From new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of the Supreme Court. And as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times tom friedman and with Emily Bazelon about the legal issues. Then, the secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on the good news and the bad news from americas Southern Border. Finally, did President Putin or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zygar. But first, here is my take. The Mystery Disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations about be determined not just by american policy, and what is happening domestically in the United States, such as the president ial election campaign, it will also be shaped by developments in china. Which at this point are opaque but troubling. From what outsiders could tell, china is reverting to a mild era style of
president s, convicted felon s rants about sharks, electric boats, rather he would be electrocuted or eaten by a shark have everybody talking about his state of minds. at that moment, a merchant of right wing talking points and sometimes even disinformation is going into overdrive with calculated and relentless regional attacks on president joe biden. statements by donald trump on the other hand so unhinged. fox news didn t carry them or broadcast them. didn t air them after the fact. in the words of stephen king that speech was like listening to your senile uncle after he has that third drink. that performance and others like it or reviving questions about trump s stability, mental acuity, questions trump loves to talk about. watch. the next day they ll say he s crazy. the next day they ll say he s incompetent. this is one of the dumbest human beings ever. that wasn t working. i didn t like that one as much. that was bad. i said what do you think about a cognitive test
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Over 30 hours with the white House Counsel, misspelled only, with my approval for purposes of transparency. The Washington Post reports that mcigans own lawyer has told the Trump Legal Team, mcgahn does not believe he implicated the president in any legal wrongdoing when he spoke to the special counsel. Meanwhile the president s lawyer is now in Damage Control mode. Earlier tonight, he explained that and he the president s former attorneys are now aware of what was in mcgahns testimony. John dowd got a political version of what mcgahn said during that period of time. John, of course, because of what happened over the weekend, went through it thoroughly. Ive been on the phone with him for hours and gone over it with him. When it first came out, i didnt know the details of what mcgahn said. Now do i. I knew not to worry because if the president said anything criminal to the counsel of the white hou
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Former Chief Of Staff at the cia and at the pentagon. Robert, i would like to begin with you. What is the degree to which the trump camp was Caught Off Guard by just the idea of 30 hours of don mcgahn testimony in front of the special counsel . Its not tonight trump camp Caught Off Guard. It was mcgahn himself a year ago who was found this whole strategy by john dowd and ty cobb, the president s lawyers, to be off. Mcgahn didnt agree with the Cooperation Strategy when it came to the mueller probe. He advised against it. He went along with the cooperation, setting the over 1 million documents from the white house and offering his time. In fact, i saw mcgahn go into muellers Office Around 6 00 a. M. One morning when i was staking it out. He was fully cooperative then and ever since. Theres some reporting. Hey, joyce, cobb and dowd, their decision to waive
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Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. Day 578 of the Trump Administration. And tonight the president of the United States is coming off a vicious string of personal attacks, comparing people to dogs and rats and calling Robert Mueller discredited and disgraced. He is neither. And now tonight the president is talking about what is at the heart of all of it. The russia investigation. Now that he knows his white house lawyer has testified fully before the mueller team. This afternoon, reuters interviewed President Trump. They report, he is, quote, worried that any statements under oath he provides to special counsel Robert Mueller could be used to bring Perjury Charges against him. Quote, trump echoed the concerns of his top lawyer in the probe, Rudolph Giuliani, who has warned that any sitdown with mueller could be a perjury trap. Reuters quotes the president as saying association if i Say Something and he, meaning comey, says something, and it is my
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