Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Nicole Wallace in for brian williams. Day 348 of the Trump Administration and tonight theres breaking news in the russia investigation. The founders of fusion gps, the firm behind that explosive trump russia dossier are speaking out tonight about what they learned about trumps ties to russians. Glen simpson and peter frich wrielting an oped in the New York Times that details their investigation and the process by which the results of that investigation were shared with American Government officials. All of this is information they have testified to before three congressional committees. Simpson and frich confirm in their piece that they hired former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele and write, quote, yes, we hired mr. Steele, a high will he respected russia expert. But we did so without informing him whom we were working for and gave him no specific marching orders beyond this basic question. Why
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 455 of the Trump Administration brings major developments in the russia investigation. Another wild one. A lot of them breaking just tonight over these past few hours. Chiefly we now have the 15 pages of memos that former fbi director james comey drafted about his interactions with president donald trump. Earlier tonight the Justice Department sent those memos to congress, and as things so often do, they ended up minutes later in the hands of the news media. They do confirm that on february 14, the president asked comey this with regard to the investigation of now former National Security adviser mike flynn. I hope you can see your way to letting this go, to letting flynn go. We also learned that on january 28th, remember, fewer than ten days into his presidency, donald trump told comey he had, quote, serious reservations about mike flynns judgment. Thats the National Security adviser in the west wing. And lat
Steele steel imports, tariffs on aluminum imports. President trump under pressure. Now one of his longtime Legal Advisers is apparently warning the president that his boy, Michael Cohen, could turn against him if hes facing serious jail time. I have a great team here. First, lets get you up to speed on what exactly is happening. Weve been getting an inside look into the president s frustration over the raid of Michael Cohens home and office. But now were hearing that some of the lawyers talking to the president are telling him he should be worried cohen, he could flip on him. The wall street journal quotes him who says he told the president cohen cannot be trusted. Goldberg told the president , quote, michael will never stand up for you if hes charged by the government. Alan dershowits who met with the president just last week told politico, quote, theyre going to threaten him with a long prison term and try to turn him into a canary that sings. A lawyer who represents a trump aide sai
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 455 of the Trump Administration brings major developments in the russia investigation. Another wild one. A lot of them breaking just tonight over these past few hours. Chiefly we now have the 15 pages of memos that former fbi director james comey drafted about his interactions with president donald trump. Earlier tonight the Justice Department sent those memos to congress, and as things so often do, they ended up minutes later in the hands of the news media. They do confirm that on february 14, the president asked comey this with regard to the investigation of now former National Security adviser mike flynn. I hope you can see your way to letting this go, to letting flynn go. We also learned that on january 28th, remember, fewer than ten days into his presidency, donald trump told comey he had, quote, serious reservations about mike flynns judgment. Thats the National Security adviser in the west wing. And lat
Of serving in this white house. She is Deputy National security adviser Mira Ricardel. Shes out. Her forced departure coming as the president said to be in a foul mood upset over the midterms, sulking about his reception in europe. One white house official telling cnn, these are not my words, yes, hes pissed at damn near everyone. Tonight, it seems it came. More from our jeff zeleny who joins us now from the white house. So what are you learning, jeff . Reporter anderson, it has been a mystery really for the last 24 hours or so surrounding all the drama here with the Deputy National security adviser whos not well known outside. Inside the white house, she is very well known. Shes been on the job seven months. Shes john bolton the National Security advisers top deputy, but after Melania Trump and the first ladys office fired that shot across the bow of the white house, it was unclear what her future was. Even though the president was saying he was going to remove her. Well, that finally