500 feet long. Theres nearly 300 crew on board. As you can see, its sustained pretty serious damage. It got that damage when it collided tonight with this other ship. This is a japanese container ship. Its a special vessel. You can see the damage to the container ship is comparatively lighter. Its to the front left side to the japanese container ship, the port side of the bow. These two very large ships apparently collided with each other about 65 miles off the coast of japan in the middle of the night local time, 2 30 a. M. Local. 1 30 p. M. East coast time in the united states. Were not sure exactly why this collision happened. Things like this do not happen very often. Its a big ocean. And these are two immense and modern ships. But nbcs excellent pentagon producer whos been on this story since it first broke, she tells us the fitzgerald suffered significant damage as you can see on its right side, and the damage is apparently both above and below the water line, which is bad. Just for reference, let me show you these pictures here. Can we tra drop the banner . There we go. This is what these two ships look like on a normal day before this collision. Thats the container ship on the left, the Navy Destroyer on the right. Thats what they look like on a good day. This is the damage theyve both sustained after this collision. Were told another u. S. Navy destroyer of the same class as the fitzgerald, the u. S. S do you by has been zachd to the scene to help. Two navy tugs are being dispatched as soon as possible to the scene. In terms of injuries and potential loss of life here, the news is worrying. Were told that at least one u. S. Service member on board was med evaced on a helicopter. Into tonight weve been having a hard time getting a clear indication as to whether they were other u. S. Nav sailors hurt or missing in this incident. We know that Japanese Coast Guard and the u. S. Navy have both been very actively involved in what is a pretty beg response effort. A u. S. Official told courtney could you bee the Service Member who was evacuated after this happened, an additional seven u. S. Sailors are unaccounted for. And that is very worrying news. Again, this happened off the coast of japan about 65 miles off the coast of japan. It happened in the middle of the night local time, about 1 30 p. M. East coast time in the united states. We are several hours into this rescue effort now. You can see some of the damage. You can see the damage. It appears clearly on the container ship. The damage on the fitzgerald is both above and below the water line. Its turning into a large response. Again, that very worrying news for those unaccounted sailors. Well keep you posted over the course of the evening. Courtney is nbcs pengtd producer and shes been reporting aggressively on this since it happened. Were going to be in touch with courtney over the course of the hour as we get more. I should also tell you tonight we are also keeping an eye on the twin cities of mississippi and st. Paul this evening. This afternoon a jury returned a until the verdict in the case of a Police Officer who was charged in the death a cass teal. This is a case that got a lot of nationwide attention. He was killed by that Police Officer doing her routine traffic stop. The officer today was acquitted but immediately after the verdict came in, his Police Department announced he was fired from his job. But hes been found not guilty. Were going to keep you posted on that developing story as we learn more over the course of this evening. I should also tell you were going to be joined in just a few times by moorns senior senators, Amy Klobuchar. Theres a lot going on in the news tonight. This is not a night to check out because its friday. This is a night when the news is going to keep happening late into the night. That said, because it is friday, if were being honest, because it is a day that ends in y in this era, theres a lot of news coming out of washington as well. In terms of the Washington News tonight, i need to tell you the a story that starts with bill clinton who went to college at Georgetown University in washington, d. C. Bill clinton got there adds an undergraduate in 1964. He graduated in 1968. One of the stories about bill clintons College Career ends up being sort of relevant. Legend has it sometime during his Early College years at georgetown when he was a young man, maybe when he was 19, maybe when he was a freshman, young bill clinton went to a party in massachusetts that was a beach party. And political legends has it that at that beach party he was swimming in the ocean and he basically got grabbed by a rip tied and started to get pulled out to sea. And when that happened another young man, another 19yearold man, a harvard stay tuned came to his rescue. The man who came to his rescue in that near drowning story was a man named fife simming ton. He was a harvard student and went on to be a famous politician in his own right. He ended up becoming governor of arizona. Bill clinton became governor of arkansas and president of the united states. I always supported that the 1960s beach party bill clinton rescue story might be wholly or at least in part apock ra fall. But i heard it a million times. Its one of the things people talked about a lot years later in 2001 when he issued a president ial partnered to five simming ton, the guy who saved him all those decades earlier. In 1997, fife simming ton was convicted of seven felonies remitted to his Business