Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Would have obstructed it. He has a right to defend himself. If he believes hes innocent, he is innocent, he should speak out. White house also moved quickly to frame trumps words as nothing more than his own personal view. Its not an order. Its the president s opinion. The president is not obstructing, hes fighting back. The president is stating his opinion. Hes stating it clearly. Hes certainly expressing a frustration that he has with the level of corruption that weve seen from people like jim comey, the president s angry. Frankly, most of america is angry as well and theres no reason he shouldnt be able to voice that opinion. But remember what the white house once told us about how we should regard what this president says on twitter. Are president trumps tweets considered official white house statements . Well, the president is the president of the United States so theyre considered official
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Already several witnesses in on just day two. All of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a wednesday night. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters in new york. This was one more in a string of extraordinary days in our country. Because this was what we woke up to from the president of the United States. Quote, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stain our country even further. Perhaps just as extraordinary, Nothing Happened after that. It was wednesday in america and tonight Robert Mueller and his team remain on the job. The negotiations for a possible sitdown interview between Robert Mueller and President Trump. We report on the latest offer
from the Special Counsel Writing that mueller, quote, indicated this week that hes willing to reduce the number of questions his investigation asks. According to two people briefed on the n
mueller is trying to say whatever you need to do to get the guy in here, get him in the door. that s typically how these negotiations work. yes. to the point the guests were making earlier, doesn t look like mueller is caving. mueller really knows the answer to a lot of his questions and the point clint was making, to some extent, the trump does know what the documents are out there. they know what the witnesses have said to some extent. mueller has more, many, many more pieces of this puzzle than the president s team does. he knows the answer. he wants to get those on record. around obstruction, one of the main ones was to determine the press s impact. they want to give us and that is typical for how things go. any of these sort of, you know, carefully core rio graphed negotiations. he s agreed to stick around and we re going to put his web training to use.
whatever you need to do to get the guy in here, get him in the door. that s typically how these negotiations work. yes. to the point the guests were making earlier, doesn t look like mueller is caving. mueller really knows the answer to a lot of his questions and the point clint was making, to some extent, the trump does know what the documents are out there. they know what the witnesses have said to some extent. mueller has more, many, many more pieces of this puzzle than the president s team does. he knows the answer. he wants to get those on record. around obstruction, one of the main ones was to determine the press s impact. they want to give us and that is typical for how things go. any of these sort of, you know, carefully core rio graphed negotiations. he s agreed to stick around and we re going to put his web