Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. A source says Michael Cohen is prepared to tell Robert Mueller that donald trump knew about that meeting before it happened. He did not participate in any meeting about the russia transaction. The president . The president did not. Im happy to tell him, he wasnt there. He wasnt at the meeting. The meeting with the russians. How can you be sure that the president didnt know beforehand . Youre saying its just a he said, he said. Nobody can be sure of anything. Earlier this evening, a long time former Trump Organization employee said this about the possibility of such a meeting occurring without trumps knowledge. Based on my experience working with trump and everybody that worked for trump, something major, something newsworthy, something press worthy, would always go before trump. Always. I think that he would have told donald about the meeting and then if it didnt amount to anything, it would have
The 11th moThe 11th Hour gets on a monday night. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 557 of the Trump Administration, 99 days now until the mid term elections. And this might go down as the day we witnessed a change resulting in the new defense strategy. On the part of the trump team. Its about something Rudolph Giuliani has started to say, and tonight, mark at the New York Times has put it this way. In the days after the 2016 president ial election, Donald Trumps advisers had an unequivocal message about contacts between russians and members of the campaign team. There were none. In the ensuing months as numerous such communications were revealed the message changed. There was no collusion with russias effort to disrupt the election. On monday President Trumps
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Which was four of the six. That meeting never ever took place. It didnt happen. Its a figment of his imagin
montana is trump country. [cheers and applause] not chuck schumer nancy pelosi country. truth of the matter is there s a lot of thing on the ballot. affordable health care is on the ballot. people with preexisting conditions coming year on the ballot. reporter: president trump s approval rating the state of montana is about 50%, the right now according to her latest fox news power ranking, this is the state in the senate election winning towards the democrat, senator jon tester. eric: that s a great location to do some reporting out of washington for a while. absolutely. no complaints. let s go to the windy city were peter roskam is defending his seat again because of race to represent illinois sixth district. mr. sean astin wasn t available to join us this weekend but
that s the kind of leader i will be in congress. shannon: there s a lot of disagreement in the democratic party about how far left various candidates are willing to go i want to review something from democrat nominee in illinois sixth district, sean kasten. trump and usama bin laden have a tremendous amount in common because they both figure out how to use the bully pulpit to activate marginalized young men. you are part of a team that advised going after bin laden years and years ago, what do you make is it appropriate to you to have equivocation between our current president and usama bin laden? i do not, i was one of the first in the white house when he was coming up to say let s get this guy. make sure we get him as a threat and keep this country safe. i brought the catholics and protestants together to try to bring warring parties together and that s the kind of member of congress i ll be to make sure we
the obvious. we still have 99 days to go. we re not sure what s going to happen. we journalists tend to find odd constructs, make dubious distinctions when reality is can be pretty obvious it s going to be a matter of how popular the president is and what kind of campaigns are being run. the illinois sixth district is the sort of district that a lot of us think is going to be key, even though a colleague of jeremy s made a case today that there s a different sort of district, namely a more working class, rural district that trump won rather than well educated districts like the sixth. peter is running against a totally novice democrat, and as hard as that novice democrat, a former clean air, clean energy executive, is running against trump, peter is running away from trump. and it, to me, is inconceivable