Life as a real estate developer. He was charged with a raft of corruption charges. He was ultimately convicted of filing false financial statements, basically he was convicted of bank fraud. Ultimately an Appeals Court would overturn his convictions and later he would get a president ial pardon from bad swimmer, bill clinton. But when that case was brought, when those convictions happened that was a big, traumatic legal case in the country because specifically for fife simming ton. He was a popular figure in republican politics. People were looking at him as potential president ial timber. It ultimately ended his political career. His lawyer as he went through that trauma and those convictions was a guy named john dowd. John dowd also represented arizona senator john mccain. John mccain called his own involvement in that scandal the worst mistake of my life. John mccain political survived that scandal. He ultimately didnt get criminally charged or thrown out of congress for his involvement in it. But it was bad for john mccain. The Ethics Committee in the senate ripped him for his involvement in that scandal and ripped him for his poor judgment. They basically said they didnt go off him was because mccain was in the house. John mccain survived the keating five scandal, but by the skin of his teeth. And his lawyer in that matter was the fife simming ton guy, john dowd. John dowd is also famous for this case from 2011. This is a case that went very badly. I will read you the lead sentence from the New York Times report. Quote, the fallen hedge fund billionaire, raj raatnan recessed received the longest prison sentence ever for Insider Trading on thursday. That fallen hedge fund billionnary, his lawyer when he got the longest prin sentence ever for Insider Trading, his lawyer was john dowd. John mccain, john dowd, longest Insider Trading prison sentence ever. And that same lawyer, john dowd, is now going to be Donald Trumps new lawyer. President trump had reportedly had a hard time finding namebrand d. C. Lawyers and d. C. Law firms to represent him into the investigations and the question of whether or not his campaign helped in the russian attack of that those investigations also reportedly expanded to include potential obstruction of justice by the president himself. That resistances from d. C. Lawyers and d. C. Law firms, him calling them looking for representation and firm after firm telling him no, that has meant the president s legal team for these scandals has been alktsz unorthodox for someone facing scandals as serious as these. The first lawyer he signed up famously was marc kasowitz. Hes a lawyer that has done things like real estate law and divorce law for the president in the past. But he has never done anything like any of the washington legal trouble that the president finds himself in now. In addition to mc kasotz, we also have indirect notice that the president signed up a table litigator from the religious right a guy who started off representing tell evangelists and displaying the Ten Commandments andtuff like that. Hes kwn for a very specific kind of law. He also signed jay sekulow. When he started appearing on tv shows defending the president and speaking for him as his private lawyers, thats the way we found out he got that job. To that unlikely president ial legal team, the president today added john dowd, who at least at least o at least hes been involved in high profile political scandals in the past. Hes well regarded in his field, even though his clients didnt come out all that well at all. This team of lawyers that the president is putting together to defend him in his various scandals, this is a team that the president will end up paying for himself, or at least we the taxpayers wont end up paying for those lawyers. These are private lawyers who are totally separate and apart from the official white House Counsel whose salary we do pay. I imagine that the matter of paying for his private lawyers is like the least concerning element of all these for President Trump, if only because he is so personally wealthy. We have a reminder about the extent of his personal wealth today when the white house released new Financial Disclosure forms for the president himself. Well be talking about those a little bit more later o in this ur. But i have to tell you, as as we got that news of the president s wealth and new news about the president adding to his legal team, we also in the past 24 hours got news another Senior Member of the administration, someone who is not wealthy at all, has also just hired himself a top dollar and very wellregarded lawyer to represent him in this ongoing scandals. And right now as we speak, Vice President mike pence who just hired that new expensive lawyer, hes back home in indiana tonight, and hes at the Marriott Hotel in downtown indianapolis because hes holding a fundraiser there. Hes not holding it for the Republican Party or any of the the subsidiary or House Campaign fund or for that republican candidate in next week Congressional Election in georgia. Its interesting. Vice president mike pence is holding that fundraiser in indianapolis for his own Political Action committee, his own pac. Never before in the history of the country has a Vice President set up and operated his own Political Action committee while still Vice President and not running for anything. The people attending the if you ever for his pac in indianapolis paid a lot of money to go. Anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000. Five