is leaving his jb at the Office Of Government Ethics in order to try to strengthen the rules from the outside. Very interesting resignation today. Weve got more on that story ahead. Theres a lot going on. Weve got a big show tonight. I said at the very end of last nights show weve got a scoop to share with you tonight. This is that scoop. Inhouse on your staff weve been talking about this as and inside, kind of an insideout
story. Not your typical news story, not your particular scoop. But i think its important. One of the few times weve ever had a sco
Revealed that a senior u. S. Diplomat has been having conversation with north korean counter parts, another sign that the Trump Administration is quietly trying to calm this down. Joining us now, john bolton. Good evening, ambassador. Seems like weve never been closer to it Nuclear Brink than we are now. Is that a correct statement . Were at a crisis point because of the advances that north korea has made in the last eight years, so donald trump inherits 25 years of a failed policy of Negotiating North Korea out of these programs and his options are few and not very good. What is interesting is the
regime and the threat of Nuclear Terrorism against our country. Without looking backward for too long, do you see the way that some of the administrations, particularly the Clinton Administration, giving money to north korea, and then the parallel of the Obama Administration giving money to iran, do you see that the appeasement that seems to be going on is only to our detriment and its time
Huge meeting for the president in maralago, florida. He will meet with the president of china. And the United States nations a big day of breaking news. Testing time for the commander in chief who has been on the job just 76 days, an apparent chemical weapons attack in syria, scores of children and others. Pyongyang patience exhausted. Pressure for the president on two big fronts, pressure to consider a much needed response. First at the United Nations this morning, an emergency Securities Council session. When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of state that we are compelled to take our own action. For the sake of the victims, i hope the rest of the council is finally willing to do the same. Will be interesting to see how much in line he is with what she just laid out. Is it would be pretty hard and cause a diplomatic dustup of its own if the president of the United States didnt back up what she just said . It would. But
Say about this controversy after the sort of the statement after statement that changed the story a little bit on donald trump jr. s meeting with this russian lawyer. He basically said my son is a high quality individual, hes been transparent and open. Hes come out and given the whole story. But there are a lot of questions that still remain and in the white house i think theyre very well aware these are not questions that are going to go away and theyre not questions that theyre prepared to take. Theres a lot of legal jeopardy around this meeting. Theres a question of whether the president himself knew about it. Of course we heard donald trump jr. Say in the interview last night that he had not discussed it with his father. But that is going to really hamstring their ability to get ahead of this story. I think there are a lot of questions about what more the president can say without getting a little too close to what is really one of the more damaging revelations of the last few week