Reporter we do know that something that President Trump had been considering, what were being told by Senior Administration officials the Deputy Attorney general was confirmed two weeks ago, he had time to look over james comeys turn your, and we have seen the letters which are essentially an indictment of the handling of Hillary Clintons emails. They said they no longer had faith in comeys ability to lead the department, they took this recommendation and he drafted this letter. But theres questions about the timing of this, why this is all happening now, its information that President Trump has celebrated in the past, but its serge not new information. The letter that the president sent to former fbi director comby. Can you explain what it cede said . Reporter i want to read you the portion that i think is
particularly confusing in President Trumps letter to comey, in this hes dismissing him. He said that while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i a
Washington. Im elizabeth prann. Leland im trying to figure out a saturday that wasnt busy in recent memory. Nice to be with you. Im leland vittert. Its the weekend, but President Trump is getting ready for the election mode. We have endorsements for republicans ahead of primary elections this year and new details for the president s plan for hitting the Campaign Trail for some g. O. P. Candidates in vulnerable districts around the country. Ellison barber travelling with the president up in new jersey at his golf club. Hi, ellison. Hey, leland, President Trump has spent a lot of time on the road of late. Hes set to head to tampa on tuesday for a Campaign Rally there. Traditionally in election mid term years, the party, no matter who it is, whoever is in the oval office, their party tends to lose seats, but President Trump says he is confident that this year republicans can buck that trend. I am going to work very hard. Ill go six or seven days a week
when were 60 days out and i will be
A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. Cohen, the manafort ruling, and the president s reaction. A lot happening tonight. Democrats pushing talk of impeachment, but President Trump is fighting back. Tweeting that the only thing he did wrong was when an election that Hillary Clinton was supposed to emerge victorious i in. In an exclusive interview with fox friends ainsley earhardt, the President Lashing out at michael cohen. The president had said publicly paid Stormy Daniels because he wanted to go straight it was false in the waning days of the campaign and the president is getting backup from liberal law professor Alan Dershowitz who told bret baier that the pundits claiming the president is an unindicted coconspirator are wrong as a matter of basic criminal law. It would not be a crime for the president to contribute money to his own campaign in the form of money to Stormy Daniels or anyone else. Even as democrats about their attacks on the presiden
property or documents that includes presidential records and potential gifts. i recommend you reading through our entire story thoroughly. we have really juicy details from my colleagues ashley parker and two other colleagues and i what trump maybe took to mar-a-lago that he shouldn t have. you mean like extra not extra napkins from the white house that ended up in his moving van. this was significant. these were documents. we have known for years trump has mishandled records. that is not new. walk us through the pattern, what it is we know he has done in the past and how it might apply to this story. what is fascinating about this is what you said, which is that we know, we ve known for a while that former president trump was someone who didn t want to use computers, who didn t want to have the white house visitor logs public, who didn t want to have a lot of his communications be written down on paper. if you listen to the people closest to former president trump, they in some
map that we showed was also among the material in violation of presidential records act. you may remember when trump presented this weather map to reporters in the oval office in 2019 after he had drawn on it to match a wrong prediction he made on twitter about the storm s path. these are two of the things you might know about. the fact is there are probably more records there that were never handed over. in a statement released to nbc news a spokesperson for the national archives says the agency was told by trump aides they re still searching for more records that belong to the government. good lord. and records, i guess, willie, he hasn t torn to shred yet. he appeared to get up from meetings and just start tearing stuff up. people would go behind him and try to tape it together. the old dog ate the homework excuse, he thought he was going to use that one. obviously he knew he was breaking the law because, you