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
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
mueller is trying to say whatever you need to do to get the guy in here, get him in the door. that s typically how these negotiations work. yes. to the point the guests were making earlier, doesn t look like mueller is caving. mueller really knows the answer to a lot of his questions and the point clint was making, to some extent, the trump does know what the documents are out there. they know what the witnesses have said to some extent. mueller has more, many, many more pieces of this puzzle than the president s team does. he knows the answer. he wants to get those on record. around obstruction, one of the main ones was to determine the press s impact. they want to give us and that is typical for how things go. any of these sort of, you know, carefully core rio graphed negotiations. he s agreed to stick around and we re going to put his web training to use.
they got their start on the web. they received intel from the top of the government. there is no end to false rumors they pushed including a smear effort on youtube alleging several hollywood celebrities. they believe the mueller investigation is about obama and clinton and trump is made to appeal more as the cover. it goes on from there. a local news crew interviewed a q conspiricist 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?