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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. that decision still has not been made. they have been delaying this time line here and stretching it out to some great length. although rudy giuliani s comments yesterday campaigning for house candidate of all things in new hampshire were interesting. essentially trying to call robert mueller s bluff. saying if you ve got the goods, now is the time. here s some of giuliani extending that poker metaphor a bit. we believe that the investigation should be brought to a close. we think we re at the end of it. they should render their report. put up i mean, i guess playing poker, we say put up or shut up, what do you got. we have every reason to believe they don t have anything. chris, we play aed a lot of that sound yesterday. let me make a small distinction here i think is notable. what i am starting to hear from congressional ....
Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. influence american voters, including a covert campaign to spread divisive political messages. that has raised questions about what the government is doing to stop them. as the washington post reports lawmakers and independent analysts say that voting systems are more secure against hackers thanks to action at the federal and state levels and that the russians have not targeted those systems to the degree they did in 2016, but russian efforts to manipulate u.s. voters through misleading social media postings are likely to have grown nor sophisticated and harder to detect. there is not a sufficiently strong government strategy to combat information warfare against the u.s. outside experts say. joining me now nbc national correspondent peter alexander at the white house, nbc national security and intelligence reporter ken dilanian, white house bureau chief for the washington post, phil ruc ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. 2017, quote, the president was not involved and did not issue the statement. in june of this year, trump s lawyers conceded to mueller s team and dictated a short but accurate response. now to our panel, aaron blake, a criminal defense attorney and danny cevallos, msnbc legal analyst. i want to read a little bit more of what don jr. said. it is sort of the cycle media narrative. the other stuff is not stick sog they are back and tomorrow they ll be back on the 25th amendment. nothing s changed and it is ridiculous. they don t talk about this and half of congresses on both sides and i mean basically, she did not do that to us. she didn t tell us that was going on. there is really nothing beyond that. aaron, nothing is beyond that and fact-check that for us. the idea that the russian lawyer who was tied to the creme len who was presenting the information to the trump campaign is doing this all ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. gates, and said well, you couldn t have had manafort paying that those attention or you wouldn t have been able to steal so much money. that has to influence the jury. that s a scary statement he made. he s gone way beyond what anybody should have expected of a judge. in the meantime, jill, i notice your pin you re wearing, nixon lodge. that was from his first unsuccessful campaign for president. today is the 44th anniversary of his resignation for obstruction of justice among other things, and while it may foretell the future, it certainly inspired my pin today to remember what happens when you obstruct justice. well, let me ask you about that, because i know you must get asked all the time about sort of the way that these two may be similar and the ways that they may be different. what do you tell people? well i act ....
president itself wants to do the interview and it s only his lawyers holding him back. so what is really going on here? does the president want to talk or not? politico suggests the answer is yes. despite the risks. that s because of, quote, trump s belief in his self-created myth, that he can convince anyone of anything if he s simply given the opportunity to get them in a room alone. apparently that includes special counsel bob mueller himself. i want to bring in nbc s peter alexander who s live in berkeley heights, new jersey. peter, if the president really wants to do it, he could just say yes. i mean, his legal take is working for him. so what s going on here? yes, chris, you make a very good point. there would be one easy way for rudy giuliani and, frankly, president trump, to wrap this thing up sooner. giuliani saying he wants it to end within the next three weeks, by september 1st. he doesn t want it to interfere with the november elections. they would sit down with robe ....