Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Chairman, Paul Manafort. He has pleaded not guilty, but heres why this really matters. The first trial to come out of the Mueller Investigation will give us the most detailed snapshot yet of what cards Robert Mueller really has. And as soon as this week, the president s lawyer says he could decide whether to sit for an interview with the mueller team, although weve heard that one before. Right now the president s not happy with mueller. Donald trump firing off a whole bunch of tweets, trashing the investigation, offering up new details, too about his previous claims of mueller conflicts of interest, claims the Justice Department has shot down. Lets go to the white house with nbcs kristen welker, here to get us started. Rudy guiliani had more to say about all of this, just a couple of hours ago, including what seemed to be a shifting of the goalpost, no . Reporter it was striking, hallie, to hear Rudy Guiliani, yes
kushner. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who oversees this investigation said this in front of lawmakers just recently. mr. chairman, if there were any conflicts of interest brought to our attention, i would discuss it with mr. mueller and then there could be review within the department, if there were credible allegation of a conflict of interest. and so i m not aware of any disqualifying conflict of interest. yeah, i certainly haven t seen any disqualifying conflicts of interest here. and i think the thing to keep in mind is that the president when he sends out these tweets, this is a shotgun approach. he is saying here s a whole bunch of things that in his opinion should disqualify mueller. he s not playing to a district judge to try to disqualify mueller. he is playing to the court of public opinion. i think from the president s mind, if he just starts making these attacks on bob mueller, he s got this, he s got this, he s got the golf club, the job, his law firm. some r