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President is seeing the wall through a political lens. sometimes his inner thoughts come out in an interview. >> its stunning. phil rucker and josh bossi interview the president yesterday morning. at 2:30 p.m. yesterday, trump met with the house republican leadership. anna and i came into the oval office shortly after that meeting and the president said he is not backing off the $5 billion. he had indicated to josh and phil he said some wiggle room on that. and i think its an important thing to ...

Didnt know about that 2016 trump tower meeting between don junior and a russian attorney before it happened. and that he didnt know about those wikileaks from roger stone. that he wasnt informed about that. now this is according to two sources familiar with the matter. this was reported by another news outlet earlier today. but we have, in fact, confirmed that reporting. according to these sources with whom i spoke, nicolle, i am told that the questions that president trump answered all related ...

He would have hoped he passed that information on. stone, of course, says he had no advanced knowledge of exactly what wikileaks was going to do, that he did learn things from randy credico, that he did not collude in any way and his lawyers told me hes not worried about this part of it. >> theres a couple of things to take from annas interview with corsi. first of all, the baseline on corsi is he is a guy who believes the moon landing was staged, that it was faked, okay.? the second thing is, h...

Connection from roger stone and jerome coresy who can say were free agents, we were working outside the campaign on his behalf, have they made a connection to the trump campaign which is what they would have to do to find collusion? >> the court papers show that hasnt happened yet. mueller might have that, but theyre trying to get him to plea to lying to investigators, mott to colluding with wikileaks and transporting that information to the trump campaign. they might have a lot more on coresy t...

Had been hacked from hillary clinton and democratic sources. roger stone, who was associated with the trump campaign, although he never formally had a staff position on the campaign as far as we know, special counsels office says that roger stone told his friend jerome corsi that he needed to get in touch with wikileaks about those stolen clinton documents. when the special counsels office asked jerome corsi about that, what theyre saying now in this draft charge is that corsi lied to them when ...

Podesta. >> so you were telling him that he could use this story even if it wasnt true? >> absolutely. >> the court papers show mueller sent corsi a draft plea agreement. it stipulated the special counsel would request a sentence of probation if he agreed to plead guilty of lying to investigators. c a corsi says he rejected the deal. anna, i want to take a quick step back and explain who jerome corsi is. hes an author, a conspiracy theorist, and why hes significant on to this russia story. >> th...

Reporting. anna scheckter is here. she just interviewed corsi, atmosphere the keystone associate. david jones, talented expert who brings a note of skepticism to the "guardian" story, and malcolm nance, author of "the plot to hack america." malco malcolm, why is this story important, if true? >> i think that if this story is true, this is the first real definitive evidence that we have of what i call the bridge. the bridge between russian intelligence, their subcontractor julian assange and wiki...

Bad. or as david cornyn likes to say, bad if true. that is all a bunch of news were getting to. then we have this. bob mueller doesnt leak much but here in our nbc newsroom we are holding a draft indictment of jerome corsi, the famed birther and roger stone associate that we now have, that weve obtained. not from mueller, but because our colleague and reporter anna scheckter has interviewed corsi today, breaking news. you obtained these materials. i want you to lay it all out there. your reporti...

Saying, somethings going to happen october 2nd. in fact, on october 3rd, julian assange announced that he was going to have a big dump coming soon, and on october 7th, the john podesta e-mails came out. >> its fascinating. theres a lot of details. we dont usually see draft indictments out of the special counsel probe. corsi obviously decided to distribute it, says hes going to fight. im curious what you, if i may, your first rap name here on the beat, david, lil skeptic, im wondering what you, l...

That too. >> right. >> so all this stuff will be revealed. i think in muellers sweet time. >> wasnt it ll cool j who said, youre lying about the lies that youre telling? >> thats exactly what he said. >> i didnt mean to take it words right out of your mouth, david. >> they were his words. >> so true. ive got to fit in a break. i just have to. we have so much more news. my special thanks to anna scheckter, david cornyn, malcolm nance. manafort on the hook for these new crimes. was he trying to ...