Donald trump on day 440. Learning that enacting policy as president is a lot harder than delivering an applause line on the stump. The 11th hour on a wednesday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Nicole Wallace in for brian tonight. Its day 440 of the Trump Administration. The president is spending tonight in friendly territory with one of his key allies on capitol hill, House Majority leader kevin mccarthy. They attended a dinner with Trump Supporters hosted by the protrump super pac America First action. The president made no public appearances today and the bombshell Washington Post report confirming that he has been told that hes a subject of Robert Muellers investigation may have something to do with that. That report said the special prosecutor did not consider the president a criminal target at this point, but that does not mean that his status as a subject is permanent or that its reason for relief. Today the white house
Presumably with the president of the United States. But then that storyy changed. Nbcs new account said it simply recorded the numbers he dialed and not the call content that he made and that is where we are as of right now, 8 00 p. M. Eastern time. One thing we know for sure is that nbc screwed up, but thats pretty much allha we can be certain of. If nbcs first story was wrong, why do we assume the second was right . We dont know the truth and we have no way of knowing. In the absence of honesty from our government, we are totally dependent upon leaks for our news and many of those are dishonest. Michael cohen by the way stillly doesnt know why his office was rated why his phones and emails were reported to the government. No one in the government isic required to tell him nor will they tell him. Imagine if that happened to you, one day men arrived at your home and seized your computers and files at gunpoint, and never explained why they were doing it, and the next thing you knew, the
On stage. 141 victims of larry nassar unite to send the times up message to the world. What an emotional evening on stage. We will show the highlights. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im alison kosik. Thursday, july 19th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. We start with reporting from the New York Times. We learn that two weeks before the inauguration, President Trump was shown highly classified intelligence that Vladimir Putin ordered Cyber Attacks in efforts to sway the 2016 election. The report says evidence included texts and emails from Russian Military officers and information gleaned from the top secret source close to Vladimir Putin. James clapper, the former director of national intelligence, was at the meeting and confirmed that to cnn last night. This is his refusal to accept information that he doesnt want to hear. Clapper says his biggest fear in the wake of President Trumps summit performance is it essentially allows putin to do just about anything he wants. Af
Hear what the americans have to say. Your truth does matter. You matter and you are not alone. Some really powerful moments on stage. 141 victims of larry nassar unite to send the times up message to the world. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im alison kosik. Good to see you. Im dave briggs. Thursday, july 19th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. We start with reporting from the New York Times. We learn that two weeks before the inauguration, President Trump was shown highly classified intelligence that Vladimir Putin ordered Cyber Attacks in efforts to sway the 2016 election. The report says evidence included texts and emails from Russian Military officers and information gleaned from the top secret source close to Vladimir Putin. James clapper, the former director of national intelligence, was at the meeting and confirmed that to cnn last night. This is his refusal to accept information that he doesnt want to hear. Clapper says his biggest fear in the wake of President Trumps summit perfo
Hack Democratic Party email accounts. Now, lets assume that all of these deeply worried people are sincere, that they really care about the integrity of our democracy. Then why has almost nobody said anything about the tech monop y monopolies that dominate the exchange of information in this country . If a few dozen facebook ads are enough to subvert an election shouldnt we be worried about facebook itself which controls literally bill lons of ads . A couple of times on this show social scientist Robert Epstein has pointed out that google alone could determine the outcome of almost any American Election just by altering its search supgts. Wed never know what happened. Oh, say tech defenders dont worry, these are businesses, they exist to make money not push plirt cal agendas. Turns out thats not true and woe can prove it. An email obtained excusively by this show revealed that a senior google employee deployed the Company Resources to increase voter turnout in ways she believed would h