Escaped. Schools shut down, residents on edge after the prisoners found a way to get out through the ceiling. How could this happen . All that plus team turmoil. Olympic Gymnastics Teammates battle each other online after gabbi douglas criticizes aly raisman for a post with her clothing choices. Why your thanksgiving shopping bill could be a lot lower this year. Serena williams ties the knot. We have all the behind the scene detail. Today. Saturday, november 18th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with sheinelle jones, craig melvin and dylan dreyer. Live from studio 1a. Thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. Craig melvin here. So is dylan drier. Youre growing a little chin strap. No shave november. Im taking it seriously. A big congrats to serena and her new husband. He co founded reddit. Now he is mr. Serena williams. They just had a baby girl. More of those coming up in a bit. A busy morning ahead. Lets start with the breaking news overnight. President trump an
President trump and the russia investigation. The commander in chief spending the weekend with eyes fixed on the russia probe after his former National Security advisor Michael Flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi. Flynn is now cooperating with special counsel muellers investigation leading the president to seemingly rewrite the narrative of why flynn was fired in the first place. The president tweeted, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vicepresident and the fbi. He has pled guilty to those lies. Its a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide. Well, that seems to suggest the president knew flynn lied to the fbi when he asked then fbi director james comey to drop the flynn investigation. For more we go to nbcs tracie potts in washington. Tracie, good morning. Reporter hi there, frances, good morning. The president s personal lawyer john dowd says he wrote that tweet but doesnt have an email or any evidence to prove it becau
Investigation is still front and center. The white house is now in damage control after a weekend that saw the president weighing in on fridays news that former National Security advisor Michael Flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi. At one moment mr. Trump insisted hes not worried about what flynn might tell investigators. Well, and another tweeting about the reason he fired flynn. He knew flynn lied when he asked director james comey to drop the russia probe. Now they are cleaning it up saying the president wasnt the one who tweeted after all. Reporter the president s outside counsel saying he tweeted this tweet to an aide saturday. I had to fire general flynn because he lied to the fbi and the vicepresident. The president knew his former National Security advisor Michael Flynn lied to the fbi and then asked fbi director james comey to go easy on flynn. Dowd telling nbc news hes responsible and that the president did not know flynn had lied to the fbi when he fired him. Dowd also add
Good morning. Im francis rivera. Michael flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi. Flynn is cooperating with muellers investigation leading the president to rewrite the narrative of why flynn was fired in the first place. The president tweet the i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the fbi. He has pled guilty to the lies. There was nothing to hide. The president knew flynn lied to the fbi web he asked james comey to drop the flynn investigation. For more we go to tracie potts in washington. Good morning. The president s personal lawyer john dowd says that he wrote that tweet but doesnt have an email or any evidence to prove it because he dictated the tweet to the white house social director, and thats how it ended up coming out. Meantime the president tweeting over the weekend a number of things in defense on the russia investigation, he never asked james comey to stop investigating mike flynn, the National Security adviser. The president saying he never a