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The former employee faces a total of 11 charges. in a separate case police arrested this 32-year-old man who works at a phoenix shelter after he was accused of mow lesing a 14-year-old migrant girl. dianne gallagher is on this today. tell me whats happening with these cases. >> reporter: lets talk about that first one there in mesa, arizona, with the eight boys. look, this turned my stomach, brooke, just reading this to begin with. the man who has been charged in those cases his them is leveon p...

Himself, everything would be so easy when he gets into office. >> i think hes been fighting since before he was elected. >> who is in this deep state? >> i definitely believe that the clintons, the bushes, the obamas. >> you think the clintons, bushes, obamas are running this country as we stand here in the rain? >> no, theyre trying. >> reporter: the anonymous q is a hero to many here. one man actually hoping to communicate with q by looking straight into our camera. >> is it possible youre bel...

[ everybody talking at once ] >> in june of 2016, the campaign was far, far more concerned with ted cruz and governor kasich. >> he was there march to august. >> so maybe he was able to take a half hour to heat with those russians. >> you were talking about the events that happened while than fort was on the campaign from march until august. take a listen to president tr p trump. >> plmanafort has nothing to do with our campaign. he worked for me for a very short period of time. he worked for bo...

And what was donald trumps involvement? thats what we want to know. the tape tells us something, but its just the beginning of a longer story. >> and just in terms of the context, i believe it was ami that made the deal with karen mcdougal in august 2016. this conversation was in september. so that deal with ami had already been done. they are clearly trying to or talking about paying back david pecker for making this sweetheart deal to kill the story. >> correct. the issue, the very specific is...

Nobody from the trump organization had anything to do with it. >> it is fine to fixate on whether he said dont pay cash or pay cash. the real question is what is going on here? what was donald trumps involvement? thats what we want to know. the tape tells us something. it is the beginning of a longer storm. >> and in terms of the context it was in august 2016 this conversation was in september. that had already been done. they are clearly trying to -- or talking about paying back david pecker to...

That is our broadcast on a monday night as we start off the new week. thank you so very much and good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. happy monday. the former head of the national security division at the justice department is going to be our guest here tonight. im excited about that and there is a bunch of news that unfolded over the course of really the last 48 hours, but also the day to day and into the night tonight. a whole bunch of news that is national security divisi...

Around the country. >> it should have been no surprise to republican nominee for president donald trump in the spring of 2016 that there was a lot of flashing lights around paul manafort, including in the russia area. so the president has been attacking this process from the beginning. including tweets over the weekend. heres one. so president obama knew about russia before the election. why didnt he do something about it? why didnt he tell our campaign? because its all a big hoax. thats why. an...

Now, as laid out in the indictment, documents about democratic can dadidates were stolen from the committee in april of 2016. the documents were publicly leaked in june 2016. in august 2016. nancy pelosi informed colleagues about the posting of the hacked materials online and fallout of the release. that was news to the democratic members of congress, other than one. nebraska democratic congressman brad ashford was notified already in a private call, the previous month, in july, that he had been...

Much about today, in which michael cohen is said to have recorded himself talking in perp with donald trump in september 2016, two months before the election, taking reportedly about $150,000 payment made to karen mcdougal, saying hit was not a one-off sexual encounter or a sexual harassment case, but said she had a long consensual affair with president trump. the presidents friends at the supermarket cowboy, national inquirer, they paid karen $150,000 in august 2016, so a month before the taped...

Robert muellers team have laid out nearly 500 pieces of evidence they plan to present. theyll include pictures of manaforts five homes, spanning from manhattan to virginia and other photos documenting his once-lavish lifestyle, filled with cars, high-end clothing, and even a watch and other items from the self-proclaimed most expensive store in the world, bijan. >> mr. trump will be officially the nominee of the republican party, so were excited about that. >> reporter: one month after announcem...