Multiplying fronts of legal warfare, both criminal and civil, with everyone from the post powerful prosecutor in the country to everyday american citizens. The team of special Counsel Robert Mueller is negotiating for an interview of donald trump even as the New York Times reports the president is laying a reshuffle of his legal team so he can confront mueller more aggressively. The times reporting mr. Trump has weighed allowed in recent days to Close Associates whether to dismiss his lawyer, ty cobb. The paper adds his lead lawyer, john dowd, has contemplated leaving his post because he has concluded he has no control over the behavior of the president. Huh, wonder what made him think that . The Washington Post meanwhile reports the president s legal team recently reached out to star conservative litigator Theodore Olson only to be turned down. Instead the president added former u. S. Attorney joe digenova, whos peddled conspiracy theories that the fbi and department of justice are somehow plotting to frame the president. And that, that is just whats happening on the mueller front. Because then theres the legal jeopardy that the president faces on the civil side where he is already as going into today, already facing multiple lawsuits from various women before things took a decidedly bad turn for him today. Stormy daniels is suing to have a nondisclosure agreement made invalid. The president is suing a private citizen for 20 million in damages so she doesnt tell her story. Now nbc news reporting today that daniels took and passed a polygraph exam in 2011 about her relationship with donald trump. Youre looking at a still image of a video recording of ms. Daniels taking the test. Despite her passing that lie detector exam with flying colors, the white house continues to deny the affair. But the bigger problem for the white house may be that there are other women who may have been emboldened by the Stormy Daniels lawsuit. Weve been approached by six separate women who tell six stories. We have not vetted those stories. We are in the very preliminary stages of determining the veracity of those stories. We havent determined whether were going to represent them. We are at the very, very early stages. Six women coming forward to michael avenetta who represents Stormy Daniels. Today, new suit from a woman wanting to talk about an alleged affair with donald trump. She was paid 150,000 for her story by the company that owns the National Enquirer and now she says she was misled and her lawyer was working behind her back with the trump camp. As if all of that is not enough, there is big news on yet another legal front that could have longranging implications for donald trump and the president. Summer zervos is suing the president for defamation after he called her a liar for alleging unwanted sexual contact. He came to me and started kissing me openmouthed. As he was pulling me towards him. I walked away and i sat down in a chair. He then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast. He put me in an embrace and i tried to push him away. I pushed him chest to put space between us and i said, come on, man, get real. He repeated my words back to me. Get real. As he began thrusting his genitals. He tried to kiss me again with my hand still on his chest and i said, dude, youre tripping right now. Trumps legal team tried to block the suit saying he had immuity by his office but a judge shot down that argument saying the president has no immunity for purely private acts, adding no one is above the law. For more on the president s growing legal troubles, i want to bring in ian, the executive director of project democracy which filed a brief in support of the Summer Zervos defamation case. Ian, ill begin with you because you wrote that amicus. The argument that you make tracks very closely to the judges conclusion. There is an idea you cant sue the president because if you can sue the president , everyone would sue the president and the president would spend all his time being dragged before courts and couldnt do his job. Why should there be an exception in this case . One of the points that we made in this brief is that hasnt happened. The Court Considered that 20 years ago in the clinton v. Jones case that potentially this could drag the president into litigation all around the country. And in four terms by two president s over the last 20 years, that didnt happen. Now, if it ever were to happen, congress of course could step in and change the jurisdictional rules but they havent done that either. So absent those things happening, the judge said exactly what we argued in our brief she should say, which is the president is not above the law. And the judge says this in strong terms. This was a full bench slap today of the trump legal argument, okay . The judge said that there was no immunity, that hes not above the law. That theres no way to read the supremacy clause to think that his purely private actions that have nothing to do with his Public Office should be immune from a lawsuit. So were going to have some discovery now. Which is a crazy thing to consider. I mean because were going to move to the consensual affairs in a second but this is a place where a woman says that the president sexually assaulted her, thrust his genitals at her and she is he