people are paying 5,000 a pop to go round table with mike pence tonight in indiana. Now, its unusual, full stop, that a Vice President has a Political Action committee, but on top of that theres a acquit as to how mike pence is going to pay for his very expensive private lawyer who he Just Announced the hiring of yesterday. This is the person whos going to defend skmens represent mike pence in anything having to do with the trump russia scandal or the obstruction of justice investigations. This is a lawyer who gets paid a lot per hour and is going to be working a lot of hours. Is it possible this fundraiser for mike pences pac, is it possible thats going to be a way for people to fund mike pences Legal Defense . We called the Vice President spokesman tonight to ask whether the money hes raising tonight for his packers whether that money might be used in the future for mike pences Legal Defense. The Vice President s spokesman would not really say exactly, but this is exact response we got from him. Quote. His legal fees will be paid by nontax dollars. Quote, thats all we are saying. We have not discussed it except to say that it is not tax dollars. That was in response to us asking if this fundraiser for his pac tonight is going to raise money for his Legal Defense. It wont be tax dollars. Thats all were saying. So we dont know if that means to donations to mike pences pac are going to be used to pay his Legal Defense. Doing if you ever see to pay for his lawyers. To only assurance we have is he cant a taxpayer funded defense. We then tried to contact the pac itself. Its called the Great America committee. There is a person whos listed on their as the contact person. We found that person tonight and spoke with her to find out if the if you need might be used to fund Vice President s legal fees. She said she has forwarded our question to the appropriate contacts. But we dont know what that means and we havent heard anything further. Well let you know. That may be a new part of how the Vice President spends his Vice President sy. He and his family dont have particularly deep pockets. Theyre going to have to raise money somehow for his legal fees. Whether thats already started with the creation of that pac, we dont know. We do intend to find out. A lot of the focus on the scandal surrounding the white house has shifted this week to potential obstruction of justice. This week will be remembered for this blockbuster reporting that the special counsel, Robert Mueller, has now made the president the subject of an ongoing fbi criminal inquiry into whether or not there was obstruction of justice by the president to try to somehow twlart the fbis investigations into the russia issue. And thats a very, very big deal. Even as the media focus shifted to obstruction of justice, the original question about whether or not the Trump Campaign colluded with russia, included with the russian government in the russian attack on the election, thats still the central question. 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Tonight cnn was the first to report that hes about to called to testify before the House Intelligence Committee investigating the russian attack on our laegz and the question whether the Trump Campaign colluded. Thats really interesting. I think its also sign of whats going to comg down the pike in the next couple weeks. In general, i should tell you over the next week or two it looks like were about to get back to a focus on that collusion issue and on the russian attack itself. Next week on wednesday, the House Intelligence Committee committee is going to hear from jay johnson who was Homeland Security secretary to the end of the obama administration. The Intelligence Committee committee on the senate is going to take testimony from a bunch of experts and Elections Officials who are going to be talking about the russian hacking attack as they experienced it, as it targeted state and local election systems. Beyond that russian hacking attack on state and local election systems which were learning more and more about all the time and beyond the russian hacking attack on the Democratic Party and the clinton campaign, the other prong of the russian attack last year was, of course, their open source social media stuff. Russia appears to have had paid operatives and automated bots. To promote and circulate protump, anticlinton news and disinformation. If cnn is right in this report tonight in the investigating committees are now going to start questioning Donald Trumps but Image Campaign chiefs from his president ial campaign about that part of the russian attack, then it would seem that the investigative committees are starting to focus intently on the original basic question of whether or not anybody associated with the Trump Campaign was a confederate, an american confederate helping the russians mount this attack on our country. Cnn describes it in their report not to, the committees are interested how russian bots were able to target specific districts. The senate Intelligence Committee said were the russians on their own have the level of sophisticated knowledge of the american political system if they did not get at least advice from someone in america . Cnn reporting tonight that trump but image director, the trump president ial campaign but image director, brad purr scall will be called before the House Intelligence Committees, quote, soon. They also report that the note that the executive in charge