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Nothing will ever be easy with this. shannon: thank you very much. bob woodwards forthcoming book claims donald trump is jeopardizing national security. is it a salacious jam aimed at selling books or is there any truth to the matter? former cia station chief, great to see you tonight. lets start with north korea, the president had a very different strategy of handling this than previous administrations. what you make of these competing reports? that kim jong un has reached out in a letter i wou...

Powerful landfall. "the 11th hour" on a monday night begins now. and good evening once again as we start off a new week from our nbcquarters here in new york. journalist and author bob woodward, who has written 18 books and covered nine administrations, is speaking out and defending his latest work, which, as you may have heard, has to do with this administration. woodwards new book on trump and his white house comes out tomorrow. ever since the first anecdotes from this book were released a w...

Mural in the dining room. and the message was were avenging what iraq did to us on 9/11. well that was false. that was an idea that people allowed to, people deliberately spread. but iraq of not responsible for 9/11. and its just one of the awful tragedies that we went into that war with so many americans thinking they were taking revenge for what had been done on 9/11, and entering a war thats had just such disastrous consequences for us, for iraq, for the region. a special regret for me. >> an...

Like to see an internal investigation, whether justice decides to launch it and under what criteria. >> they say national security. could justice -- can you see them actually launching an investigation into this? >> short answer, no. >> all right. >> the reason they keep invoking national security, the traditional law that administrations invoke when theyre on leak hunts is the espionage of 1917. they have a shoe hornet into that parameter to have that fit. theres no indication in the op-ed that...

Well, thats actually not true. if not, where is their credibility. >> neil: cabinet level secretary. >> there is a lot of speculation about that. as i said the other day, i think in d.c. everyone is a senior white house official when they want a better job or be quoted in the media. so, im not sure if this person ever had any kind of interactions with the president. >> neil: its having the desired effect on the person who wrote it, right and the "new york times" quoting it. it sent the paranoia ...

Charges of corruption against two gop house members. the president tweeted, to very popular republican congressmen were brought to a well-publicized charge, just ahead of the midterms but the jeff sessions justice department, two easy wins now in doubt because theres not enough time. good job, jeff. the president is saying play politics. protect members of congress, even if theyve committed acts of corruption before the election. >> i dont think thats what the president was sang at all. the depa...

House when woodward was tough on them. talk about bob woodward as a journalist and sort of his standing in american culture as one of the preeminent truth tellers in our politics. >> thats the right phrase. preeminent truth teller. thats what he is. he along with carl bernstein broke open the watergate scandal in the 70s that befelled president nixon and ever since then, woodward has covered administrations, presidencies, hes found truth where white houses have tried to hide it. and hes written ...

Message. its probably a good sign. also a good sign that kim featured the military but also civilian workers and trade which shows hes focused on north koreas economy which is where we-the benefits we can bestow, an end to sanction, can make a difference. arthel: reportedly kim jong un claims to have perfected his nuclear arsenal enough to deter u.s. aggression and devote his resources to raising his nations standard of living. so as you know, he also wants to be recognized on the world stage. s...

Understand or appreciate judge kavanaughs record on this. if i could make one last point. judge kavanaugh was appointedded by president bush to his current position. and so we have a track record and what the track record shows is that in his first three years as a judge, judge kavanaugh ruled against the bush administration at least 23 different times. and so if you want to know how judge kavanaughs going to be as a justice, you can look at how hes been as a judge. he has a track record indepen...

That are in effect, that thats not the rule. and i think the second point which is also important to keep in mind is that with respect to the constitutional question, judge kavanaugh has not taken a position on the constitutionality of investigating or indicting a sitting president. if you look at what the justice department has said about this over the last 45 years, including administrations of both parties, most recently in a very long and thorough discussion of the issue by the clinton admin...