called her a liar. Shes suing for defamation and youre saying now there is going to be discovery. Yes. There are three general ways to defend yourself from a defamation suit. One is to say i didnt defame you, what i said was true. The president cant say that. The other way is to say even though its not true that shes a liar, but i didnt say that with a reckless disregard, thats a term of art, a reckless disregard for the truth. That most likely is an argument the president cant make either. So what i think, and granted im a little bit on an island here, i think that trump has to defend himself under the clear parity standard. So he has to say that hes the onion. That nobody who listens to him could possibly hes telling the truth. So youre saying that you think its to say everyone knows when donald trump calls someone a liar, thats just like thats the wind administrator no reasonable trump listener would believe him is that going to fly . When he says he didnt sexually assault these women. The problem is he cant make any of these arguments, right . So what i think this ultimately means that the American People have been waiting for, this is a president who is lying multiple times a day. You keep hearing people ask isnt there a consequence at some point . The answer is if you lie that often, at some point its going to catch up with you and this could be the time that happens. Unless he settles, right . And this is the other thing, right . In every other aspect of trumps life, when he gets to this point, he pays the woman off and they go away. Like thats his m. O. He would bind her with an nda and she would go away. Is Summer Zervos going to take a settlement in this case . Not only that, youve got a situation where those other ndas are starting to unravel. The mcdougal one said he was hoodwinked by my lawyer who was working with donald trump. You wonder where trump gets the idea for these ndas. Hes used to the situation in the private sector where he used it to sort of silence people who Say Something you dont like. One, you cant do that in government. We may find out even in the private sector when you try to quash dissent like this and youre the president , that may not work. Theres this issue with the ndas that i think is important to bring up because people sometimes get it twisted. Even if you violate an nda, thats not a jailable offense. You dont go to jail, its a civil offense. You might get a fine, but even that fine has to be conscionable. 20 million . Whats interesting about the counterlawsuit, so Stormy Daniels says i want to tell my story, ill getting rid of the nda and they sue, right . They sue for the penalty. Every infraction is a million dollars. They say we want 20 million. Before they sued they thought the president is not going to sue a private citizen. Now the question becomes will a court enforce that. How many times can he get away saying im going to pay 25 million in damages to the students at my university but i didnt do anything wrong. Im going to pay off this person who says that im lying but i didnt do anything wrong. I might even take the fifth. Like at some point thats going to catch up with you with the american voters. No matter what he does, he cant stop her from talking. The Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint, okay . You can sue her all you want for damages. You can sue her but cant stop her from talking so i think that 60 minutes interview is going t happen. I thought you were going to say judge schecter was going to say there are rules. There are rules. The president is not immune from suit. Thanks for joining me, that was fantastic. For more on the president s legal stand with robert mueller, jack quinn and Jill Winebanks whos a former Watergate Special prosecutor. Jack, let me start with you. What does it mean having worked in a white house that was embattled legally on several fronts, to be fighting the number of battles that this president is currently fighting in the courts . Well, its a challenge. Its not only a challenge for the lawyers who are involved, both the lawyers inside the white house, but the lawyers who represent the president outside, but its enormously distracting to all of the other people working for the president in the white house who have day jobs, you know, who have lots of important things to do for the American People. You know, theyre constantly besieged by questions about all these other events, some of them salacious, some of them merely awfully interesting. Jill, what was the situation, you were a watergate prosecutor. How did nixon deal with his legal representation as that started to bear down on him, and the legal representation for other people that he wanted to sort of keep in the fold . He had a very large and pretty high quality legal team, which is not the same as were seeing here where the lawyers are not your top tier lawyers. Ted olson has turned down the opportunity to join the team. He would have been a top tier lawyer. So i think that nixon treated his lawyers fairly well. He followed their advice. I dont know whether he was completely honest with them. I dont know if he told them the truth about, for example, the 18minute gap. But he did not fire his lawyers and he didnt try to bring in new ones to disrupt the workings of his current team. You