Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Considered official white house statements . Well, the president is the president of the United States. So theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. At least one republican was willing to speak candidly about the reaction among many lawmakers in the capital. Every morning we wake up, he tweets something, and were supposed to respond to his tweet. Mueller is going to finish his investigation and the truth will come out. Our leadopen panel, peter baker, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. Jill colvin, White House Reporter for the associated press. John heilemann, coauthor of game change. And harry litman, former u. S. Attorney, former Deputy AssistantAttorney General under president clinton. Good evening, all. Peter, i would like to read you what sally yates, formerly of the justice department, wrote today. Today our president called on his recused Attorney General to
shut down the investigation of his own campaign. As shocking as that is, whats even more dangerous is that weve gotten used to it. The rule of law wont evaporate overnight. But it can slip away if we let it. Peter, there we have the president s own words to judge him by this morning. This is on him. I guess this is one of those lessons, we get to see if words have consequences. Thats right. Look, whats fascinating is how much this plays out in public and out loud. What weve seen from the president s tweets is him saying what would have been a scandal had, say, president nixon been found to have said it privately in a taped session in the oval office. In fact the tape that finally undid him during watergate was hearing him order his aides to tell the cia to tell the fbi to lay off the watergate investigation. Here you have the president of the United States saying out loud, not in the privacy of the oval office but on twitter for everyone to read, the Attorney General of the United States who was appointed by him, should
command almost doesnt matter, although its a very, very tenuous distinction. Eight not on its not only the president thats saying this but hes saying in the same sentence, right now, its a rigged witch hunt, it is staining our country. Surely anyone who heard those words in the oval office would think he better remedy the situation or hes going to lose his job. But if what the president is trying to do in a mild way or a dictatorial way, is shut down the investigation, ill give you three other words, which are Obstruction Of Justice. Its a real possibility. And especially, brian, given the whole run of different tweets, all of which are admissible, he is really flirting with enhancing the criminal case against himself. So harry, as a former fed, you can say with some certainty
and the atmospherics in the west wing. Our sources tell us he is definitely not happy right now. The president was watching television, watching coverage of the beginning of the trial of Paul Manafort this morning. Were told that this is what sparked the flurry of tweets this morning. And one confidant told my colleague Jonathan Lemire earlier today that the president is in, quote, a dark place. The president has been furious. Its been building over the last couple of weeks, ever since he returned from helsinki. He was furious at the media, the way that he felt that he was not given enough credit for how things went with vladimir putin. He felt like he was being misportrayed and his summit with putin was misportrayed. He felt he didnt get enough credit for meeting with kim jongun in singapore and he has just been raging. Youve got the president who feels its not just the media who is attacking him but also the government thats coming and attacking him right now. Youve got, in addition to the manafort trial, the president has also been deeply shaken by the Ongoing Investigation into Michael Cohen, his long time fixer, and the release of that audio tape, that set him off. Anyone could say today that the president is not in a good place. John heilemann here in new york, what is it were witnessing . The president acts out. We see this over and over again, in a variety of different weighs. This is an expression of his id. Hes angry and afraid. He can see the walls closing in. I think hes somewhere close to panic right now. And thats part of Whats Going On. He still has some degree of political calculation thats governing what hes doing, because the reality is, as has been pointed out today, if he wanted to fire Rod Rosenstein and try to end this investigation, genuinely end it, he could call Rod RosensteinInto The White House and fire him. He has the ability to do that. But he obviously thinks, rightly or wrongly, we dont know if
hes right or wrong about this, but he thinks the political consequences of that on capitol hill would be too great. If he thought republicans would all just roll over, he would clearly do it, because he does have manifestly corrupt intent. He manifestly believes he would like to shut this entire thing down. One of the great banes of his presidency is the fact that Jeff Sessions recused himself to this and was not as loyal to him as he thought. Youve got the president making political calculations, not going as far as what his core wants him to do, because i think he would like to fire Rod Rosenstein. But at the same time, the outlet of twitter, and it really is, you know, we both remember brooklyn, can you imagine what would have happened if bill clinton had walked up to the white house podium and said Janet Reno Should Fire ken starr, or if he had taken to the oped page of the New York Times and said Janet Reno Should Fire ken starr, that would have provoked a
