Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Chairman, Paul Manafort. He has pleaded not guilty, but heres why this really matters. The first trial to come out of the Mueller Investigation will give us the most detailed snapshot yet of what cards Robert Mueller really has. And as soon as this week, the president s lawyer says he could decide whether to sit for an interview with the mueller team, although weve heard that one before. Right now the president s not happy with mueller. Donald trump firing off a whole bunch of tweets, trashing the investigation, offering up new details, too about his previous claims of mueller conflicts of interest, claims the Justice Department has shot down. Lets go to the white house with nbcs kristen welker, here to get us started. Rudy guiliani had more to say about all of this, just a couple of hours ago, including what seemed to be a shifting of the goalpost, no . Reporter it was striking, hallie, to hear Rudy Guiliani, yes
a recent meeting between the u.s. and the taliban and qatar marks the biggest diplomatic effort to end the war in five years. the last attempt in 2013 failed. and supreme court justice, ruth bader ginsburg, says she is not going anywhere, at least not for another five years, she says. it comes a month after president trump nominated conservative brett kavanaugh to the high court. she talked after a performance of the originalist sunday, a play about antonin scalia. and said she planned to stay on the court until she was 90. let s get to rudy guiliani s comments from a few hours ago. the lead attorney on president trump s legal team is going off the credibility of president trump s former attorney, michael cohen. he s talking pretty candidly about why he thinks cohen is just now talking about tapes and meetings at trump tower. watch. what s in it for michael cohen to say that the president knew about that meeting? why is he lying about that? you ve got to be kidding me. no.