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it took place. did you know at the time about that meet something. no, i didn t know anything about it. it must have been a very important meeting, because i never even heard that. no one told you a word, nothing? i know we talked about this on the plane a bit. no, nobody told me. sounded like a very unimportant meeting. deep cuts there from haberman and schmidt. that s not what michael cohen claims, alleging that he and several others were present when then-candidate donald trump gave his nod of approval for the meeting to move forward. that contradicts repeated denials from donald trump jr. and others in donald trump s orbit. did you tell your father anything about this? no. it was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. i wouldn t have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. the president said he became aware of it very recently, right before this came out, and that s when he was notified. joining me now is jeff bennett, msnbc s w ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. a source says michael cohen is prepared to tell robert mueller that donald trump knew about that meeting before it happened. he did not participate in any meeting about the russia transaction. the president? the president did not. i m happy to tell him, he wasn t there. he wasn t at the meeting. the meeting with the russians. how can you be sure that the president didn t know beforehand? you re saying it s just a he said, he said. nobody can be sure of anything. earlier this evening, a long time former trump organization employee said this about the possibility of such a meeting occurring without trump s knowledge. based on my experience working with trump and everybody that worked for trump, something major, something newsworthy, something press worthy, would always go before trump. always. i think that he would have told donald about the meeting and then if it didn t am ....
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. guiliani described the supposed meeting, then said it never happened. and he once again reiterated the president knew nothing about the meeting in advance. tonight, rudy guiliani seems to be muddying the waters about what meetings may have taken place before the now controversial june 2016 sit down between donald trump jr. and the russians. guiliani brought up for the first time another meeting without the president three days before the russians met at trump tower. guiliani claims reporters have been asking questions about its occurrence, and guiliani is trying to make clear it did not happen. there wasn t another meeting, that has been leaked, but hasn t been public yet. that was a meeting, alleged meeting three days before. he says there was a meeting with donald jr., with jared kushner, with paul manafort, with gates, and possibly two others in which they out of the presence of the president discussed t ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories. after his ukraine work dried up. and that is important because that s when he went to one of trump s closest friends and said i really need to get to trump. and then offered to work for trump for free. how and yes became the campaign chair is still a weird so far unexplained thing. today in court prosecutors began laying out the evidence for the dire straits manafort was in when he joined one trump s campaign for free. that s something to keep an eye on as the trial goes forward. joining me, senior white house political reporter, a close observer of the manafort case cynic it began. he was in the courtroom today. and i get to announce that as of today, he is an msnbc contributor. i ve seen some of the early reporting that there were audible gasps. take us through some of the more audible moments. well, this reference as having embezzled from manafort was something that grabbed my was there a sense in the ....
good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 557 of the trump administration, 99 days now until the mid term elections. and this might go down as the day we witnessed a change resulting in the new defense strategy. it is about something rudy giuliani has started to say. in the days after the presidential election donald trump s advisers had a message about contacts between russians and members of the campaign team. in the ensuing months as numerous such communications were revealed the message changed. there was no collusion with russia s effort to disrupt the election. on monday president trump s lawyer rudy giuliani presented a third line of defense, even if mr. trump did collude with the russians he committed no crime. my client didn t do it. even if he did it it is not a crime. hacking is the crime. the president didn t hack. he didn t pay for the hacking he said on cnn. the article goes on. it is just a word choice, said a criminal law professor at ge ....