cataclysmic reaction, both democrat and republican. Thats a long time ago. Twitter is a sewer, a cesspool, a horrible medium in some ways, beneficial in others, but its the same thing as the podium and its the same thing as the oped page of the New York Times in 2018. Those words are hanging out there tonight. Harry, are you a member of the club, despite all the great bylines tonight, that will believe a mueller trump meeting when you see it . In other words, ill believe it when i see it, i dont think its going to happen. Im a long term Card Carrying Member of that club. However much they pare it down, it will be questions that if he answers them falsely, he will be subject to criminal penalty. And theyre not going to be softballs like, did you have corrupt intent. Theyll be things like, for example, did you know flynn was under investigation when you told comey to let up on him. Weve just had new reporting that shows he does. There are probably half a dozen other things that trump doesnt know and mueller does. And yeah, i dont see his sitting down with him under any circumstances, where theres criminal penalty for lying. And i Dont See Mueller sitting down with him where he gets a free pass for lying. So i see an impasse. Peter baker, we knew, as if we needed any help, that the president s words were going to be impactful on twitter this morning, the minute we learned how many News Organizations got what the president meant to say phone calls afterwards, and yours among them. Absolutely. Theyre trying very hard to make the point, this is just an opinion, this is not a command. Thats because they understand there is a line there, theyve drawn the line, at least. He can express an opinion, he can say it should be shut down but wont actually order it, because as john says correctly, he does perceive that to be a step too far, at least for the
moment. So far hes convinced himself or been convinced that firing Rod Rosenstein or attempting to Fire Bob Mueller would be would create such a blowback against him legally and politically that its not worth the effort. Hes trying to continue to shape public opinion, to make sure at least his base and maybe some other people believe this investigation isnt legitimate, that there is no reason to believe what they hear that might come out of the Paul Manafort trial, from anything else that might come out of this investigation, and to prepare the ground for what might amount to a big political battle later on when we do here more results from the investigation, either this summer or after the election. Jill colvin, we witnessed three whole News Media Briefings for the month of july from the white house. They are, i should point out, 10 for august so far. We had one today, but the president is about to go down for ten days, Rush Limbaugh was able to talk to him today. Is the philosophy going to be
friendlies preferred . I mean, thats long been the strategy of this administration, especially when they feel under fire, they try to keep the president away from reporters, away from situations where he could turn the tweets into a kind of standing press conference, gaggle back and forth, and make matters worse. I thought it was really interesting, this week its also bill shine really stepping into his role as the new communications chief. We had a really interesting thing that happened yesterday when we were standing outside the oval office. We were waiting for the president to do a swearingin ceremony and bill shine actually came out and told reporters ahead of time, the president will not be answering questions. You can try, but he is not going to do it. And thats exactly what happened. Were seeing this new well see how long it heselasts, but degree of the president not engaging. That may be because everyone around the president is getting more serious because he could be
in serious trouble. Do you think theres any acknowledgement, deep, dark, in the west wing, or in the residence tonight, that he would like to take that back today . I dont know on his part. In the residence, probably not. Certainly a lot of us were in the building when he did what he did. To get back to the situation with mueller and the interview, you know, i think a lot of people are going to interpret in a somewhat panicked way the notion that mueller is giving ground, to limit the questions on Obstruction Of Justice. To me it indicates a position of strength. When you look at harry litmans regulatory in the New York Review Of Books, We Know Mueller has talked to mcgahn and they have already testified to him that yes, trump had been presented with a timeline and with evidence of the fact that the fbi was investigating flynn on criminal charges before he had his conversation with comey, telling comey to lay off, that