know, theres jack, theres reporting that john dowd is thinking of quitting or has considered quitting because he cant control his client. What kind of challenge is that . When youre dealing with a president of the United States and trying to offer him legal advice. You know, look, in all honesty, im torn here because i think that mr. Dowd has been giving him some pretty terrible advice. Hes the one, i believe, who has put the idea in the president s head that he can refuse to testify in front of special counsel mueller. I dont think thats the case and we can go into that at some length if you like. But i think just having him obsessing about that is a disservice not only to the investigation, its a disservice to the president because instead of preparing himself for the evidence which he is in my mind absolutely bound to give and will give, hes, you know, fooling around with these crazy ideas that he can somehow simply put his foot down and say im not going to show up. And, jill, youve had that same position. Hes compelled here. This is a question about the details. There is absolutely no question that the subpoena power of the special prosecutor will force him to come in to testify. It would be nice if they can work out some sensible accommodation, but if not, thats what has to happen. And i agree with jack, that the advice that the president is getting is not good. Its not just what he mentioned in terms of john dowd, but remember john dowd also sent an email to the media over the weekend saying he was speaking on behalf of the president and then said, oh, no, im not speaking on behalf of him, im speaking on behalf of myself. He tweeted for the president or at least hes now claiming that he tweeted for the president that he had taken action because flynn had lied to pence and to the fbi. That was very damaging to him. So hes not getting good advice from john dowd and hes not going to get good advice from digenova, who is more of a talk show agitator than a serious lawyer. And he will only make it worse because he will encourage donald trump to go for his own worst instincts. Jack, do you want to add something . Well, you know, its really important that the president s lawyer have credibility. And when he says something and then takes it back and then says Something Else and says, well, i didnt mean it, it wasnt really me, it was somebody else. Right. This is not helpful to the president s cause. Now look, all that said, where you started was will it be problematic if he leaves. Ill tell you, i think that as much as i think he could use some additional help, we can all use additional help from time to time, i think that having the president s legal team fall apart would be a very bad thing because its going to protract this investigation. And its not going to get us to the important point. At the end of the day, the important point here is russia, russia, russia. And mr. Mueller has an important task in front of him. He needs to find out whether the conspiracy about which he filed indictments earlier extends to things like the hacking of the Democratic National committee emails. He needs to find out whether there were any americans involved in that conspiracy. He needs to find out whether that conspiracy extended to the point where there were quid pro quos of illicit activities in return for positions on public policy, like russian sanctions, and so on. These are the Critical Issues weve got to get to, not all of this silly jockeying that some of the lawyers are engaged in. Jack quinn and Jill Winebanks, thanks for your time. Still to come, new reporting the president was warned by his own National Security team not, not to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his election win, but did it anyway. Next, new video from the ongoing undercover investigation into the Trump Campaigns data company. Tonight, how they claim they helped trump get into the white house. Thats next. Have you met mr. Trump . Many times. You have . All the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, all the digital campaign, the Television Campaign, and our data informed the strategy. Have you met mr. Trump . Many times. You have . All the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran the Television Campaign and our data informed the strategy. Head of Cambridge Analytica seen there boasting about how integral the company was to Donald Trumps election victory has now been suspended after reports by uks channel 4 news. Alexander nix appears to promote bribes and blackmail in an undercover video in which he thinks hes speaking to a sri lankan client. Another Cambridge Analytica executive named Mark Turnbull spells out a strt gee for the Trump Campaign that sounds strikingly similar to the russian disinformation effort. You just put disinformation onto the flood stream on the internet and watch it go. Give it a little push now and again over time to watch it take shape. And so this stuff infiltrates the Online Community and expands. But with no branding so its unattributable, untrackable. Kiley morse for channel 4 news which conducted that undercover investigation of Cambridge Analytica. Lets start with that. Essentially we can do a no fingerprints Information Campaign on social media. Is it credible . Is that the kind of thing that they did