Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Washington post also reports tonight the white house is preparing an Executive Order that authorizes the president to punish foreign interference in u. S. Elections. The post writes, quote, the eightpage draft order appears to be an effort to stave off aggressive legislation, including a bill introduced in congress this month and to quell criticism that trump seems to give more credence to russian president Vladimir Putins denials of interference than to u. S. Intelligence agencies conclusion to the kremlin sought to undermine the 2016 election. That comes to us as Florida Democratic senator bill nelson, whose running in a tough reelection fight, tells the tampa bay times, quote, russian operatives have penetrated some of floridas Election Systems ahead of the 2018 mid terms. He said any further information is classified. Today the white house actually did impose new sanctions on
russia, but not
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. He said, any further information is classified. Today the white house actually did impose new sanctions on russia, but not for election meddling. The administration is penalizing the kremlin for using chemical weapons against an exspy and his daughter in the uk, a decision that congress had to push the white house to make. Meanwhile, republican senator rand paul is in moscow this week, of all places, apparently on his own summer Outreach Mission to the kremlin. The senator had been one of the few open defenders on capitol hill of President Trumps overtures to vladimir putin, the only defender at times. Today he wrote this about his visit. Quote, i was honored to deliver a letter from President Trump to president Vladimir Putins administration. The letter emphasized the importance of further engagement in va
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Represents what trumps lawyers expect to be their last word on muellers request for a sitdown interview. The letter from trumps lawyers leaves open the possibility of having trump answer some questions in writing. According to the two people familiar with the negotiations. Earlier today during a live radio callin show, conveniently hosted by his cocounsel jay sekulow, Rudy Giuliani called on mueller to end his investigation, but declined to get into details about these negotiations about the interview. We dont have an internal deadline. We are moving i use the phrase expeditiously through this, and understand the significant constitutional issues that are raised. But mayor, i know youve said and ive said, we want the see this come to closure soon here. Mayor . Yeah, we do. Its about time that it ends. I also think and i hope the Special Counsel is sensitive to it as we are. We do not want to run
november. meanwhile, house speaker paul ryan has stripped collins of his post on energy and commerce pending an investigation into the accusations. with us tonight to talk about it, daniel goldman, former assistant u.s. attorney for, wait for it, the southern district of new york, who prosecuted an insider trading case just last year. and shane goalmacher is back with us. welcome to you both. shane, i don t want this to become an episode of billion, but we have upstate political players and power bosses and we have the aforementioned southern district of new york. talk about this seat. how safe was it for collins? what was his position in the new york delegation? and what would it take for those political bosses to say, you know what? this seat is too valuable. we need you to step aside. well, his position in the new york delegation shifted dramatically the day he endorsed donald trump. he was the first member of
defense in court to clear my name. i look forward to being fully vindicated and exonerated, ending any and all questions relating to my affiliation with innate. the congressman says he is not only staying in his seat, his name will be on the ballot as he is running for re-election in november. meanwhile, house speaker paul ryan has stripped collins of his committee post on energy and commerce pending an investigation into the accusations. with us tonight to talk about it, daniel goldman, former assistant u.s. attorney for, wait for it, the southern district of new york, who prosecuted an insider trading case just last year. and shane goldmacher is back with us. chief metro political correspondent for the new york times. welcome to you both. shane, i don t want this to become an episode of billions, but we have upstate political players and power bosses and we have the aforementioned southern district of new york.