Unwanted, the poorly bred, those yearning to be free, and we will do whatever the hell we can to make it if were given a chance. It is the exception among us who doesnt have that in their blood. Remember who we are because who we are is the key to what we are and why this country has always been great. Thats our closing argument. Thank you for getting after it with us tonight here. Ill see you tomorrow night. D lemon picks it up from here. Its a great closing argument. Number one, lebron james talked to me about the kids being separated at the border. Again, hes saying thats not who we are. Number two, when you said that and talked about summer camp, you reminded me. I saw your wife this weekend. Didnt you pick up one of your kids from summer camp . She was in chicago, and she won best actor in her level of character she had. You know whats sad . I asked a guest a while back, do you think that its possible that some of these kids will never be reunited with their parents . The guest sa
A recap of the days news. The idea that somehow this is floating out in the ether somewhere in orbit far away from the central focus of this investigation is just not true. Those lines of investigation are open. And this is a man who has shown himself willing to do some fairly dodgy work for people supported by the kremlin abroad in the ukraine. And thats one reason why hes standing in court today. And this is just the beginning and again, one of two trials. The first of two trials for Paul Manafort this summer. So this is and the first one as far as the russia investigation. Listen, theres they have to go a long way, as you said. Theres a long way to go, and april, the judges name is ts ellis. He banned any mention of President Trump, russia or collusion from the courtroom. I mean, that may be, but the trial is no doubt weighing on this white house. It is definitely weighing on this white house, don. From my sources, theyre saying
the white house is very concerned. They are trying to
recollection or even recordings of calls between roger stone and the president discussing e-mails, all of these pieces come into sharper focus now that mueller has his hands on trump s written responses. mike schmidt, take us through what you and your colleagues have reported last night about the president s flow of information from manafort s lawyers, even after manafort had agreed to cooperate and i guess a nonlawyer would assume that meant be helpful to the mueller probe. that wasn t the case. yeah, so there was a pipeline from kevin downing, manafort s lawyer, to rudy giuliani. and this really helped give the president s legal team insight into what was going on. and this also helped certainly led to the president becoming agitated. the president knew that the prosecutors were really hammering on manafort. and specifically on the question of the trump tower meeting. what did they they were going to manafort and saying, what did the president know about this? did he know about
lawyer told him that prosecutors hammered away at whether the president knew about the june 2016 trump tower meeting where russians promised to deliver damaging information on hillary clinton to his eldest son, donald trump jr. the president has long denied knowing about the meeting in advance. he wants manafort to incriminate trump, mr. giuliani declared of mr. mueller. here to take us through this reporting, one of the reporters who broke that story and some of our favorite reporters and friends. mick schmidt from the new york times, from the washington post, aaron blake, former u.s. attorney joyce vance is here. and at the table, jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the ap. let s first, though, head over to nbc s kristen welker who has breaking news about donald trump s written answers to robert mueller. kristen welker? hi there. according to two sources who i just spoke with, president trump as a part of his written answers to special counsel robert mueller told mueller
he s viewing them as take us through where the pardon responsibility lies. i m old enough to remember when that process was run at the justice department. recommendations went to the white house. has this white house, this president, the people around him have they changed anything about the pardon process? yeah, it s supposed to be recommendations that come in. there s supposed to be a lot of paperwork. it s a real process. the obama administration used it to pardon a lot of people that were in jail for drug crimes to get them out sooner for what they thought were too long of sentences. but trump has circumvented that. using the pardon, you know, for celebrities earlier this year. and the other thing we continue to forget about or maybe not forget about is that the president s lawyer john dowd had discussions with manafort s and flynn s lawyers last year about a pardon. and this was something that mueller, as part of his obstruction investigation, wants to ask the president abou