Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Already several witnesses in on just day two. All of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a wednesday night. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters in new york. This was one more in a string of extraordinary days in our country. Because this was what we woke up to from the president of the United States. Quote, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stain our country even further. Perhaps just as extraordinary, Nothing Happened after that. It was wednesday in america and tonight Robert Mueller and his team remain on the job. The negotiations for a possible sitdown interview between Robert Mueller and President Trump. We report on the latest offer
from the Special Counsel Writing that mueller, quote, indicated this week that hes willing to reduce the number of questions his investigation asks. According to two people briefed on the n
disconnect between the president and his administration, he admitted that he is still in the dark about the summit. i m not in a position to understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. john bolten stepping in, intesting that the attack on the 2016 election was discussed. president putin said the first issue that president trump raised was election meddling. president trump falsely claiming in a rally last night that putin didn t want him to win. i ll tell you what, russia is very unhappy that trump one, that i can tell you. despite president putin saying the exact opposite three weeks ago. president putin, did you want president trump to win the election? yes, i did. yes, i did. now the white house insists that briefing on election social security was the president s
moment there was a particularly activist michael could he heen raced and he had already been intesting the water and the rhetoric. he had been told this investigation would be done by 2018 with his lawyers. he continues to see voompt from people in his administration and campaign. that was the moment he said, forget this. i m going on full attack mode. rudy giuliani was brought in to be the public attack dog of the client. it is a major share we were when the latest advice. you wrote about the latest stage and looked at it in another way, it looks like mueller is trying to say
outlet rather than being solely dependent on russia, middle he will reach out to kim and that s a door to talk to the u.s. again, all with the spirit of ridiculous speculation. melissa: it is cable news. at the same time i m just kidding. you have kim jong un removing three top officials. that s an intesting and significant sign, no? i think of the two stories, that s the far more important one. i think korea watchers have so far interpreted this as meaning of these three generals, the top three military positions in north korea reportedly had pr concern about moving forward with the united states and kim said you re either with me or against me. next three up. but this is early days. and this is based on one news report that we ve had some u.s. commentary on but i think we want to give this a little bit to sit.
that kind of anger is intesting. it s sad. frankly, it s unacceptable in light of everything that happened. i will say i truly do believe there is an effort within fox to change. there is a knowledge things need to change, culture needs to change with the murdoch boys coming in and taking things in a different direction and they understand where their audience is going, getting older and older. young people have netflix and hulu and every other kind of media screaming device in their hand, how do we engage those younger viewers. i think they understand that demographic is shifting. it s a transition phase and i think everyone is working to that so they don t get through this again. bob becker was fired for the second time. he said i made an audience for people 55 to dead, white men