there is memos, documentation that mueller has that hes heard from those witnesses, it all feels to me like what this is about is mueller conveying the notion that, i can cut back to half of my questions on Obstruction Of Justice because i dont actually need that much from you, mr. President , ive already got this case basically made, its not a position of weakness, its a position of strength. I think thats making the president , among many other things, feel nervous and making the people around him feel even more nervous. Does it get more highbrow than someone quoting the New York Review Of Books on our broadcast . I dont think it does. Thank you all for helping us out on a wednesday night. Coming up for us, is the president s behavior a clue of whats to come . We ask a former fbi agent what he thinks. And later, if you were curious about those cuqs that popped up in the crowd in the president s rally wednesday night, well have that coming
up. The 11th hour getting under way beneath the dome on a wednesday night. With the new Chase Ink Business unlimited card i get unlimited 1. 5 cash back. Its so simple, i dont even have to think about it. So i think about mouthfeel. Introducing Chase Ink Business unlimited with unlimited 1. 5 cash back on every purchase. Told us the president s words on twitter count in this investigation. As weve been saying so far tonight, just days ago, the times reported that mueller is examining all the president has said about sessions. He can throw this mornings tweet on the pile. Clint watts, former fbi special agent, his latest, messing with the enemy surviving in a social media world of hackers, terrorists, russians, and fake news. And shannon pettypiece, White House Correspondent for bloomberg. Clint, i have to ask you, if you came across the type of behavior we are seeing from the nations Chief Executive in your old day job at the fbi, how would that alter your investigation . What would that do . It just adds to the pile. And it continues the timeline. I think several interesting things about this Obstruction Angle is, were hearing some negotiation from the mueller
team about taking written responses to questions and then sitting down for an interview. Im sure isnt that just to get him in the door . It is. And it could play very much to the president s disadvantage strategically, because as weve seen, the president doesnt like to read very much. I doubt hes actually going to be the one crafting up all these statements. Hell be working with his legal team. Thats probably correct, yes. Hell have to go in and understand and know what the statements are that are on the paper and be able to speak to those. The other thing, the president is at a huge disadvantage, he doesnt know everyone that mueller has talked to, what they have told him, and what documents, texts, emails, phone calls theyve had with each other behind the scenes that also match up to a timeline. Weve seen just here on nbc news where the president has said, well, comey, when i got rid of him, it was because of this russia thing. So these are public things that are very damning. The timelines are damning. Even if he did not actually obstruct, its just the attempt
to obstruct that can be held as a charge. So in terms of how the investigation progresses, it seems to me the mueller team probably has all the data it needs to ask these questions, have the president come in. And that is going to be very difficult, i imagine, for the president to negotiate and be consistent both with the written statement and with the timeline thats been laid out in front of them. Shannon pettypiece, any acknowledgement by those around the president that his tone isnt always that of an innocent man . Absolutely. His lawyers, his legal advisers, you know, around a year ago, when he first started building up the legal team, really emphasized to him that you cannot be making public attacks against mueller personally or against this investigation. And they were successful for a while, if you remember, back to the summer last time, where trump would say no collusion, and he pretty much tamped down any personal attacks on mueller. But that strategy he felt wasnt
really working for him. And there was a moment, really particularly after the Michael Cohen raid, where he took the gloves off. And he had already been starting to test the waters, he had already been racheting up this rhetoric about a witch hunt. He had been told that this investigation would be done by the end of 2017 by his lawyers. It wasnt. He continued seeing indictments coming from people involved in his administration and campaign. That moment, that Michael Cohen raid, was really the moment he said, forget this, the gloves are coming off, im going on full attack mode. Rudy giuliani was brought in with the specific, you know, point or goal of being the public attack dog against mueller. So this is a conscious strategy at this point. And it is a major shift from where we were a year ago when the legal advice was, stay cool, lets cooperate, and try and get this thing over with quickly. And shannon, you also wrote about the State Of Play in the will mueller and trump sit down. It looks like mueller is trying to say whatever you need to do to get