Threatening his white house. Trump spoke to Reuters News Agency late today in an interview right there in the oval office. He said hes not concerned about being impeached and he explained why. Its hard to impeach somebody who hasnt done anything wrong and whos created the greatest economy in the history of our country. I think the people would revolt if that happened. Trump also spoke about the revelations about russians and their efforts to work with people in his inner circle. Quoting reuters again, asked about prosecutprosecutors asse that a number of people that had worked for him or had business dealings with russians before and during his 2016 president ial campaign, trump said the stuff youre talking about is peanut stuff. He then brought up his 2016 opponent. I havent heard this, but i can only tell you this, hillary clinton, her husband got money, she got money, she paid money. Why doesnt somebody talk about that . Trump also had a lot to say about his former personal lawyer,
Our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 755 of the Trump Administration and we have breaking news from today in the Mueller Investigation. The president s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, is tonight facing the very serious prospect of living out the rest of his days on earth in federal prison. Things did not go well for his side in court today. Late today a federal judge sided with special counsel muellers office and ruled that manafort lied to prosecutors in violation of the plea deal he struck just last fall. Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that manafort made multiple false statements to the fbi, special counsels office and to the grand jury. This came in a closeddoor hearing a little more than a week after another critical sealed hearing in which muellers team laid out its case against manafort. Prosecutors arguedos that manafort intentionally lied to them about matters central to the investigation, including ae meeting with russian ukrainian associate Konstantin Kili
Humanitarian and medical assistance, new technology, the democrats need to come to the table and start negotiating. Documents provided by this administration to congress, that nbc news has obtained, show that on the southern border six immigrants in a sixmonth time period were encountered by u. S. Officials who were trying to enter the country. On the northern border, the number was higher. Youre not talking about a wall or a barrier with canada. Wa whats the difference . Were now seeing 60,000 people a month attempt to come into our country illegally on the southern border. With regard to terrorists, weve seen more than 4,000 known or suspected terrorists attempt to come into our country through various means. On the southern border let me stop you on that number. It is a misleading claim thats been fact checked, as i believe youre aware, because that number is for all ports of entry. It is from all ports of entry. On the southern border, last year alone, 3,000 special interest aliens
Well, good evening once again from our nbc headquarters in new york. Day 721 of the Trump Administration. Day 20 of this government shutdown. And what happened today certainly got the president s full attention. He was in mcallen, texas, dressed in that black crisis jacket, getting briefed on what his administration insists is a crisis at our southern border and about how a wall or a steel slat barrier could easily put an end to that crisis. And that was the moment during that roundtable presentation th there that the bad news broke back in washington. Michael cohen said yes. Before leaving for federal prison, on the 7th of february, Michael Cohen will be sworn in on Live Television at a public hearing where he will be asked about what he knows, what he saw from his decade long service il inside the insular Business World of donald trump. In describing Michael Cohen and his former role as trumps lawyer, journalists have often reached into the vocabulary of organized crime for compariso
Gotten in trouble for it. Youre one of my best friends. Likewise, mr. Chairman. And i can see and feel your pain. I feel it. And so, i dont think mrs. Tlalib inextendtended to call y that. To my colleague, mr. Meadows, that was not my intention and i do apologize if that is what it sounded like, but i said someone in general. And as Everybody Knows in this chamber im pretty direct. If i want today say that i would have, but thats not what i said and thank you mr. Chairman for allowing me to clarify. Again i said someone and again that was not referring to you at all as a ray scist. I thank the gentlewoman for her comments, for the chairman for working to clear this and that the chairman is intervening. To the gentleman, first of all thank you for allowing us to resolve that. The gentleman that asked a little bit earlier i will withdrawal my request. I need the unanimous consent. I think i need to officially withdrawal my request that it be stricken. Okay, now, i will recognize you for