of data operations overall for the Trump Campaign was trumps soninlaw,ared kuner whose name keeps surfacing about the ongoing investigations. In terms of the Investigatory Committees. It was the Judiciary Committees who have oversight for the Justice Department and the fbi, its the jaesht committees who would be investigating credible allegations of highlevel obstruction of justice in the white house. Although the senate Joshua Committee is taking up that investigation, the Judiciary Committee in the house is not. The republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the house is named bob got lat and a staffer gave us this statement which is very vaguely worded, but ill give you the bottom line. Theyre not doing any investigating into obstruction of justice in the house. Now, in the senate they certainly are. Boy, howdy are they. Those are the top two senators senior on that compete, and the two of them have been exchanging increasingly detailed public letters about all the things themts to investigate related to potential obstruction of justice. Senator feinstein sent a letter yesterday in which he explained to senator gusly that these are all the people she wants to testify as that committee starts to dig in on this obstruction of justice question. She wants testimony from the attorney general jeff sessions. She wants testimony from fired fbi director james comey. If he keeps saying no to their asking him, she wants him to be subpoenaed. She also wants director comeys memos. She also wants to question all the senior officials he says he told about his conversations with the president. She wants to interview the Deputy Director of the fbi and the chief of staff to the fbi director and the general counsel of the fbi and the number three person at the fbi. And she wants to interview the National Security branch of the fbi. She wants to interview dana boente. She wants to interview dan coach, mike rogers and she would like to do that all very soon, please. And i dont know if republican senator Chuck Grassly will agree to that list, but she has made her list public. Shes argued her case publicly for why that committee needs to hear from these people. One point here. Even with that giant list of people that that Investigatory Committee wants to talk to, there is one name that is not on that big, long list, that puzzles me for not being there. Part of the reason Everyone Wants to keep talking to the director, dan coats, he gave hours of testimony in open session last week. He gave three hours of testimony yesterday in classified session with the Judiciary Committee with the Intelligence Committee. Now the Judiciary Committee wants to talk to him to. It has been reported by the Washington Post and the New York Times and nbc and the wall street journal that Robert Mueller also plans to interview dan coats sometime soon. And part of the reason Everyone Wants to talk to him, part of the reason dan coats is so important to the question of obstruction of justice is because the obstruction of justice thing isnt just about firing james comey. Nobody thinks coats was involved in the firing of james comey. There is a question beyond that of whether or not the white house, the president himself maybe, tried to pressure the fbi into dropping their investigation beyond just the threatening and firing of james comey. The Washington Post reported on march 22nd, President Trump asked dan coats, the director of National Intelligence in person in the oval office if he could contact the fbi and try to get them to drop the russia investigation. If that reporting is true, if thats whats driving all of the interest from all these committees and special counsel in talking to dan coats, i thats whats driving the imperative, it should also be noted the report from the Washington Post says there was a witness to that conversation between the president and dan coats. There was somebody else in the room when President Trump reportedly made that request. It was cia director, mike pompeo. With all these gigantic lists of people whove been advised to get lawyers and told to get ready for their interviews with the special counsel and be prepared if subpoenaed. Mike pompeo was a direct witness to one of the most overt alleged acts to obstruct justice in this case, but nobody seems to want to talk to him. Tonight we can report texan of last month, he was sent a letter from Dianne Feinstein asking him to tell them what he knows about whether white house officials tried to pressure the fbi about its russia investigation. They sent him that letter on may 26th telling him they need his response by june 9th. We can report pompeo never responded to that. These investigations are as redhot as theyve ever been. Were going to be talking tonight about the speculation, the indications that the president may be greenberg up to try to fire up the special counsel, and maybe other senior justice officials on his way toward that goal. But stick a pin in this thing about the cia director, mike pompeo. I dont know. Maybe theres something magic about being cia director meaning youre not called as a witness. 