the guy in here and get him in the door. Thats typically how these negotiations work. And to the point the guests were making earlier, does it look like muellers caving, mueller really knows the answer to a lot of his answers. To the point clint was making, to some extent the Trump Legal Team does know what the documents are out there, they know what the witnesses have said to some extent. But mueller has many, many more pieces of this puzzle than the president s legal team does, and he knows the answer to many of the questions hes going to ask. He wants to get those on record. Around obstruction, one of the main ones is to determine the president s intent. So yes, if they have to concede on some areas to get to the areas they really want, thats what theyre doing, and thats typically for how these things go between a prosecutor and a Defense Lawyer in any of these sort of carefully choreographed negotiations. Clint watts has agreed to stick around. Were going to put his web
training to use when we talk about the newest fringe group we saw last night at the president s rally. So clint, our thanks for now. Shannon pettypiece, our thanks as always for coming on. Coming up, incredibly expensive mens wear, Million Dollar home. Why are transfers from Bank Accounts in cyprus the latest on the manafort trial, from a reporter who was inside the courtroom today, when The 11th Hour continues. [upbeat music]
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u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york, and rachel winer is with us, reporter for the Washington Post who was inside the courtroom today. Rachel, thank you for being with us, im sorry about the long day this makes for. Talk about what was presented today, and the judges theory that hes not allowing photographs to be displayed in court but hes going to allow the jury photos when they go off some day to deliberate. I think thats in part because he wants the trial to move quickly. Hes been adamant about that and its worked so far. Theyre way ahead of schedule. They were supposed to take three weeks and now the government says they will finish their case next week. He may not want a commotion knowing how much Media Coverage this case is getting. But at first it seemed like he might not let them show the jury these fancy suits at all. In the end they did come in, just at the end of the day. But they did get pictures of the 15,000 ostrich skin jacket, and also i think an 18,500 python
jacket and all sorts of other very expensive suits. The man likes jackets. Councilor, a couple of questions for you. First of all, this is a nonsequestered jury. The president of the United States is tweeting about the defendant in a way they can all see, proclaiming his innocence. Where do we file that . What do we do about that . Well, its tricky. The judge will instruct the jury, as every judge does at every trial, do not read about the case, do not watch television about the case. But this is a different world where were dealing with twitter. I dont know whether the judge maybe rachel knows has instructed the jury not to read twitter. But thats almost what the judge needs to do. Theyre not sequestered in the way that, you know, were used to with the o. J. Simpson trial, for example. But they likely have been instructed to not Pay Attention to any news, do not read newspapers, because of the prominence of the coverage. Lets interrupt our
conversation to ask rachel. Have you heard such a charge from the judge . Yes. Judge ellis has made very clear. Im not sure he knows what twitter is, hell be the first to say that at 78 he is not up on any sort of new media. But he told them dont read anything, dont look at anything, dont look anything up on your computer. He always says, you know, i would say dont look it up in an encyclopedia but im the only person who does that. Dont talk to your family. Assuming they hold to that, its possible they dont see the trump tweets. But you can walk into a coffee shop and it might come across your vision. Thats right. Dan, we did hear, he gave the government lawyers a couple of brushback pitches today, some chin music. They keep hammering the lavish lifestyle, the expensive ostrich jacket. You can overplay that hand, i guess. Well, to the judge, you can
overplay the hand. Its not a crime to be a rich guy. Its not a crime to be a rich guy. But you have to understand the context of this evidence. Its not just that he lived a lavish lifestyle. Although that is relevant to sort of his motive, particularly when the money dried up after he stopped working forri iaviktor yanukovych. You also have to be able to show in a Tax Fraud Case that what you declared for your income tax is less than you actually earned. One way to do that is to show what Question Call in prosecutor world, unexplained wealth. How can you be paying out 6 million in cash if, for example, and i havent seen his tax returns, you only declare that you made 1 million . So it is very relevant evidence. And i think what the judge is just getting a little frustrated with is, dont try to over as you point out, dont try to oversell it, thats not really whats relevant, whats relevant is the money, not the
