Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Appears to be dialing up the pressure on other witnesses in the investigation specifically anyone one tied to roger stone, anyone in his orbit. Mueller has a number of stones passed to associates now firmly on his radar tonight. One of them is Andrew Miller is being held in contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury Hearing Evidence into the russia investigation. Another roger stones associate Kristen Davis did testify today. This was after she voluntarily spoke to investigators last week. Randy who has been reported to be the back channel between stone and wikileaks have been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury on september 7th, randy credico. This investigation will not be over. Theyre all involved. Hey frank, lets talk about the Siemny Chhuogns that things tightening around roger stones and where do you expect this to be going. Roger stone is a bigger fish than many people rea
leave. they say the media is not helping and we don t like the media. they re not allowing this town to heal. it is a town that has not healed. to answer the question that you started with, you know i think the police have done a great job in sending that message and did not handle the situation well. the mayor is gone and the police chief is gone. they re letting people know, if you want to protest, you will do it in washington, d.c. and not here in charlottesville. thank you cal perry on the scene for us tonight. with us to talk about all of it. clarence paige and columnist for the chicago tribune and john meacham is with us. his latest book the soul of america, hey john, what is the year later damage assessment from charlottesville? well, there is obviously the
more accustom to this kind of disruption. things are quiet in august and washington. i expect they re going to be noisier. one of the tragedies is charlottesville is known anything but being home to one of the great country. part of the conversation, both gentlemen, thank you for staying with us over this break. we ll take this break, coinciding with the start of the nfl pre-season. the president renews his dispute with pro football players and most don t understand why they are outraged. we ll talk about that on the other side.
about these people should not be in the country. it works with the base, i think that 30 and 35% or so in the country that seems to be inclined to follow trump anywhere including into us fearing of our civic life that a lot of things should be above and beyond politics. if it becomes about politics and players who are exercising their first amendment rights. an amendment written by a man who lives not far from charlottesville, james madison. i think it is pure old fashion unattractive and divisive politics and the kind of thing that the president is playing to fear and not to hope. he s going to pay a high price for this certainly in the long-term of history. clarence, in fox news today, i will paraphrase here of a
shu charlottesville. charlottesville is a blue dot in a sea of red. this is a liberal town in a conservative part of the country and conservative part of the state of virginia. for that reason you have a statue of robert e. lee, just 500 meters in front of me. that was supposed to be gone right now. in the heated after math of what happened a year ago. it was decided that statue will be removed but not easy when you start hearing voices around the state of virginia. there is a long list of items that you are not able to bring into virginia. you can bring guns and people are making their right that it is their second amendment right to carry weapons. a lot of people are questioning the police why that s allowed to happen at the state assembly line. charlottesville is a micro ca e causism of america. a number of people asked us to