Lockstep, all major markets are down. But the dow and s p 500 are down 6 10 of a percent. The nasdaq tech stocks which populate the nasdaq are down a lot more. The nasdaq is down 1. 4 . That wraps up this hour for me. Ill see you tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. Eastern with stephanie ruhle, then 3 00 p. M. Thanks for watching. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace starts now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. In a single round of media appearances Rudy Giuliani today torched two years of Donald Trumps collusion denials. Muddying the waters to a near unrecognizable condition as he spirals deeper into incoherent scenarios about what the president did and didnt know about the trump tower meeting. That meeting is now at the heart of the Obstruction Of Justice investigation and is perhaps also being investigated as part of a conspiracy to coordinate with a known american adversary. Here are two of the president s closest allies and advisors debuting the new line on russian
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the rsume seems sparkling, from the hague coming back to the united states. prosecuted both republicans and democrats. criticism from by fbi officials saying too slow in past cases. i think he ll move quickly. the fear here is another mueller investigation is, went very slowly. to decision made did trump obstruct the investigation of him. i don t see that happening primarily because donald trump is a private citizen. there s no legal debate, can you indict a sitting president or not. i think it s the mar-a-lago case that s the key decision here. i know from justice department sources looking for, a., evidence trump had somehow shown the documents to people, a worst-case scenario and know confirmation any russian or chinese asset had been in
advocating more aggressively for vladamir putin. we know his body of statements about how we re killers, too. there s nothing extraordinary about putin killing this event. why isn t there an outcry? why is joe walsh the only republican running against him. why is there an american asset of vladamir putin running the country? it really is amazing because joe walsh, who s i don t think he s the most shrewd campaigner to enter a primary against a sitting president. but he talks about how the day in helsinki turned everything for him. that was an incredibly dark day for this country and many americans, who came up with, i ve got my shoes on too tight statements but didn t categorically reject the president. they have not since subsequently uttered concerns. we have learned no matter what the conclusion of the mueller
obstruction first. then they will do the russia investigation. it is the russia investigation, and the outreach to the trump campaign. the trump campaign was willing to take it. they never called the fbi. they covered up what they do. it s very difficult to get that. my hunch is what they need to do, for example, on the obstruction is to focus on those sectionings on what he said the president obstructed justice basically. he used prosecutorial speak to say it. focus on the firing of mcgahn. having mcgahn fire mueller, having mcgahn lie and those types of things. tease out the details. to try to put life into the story. it is a difficult proposition to get it done. potentially two of the biggest questions that are outside around the mueller investigation is, one, why
it. laura: and carter page got wrapped up in this. hundreds of thousands of legal bills. roger stone could go away for the rest of his life. obviously, manafort and everything he went through. most of this stuff has nothing to do with what the underlying accusation was. byron, you wrote a fantastic piece i don t know how you dash it off so fast tonight about the things we need to learn from what happened, who got things really badly wrong, why it s important to note that. it s important to say we don t know what s in the report itself. but there are a lot of things we actually do know now and they affect some of the things that we heard about most in the last two years. the first thing that is not in the mueller investigation is, he did not charge anyone in the trump campaign or associates with conspireing with russia to fix the 2016 election. did not happen, no charges about that. he didn t indict some of the people who have been wildly