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Presidents role in shaping that statement. a lot of critics say it was misleading. and if it was misleading and intentionally misleading, was there an effort to mislead the press, not a crime to lie to the press, not even a low crime or mitsubis misdemeanor or an attempt to fashion a narrative extended to other places such as the narrative presented to federal investigators at some point. that could be the crime of obstruction. >> ned, when you look at the reporting coming from the new york time...

The halls of congress in washington, d.c. and weve seen over the past couple of days in particular again this race take on much more of the significant meaning than just within the state of alabama. weve seen this in the past couple of days with the resignation of senator al franken. im not comparing the accusations or allegations made against these two people. but weve seen this cultural moment come to the forefront. however he is greeted in washington, that is the story moving forward. >> robe...

Public office should be held to the highest of standards when this comes to treating female counterparts with dignity and react and equality. regardless of whether you are running for office you should be a man and a gentleman and treat people with dignity and respect, especially women. but to your question, richard, this is an avalanche. this is nunbelievable and it holds all victims here because when you look at matt lauer, our colleague here on nbc news or whether it is harvey weinstein or th...

Obama, kendall brocky. and lets start with you. the npr headline is if you were to summarize this week, it was a knife fight. in terms of what had happened going back and forth. and there were several items related to the russia question -- russia connection question, one of which is hope hicks. and lets tastart there. what might mueller have asked her. >> shes a trusted loyalist but she will tell the truth, as a reminder, it is a federal crime to lie to the federal authorities and we saw that w...

Voters. david. >> vaughn, great that you are showing -- >> reporter: sorry about that. >> no problem. ive been called all sorts of things in my time. so you could call me david if you like. but back to the story here. were seeing both sides and the pulling out of the tars. they are pulling out may add weight to their brand. weve seen this in elections across the country before. and the question is will it work with these voters. they dont like outsiders -- >> sure. they dont like outsiders. and ...

The voters get to vote on whether they want to change the makeup of congress. and if democrats took control next november, not only would we be able to pass good legislation, actually helps americans and give americans a better deal, but we have subpoena power. so we can actually subpoena documents, make witnesses come and testify under oath. it would be a big sea change next november if we could take back the house. >> and another development which were watching related to the russian connectio...

This warning. north korea has conducted a major nuclear test. their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the united states. as he was leaving church the president was asked this question. >> mr. president, will you attack north korea? >> japan, south korea, china and nato all responded with a swift disapproval of the action in an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council has now been announced for tomorrow morning 10:00 a.m. eastern. garrett has been covering the s...

Discussions about this early letter and that does raise questions about pences public statement at the time that russia had nothing to do with the discussion to fire comey. if he had seen this letter in which there is a reference to comey for refusing to publicly say that he was not under investigation for russia. the credibility of pences public statements come into question and also and perhaps more significantly that rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general had a copy and was given a copy ...

Whether its a real thermonuclear device. theyve been making such quick advances in all fields of their arsenal. >> why now? >> i think first of all, they see the chaos in washington and so they believe that the trump administration is not prepared to deal effectively with them, but even more important, in china you have the run-up to the 19th communist party congress which starts october 18th and an extraordinarily sensitive leader for xi jinping and hes vulnerable and the north koreans believe ...

Compounds and that is a pretty dramatic move and that must have been connected to something tangible. >> i want to move on to the developments of this week related to the russia connection question. joyce, the white house trying to discredit james comey specifically and ill go to the statement that comey reportedly had drafted what appears to be letting hillary clinton off the hook before hed actually reached the end of the case. how hard is it to use this report to discredit comey as a witness ...