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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Over 30 hours with the white House Counsel, misspelled only, with my approval for purposes of transparency. The Washington Post reports that mcigans own lawyer has told the Trump Legal Team, mcgahn does not believe he implicated the president in any legal wrongdoing when he spoke to the special counsel. Meanwhile the president s lawyer is now in Damage Control mode. Earlier tonight, he explained that and h...

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Former Chief Of Staff at the cia and at the pentagon. Robert, i would like to begin with you. What is the degree to which the trump camp was Caught Off Guard by just the idea of 30 hours of don mcgahn testimony in front of the special counsel . Its not tonight trump camp Caught Off Guard. It was mcgahn himself a year ago who was found this whole strategy by john dowd and ty cobb, the president s lawyers, t...

Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. Day 578 of the Trump Administration. And tonight the president of the United States is coming off a vicious string of personal attacks, comparing people to dogs and rats and calling Robert Mueller discredited and disgraced. He is neither. And now tonight the president is talking about what is at the heart of all of it. The russia investigation. Now that he knows his white house lawyer has testified fully before the mueller team....

And i think kamala is going to take some of tat african-american vote from biden. >> remember whats happening now in the spin room theres two things. candidate staff doing one thing. sometimes its not related to what the candidates are doing, and thats going around the room giving interviews. thats going to do it for this first post-hour of our coverage and now midnight eastern time has arrived as hour two of our post-debate coverage continues. nicolle wallace, in the last hour since were talkin...

Democrats have a big problem, too many candidates and too few minority staffers. there arent enough minority operatives to staff whats expected to be a sprawling field of candidates. da dana milbank is a political columnist with "the washington post," and michael steele is an msnbc political analyst. good to have you. weve seen what happens when a candidate staff isnt diverse. in 2016 hillary clinton called bernie sanders out for his overly white campaign team compared to her highly diverse one....

President trumps legal team is working hard to spin the 2016 trump tower meeting between russians and key members of the trump campaign, including but not limited to, his son. on sunday, among other things, rudolph giuliani said that trumps team did not know that natalia veselnitskaya was russian before the meeting took place, nor that she was connected to the russian government. >> any meeting with regard to getting information on your point is something any candidate staff would take. if someo...

Natalia veselnitskaya was russian before the meeting took place, nor that she was connected to the russian government. >> any meeting with regard to getting information on your point is something any candidate staff would take. if someone said, i have information about your point, you would take that meeting. >> from the russian government? >> she didnt represent the russian government. shes a private citizen. i dont even know if they knew she was russian at the time. all they had was her name. ...

Not limited to, his son. on sunday, among other things, rudolph giuliani said that trumps team did not know that natalia veselnitskaya was russian before the meeting took place, nor that she was connected to the russian government. >> any meeting with regard to getting information on your point is something any candidate staff would take. if someone said, i have information about your point, you would take that meeting. >> from the russian government? >> she didnt represent the russian governmen...

Good morning. it is monday, august 20. im ayman mohyeldin alongside louis bergdorf. on "meet the press" rudy guilliani pushed false hoods in the new position of the trump legal team about the aides meeting with russians in 2016. >> the meeting was for the purpose of getting information about clinton. the meeting turned into a meeting -- >> which in itself is attempted collusion. >> no, it is not. >> you said it, the meeting was intended to get dirt on hillary clinton from a criminal lawyer. >> n...

Julian, start with you. did you get your etch-a-sketch yet? >> this is funny. you remember after the florida primary when mitt romney said he didnt care about the poor. this is the silver foot in the mouth syndrome. similarly after a big win in illinois the candidate staff comes out and says the positions can be like an etch-a-sketch, he can just erase them for the general election. you ask anybody thats been involved in presidential politics and they will tell you it takes two wings to fly. you...