actually do . Well, yes, i think there is evidence that they were able to use proxies. Indeed they were quite detailed in some of their evidence to us or some of their comments to us about that, about how you can go in and use a charity, for example, or use some other kind of unbranded entity and sure that thats the way you get this message out. So as a humble facebook user, you have no idea where that message might be coming from. I mean that is also an issue that has raised some concerns and questions indeed about whether or not there was any overlap between their work on different parts of the campaign. Of course there are Campaign Financing regulations that mean that they should have had firewalls in place to make sure that they werent involved using money to send messaging on behalf of super pacs and at the same time doing work on the core business of the campaign. Now, they say those firewalls were in place, but certainly as they have detailed some of their campaign work, its very difficult to distinguish where that line might have fallen. Hillary clinton was interviewed as part of the channel 4 story. She raises the question of the possibility, the question of the possibility of any coordination with russia. I want to play that and get your reaction. Take a listen. Sure. Youve got Cambridge Analytica, youve got the Republican National committee, which of course had always done Data Collection and analysis, and youve got the russians. The real question is how did the russians know how to target their messages so precisely, to undecided voters in wisconsin or michigan or pennsylvania . Cambridge analytica boasts about their targeting acumen and its not something that you would imagine that the russian operation would have. It seems like a fair question to ask. Absolutely. Congressman adam schiff when we spoke to him today from the house intelligence committee, of course theyre interested in the idea of any overlap, accidental or intended, between the kind of modus operrandi of the russianing and Cambridge Analytica. Maybe this is how you disseminate Information Online but certainly it seems to be a blueprint at work that can be traced to both the russians and a Data Analytics group like Cambridge Analytica. The Regulatory Environment in the uk means that Cambridge Analytica has a lot of folks breathing down its neck. You just mentioned fec and Campaign Finance law and we have a new breaking story tonight that i want to give you a chance to respond to that steve bannon oversaw Cambridge Analyticas collection of facebook data, according to the former employee, the whistleblower, who said that bannon, who sat on the board of that company was overseeing a lot of their actions. That he oversaw and sort of gave the green light to this big kind of data scraping that Cambridge Analytica did that has them in trouble with uk regulators. I mean i cant speak to the direct line of control when it came to harvesting that facebook data, obviously, but, you know, steve bannon was part of the reason steve bannon was interested in Cambridge Analytica was because of the kinds of models they were testing. The only way to ensure that they were they might be effective and to ensure that they were able to test messages, which we know they were doing early on too, things like drain the swamp, the only way to really decide whether or not that messaging could be effective was if they had a large pool of data to work with. So certainly you could imagine there would have been the desire for that data to be available. Now, steve bannon we know was in talks with wylie in 2013, by 2014 Robert Mercer was involved backing it. By that point steve bannon is the Vice President of Cambridge Analytica. So certainly, you know, he is a presence within the new entity, the new u. S. Entity, Cambridge Analytica, at the time that wylie is discussing. And finally theres a remarkable moment of Alexander Nix talking about his appearance before the house intelligence committee. And its the first time weve seen this, a kind of unguarded report back from someone who got called before that committee about the different treatment they got from republicans and democrats. Take a listen. I went to speak to them and the republicans ask three questions. Five minutes, done. Democrats asked two hours of questions. It was voluntary and i did because im trying to help. We have no secrets. Correct. Theyre politicians, theyre not technical. They dont understand how it works. They dont understand because the candidate is never involved. Hes told what to do by the campaign team. So the candidate is the puppet . Of course. So the candidate is the puppet, but i thought that was a remarkable thing to say. Hes very clear about whats happening on a partisan basis on that committee that he testifies before. Thats right. When we spoke to adam schiff, the one thing he said is that bit is kind of accurate, the way nix is describing the dynamic in the committee. The other information that came out of that segment where hes talking about the fact that these investigators simply cant keep up, they dont really understand what it is a company like Cambridge Analytica might be doing, particularly when, you know, Alexander Nix later goes on to suggest that it would be a good idea if the clients were to get this kind of secretive, selfdestruct email so theres no tracking available. Thats the real challenge for regulators, for committees, house, senate and otherwise. How do you investigate this when obviously theyre very good at covering their tracks. All right, fantastic reporting and thank you for making time. Really appreciate it. Ahead shall the secret of trumps success is cheating. Thats what Michelle Goldberg writes. She joins me to explain just after this ek vertebra. If yor crohns symptoms are holding you back, and your Current Treatment hasnt worked well enough, it may be time for a change. 