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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Our colleague Kristen Welker there is still a steep hurdle to an interview with robert mueller. It would, quote, raise significant article ii questions going to the heart of president ial authority. Its not just about this president but about the presidency. Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani spokes with axios. They report, quote, there are two topics the president s lawyers want to rule out in order to agree to a t...

By the thousands still left. Theres approximately 8,000 of those still left. And so we will not have a winner, we will not have a concession by a loser, in this race until all of those votes are counted by august 18th. That is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight, President Trump calls the russia investigation an illegally brought rigged witch hunt but says stay tuned. While Rudy Giuliani puts the chance of a sit Down With Mueller at 50 . In the manafort cour...

Trying to answer them so they wouldnt get follow ups and that muellers team would not dismiss the answers as not really answering the question and they might have to subpoena him. this has been such a long process in terms of trump wanting to talk to mueller and yet his lawyer is saying if he did he would get in a perjury trap. that it would be very hard for him to tell the truth. >> in may, the president said he would love to sit down with mueller, but in this new fox interview he said hes fini...

The question is what is the hold up here? why is it that they cant do that? they have known the exact issues for so long. theres nothing really new here. there may be a few new questions at the end and a few wrinkles. but this is a process that has continued to drag. and behind it all is the fact that the president has said he really would like to sit down with mueller, but you have to remember, its the presidents lawyers that are holding him back from that because they

That the president has said he really would like to sit down with mueller, but you have to remember, its the presidents lawyers that are holding him back from that because they dont trust that hell go in and tell the truth. they think hell increase his political exposure. so were sitting here, you know, theres all this speculation about other things mueller may do. but at a very simple level, the president still has not answered questions and laid out his case to mueller about russia. >> okay, s...

That the president has said he really would like to sit down with mueller, but you have to remember, its the presidents lawyers that are holding him back from that because they dont trust that hell go in and tell the truth. they think hell increase his political exposure. so were sitting here, you know, theres all this speculation about other things mueller may do. but at a very simple level, the president still has not answered questions and laid out his case to mueller about russia. >> okay, s...

Our colleague kristen welker there is still a steep hurdle to an interview with robert mueller. it would, quote, raise significant article ii questions going to the heart of presidential authority. its not just about this president but about the presidency. meanwhile, rudy giuliani spokes with axios. they report, quote, there are two topics the presidents lawyers want to rule out in order to agree to a trump sit-down with mueller. one, why trump fired fbi director james comey. two, what trump sa...

Presidency. meanwhile, rudy giuliani spoke with axios. they report, quote, there are two topics the presidents lawyers want to rule out in order to agree to a trump sit-down with mueller. one, why trump fired fbi director james comey. two, what trump said to comey about the investigation of former national security adviser michael flynn. tonight, bloomberg has also spoken to giuliani and also reports that those two topics are off limits. according to bloomberg, giuliani said, quote, if asked the...

Robert mueller fired, there was a particular price to be paid. and if he was going to do it he had to be willing to take that price. he hasnt been willing to take that price so far for the very reason we just talked about, jill talked about, in that he is the head of the executive branch and his power and authority to determine who serves under him, including the attorney general, there is no specific thing in the constitution that says he cannot fire an attorney general he considers to be dislo...

On special counsel robert s. mueller iiis team as his investigation into alleged coordination between trumps campaign and russia reaches a key juncture. as for what an interview would consist of, there are reports that muellers team may limit questions to just two topics or areas. heres what giuliani had to say about that on cnn this weekend. >> and if all the -- everything can be worked out, then they would probably limit it to collusion and obstruction. the collusion part, were pretty comforta...