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Administration and following what became a global blowback after taking putins side on election meddling, the president attempted a fix today that was then quickly broken. On social media, as late as this evening he continued to insist, quote, the meeting between president putin and myself was a great success, except in the fake news media. Now, before we get to the mistaken word the president said he got wrong yesterday, here now a reminder of what he said in helsinki while standing next to put...

And now im going to try to repeat that description of ranked voting thing that you just said. Okay. I was listening and im going to have to replay it and listen again. Theyve always had a theory about it. Ive always thought if they called it one, two, three voting wed probably have it all over the country. You pick your first choice, if that person doesnt win, then you pick your second choice. And if neither candidate gets more than 50 you go through. It does away with spoiler candidacies. It to...

Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 819 of this Trump Administration and this was a big one. We now have the redacted Mueller Report, weighing in at over 400 pages. We have learned a lot today. We learned, among other things, that the president finally has an attorney general who definitively has his back. We learned that russia decided it wanted trump as president and the campaign decided it wanted russias help. And perhaps the most stark conclusio...

Pretty major they can do about it. Thats later. But we begin with the growing heat on donald trump in this russia probe culminating in pressure now hitting trumps family. Also Paul Manaforts lawyers today facing off with the mueller team in court. This was a new and separate proceeding. This all comingut of th way mueller yanked and blew up the plea deal because he says as you may have heard by now, that Paul Manafort kept online. So one of muellers top lieutenants Andrew Weissman says he could ...

The office of Legal Counsel that had dealings with the special counsels office. So they had knowledge of a number of episodes and some of the thinking of the special counsels office. So right after march 5th we started discussing what the implications of this were and how we would how we would and you made the decision when . I probably on sunday the 24th. That is the day the letter came out . Yes. You make the decision until the letter came out . You must have told somebody hout to write the le...

Probe for two years. Manafort is one of the central focuses for the special counsel investigation. Prosecutors dug into his real estate and Business Practices and foreign ties. What the special counsel found is financial crimes. What they have not found at least to our knowledge at this point is evidence of russian collusion. The president has distanced himself from his former campaign chair. Manafort has nothing to do with our campaign. Manafort works for me for a short period of time, 49 days ...

Without indictments for lack of conspiracy and collusion and the barr letter, this is the biggest news of the night if not the year, it did note that. This did not exonerate President Trump from obstruction of justice. That whole issue remains open and thats according to the best presentation of the evidence on behalf of donald trump by his own attorney general barr. This is what you need to know tonight. Barrs letter today, tonight, tries to go much farther than what mueller found on obstructio...

A young, vibrant man. I look at joe, i dont know about him. I dont know. Look, um, if he looks young and vibrant compared to me, i should probably go home. Those are fighting words. Duty of loyalty, new reporting on how far Rod Rosenstein went to save his job and the promise he made to protect the president. And it is beginning to become a dinnertime tradition. As the White House Press glams up for the annual correspondents dinner, President Trump heads to wisconsin to boycott it but Something E...

Godzilla ambushed them. He showed us its not hard to ambush a mob, especially a mob of lemmings. Jump off a cliff and they will jump off. This year, it is kamalas turn. I heard it from the lemmings. Senator Kamala Harris kicked off her 2020 president ial campaign. Look at the crowd. She was strong, joe. What are your thoughts . I dont know about you but the second that i saw her up there, i said wow. Shes got what it takes. She filled that stage. She complained the big leagues. Greg they are a g...

Crimes and drugs and a lot of other things that come through our southern border. I dont know why its politically, i dont care about political i, im doing whats right for the country but ill tell you its a very bad political issue for the democrats. Pretty bad one for you too, sir. Just moments ago, fireworks from democrats after a meeting with the president ended in one of the most explosive conflicts weve seen in the nearly three weeks of gridlock over the border. Unfortunately, the president ...