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With me Michelle Goldberg, and jason candor and eddie glaude. Explain i thought the column was fascinating. Thank you. Whats the main idea . The main idea is that theres a lot of debate about did Cambridge Analytica really work. Was it just like steve bannon himself, hightech snake oil and all a big scam and their vaunted psychographic targeting, did that matter. I think thats what orthgonal to the fact that we have these people that cheated not in only normal ways but in ways that i, who consider myself one of trumps more vitriolic critics, would not have imagined. One of the things thats difficult in understanding trump is that you have to constantly expand your imaginative grasp of human villainy. You have to constantly think that like, wow, people will actually do this . And once you realize what theyre capable of and what theyre willing to do, it makes some of the scandals around trump, i think you see them in a different light. So it matters that he has these people who are out there talking about kind of framing their political opponents with ukrainian prostitutes and bribes and exspies and fake i. D. S. The fact that these are the people who are on trumps payroll at the heart of the campaign, it doesnt really so right, yeah. Theres two issues to me. One is on that. Theres rule making and corner cutting. And then theres sketchiness. Theres just a deep sketchiness to the president s associates, the way the president conducts. Yeah. Cambridge analytica, watching them, get this email program so no one can trace your email. Theres a question i guess theres a question of does that catch up to them . Well, yes, in the sense that the American People look at this and i think theyre seeing that theres a certain level of predictability to this. Theyre like, yeah, this is what the guy does. And it just goes back to you cant assume because the guy won the election with 46 of the vote that, therefore, the American People have validated this approach. Thats not the case. They didnt like him then. They dont really like him now. And what hes doing, hes going to try to do the same thing again, right . The whole concept behind it is they dont think they have a good enough argument to win. Well, i want to trouble this a bit because i think its one thing to focus on trump. I think its trump plus instruments, tools that exist in the political culture as it is, right . So what we see here is that theres a way in which microtargeting, theres a way nsk psychographics can be used. Ted cruzs campaign used or hired Cambridge Analytica. Former obama people said we did a lot of data scraping off of facebook which they let us do which wasnt precisely analogous but a little envelope pushing. So what were seeing is perhaps the manufacture of consent 5. 0. And then you add a bad actor, donald trump. Not to say that the others arent bad actors either, but you add bad actors and what you have is not so much that donald trump is a cheater, what you have, i think, are the ingredients to a very troubling undercurrent to american democracy. The ways in which the demos can be manipulated by donald trump, a cheater, or by barack obama or by the clintons or by whomever. But thats the question. That gets us back to the does it amount to anything question. Like did it work essentially. But i think that its a problem that we always ask did it work with all of their kind of with all of their rule breaking. You know, the dnc rules matter. The dnc breakin was in the 1970s was delegitimatizing even though nobody had to prove that what they learned in that breakin had any effect on the 1972 election, right . So theyre cheating in this process in which they eked out a minority victory, i think delegitimatizes this president , whether or not any of these little escapades was the determining factor. The cause. And also i want to push back against the idea that obama that obama did this or that other people certainly obama scraped facebook data, although not under false pretenses, right . And also a lot of the tools, ive spoken to some early facebook people and people who have worked on facebook privacy, people who worked inside facebook on privacy issues. Theres a lot of tools that just didnt exist before this election cycle that they were able to take advantage of. So this was something qualitatively different. Look, the president behaves like a gangster. And not like in a complimentary way. What i mean is theres a reason that he initially wanted only family Members Around him, right . They usually dont talk to the fbi. So my point is, is when you deal with, say, organized crime or any sort of organized enterprise to go around the law, one of the things you