The gunman. President trump calls to arm nations teachers and also slams the deputy who was on duty. What he did, he trained his whole life. Theres an example. When it came time to get in there and do something, he didnt have the courage or something happened, but he certainly did a poor job. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A lot of news today. Thanks for joining us. Breaking news, another bombshell in special counsel Robert Muellers russia investigation. A source familiar with the proceedings telling us that former Trump Campaign aide rick gates is expected to plead guilty today, an indication gates is cooperating with the special counsel. This comes a day after Robert Mueller filed a 32count indictment against both gates and former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort, charging both men with additional crimes,
number of counts, some limited conduct that would vastly reduce his prison exposure. We believe this plea is happening in washington, d. C. As you mentioned, there
to number one set the bar for e impeachment very high and to second, to say that there should not be a kitchen sink impeachment. it should be limited to ukrainee it should be short, sweet, understandable and closely tethered to the president s conduct here, which was pr pressuring, demanding investigations of his political rivals. su i ll play to you a little bit of what the president said to his red meat rally in hershey, d p.a. here he said it was better to listen to ukraine s leaders than established american diplomats. the ukrainian foreign minister. he said it so strongly. i have never seen a direct link not so some crooked ambassador that s a deep stater or a
articles of impeachment? absolutely. i think it was very wise by the house leadership by the speaker to number one set the bar for impeachment very high and second, to say that there should not be a kitchen sink impeachment. it should be limited to ukraine. it should be short, sweet, understandable and closely tethered to the president s conduct here, which was pressuring, demanding investigations of his political rivals. i ll play to you a little bit of what the president said to his red meat rally in hershey, p.a. here he said it was better to listen to ukraine s leaders than established american diplomats. the ukrainian foreign minister. he said it so strongly. i have never seen a direct link
opening the russian counterintelligence investigation, but it s a way to change the subject away from those two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. simply put, eight short double space pages that all americans should read and that will be voted out of the judicial committee on thursday. jeremy, am i to take that, that you agree with the strategy of limiting it to these two articles of impeachment? absolutely. i think it was very wise by the house leadership by the speaker to number one set the bar for impeachment very high and second, to say that there should not be a kitchen sink impeachment. it should be limited to ukraine. it should be short, sweet, understandable and really closely tethered to the president s conduct here which was pressuring, demanding investigations of his political rivals. i ll play to you a little bit of what the president said to pl his red meat rally in hershey, p.a.me
time for tonight s last word. everyone is wondering how manafort will hold up under questioning. to be clear, mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs. that s what he said. that s what i said. that s obviously what our position is. mr. president, run. paul manafort and stephen colbert get tonight s last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. tonight in a free-wheeling red meat rally, the president tells the south carolina crowd, sometimes you have to toot your own horn because nobody else is going to do it. plus our very public politics. sarah huckabee sanders kicked out of a restaurant because she works for trump.