photograph. And so hes trying to stress that and keep things moving. And rachel, what was this hint today in court that rick gates, star witness, former manafort assistant, may not end up taking the stand . So one of the prosecutors, assistant u. S. Attorney, did Say Gates May or may not testify, and obviously that caused a lot of commotion. But i think theres not much to it. Always prosecutors, when told not to put in some evidence because a later witness will testify to it, will say, well, we havent were not sure that person will testify, so we should put it in now, just to make sure they can account for any possibility, you know, whatever might happen to rick gates. And so i think he was just doing that the way prosecutors always do, not recognizing in this case the amount of attention that would get. And he did immediately sort of walk it back and say thats
nothing particular to gates, thats true of any witness. It would be shocked if rick gates didnt testify. He is the key witness in this case. And the defense is planning to blame everything on rick gates. But im sure prosecutors were expecting that and have prepared him for that. Councilor, i have time for a yes or no. Will he or wont he testify . Yes. But, and i know i gave you a oneword answer once, but the prosecution did not include gates very prominently in their opening statement. So that would indicate they would certainly be calling him. And the fact that they didnt is interesting. It means theyre giving themselves room not to call him. Remember, they didnt try this case with gates as a witness, so its possible to prove it without him. Our great things to our two guests, daniel goldman, rachel weinor, thank you very much. Coming up, you may have seen them displaying the letter q prominently at the trump rally
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to appear as more of the cover. It goes on from there, a local news crew interviewed a q c conspiracist. It all started when the president was meeting with military leaders and said this is the calm before the storm. This launched us into the q intelligence has been talking to all of us, letting us know Whats Going On behind the scenes, the covert battles raging between the deep state and President Trump and his military alliance. What will you do about it . Spread it, combat the mainstream media. Were fighting a battle on all fronts here. So there is a q coin among other things. Here is the comment from trump that gave this group a lot of fuel. A photo op during a white house dinner for military commanders and their spouses. And note what the president says
here, which would normally be filed under the kind of tossoff comment the president sometimes makes. What this represents, the calm before the storm. Reporter whats the storm . Reporter what does that mean . The calm before the storm. Reporter what storm, mr. President . We have a lot of Military People who will tell you that. Thank you all for coming. Reporter what storm, mr. President . Youll find out. Reporter give us a hint. Thank you, everybody. The calm before the storm. Nbc News Reporter ben collins covers this Digital World for the network and has been looking into this group and writing about them. Weve asked clint watts, former fbi special agent to stick around and be a part of this. Ben, did i get their motives and some of their beliefs right . And what else should we know about them . Unfortunately you got it all right, theres not much to know about them. This is basically fan fiction, a Conspiracy Theory that donald trump is doing anything right and anything that looks like hes doing wrong, hes doing the right thing. They misconstrue typos to make it look like he knows what hes doing. People on the internet who cant grapple with the reality of the situation have decided to take out all this disinformation on their political enemies. Theyve accused people from celebrities to politicians of being part of a Child Sex Ring that simply does not exist. We thought it was over with pizzagate but it amped itself up among people on twitter, facebook and reddit. Clint, you do your lifes work as we do ours, in a free society, where its hard to limit this kind of thing. Its hard to squelch or suppress
it. Look at the climate this is coming up in. Right. And going back two years ago, we saw the kremlin pushing a lot of disinformation around the election. What were seeing now is everybody adopting those techniques. So theres a lot of artificial production in terms of social media, social bots, amplification. Youre seeing very high end production. The videos are very good. Which makes them more convincing. Youre seeing them spread very rapidly in a much quicker way. The key phrase there, the calm before the storm, if youre a good social engineer and pick out these phrases that are catchy with the audience and combine them into a conspiracy that seems convincing to people who dont know the details. Im not just worried about russian disinformation, im worried about american disinformation, because its a Public Safety issue. A lot of these conspiracies, weve seen people show up with weapons, weve seen shutdowns, Police Emergencies that have come from it. If you look at this, its got all the elements of what would maybe be an uprising or
