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Special counsels testimony before the congress. Its clear that trump resents the credibility and clarity mueller might bring to the table, but above all trump fears and knows that mueller has the ability to cut through the smoke screen that protects trumps presidency. The Associated Press reports that in contemplating the special counsels testimony, the president stewed for days about the prospect of the Media Coverage that would be given to mueller, a man trump believes has been lionized across...

Members on the Mueller Report an hour from now. It will be a long day, an interesting day. Well see what we Learn Together as we say good morning live in new york city. Im bill hemmer. Happy anniversary to you and your husband. Sandra thank you very much, bill. Im sandra smith. Were awaiting bill barrs arrival for an actionpacked few hours inside the hearing room. Both sides digging in their heels as the politics on the Mueller Report will be on display today. Bill a lot of drama kicked off late...

Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 832 of the trump administration. A full day, an explosive day on capitol hill, as attorney general barr defended the man who appointed him, defended his handling of the Mueller Report, to members of the senate. Well take you through the hearing in just a moment, but the latest news from today came tonight. Its about tomorrow. Barr has decided hes one and done, where hearings are concerned. He turned down house jud...

Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. Its 4 00 in new york, 1 00 on the west coast. We start with u. S. Special forces, killing one of the most wanted men indaring and dangerous raid. Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is dead. He was the founder and leader of isis, the most ruthless and violent Terror Organization anywhere in the world. He died like a dog. He died like a coward. The thug who tried so hard to intimidate others, spent his last mo...

Lawmakers and president ial candidates alike literally melting down because they are russia, russia, russia, collusion fantasy is over. Anything from here on is just noise, nothing more noise, the witch hunt is done, mueller has gone home, no collusion, no obstruction. They lost, they lied, they conspired, they send out conspiracy theories and hoaxes. And now the boomerang of justice is in full motion. We start tonight, a breaking report from the New York Times which might have actually gotten s...

President trump thinks his biggest asset and trying to get a deal with china is the strength of the u. S. Economy. Entering the leverage that strength to get a deal across the finish line. Giving the industrial average of 100 billion haircut. For the second day in a row, the market swooned over fears that the u. S. China trade deal is getting further away, not closer. President trump threatening to raise tariffs on chinese goods later this week accusing china of reneging on items they have alrea...

Points and this is not very far off. No, it is not. But one thing that did happen yesterday, we did see the dow fall as much as 471 points and then in stunning fashion it made a 180 and ended up only modestly lower and that is on a good headline that the chinese delegation was going to go ahead and come to washington and have talks to try to come to some sort of resolution in the trade war. So that wound up turning things into a positive toward a positive direction. I dont think youll see that t...

Washington. We want to start with this exchange between attorney general william bar and Kamala Harris, which encapsulate, barrs performance at yesterdays hearing. Attorney general barr, has the president or anyone at the white house suggested or asked that you open an investigation of anyone . I wouldnt i wouldnt yes or no . Could you repeat that question . I will repeat it. Has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone . Yes or ...

Security analyst, Michael Schmidt who will be with us in just a moment. Were miccing him up. Nbc news and name law analyst and editor and chief of law fair Benjamin Wittes is with us this morning, as well as julia ainslie. At 9 00 a. M. This morning, House Democrats are expected to hold a News Conference to announce articles of impeachment against the president. Five sources familiar with the discussions tell nbc news democrats will bring two charges, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. ...

Documents to congress. Mentioned more than 500 times hes mentioned in the Mueller Report. More than any other witness in the report. The white house doesnt want you to see what he has to say. Just listen to Sarah Sanders today when asked if congress will get those documents. I dont anticipate that takes place, no. Why . Again, we consider this to be a case closed and were moving forward to do the work of the American People. Okay. The white house clearly desperate to block the congressional over...