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Thats the power of and. The president woke up this morning and made a Public Statement on twitter, which is not the sofrlg that would grab my attention. This is important though because something appears to have gone wrong in his lawyers response to it. The president s statement this morning started with these exact words. Quote, i am being invested for firing. Things went hinky shortly thereafter. We got this at nbc news. A source close to trumps outside Legal Counsel tell us nbc news that the president definitely was not confirming that he is under investigation when he made that statement on twitter this morning. That statement again, i am being invested. Im not a lawyer and i know sometimes lawyer talk is magic talk regular humans cant understand. But when you say, quote, im being invested, that is not a subtle thing. Thats not open to interpretation unless maybe theyre trying to say being investigated is Something Different than under investigation. Maybe thats the s that a distinction . Is that a difference . Look, unless the pridents lawyer is trying to make us believe something that insane, he appears to be already having some basic trouble handling even the basic public utterances of his client. His client is saying im being investigated. His lawyer is saying my client never said that. With the news today that the president added another lawyer to his personal legal team, it does look like the president s private counsel will be getting some help, but jeez, this is not the way you would expect a very serious multipronged investigation to be unfolding. I would be unfolding on the prosecutors side, but not the president. Joining us for the interview is bob bower who is an excellent lawyer. He was white House Counsel to president obama. Thank you for being with us tonight. Pleasure. As a legal matter, its, of course, its of interest to us nonlawyers that the president is confirming that hes under investigation. Is there a legal reason why his lawyer would try to dispute that . Is there legal consequence to the president admitting publicly hes under investigation . No, lawyer is going to want the client shouting from the rooftop that hes under investigation, and thats true of the president of the united states. Theres another aspect to the tweets this morning that was stwriekds, another attack on law enforcement. And that too would have to concern the president s counsel. The president is worried hes being investigated for obstruction of justice. For him then oddly enough to begin attacking the people who are conducting the investigation is not the presentation he wants to make. After all, the whole point is he doesnt want to appear to impeding the investigation. So his communication strategy doesnt seem to be aligning with his Legal Defense. Let me ask you, coming at this from a nonlawyer perspective, the president s argument in twitterese, is that hes under investigation for firing the fbi director by someone who advised him to fire the fbi director. Hes obviously referring to Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein there. Does the president sort of have a point that if the comey firing is being looked at as potential obstruction, nobody who had any role in that firing should be overseeing that investigation . That question came up today. There were reports that Deputy Attorney general rosenstein was thinking about reaccusing himself later in the day his office said he wasnt peeped to do so. That opinion could change at any time. Hes going to have to make a judgment whether hes going to be drawn into this investigation as a witness in a way that makes it impossible for him to supervise the investigation. And then it goes to another department. Are you saying that if the obstruction investigation does come to focus on this issue of the firing of the fbi director, the special counsel might have an option whether or not to call on mr. Rosenstein as a potential witness if he chooses to leave mr. Rosensteins besides the point and outside the bounds of his investigation, that might protect rosenstein in his role and allow him to stay on board overseeing the investigation overall . Its difficult to see that hell never contact mr. Rosenstein. I think maybe what Deputy Attorney general rosenstein is waiting to see is what precisely is the line of questioning hell face, how deeply drawn in hell be, what role hell play in the investigation. It may be on that basis that he decides whether hes required to recuse himself. If the role is minor that may be one thing. Its not clear how exactly hes going to apply the recusal standards in this case. Were all learning about the order of succession. They are now political figures in terms of their political leanings and what people think about them in the legal profession. On the other side of this, mr. Bower, i wanted to ask you about the legal team that the president has started to assemble thus far. I dont want to ask you to be personal about any of these lawyers, but do you think that hes got the right kind of counsel to give him the best possible defense . Hes adding different lawyers with different experience. What is most notable is that the lawyer he has at the pinnacle, the one in charge doesnt have any washington or meaningful white collar criminal experience would be brought to beer in a case like this. But perhaps the lawyer will have had the appropriate balance and hell build inial. Thank you very much for your fiechlt i hope you come back and talk to us soon. I have more questions on this typical. Particularly tonight on the Senate Investigation side of this which seems to be heating up very fast. 