advocating for violence or nudging people towards it or even political upheaval. I think its a dangerous phenomenon especially when you see it tied to the president and his rallies. Ben, in the immortal words of my late mother, its all Fun And Games until someone gets hurt. Whats the danger . Weve already seen it with pizzagate. A man walked into a pizza parlor and shot it up, assuming there was a Child Sex Ring in the basement, trying to investigate it. With qanon, there is a guy who blocked the entrance to the hoover dam a couple of weeks ago. Since hes gotten into jail, hes sent a bunch of wild letters to the president , talking about qanon conspiracy theories. Theres a guy in arizona, tucson, who has for the past few weeks, he got a Felony Trespassing Charge because he believed a Homeless Camp was a child sex trafficking camp. It had nothing to do with it. He was Live Streaming it until youtube and facebook until facebook finally brought all this stuff down. This stuff has real life consequences. People putting up q signs at trump rallies is not going to help it. Clint, how much do you fear that this group is getting a wink and a nod from the right people to not stop . And what can the government do in a free society . Yeah, i think it was a little over a year ago i talked you know, part of the reason this works is because we have politicians in this country that are doing Influence Operations that are very similar that we see to foreign media influence. And i think the other big thing is, we had a hearing today in the senate, the senate intel committee, you know, was talking about social media and disinformation. And people can make fake news, they can make manipulated truths. They can make conspiracies faster than social Media Companies can identify them and swat them down. And in that lag time, we have lots of changes happening. One in four people no poll in texas dont think they should
have their children vaccinated. Four in ten dont actually think its a bad idea for russia maybe to meddle in our elections. So these are having real changes in our society. Its breaking us up and dividing us. Its a us. Its a efficient technique for hidden man popularities. Those people that can mine and figure out what grabs with an audience which can produce the content can drive major events in our country political Public Safety. You can get people to show up under false auspices with rifles. This is a dangerous situation. If our politicians are maybe not tamping it down but not saying much about it or letting it go because it might be beneficial in the near term, it could be devastating to our country in the longterm. People can show up with guns they have compiled on a 3d printer. The president s next rally is tomorrow night. Wilkesbarre, pa. Another rally this weekend in ohio with well watch for this and see who urns out in both
cases. Wed love to have you both on again on the subject if youd agree to that. Thank you so much for coming on. Its a disturbing topic. Ben collins, clint watts. Appreciate it. Much more ahead The 11th Hour when we come right back. For your heart. Your joints. Or your digestion. So why wouldnt you take something for the most important part of you. Your brain. With an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in Clinical Trials to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. At fidelity, our online u. S. Equity trades are just 4. 95. So no matter what you trade, or where you trade, youll only pay 4. 95. Fidelity. Open an account today. With the new Chase Ink Business unlimited card i get unlimited 1. 5 cash back. Its so simple, i dont even have to think about it. So i think about mouthfeel. I dont think about the ink card. I think about nitrogen ice cream in supermarkets all over the world. I think about the details. Fine, i obsess over the details. Think about every part of your business except the one part that works without a thought your ink card. Introducing Chase Ink Business unlimited with unlimited 1. 5 cash back on every purchase. Chase for business. Make more of whats yours. See that logo . Last thing before we go is loosely about twitter. Its said nearly a quarter of our u. S. Population is on twitter. Every day, more people join up and more people drop out. The latter mostly because twitter is so often where human souls go to die. It can be a cesspool of anger and hatred with no way to know
who is a russian. Way too easy to be anonymously hateful. That is why when you come across a truly indispensable twitter account, preferably someone you admire, someone you already know and like, it can be so useful and refreshing. And thats where Michael Beschloss comes in. Is he a longtime friend of this broadcast and truth be told of this broadcaster. And more than that, hes one of the great president ial historians and authors of our time. Michaels twitter feed does not disappoint. Just in the last few days, he has given us Richard Nixon jumping off a limo, midtown manhattan, 1956. Gerald fords cue card from when he took the Oath Of Office and an early selfie taken by a young jackie kennedy. But then today, there was this from michael and we couldnt help but notice it said The 11th Hour right there on the cover of newsweek from this