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The day s biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. donald trump saying bob mueller has a conflict of interest. what s he referring to? a dispute i imagine he disclosed it to rosenstein when he appointed him because it involved something last year wasn t settled to this day. that s up to the president and mueller to describe. what s the conflict? i can t tell you. are you saying the business conflict mueller and president trump had, is that about his golf course. i m not going to go any further. he s not going further on that. there were some specifics when guiliani talked about other alleged meetings before the trump tower meeting. the meeting with the russians, how can you be sure that the president didn t know before. it s he said she said. nobody can be sure of anything. in a situation like this you have two things that argue against cohen. two-on-one sorry, three like an independent contradictions. he ....
you often do not hear this attorney general pushing back against the president. sessions may not be the only loyalist that the president is concerned about. nbc news has confirmed a wall street journal report that federal prosecutors have granted immunity to this guy you re looking at, david pecker. the chief executive and chairman of american media, which publishes the national enquirer. he s a longtime friend of president trump. joining me now is nbc news investigations reporter, tom winter. also with us by phone is msnbc contributor and vanity fair special correspondent, gabe sherman, who s out with a new piece, trump s national enquirer allies are the latest to defect. gabe, let me start with you. what do we know about the immunity for david pecker and what that means? well, ali, you know, two things on an legal level, this shows that prosecutors had enough to put pressure on david pecker and american media for their role in essentially becoming a de facto arm of
and i want to tell you, the words of very little didn t use. sean: that s a president addressing new mexico. let not your heart be troubled, the coverage continues with the laura ingraham. laura: i am a laura ingraham and this is sean the ingraham angle from washington. in moments, my ankle will expose the real reason that democrats are reviving their smear campaign against brett kavanaugh and what it tells us about their agenda. a panel of the best legal experts bar none including those closest to the supreme court justice will respond. plus mike huckabee i doubt mike huckabee and victor davis hanson is here as well. but for now back to president trump at his live press conference in rio rancho, new mexico. [cheers and applause] [chanting: usa! president trump: so anyway, no president should ever be put in that position. by the way, no president should ever have to go through what i ve gone through either. that should never happen. what happened is a disgrace to our ....
another hour but we re out of time. my thanks to steve schmidt, most of all, thanks to you for watching. mtp daily with chuck todd starts right now. welcome to thursday. it is meet the press daily. good evening. i m chuck todd here in a big curly w washington. lchl exactly a year after the presidential election, today s been another hectic day in the nation s capital from capitol hill to the courts to the white house. house backed an impeachment inquiry into the president and historic symbolic action that moves us one step closer to public hearings. and behind closed doors, it was another bomb shell day as the national security council top russia expert tim morrison confirmed much of the substance of the damning testimony by the administration s top diplomat to ukraine, bill taylor, what he testified to is that military aid was contingent on investigations into the president s political rivals. this is according to a review of morrison s opening statement. now, morrison ....
well, it s big because some people say that there were ten kilotons other people say in the ten kiloton range. so the north koreans are making very fast progress. they may have a nuclear warhead for their short and intermediate-range missiles. within two or three years, they ll have a warhead that can hit the united states. they also now have two launchers that can hit the united states. so the american people are now starting to be at risk. the question has always been it s easy, fairly enough, to detect what they re doing. it s been impossible to stop it thus far. where are we in terms of understanding what leverage works? sanctions haven t worked. international condemnation hasn t worked. what do you see on the horizon? well, we have sanctions, of course, the united states and the international community, but those sanctions are not as tough as they could be. as assistance secretary of state russell says, look, our sanctions are design to bring north korea to i ....