Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. This is a threat we need to take extremely seriously and to tackle and respond to with fierce determination and focus. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders told nbc news today that President Trump instructed his team to speak at todays news conference. Asked when the president made the request, sanders didnt respond. And its important to point out, just last friday the president met with his National Security council on Election Security for less than one hour. After the meeting, the white house released a statement that said the administration would not tolerate foreign interference in elections. But it did not mention russia by name. Lets bring in our leadoff panel. Jeremy bash, former Chief Of Staff at the cia and the pentagon
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Should is, thats rudys latest talking point. Was this Performance Today something long in the works, they were asked to submit their remarks, or were they asked to change the topic from the mess the president created yesterday with his Early Morning tweet about getting sessions to end the russia investigation . I think this has been building for some time. We saw dan coats a week or two ago raise some alarm in that interview with Andrea Mitchell in aspen. Weve seen alarm is a good way to put it. Let me show you his answer about helsinki. Lets watch that. In the runup to the helsinki summit, u. S. Officials, ambassadors to nato, ambassadors to russia, said the president would raise the issue of malign activity with president putin. He didnt discuss that, at least at the press conference. Youre saying today that the president has directed you to make the issue of election
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And they all know that The 11th Hour with Brian Williams starts right now. New tonight, raging against the media. Donald trumps pennsylvania barn burner. He claims hes being riddenered hindered by the russian hoax. Meanwhile, back at the white house, the president s top intel and Law Enforcement officials show a united front and say what trump wont, that russia poses a threat to our upcoming elections. Also new tonight, Robert Mueller is looking to speak to another person with ties to that Trump Tower Meeting. And ivanka trump, off message, on her white house low point and a break from her dad on a popular talking point. The 11th hour on a thursday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc headquarters here in new york. Im Nicolle Wallace in for brian tonight. Hell be back tomorrow. Its day 560 of the trump administration. And President Trump just wrapped up a rally in pennsylvania where he ramped up his attacks on the
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and the dirty underbelly of this is when people are reporting, it s often testimony that the president sees when he sashays across the white house, 80% of the white house staff has been before robert mueller and his investigators. that s correct. the reports are accurate and real. part of what you have going on here is the president is a former television producer. he can t stand turning on cable news and seeing producers, real producers, making different judgments than he would make. if it were his choice, this entire show would be about the remains coming back from hawaii and vice president pence greeting them and how wonderful the optics were in helsinki with pute and in how big his crowd was in pennsylvania and the gdp numbers from last week. but there are other issues on the agenda that he wishes he could just erase.
real. part of what you have going on here is the president is a former television producer. he can t stand turning on cable news and seeing producers, real producers, making different judgments than he would make. if it were his choice, this entire show would be about the remains coming back from hawaii and vice president pence greeting them and how wonderful the optics were in helsinki with pute and in how big his crowd was in pennsylvania and the gdp numbers from last week. but there are other issues on the agenda that he wishes he could just erase. everyone is sticking around. we re going to squeeze in a quick break. on the other side, why robert mueller wants to talk to a russian pop star who made a music video recently with a donald trump impersonator.