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Security posts a memo about the border wall, and its missing a few words, but dont worry? president build wall high. welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead. while his personal lawyer and fixer is heading to prison, president trump is trying to shift the blame and spin the story claiming he did not direct michael cohen to break the law which is, of course, a complete contradiction with assertions made by the u.s. attorneys office for the southern district of new ...

Thats value youll only find at fidelity. ♪ one thing leads another last thing before we go tonight, takes us back inside the oval office, where yesterday, most of the coverage dealt with the presidents pledge to take personal responsibility for a government shutdown and the still life of vice president pence sitting there in the middle of it all. today, some of the attention turned to the claims the president made about the border and his nonexistent border wall. professional fact checkers i...

Pushing back against his assertions. >> so while we have you sitting down with axios at the u.n.s climate conference, he talked about how hes on board with this progressive democrats green new deal. what else did he is to you guys? >> so in addition to saying he was on board with that, i thought it was surprising that he admitted that he didnt know what the details of that new green deal are, but hes still in support of it in the hopes that it will create tons of jobs for the future. one thing h...

Professional packet checkers in our business disproved his assertions about diseases and terrorists coming over the border. people of tucson were surprised to learn that illegal track was down in their city because of the wall. thats because theres no wall around tucson. thats because theyre just under 70 miles away from the mexican border. then theres what some have called big lies, one and two. lets start with number two. the claim that the presidents promised wall is well under way. >> so a l...

Reuters asked president trump about prosecutors assertions that many people in his inner circle had met or had business dealings with russians. heres how hep respo responded. quote, the stuff youre talking about is peanut stuff. he also tried to shift blame for the payments michael cohen made to two women at his direction on the campaign trail. payments that federal prosecutors say were illegal, but the president told reuters, quote, number one, it wasnt a campaign contribution. if it were, its ...

Are now dangerous times for the united states. one of the drafters of the statement, 1 of the 44, is with us as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a tuesday night. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 691 of the trump administration, and tonight the president is speaking out about the growing legal troubles now threatening his white house. trump spoke to reuters news agency late today in an interview right there in the oval office. he said hes not c...

Tried to reimburse the company through michael cohen and call it a retainer with michael cohen, and so there is a lot of deception, and judge pauley used that word in describing his crimes as well, deception. so what this does is to put a big fat x through donald trumps assertions that these are minor process crimes, and, you know, civil, and should only be held responsible civilly, and this is a complete corruption of our federal election system, and it was done in the biggest campaign finance ...

Breaking news tonight. in an oval office interview, reuters asked president trump about prosecutors assertions that many people in his inner circle had met or had business dealings with russians. heres how he responded. quote, the stuff youre talking about is peanut stuff. he also tried to shift blame for the payments michael cohen made to two women at his direction on the campaign trail. payments that federal prosecutors say were illegal, but the president told reuters, quote, number one, it wa...

Campaign chairman paul manafort, a federal judge telling robert mueller to provide more information about the alleged lies manafort told prosecutors in violation of his plea agreement. i want to go to our justice correspondent jessica schneider. tell us more about todays hearing and what it all means for manafort and the russia au probe. >> well, wolf, the judge here wants more information, but she likely wont get it until at least late january. thats because paul manaforts team are now negotiat...

The key thing thats changed in the meantime is they met with muellers team this morning. off the record in a way that we wont see, it wasnt out in court, but they met and asked for more evidence that he lied. something happened that has now made this team want to wait into next month. they want to meet more with muellers team to find out what they need and want to meet with their client. they havent even said to the judge yet whether or not they disagree with the assertions from muellers team. w...