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Just ask your doctor about taltz. With the scandals surrounding the President Trump presidency in washington, the investigative focus on capitol hill has shifted sharply in the last couple days to the senate Judiciary Committee. Senator amy clob similar is a member of that committee. Shes also doubly at the center of news weve been covering tonight because in the senate shes also been a staunch advocate of lifting the embargo with cuba. Today the the president rolled back president obamas efforts in that regard. Also, amy clob similar is the senior senator from minnesota and protests are taking shape in minnesota. Weve been expecting that tonight in the twin cities region after a controversial verdict acquitting the Police Officer who killed fill lan do castile . St. Paul last year during an otherwise traffic stop. Joining us is amy clob similar. Thank you very much, rachel. Let me first get your reaction to this verdict today in the castile case, 32yearold africanamerican man shot by police after being pulled over in his car last year. Theres been a not guilty verdict in that case. Were seeing protests in the states. I met the family and attended funeral. I can tell you he was loved by so many students. He was a cafeteria worker for a number of years, and a lot of people from that school miss him dearly. There were topnotch prosecutors assigned to this case from also the u. S. Attorneys office. As the st. Paul mayor has asked for the son of st. Paul has died. We have a large history of activism in minnesota and our hope is we will have peaceful marches this evening. Do you have faith in local authorities and police that they are capable of policing large, even angry large zmongs and keeping order without things get violent. We hope so. We knew the verdict would come out and the plan had long been from the community to go to the capital today not knowing what the verdict would be. So far they are peaceful protests and we hope that will continue. Its very important that people have the right to express their views. Senator, let me ask you about a controversy that youve been very outspoken on T International matter of the embargo with cuba. President trump, i dont mean this in a mean way, but he hasnt accomplished much. You be mean . No. I try never to be mean, especially when i talk to you, miesota nice. Obviously he had gsuch in the supreme court. He hasnt passed any substantive policy at all. The republicans have rolled back a number of initiatives from the obama administration, including taking a what can at the policy change towards cuba. Whats your reaction to that . This made no sense to me. 73 of the American People believe that we should continue to open relations with cuba. And here you have a policy that he announced today that while is not a full rollback, its a set not a rollback. But it basically chills tourism. It makes it harder for people to visit there is talking auditing them in the next five years. You dont know when youre going to be asked why did you go to cuba, and youre supposed to show the Treasury Department your records. I dont think this is a positive development. We now have 55 senators on the bill to lift the travel ban to cuba. 55 senators. We have many senators on my bill to lift the embargo with senator enzi, a republican from wyoming. So my concern is its really going to slow that momentum down at a time where russia is starting to invest. China is starting to invest. Spanish companies are building hotels. And it makes no sense to me at all. The way you change human rights in cuba, as the pope believes, is by oping up cuba to the of the world. Senator, youre also on the Judiciary Committee. I said youre in the middle of all of our different stories that were covering tonight. The Judiciary Committee is now taking a newly assertive role in the investigation into these scandal surrounding the russia attack, the potential collusion by the Trump Campaign with the russia attack, and specifically, on your committee, the question about whether there has been an effort to obstruct justice. Trying to impede those investigations in any way. Do you support that move by your committee . Do you think it would be better to handle it all in intelligence rather than spreading it out among the different committees and all their jurisdictions . Intelligence is playing a very Important Role here. They are looking into a foreign power influencing our election. And theyve done it in a bipartisan basis, and they must move ahead. But remember, the jurisdiction over oversight of the fbi and the Justice Department is squarely in the senate Judiciary Committee. And i think it is very important that senator grassley has agreed with senator feinstein to move forward with our own hearings. Because were going have the new fbi nominee before us. We have to determine what happened with this firing. Senator sessions, its unprecedented that he would go now attorney general sessions before the Intelligence Committee, which is fine. But do do that before a judiciary, we not only want to ask about russia and his meeting with the ambassador, we also want to ask about what theyre doing with the refugee order, with voting rights. What is happening with the criminal Justice Reform or the lack thereof. There are a lot of things that the attorney general must come before the senate Judiciary Committee to discuss. Senator Amy Klobuchar of minnesota. Looks like its going to be a tough night tonight in minnesota with the big protests and people very upset than verdict. Good luck tonight. And stay in touch with us over the course of this. 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