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e-mails. and then the letters comey sent to the hill, one saying we found more e-mails on anthony weiner s laptop that could be pertinent to our investigation, we need to look at those, and then his follow-up letter a few days before the election in which he said, we ve done that review and we haven t had anything. hillary clinton herself has said she thinks that first letter in late october changed the course of the election. so, the inspector general is going to look at that and a couple of ancillary things. there have been allegations that an fbi deputy director should have taken himself off part of this case because of some connections to the campaign or his wife s connections to the political to politics in virginia. some allegations that an assistant attorney general for legislative affairs passed information along to the clinton campaign, and other employees disclosed nonpublic information. the foeklecal point is the two actions by the fbi director, the letter to the hill ....
you ll be all over it for us as always, thank you so much. monu raju in washington. thank you for being with us on this tuesday afternoon. getting word from the police chief there in houston, texas, the first police officer fatality in the storm, sergeant perez, 34 years with houston pd. i m brooke baldwin. the lead starts now. welcome to the lead. i m brianna keeler in for jake tapper. we re going to begin with breaking news in the national lead. president trump arriving in texas. he is about to get a tour of the operations center there after stopping in corpus christi today. today there are new warnings to residents. get out now as a levee is pushed to its limit in houston and harvey continues to relentlessly pour down on the gulf coast. just moments ago we learned that a houston police officer, sergeant steve perez, was killed in this storm drowning on his way to work on sunday. his police chief overcome with emotion as he was explaining the decision to not go in af ....
A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. have breaking news about president trump s former campaign chairman paul manafort. his right-hand man rick gates face a grueling cross x admitting to an afarks a secret life, and lie after lie about money. and the question now is who will jurors believe, the acued liar paul manafort or the admitted liar rick gates? cara scan nell is outside the courthouse. how did it go for manafort? well, manafort was really trying to put rick gates on trial today. his defense lawyers were hammering gates about his lies about his admitted lies to the special counsel s office, about false filings and bank accounts that gate had done in his own personal life, and really they were putting the focus on whether he embezzled from paul manafort. and there was a bit of a jockeying between gates and manafort s defense lawyer about where the money came from. gates was not making many admissions. at various times he said he couldn t recall things ....
here at the table for the hour, steve schmidt and matt miller. but first, to react for the first time, single threads different threads of a single story. questions about russians and contact with people in the president s inner circle. former cia director john brennan, lucky for us, now a senior national security and intelligence analyst for msnbc and nbc news. i understand now, sitting here today, why donald trump a week or so ago said don t believe what you see, don t believe what you hear on the news channels, because when you take all these events just this week together, they paint a very compromising position for this president on the question of russian influence. i think that s right, nicolle. i think we ve seen over the course of the last two years basically an effort on the part of president trump and others to pry to inoculate public perceptions of what actually happened during the campaign. first, there were no meetings. then there were meetings, but they we ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. inaugural address, which my old boss had colorful language to describe. george w. bush called it some crazy bleep. i was thinking about the line about carnage and i was thinking that the real carnage and it was all in motion when he came that day. the real carnage is the people closest to donald trump. the lives that are being destroyed for crimes they ve committed. i mean, you know, it s not a night to feel sympathy for michael cohen, but the events that are sending him to jail potentially are events put in motion by the things donald trump demanded of the people close to him. it may end up ensnaring his family. but just this idea of wreckage. a source close to michael cohen tonight told me that everything donald trump touches is tainted by his toxic brew of lack of ethics and lack of any adherence to the law. i also thought of something that someone who advises this president said to ....