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Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. already several witnesses in on just day two. all of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a wednesday night. good evening from our nbc news headquarters in new york. this was one more in a string of extraordinary days in our country. because this was what we woke up to from the president of the united states. quote, attorney general jeff sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stain our country even further. perhaps just as extraordinary, nothing happened after that. it was wednesday in america and tonight robert mueller and his team remain on the job. the negotiations for a possible sitdown interview between robert mueller and president trump. we report on the latest offer from the special counsel writing that mueller, quote, indicated this week that he s willing to reduce the number of questions his investigation asks. according to two people ....
doh! spicer. all right, so, the white house used to claim that the president s tweets are not just idle opinionating, they re official statements with the power of the white house behind him. how many times have people working for the president said the president s tweet speaks for itself or words to that effect? except for today s tweet. that apparently doesn t speak for itself. that needs a spokesperson and a tv lawyer speaking for it, sweeping up after it, quietly trying to wipe it off the bottom of their shoes. when the president of the united states says that one of his subordinates should do something and do it now, how is that just one guy s opinion? it all smacks of another effort that was made recently to suggest that the president didn t really say what everyone heard him say. and a key sentence in my remarks, i said the word would instead of wouldn t. the sentence should have been, i don t see any reason why i wouldn t, or why it wouldn t be russia. sort of a ....
Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U.S. and around the globe. Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U.S. and around the globe. or distorted what happened in the election campaign. but what is donald trump s core point that he wants to say even more than no collusion, no collusion, no collusion? it didn t change a vote. so this is a problem. so if they had stepped up their game in 2016 and the obama administration was asleep at the switch, maybe they did change some votes. trump is not stupid well, i won t say stupid or not. trump wants to deny that russia could have had an influence in 2016 and they re saying russia could well have had an influence. i understand that some of us are being too cynical about this briefing, but again without the president on it, how do you take it credibly. if makes a big difference. if it were the president, it would be something else. the white house continues to want to say and they say this repeatedly, this administrat ....
right now. it s not an order, the president s opinion. are president trump s tweets considered official white house statements? the president is the president of the united states, they re considered official statements by the president of the united states. wow. good morning. and welcome to morning joe. i m confused. so confused. what is that line from the office ? universe, you win. it s thursday, august 2nd. and what a way to start the day. what a way. so, is it the official policy of the president or not? i think the most telling thing of the whole story is how much his lawyers freaked out immediately and started calling around immediately. he was just venting. just like a baseball game. when he s actually doing what talking about what would start a constitutional crisis. or obstruction of justice. as brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. talk about fake news. you talk about deep state conspiracies. you ....
The latest political developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. can i ask you, how could he feel as though he has nothing to do with paul manafort? a man he s known for 30 years, has been in business with 30 years, political consultant chairman of his campaign, lived in trump tower, how can he feel that way? he feels the charges under review right now in this case have nothing to do with the trump campaign of 2016, with the element of collusion. he believes he is innocent, trump does. and he thinks that this is that mueller is going after manafort so aggressively, specifically to try to embarrass the president, to try to take him down, to try to harm his presidency and that the media is complicit, that we re going along with it and it bothers him. it has him really angry and he s been telling that to his confidants, they ve been of course telling that to us reporters. i know there is a danger in focusing too much on logic when it comes t ....