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prosecutors, including that secret recording made of trump just before the 2016 election. as anybody would say, that s the strongest possible evidence. there certainly was evidence of knowledge by the president of a payoff to the playboy playmate. we begin this morning with the president threatening to strip the security clearance of half a dozen former officials. never mind some of them don t even have clearance anymore. that is not stopping the white house from stthe policy of paybk to vocal critics. i want to get to how it breaks down. the president is said to still be considering this move. while none of his people he s targeting are still in the government, current officials are certainly taking notice. right now, these are the men and women on the list. former cia director john brennan. former director of national intelligence james clapper. former cia director michael hayden. monetary gain. no, that wasn t an snl skit. we already know the president has attacked u.s. ....
with the black boys, you know. the black boys not players so i m not going to make it there. i kept playing and playing. i said one day i m going to play baseball.tonight s last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts right now. tonight, the president swears he did not know about that trump tower meeting in advance, while someone close to michael cohen tells vanity fair cohen is sitting on top of a treasure trove of damaging information and there s a lot more to come. for the tenth straight time the president ignored questions from reporters and that s since the trump-cohen tape came out on tuesday. donald trump s first ever national security council meeting on the topic of election safety was convened today hours after the president was invited to moscow by vladimir putin. all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a friday night. on a friday night good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 554 of the trump administration ....
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. actually was. so in the credibility fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand? well, in the credibility fight you have to ask a few questions. one is who has the greater motive to lie here? one of the things we ve learned, say, from robert mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. so if michael cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from robert mueller and he peddles an untrue story, he s going to get himself into a heap of trouble. on the other hand, president trump has some motive here to lie because it would be a very big deal, in fact, if, a, he knew about this meeting and if he had been lying to the american people about it all along. the second thing, and dan can speak to this, is if you ve got a witness who or somebody who may have some cr ....
on a friday night, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 554 of the trump administration, and the president escalates the war on his former lawyer and confidante, michael cohen, while denying that he had any advanced knowledge about that june 2016 meeting in trump tower. a source has told nbc news cohen is willing to tell robert mueller that donald trump jr. informed his father about the meeting before it took place. trump s son had that meeting with several russians after he was told they were coming prepared with damaging information about hillary clinton. well, today the president responded with this so, the fake news doesn t waste my time with dumb questions, no, i did not know of the meeting with my son, don junior. sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam. taxi cabs, maybe? we ll explain that one. he even retained bill and crooked hillary s lawyer. counsel. mueller s ....
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. the fact that trump has prior knowledge of the meeting aligns other. at the same time his son was scheduling that meeting, just two days before the meeting itself, trump promised in his speech that he would soon reveal something big about hillary clinton. here he goes. i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week and we re going to be discussing all of the things that are taking place with the clintons. you are going to find it very informative and very interesting. there was a big tease. additionally as donald trump jr. was planning the meeting, he had two phone conversations with somebody with a blocked number. we know from other witness testimony that trump senior has blocked phone lines in his primary residence. trump thought he was getting juicy dirt on hillary clinton and the fact that he may have been working with his son. a lot of people are ....