Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Asking you questions about this criminal matter, you dont have to be sworn under oath. The second that you talk to them and that you lie to them and they can prove that you lied to them, in other words, that you knew what you were telling them was in fact a lie, then they can charge you with that. So thats something thats also been included here in this case. Overall, a 30page indictment, this is a pretty significant step forward in a criminal prosecution. Tom winter, always on top of these developments with the fbi for us. Thanks very much. To help me break down the charges, im joined by liz holtzman, a longtime congresswoman who voted to impeach president nixon. Im also joined by Barbara Mcquade whos also a legal contributor for us an is outside the alexandria courthouse because she has been following very closely the Paul Manafort trial which we are going to get to here in a few minutes. So, liz, i want to star
the most common side effect is nausea. quit smoking slow turkey. talk to your doctor about chantix. new york congressman chris collins is pleading not guilty. he said he made phone calls about a stock in question at a white house congressional picnic in the summer of 2017. in fact, we found video of him at that picnic where he was on the phone. politico also reported collins was overheard in the capitol talking loudly into the found off the house floor bragging about how many millionaires he made in buffalo. collins was the first congressman in congress to support trump s bid. when he was charged he took a page from president trump s playbook and called the
candidate. he was the first one in congress to support trump. a 12-foot alligator proving to be no match for this grandmother from texas, she says she has been hunting the 583-pound monster for three years because she suspects it ate one of her miniature horses. she managed to kill the alligator with a single shot. one shot in the head and he just went under. typically they will do what they call a death roll and rollover and over and over, and this one didn t. because she shot it with one shot. there was no death roll there. she only had 20 days to get the job done, and her message for anybody that doubted her was don t mess with nana. we only became alerted to this story because john avalon who reads headlines like this noticed the headline in the texas news, and texas grandma
citing a person familiar with the response, the new york times reports mr. trump s lawyers did not wanting the president answering questions about whether he obstructed justice. the response indicated how far apart the two sides remain. with me now from the white house is nbc news kristen welker. kristen, i know you ve spoken to rudy giuliani, the president s attorney, about this. do we have any details on what the latest back-and-forth is? he s being incredibly tight-lipped, kasie, but i can tell you this is a counterproposal so it is a proposal to narrow the terms of the interview. we also know that robert mueller in his previous proposal said, look, some of the q & as can be in writing. that s what the president s team wanted. they want this entire interview to be in writing, by the way. they re concerned about him being subjected to follow-up questions and potentially getting tripped up either because he doesn t remember or he misstates something. they don t, we know this based
so i findi find it fascinati well o connor did in franklin. he outperformed obama and clinton by 5 points there. in delaware county, balderson underperformed romney and mccain by 7 and 5 points. if you had told me that beforehand and said that he would even be in the race or let alone be winning it, i would have told you you d be crazy. so i think it s a little disheartening for democrats how well o connor did in his base and didn t win. right. jeremy peters, how much of this do you think is due to the strategy that cory bliss and his congressional leadership fund were running anti-immigration ads basically aimed at driving out base turnout. it seems that work. that worked, trump s visit probably helped. the fact that chris matthews got involved and had danny o connor flip-flopping or seeming to hedge on i m serious, people told me that that was republicans felt like that was a make-or-break moment for them.