Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign 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 presidential authority. it s 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 sit-down 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 didn t urge comey to stop investigating flynn and didn t fire comey to cut off his investigation into rus
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign 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. it s 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 it s sort of a sliding scale. trump s not on the ballot. so you don t 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 don t have to stop the whole election the whole
investigation. can you pause some aspects of it? you just don t want to do something overt. he can keep doing lots of stuff,
by the thousands still left. there s 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 tonight s 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 lawye
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