Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Washington post also reports tonight the white house is preparing an Executive Order that authorizes the president to punish foreign interference in u. S. Elections. The post writes, quote, the eightpage draft order appears to be an effort to stave off aggressive legislation, including a bill introduced in congress this month and to quell criticism that trump seems to give more credence to russian president Vladimir Putins denials of interference than to u. S. Intelligence agencies conclusion to the kremlin sought to undermine the 2016 election. That comes to us as Florida Democratic senator bill nelson, whose running in a tough reelection fight, tells the tampa bay times, quote, russian operatives have penetrated some of floridas Election Systems ahead of the 2018 mid terms. He said any further information is classified. Today the white house actually did impose new sanctions on
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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. He said, any further information is classified. Today the white house actually did impose new sanctions on russia, but not for election meddling. The administration is penalizing the kremlin for using chemical weapons against an exspy and his daughter in the uk, a decision that congress had to push the white house to make. Meanwhile, republican senator rand paul is in moscow this week, of all places, apparently on his own summer Outreach Mission to the kremlin. The senator had been one of the few open defenders on capitol hill of President Trumps overtures to vladimir putin, the only defender at times. Today he wrote this about his visit. Quote, i was honored to deliver a letter from President Trump to president Vladimir Putins administration. The letter emphasized the importance of further engagement in va
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Represents what trumps lawyers expect to be their last word on muellers request for a sitdown interview. The letter from trumps lawyers leaves open the possibility of having trump answer some questions in writing. According to the two people familiar with the negotiations. Earlier today during a live radio callin show, conveniently hosted by his cocounsel jay sekulow, Rudy Giuliani called on mueller to end his investigation, but declined to get into details about these negotiations about the interview. We dont have an internal deadline. We are moving i use the phrase expeditiously through this, and understand the significant constitutional issues that are raised. But mayor, i know youve said and ive said, we want the see this come to closure soon here. Mayor . Yeah, we do. Its about time that it ends. I also think and i hope the Special Counsel is sensitive to it as we are. We do not want to run
movement in the republican party, it wasn t an easy transition. but i sleep well every night. i m comfortable with it. as opposed to some of those you ve chosen in the book, you go through the individuals attracted to work for trump. and you give them outside of a benihana you don t see a fillet job like this individually. do us the honor. one of the passages that really got to me, we ve excised a dirty word from the first sentence. this is your own writing. first two paragraphs on steve bannon. will you give us a dramatic reading? i will happily give you a dramatic reading. the brightest, hottest, weirdest blank star in the trump constellation from the moment of the donald s unexpected electoral victory was steve bannon. if you re looking for the white hot center of esoteric trumpism, bannon is the intellectual architect, once you get past the homeless drifter with a hitchhiker s head in his backpack affect. bannon, a man who looks like a spokesmodel for a new line of gout medica
played on reality television 14 years in a huge hit show for this network and for trump. the misreads and missteps it s a gigantic leadership failure. now that he s in the presidency and his behavior and his leadership and his governance is such a train wreck, they re trying to pretend this is the new way we do things and they ve had to walk away from every principle that republicans have ever stated that they believed in. and we ve got a president who gompbz by rage tweets from the toilet at 6:00 in the morning. so the journey getting here as a guy who was a party loyalist and who fought in the trenches for 30 years in the conservative movement in the republican party, it wasn t an easy transition. but i sleep well every night. i m comfortable with it. as opposed to some of those you ve chosen in the book, you go through the individuals attracted to work for trump. and you give them outside of a benny hannah, you don t see a