Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Our colleague Kristen Welker there is still a steep hurdle to an interview with robert mueller. It would, quote, raise significant article ii questions going to the heart of president ial authority. Its not just about this president but about the presidency. Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani spokes with axios. They report, quote, there are two topics the president s lawyers want to rule out in order to agree to a trump sitdown with mueller. One, why trump fired fbi director james comey. Two, what trump said to comey about the investigation of former National Security adviser michael flynn. Tonight, bloomberg has also spoken to giuliani and also reports that those two topics are off limits. According to bloomberg, giuliani said, quote, if asked the president would tell the Special Counsel that he didnt urge comey to stop Investigating Flynn and Didnt Fire Comey to cut off his investigation into russian int
Carter page for alleged connections to russia and october 19th and 20th more installments of the dossier zeroed in on allegations against Paul Manafort. These strands may give the president more fodder to charge that he believes Will Collusion involve the campaign to stop him, not the Trump Campaign. Shannon the special Prosecutor Team prosecuting Paul Manafort taking a stand against the judge, ts ellis iii complaining the judge unfairly admonished them in front of the jerry. Peter doocy, the latest fireworks. The judge, muellers guys mentioned the case and the judges complaint to have bad manners saying yes, he has been
critical of the way they tried to introduce certain exhibits. Yesterday there was a witness who before they took the stand was sitting in the courtroom, press and Family Members, the judge dressed down Special Counsel, and they are not supposed to look. The judge never told the Special Counsel that, and what they see as bad treatment from the judge, it is a mistake her
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Election, that means the more careful you have to be in how overtly you investigate or charge someone who is going to be on the ballot in that election. First of all, donald trump, as far as i know, is not on the ballot in 2018. So this whole issue about them affecting the election is actually pretty tangential. Its not clear how much it applies. But mueller is so clearly cautious and observant of precedent and law. Yes. So he will take it into account. But its sort of a sliding scale. Trumps not on the ballot. So you dont have to be quite as careful as, for example, charging someone like collins who is up for reelection. So there they had to be very, very careful. And also, you know, you have to not you dont have to stop the whole election the whole
investigation. Can you pause some aspects of it . You just dont want to do something overt. He can keep doing lots of stuff, its not like theyre goi
Interviews with newsmakers and roundtable discussions cover the top news stories of the day. Committee chairman ed rois says its not just russia thats being sent a warning. Watch. Heres the point, to the extent that we send the message Around The World that you cannot use nerve agents, this is a very important and consistent message we have to send. Its important that we maintain this kind of pressure in order to deter any other nation that might use a nerve agent, that might use a chemical and biological weapon on u. S. Soil or on our allies soil. Harris doug mcelway live in washington as we learn more about this. Russia is promising retaliatory action of some kind in response to the new sanctions set to take effect later this month. Connecting new sanctions to these events is unacceptable for us. These restrictions as well as
Interviews with newsmakers and roundtable discussions cover the top news stories of the day. Interviews with newsmakers and roundtable discussions cover the top
By the thousands still left. Theres approximately 8,000 of those still left. And so we will not have a winner, we will not have a concession by a loser, in this race until all of those votes are counted by august 18th. That is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight, President Trump calls the russia investigation an illegally brought rigged witch hunt but says stay tuned. While Rudy Giuliani puts the chance of a sit Down With Mueller at 50 . In the manafort courtroom, the judge tells the jury disregard my criticism of the prosecution. And nearly one year later are we getting closer to learning the truth. What really happened in the dark aftermath of Hurricane Maria in puerto rico. The 11th hour on a thursday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 567 of the trump
presidency. Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani spoke with axios. They report, quote, there are two topics the president s lawyers want to rule out