Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. And Senior Reporter for the Washington Post,er rinne blake and anna palmer. Carol, let me go to you. You are writing now about how the president sees this interview with Robert Mueller, how his legal team sees the interview. Heres the thing, Rudy Giuliani is talking and talking and talking about this. You know whos not . Roberts mueller. Thats absolutely true, hallie. Robert mueller has been silent and the president s lawyers have been la quashs. But one thing has not changed and thats the essence of donald tru trump, which is he believes hes his best lawyer and own best pr guy and own best thinker and diplomat and in this instance, he does believe and has as we were reported back in the spring, has always believed that if he could just sit down with these people, he could straighten this all out and explain no collusion, this is a hoax. Now, his lawyers also have changed slightly in the sense that some put their
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Were not doing enough. Look at these five people. Heres the thing, john. There is a whole Cottage Industry of distraction folks. This is a distraction from x or distraction from mueller. Im not sure that was the case because there are a lot of fires happening now around this administration. The Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort, Special Counsel, Jeff Sessions fire series is one of them. There is also the election en r interference fire, big deal. I had conversations with folks on the other side of folks on capitol hill, both parties. One consistent theme i heard in relation to election interference, Leadership Starts at the top. I asked point blank, who do you talk to in the white house, who do you talk to in the administration . Nobody, we dont know who the point person is, we dont know what their strategy is. This is somebody who is at a high level over there. This seemed to be a way of the whit
election. tom steyer come back and talk to us about it, okay? i will hallie, thank you very much. thank you, appreciate it from new orleans. the tennis court and $15,000 os strich jacket, how prosecutors wants to talk about a bigger issue, how he paid for it all and might be part af bigger crackdown. is it possible paul manafort might actually help drain the swamp?
along seemingly at warp speed down in alexandria, virginia. today on day three of the trial, we got three appropriately big developments. first, after the prosecution yesterday cast doubt on the question whether they were going to put rick gates on the witness stand. they clarified today that in fact they will have him on that very stand. second, the judge in the case says he is not likely to allow photographs of manafort s flashy suits including that one made of os strich, because they could, quote, besmirch the defendant. the bookkeeper said he didn t know about any of his foreign bank accounts, but she did provide an extraordinary picture of the financial problems manafort was having before he joined the trump campaign. nbc s ken dilanian has been following the trial up close and personal and joins us now. also joining this table eddy, man of the glod squad, msnbc contributor, ken. i ask you, i tease this thing