have to do is look at how theyre doing it. So we really need to make sure were having a serious discussion. Were clearly not going to get president ial leadership on this from him. But congress at some point needs to step up and say, look, the platforms through which this happened have an enormous amount of influence and they have to bear some responsibility. This is the point im making, is to say we can have an argument about donald trump as a bad actor with unbridled executive power. Which means we would need a critique to bear on imperial presidency, thats not reducible to donald trump as a bad actor. So when you combine the two, all hell breaks loose. So we have all these elements in our democratic process. You add donald trump to it and, boom, you get this not just that. You talk about watergate, right . What happens after watergate . A whole bunch of reforms around the rules of the game for campaigns. The first big error of Campaign Finance, what you can and cant do with campaigns. So it wasnt just well, nixon is bad. Its nixon broke all these laws but he also was taking advantage of an environment in which the rules have to be restored, like legitimacy has to be restored. I think that to me, even if whatever happens independent of what Donald Trumps fate is, that to me is the point about this cheating and your point about legitimacy, which is there feels like theres a deep illegitimacy problem now. Yeah. I certainly think there is, both because of taking advantage of rules and also, i think, breaking rules. And ive written before that assuming we survive this presidency, there needs to be a detrumpification process where we rebuild some of the norms, pass new laws an say as a society we are creating the structures to make sure this never happens again. We make sure the people at the end of tv ads say we approve this message. Our laws need to catch up to the fact that isnt the only way we communicate. Thats the simplest, most clear example of the way the rules havent kept up, right . This idea that you can have covert ads on facebook, people dont know where they come from, that violates fair law in other areas. Michelle, jason, eddie, thanks for joining us. Breaking news now out of austin, texas, where the Police Twitter account from that city is now reporting yet another explosion there. Weve had nbc news Gabe Gutierrez on the ground in austin. Hes on the phone with the latest. Gabe, what are you learning . Reporter hi there, chris. Were heading to the scene right now. What were hearing from someone else, nbc news team thats already on the ground, is that this entire neighborhood is being evacuated. Just a few minutes ago, there was a package that exploded there, according to authorities, and what we understand is one male in his 30s has been transported to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. Chris, this comes after a very fluid day in this investigation in austin. Just a short time ago, the atf and the fbi confirmed that five explosions and one other package that was intercepted by authorities today is connected to the serial bomber that has been terrorizing the austin area so far. Chris, this all began back on march 2nd with an explosion that killed a 39yearold man. Since then there have been a series of explosions. The first three of them were packages that were left on peoples door steps quietly overnight. One of them also killing a 17yearold boy. Now, on sunday the investigation took a twist when the package that exploded late sunday, it was triggered by a trip wire. Thats what investigators are very concerned about, that the serial bomber appears to be taking different tactics. Overnight near san antonio at a fedex facility, a package exploded there that initial dispatch call suggests was filled with nails. There was one worker that suffered minor injuries. Later on in the day at another fedex facility in the austin area, a package was intercepted and the atf, fbi and local police said the previous explosions along with the package intercepted today all appear to be connected. Right now the breaking news, a neighborhood is evacuated for yet another explosion here in the austin area. We see some emergency vehicles rushing to the scene right now and were trying to get more information. As we get it but what were told is that the explosion may have happened at a restaurant. Again, a man in his 30s is apparently transported to the hospital, chris. I just wanted to follow up on that. So the first three, we know they were delivered to a doorstep. We believe they were placed there by the bomber. The fourth was a trip wire and then there was one package that went off in a fedex facility, one that was intercepted. Do we know if this was like that fourth one, a trip wire, or left on the door or do we not know . Reporter we dont know that right now. This happened just a few moments ago and were hoping to get more information from the scene. All we can tell you is it appeared to be in or near a restaurant there. One thing i forgot to mention, chris, is that we also heard from investigators that they are now searching some Surveillance Video from another fedex Office Facility here in the austin area where it is believed the bomber or someone perhaps dropping off these packages may have mailed two of these packages. The one