Obamas fight on the campaign. And Sarah Huckabee sanders only an hour ago briefing for the First Time Since monday. The president knows that there was no collusion in the campaign. And he has been quite clear about this. Its gone on for over a year. They have found no evidence of collusion, and still strongly believe that it is a witchhunt. So this you have trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani marking this anniversary with yet another round of media tours, this time the blitz is centering on this question. Can special Counsel Robert Mueller actually indict a sitting president . Well, according to giuliani, muellers own team told him the answer is no. Lets start this hour at white house with msnbc hans nichols. There is a lot of Foreign Policy The Middle East news we will get to in a little bit about what the president had to say today. But here we go again. You have those major events, a north korea summit, china, all the things the president talked
about today. And yet hes tweeting, his lawyer,
don t hold back. .ask your dermatologist if cosentyx can help you find clear skin that lasts. breaking news on the hill. what you are watching is the senate voting. we expect, to confirm gina haspel to lead the central intelligence agency. with me is garrett haake, kennedy lanian. and as we have said often, garrett, this is historic. she will be the first woman the lead the agency. this is historic. gina haspel will become the first female cia director. having grown up at the cia. spending her entire career there. she was the inside pick for this job and made it flew what a lot of people thought was going to be a much more contention confirmation process. they are reading through the last round on names on the floor
every man test is they had one position, the position is different now, why did it change? when did it change? those are the questions. and they raise certainly, they raise questions about the president s willingness to be up front about this along the way, when all this money was paid in 2017. we are now halfway through 2018. kellio connell, ben pop kin. david parent hold. we have new leely released testimony on the 2016 meeting at trump tower. joining me, kennedy lanian. a lot of information to digest here. they released the transcripts because they feel they are exculpatory, that they don t show a collusion with the russians. what they show is that the white house explanation for this meeting that it was about russian adoptions was deeply misleading. they underscore that.
president-elect. i think there is a spot for everybody. of course he needs to put his own signature on the things that are important to him. now were the spots for sale. mueller s team interviewed bearic and we know russian oligarchs attended the inauguration. vekselberg, and the female lawyer who was at the meeting. it continues. take vekselberg s cousin implicated in the cohen money plot. he was at the inauguration and added a quarter of a million in donations to the committee. i m joined by a federal prosecutor who worked with bob mueller at the d.o.j. bob lewis and kennedy lanian. thanks to both of you for being here. ken at a certain point it seems like a lot of people just happened to be at that inauguration. for sure, ari. one thing we know about the
i can. hackers in laltin america could be out to frame russia. the complete interview with vladimir putin will air sunday night on the broadcast with the same name on nbc. let s bring in our srting panel. intelligence and national security rter end kennedy lanian is with us. white house reporter for politico matt news balm is with us in new york. and washington clmist in for the boston globe, and this is germa germane, a proud daughter of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. we ll got moore on pittsburgh later on. welcome to you all. ken, i m going to begin with you on the importance this associated press reporting. it mentioned the attorney general sessions, the deputy a.g. rosenstein. but more importantly, it mentions that mutualer is now, i guess, taking over the manafort investigation. does that become overarching? does he does he have the ability to say share with me what you have learned. you can shut your effort down,