Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Would have obstructed it. He has a right to defend himself. If he believes hes innocent, he is innocent, he should speak out. White house also moved quickly to frame trumps words as nothing more than his own personal view. Its not an order. Its the president s opinion. The president is not obstructing, hes fighting back. The president is stating his opinion. Hes stating it clearly. Hes certainly expressing a frustration that he has with the level of corruption that weve seen from people like jim comey, the president s angry. Frankly, most of america is angry as well and theres no reason he shouldnt be able to voice that opinion. But remember what the white house once told us about how we should regard what this president says on twitter. Are president trumps tweets considered official white house statements . Well, the president is the president of the United States so theyre considered official
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Already several witnesses in on just day two. All of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a wednesday night. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters in new york. This was one more in a string of extraordinary days in our country. Because this was what we woke up to from the president of the United States. Quote, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stain our country even further. Perhaps just as extraordinary, Nothing Happened after that. It was wednesday in america and tonight Robert Mueller and his team remain on the job. The negotiations for a possible sitdown interview between Robert Mueller and President Trump. We report on the latest offer
from the Special Counsel Writing that mueller, quote, indicated this week that hes willing to reduce the number of questions his investigation asks. According to two people briefed on the n
spread it. combat the mainstream media. we re fighting a battle on all fronts. there is a q coin. 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. note what the president says here which would normally be filed during the toss off work. what s your thoughts? talk. it s a storm. what s the storm? military people, i will tell you that. what storm, mr. president? you ll find out. thank you, everybody. calm before the storm. nbc news reporter ben cohen covers this and has been looking into the group and writing about them. we ve asked clint watts, former fbi agent to stick around. ben, i guess their motives and beliefs, what else should we know about them? unfortunately, you got it all right. there s not much to know. this is a conspiracy theory that donald trump is doing everything right. anything that looks like he s
q con spspiricist at the trump event. qanon stormed the great awakening. he said, this is the calm before the storm. that launched us into the q being military intelligence. talking to all of us. letting us know what s going on behind the scenes, letting us know the covert battle. what can you do? spread it. combat the mainstream media. we re fighting a battle on all fronts. there is a q coin. 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. note what the president says here which would normally be