that was found in the fedex facility near san antonio and then the one that was intercepted in this other Distribution Center near the airport in austin, that someone mailed them from one fedex Office Facility in an austin suburb. This latest explosion that happened just a few minutes ago, its about four miles from that fedex dropoff point, so certainly investigators will be trying to figure out what link, if any, and where this package may have traveled, if it did indeed come from that Fedex Office Location. They are going through Surveillance Video right now. We saw several of them going through some of the Different Stores in that strip mall where that Fedex Office Location was. This is still a very fluid investigation, chris, and now all of this these Law Enforcement agencies are converging on this spot right in austin. So certainly its going to be a long night for some of these investigators. All right, Gabe Gutierrez, thank you so much for that dispatch. 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Election observers observed instance of intimidation and voter coercion. Cameras caught instances of people literally stuffing ballot boxes. Senator john mccain released an angry statement in response to trumps congratulatory call which read an american president does not lead the free world by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. Trumps call came just days after the u. S. Placed new sanctions on russia for interfering in our election and he made it despite an apparent russianorchestrated assassination attempt on a former spy that involved the deployment of a nerve agent on the soil of americas closest ally. The Washington Post reports tonight that trumps own National Security advisers warned him not to congratulate putin, but he just did it anyway despite a section in his written briefing materials imploring him in all caps, do not congratulate. Not only that, he ignored talking points from aides instructing him to condemn putin about the recent poisoning. Sarah sanders, whose job it is to justify the president s behavior, told reporters that trump did not bring up the poisoning or Russian Election interference on the call. Does the white house believe that the election in russia was free and fair . Look, in terms of the election, we are focused on our elections. We dont get to dictate how other countries operate. So the white house doesnt like talking about the sham elections in other countries except when it does, like last year when venezuela. This recent actions culminating in yesterdays outrageous seizure of absolute power through the sham election of the National Constituent assembly represent a very serious blow to democracy in our hemisphere. Maduro is not just a bad leader, he is now a dictator. Same podium, same white house, same issues with the election, but somehow putin gets a pass. When we come back, senator Bernie Sanders is here to talk about the president s posture towards russia and the brutal war the Trump Administration is helping to wage without congressional oversight. Stay with us. Joining me now, senator Bernie Sanders of vermont. Putin congratulations, a bunch of your colleagues said they didnt support Vladimir Putin. It should be clear to everybody that we have a president with a strong authoritarian personality. He likes people like putin, like the philippines leader. That is who he is, and what frightens me is not only his respect and admiration for tyrants all over the world but his disrespect for democracy in our own country in terms of voter suppression, in terms of gerrymandering and attacks on the media. Our job is to stand together and say hey, mr. Trump, in this country, we believe in democracy, not authoritarian. Should he have congratulated putin . Of course not. How do you do that . You got a sham election. Putins major opponent was barred from running and putin controls the media. They stuff ballot boxes. What kind of election is that . There is something flying under the radar now and it will have to happen from the government and one thing that some people have been talking about and i want to talk about a few aspects of it is whether there should be something attached to it to protect robert mueller. I want to show you Mitch Mcconnells view on that and get your reaction. Here is what he had to say. Are you prepared to take any action to protect the special counsel of Rob Rosenstein . I dont think its necessary. I dont think bob mueller is going anywhere. What do you think of that . Well, you know, we have in unpredictable president who acts often in irrational ways. I hope that mcconnell is right, but to my mind, we have got to do Everything Possible to make it clear that if trump forces mueller, its not acceptable. Im glad to hear that a few republicans, not senator mcconnell but some others have made that same point. You had a piece of legislation today and it was voted for down today 5544 on the same day that mohammed of the saudi prince was in town that would have essentially required congressional authorization to aid saudi arabia and its aid in yemen. Chris, take a deep breath and think about modern american history. If you think about the two worst Foreign Policy blunders in our modern history, they are the war in vietnam where the Johnson Administration used the resolution