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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this, they said, that s not really our role here, the president does what he wants to do, this is his megaphone, no one s going to take it away from him. you can see that if you take the white house posture at the beginning of the mueller investigation, it was very much, we want to do everything we can to avoid a subpoena fight. that s not where the president wants to be. i think you ve heard giuliani say publicly now that we re not really concerned about an indictment, we think this is ultimately a political question. so they re fighting a political fight. if they can take this sort of complicated story and make it, there s a witch hunt, bob mueller is out to get the president, him and his team of democrats, and now he wants to infringe on the power of the president, if he can make those talking points stick, then, you know, he can maybe win some
that s not where the president wants to be. i think you ve heard giuliani say publicly now that we re not really concerned about an indictment, we think this is ultimately a political question. so they re fighting a political fight. if they can take this sort of complicated story and make it, there s a witch hunt, bob mueller is out to get the president, him and his team of democrats, and now he wants to infringe on the power of the president, if he can make those talking points stick, then, you know, he can maybe win some support among republicans. for impeachment. we re not talking about the legal setting. yeah, this has nothing to do with indictment.