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Interviews with political figures and news updates. they re speaking from the same playbook. but this is a tough line to walk, andrea. ken dilanian, you had dan coats, head of national intelligence, questioned about the dissonance there. let s watch. in the run-up to the helsinki summit, u.s. officials, ambassadors to nato, ambassadors to russia, said that the president would raise the issue of malign activity with the president. i m not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened at helsinki. ken, it does seem that dan coats and the rest of the team have still not been briefed on what happened during that private one on one. and that s remarkable, andrea. dan coats is the nation s top intelligence official. he needs to know these things, he needs to understand where the russians are coming from, and what potential negotiations took place between the president and the russian leader. this news conference was such a fascinating mixture of cyni ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. the issue of adoption, did that come up? like i said, that was the primary thing we had spoken about in the meeting. that s not the premise that got them in the room. then it was essentially a bait and switch to talk about that 6789 everybody has basically said that in. the already. there is this another intere interesting thing over the weekend. hope hicks boarded air force one and flew to the president s rally in ohio and back. you may recall, hope hicks resigned from the white house one day before a congressional committee that she had told white lies on behalf of donald trump. she is now living here in manhattan and she too has come under scrutiny for crafting that self-inflictse ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. language, demeanor, facial ex-expressie expre expresses, anything like that? paul manafort was staring bullets at rick gates, his former protegee. who worked for him for ten years. started for him as an intern. and gates was not looking at manafort. gates does not look in manafort s direction, even though they re about ten feet apart. he s talking to the jury. manafort is glaring at him. manafort has been an active participant in his defense. he s taking notes. he s talking to his lawyers. holding a pen. but gates is not engaging with his former mentor, ilanian outs courthouse. we ll check in with you throughout the afternoon. let s bring in jill winebanks. mimi roker is with us, former assistant u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. and michael steele, former rnc chairman. all of them msnbc contributors and analy ....
Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U.S. and around the globe. lenders considered for a job in the white house. we ll head to the courthouse in a few minutes for more on this developing story, what it means for the president and the mueller probe. as big as that legal story is for the presidency tonight, we ll begin with a political development that might be bigger for him and his party because it is happening at the ballot box. you are looking live at people voting in ohio s 12 special elections where tonight s results could show a looming disaster for republicans in november. recent polls show this race between two generic candidates here, no real superstar, it s a coin flip right now. folks, in a district like ohio 12 which really is a district that straddles the suburbs and the exurbs out there outside of columbus, in play for a democrat like danny o connor, the democrats are looking at a battleground approaching 80-some seats. if republican troy balderson can ....
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. legal strategy. this is a political strategy. it seems to me it s designed not to help the president when it comes to his legal troubles with robert mueller. in fact, it s likely to make them worse. it s designed to set a different kind of landscape for anything that mr. mueller finds out to be received, to convince at least his own supporters that nothing it wasn t illegal or anybody does that, and by the way, i didn t know anything about it. these are this is an attempt to set a context where people won t take seriously or at least won t be convinced that if there are serious if there s a serious report from robert mueller, which is what we expect, they should take it with a grain of salt. we know from polling that president trump s core supporters are persuaded by this, that they re inclined to believe this is a witch hunt. and that he s being treated unfairly. whatever th ....