to suck america into that vietnam kwag fire. It just happened and johnson the American People on you think 15 years the war in iraq where we had a republican president george w. Bush, dick cheney lying about Saddam Hussein colliding with Osama Bin Laden working on weapons of mass destruction not true. We went into that war which destabilized the middle east, resulted in hundreds of thousands of people there dying, displacement of millions of people, 4400 of our own young men and women dying in that war. Whats the commonality of those two wars . Congress did not play the constitutional role that is supposed to be played. Article one section 8 says it is congress, not the president , who declares war. We have advocated that responsibility. Right now in yemen, we have an unbelievable humanitarian disaster. 1 Million People with cholera, 10,000 dead, millions of people being displaced, congress has got to determine whether or not our military plays a role in that war. We have not done that and thats what i try to do today. The argument of the Trump Administration and those who voted against this i think is the u. S. Has an interest in helping the saudis defeat the insurgent in yemen and aid the blockade which has caused tremendous almost unfathomable humanitarian crisis. I think they are wrong. More importantly, if you think the u. S. Aiding saudi arabia in the destruction and whats going on in yemen is a good idea, then vote for it. What happened today is a motion to table our resolution was passed. So the congress didnt have the guts to vote up or down or whether they thought it was a good idea for the u. S. To be supporting saudi arabia. So bottom line here is we cannot continue to give president s democratic, republican, whatever to do what they want military. The constitution is very clear. Congress has got to accept its responsibility. If you want to vote for the war in yemen, vote for the war in yemen but dont duck the issue. Thanks for being with me. Appreciate it. Thank you. We have more on the breaking news out of austin, texas tonight where Austin Police are responding to another explosion. Nbcs jay gray joins me live. What do you see there . Reporter hey, chris, a lot unfolding now as you can see. Were several blocks away from the scene of what is another apparent bombing here in the austin area. In fact, Police Telling us right now they are going through a secondary sweep to see if there are any other devices in this area. This just happened within the last 30 minutes or so. One man in his 30s it appears was rushed from the scene by ambulance. He has serious but not considered lifethreatening injuries at this point. Weve seen not only Austin Police and state police but federal agents, fbi and atf rushing into this area and vehicles continue to pour in. It continues to be a very active scene and very active investigation. The latest that weve heard, chris, is that this is an area with some restaurants and shops and this explosion may have gone off in one of the shops. Still very early what is going on and details still very slim at this point. We are only about three miles from a fedex office where late this evening, Police Confirmed two suspicious packages, one that blew up in the fedex sorting facility and another in facility here in houston thats being examined. Only three miles from where those bombs were apparently mailed. And again, it looks like another explosion here in austin. It would be the sixth in the last three weeks and the third in the last two days here. Are police confirming at this point there was an explosion . That is established by police, right . Reporter yeah, police are saying here that there has been an explosion. They are not saying it was a package bomb. They say there was some type of explosion. They are just on the scene here. I got to imagine this is spooled out over the last few weeks. It starts on march 2nd but seems to be accelerating intensely over the last three or four days that folks must be quite on edge in austin right now. Reporter yeah, very much so. A lot of people very frightened and especially, chris, because of the random nature. We have bombs on every side of the city and close to san antonio. People arent sure when or if the next explosion may come. Its been a very frustrating situation from residents and families and chris, right now they are asking us to move back from here. They are continuing to push us a little further back from the area where the explosion happened. Can you tell us anything about what is going on about this point . You mentioned an explosion, thats all we have. And a secondary scan. Thank you. Just go to the side. I understand. I understand. Thank you. There you go, chris, thats the latest from here. Back to you. On the scene in austin. Please, sir, keep walking. There is an explosion, as you heard. That will do it for all in. From the east coast, the his victory in a rigged election, but he did it, anyway. Even to those around trump, its another measure of how far we are from normal. Plus, a d. C. Attorney denies joining the legal team. The president says if its time to get rid of mueller, its time for impeachment. And another allegation from a porn star as the 11th hour gets underway tonight. Good evening. Day 425 of the american president , and the breaking news