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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...

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 conti...

Harry, are you a member of the club despite all of the great bylines. i may be a member. youll believe a mueller/trump meeting when you see it? >> in other words, ill believe it when i see it like i dont think its going to happen. im a long term card carrying member of that club. i think however much they pare it down, it will be questions if he answers them falsely hell be subject to criminal charges. there will be questions did you know flynn was under investigation? we have new reports that s...

Reality of the situation. its to take out all of the disinformation. thats what you see here, theyve accused people from celebrities to politicians of a sex ring. its pizza gate. its amped up with the help of people on twitter, reddit and facebook. >> you do your work as we do ours in a free society where its hard to limit this kind of thing. its hard to squelch or suppress it. look at the climate this is coming up in. >> right. going back two years ago we saw the kremlin pushing a lot of disinf...

Many lawmakers in the capital. >> every morning we wake up and he tweets something. muellers going to finish his investigation. the truth is all going to come out. thats the best thing that could happen for the president and for the country. >> after that from senator rubio let us bring in our leadoff panel on a wednesday night. peter baker, jill colvin, john heilman and harry litman. former u.s. attorney, former assistant deputy attorney general under president clinton. peter, id like to begin ...

Obstruction investigation. he can throw this mornings tweet on the pile. here with us to talk more about it, clint watts, former fbi special agent. his latest "messing with the enemy, surviving in a social media world, hackers. i have to ask you if you came across the type of behavior were seeing from the nations top executive in your old day job at the fbi, how would that alter your investigation? what would that do? >> it adds to the pile. it continues the time line. several interesting thing ...

If we let it. there we have the presidents own words to judge him by. this is on him. this is one of those lessons we get to see if words have consequences. >> what is fascinating is how much this plays out in public out loud. what we see from the presidents tweets is him saying what would have been a scandal has like president nixon been found to have said it privately in a taped session in the oval office. the tape that finally undid him in watergate was hearing him order his aides to tell the...

Surprisi surprising. its the kind of thing hes done for a year and a half. we have kind of as a society gotten accustomed to it to some extent. >> harry, i dont walk around quoting u.s. code. for gods sake i dont comment on that. particularly on this argument you started hearing from someone late today as twitter still seems to so many people as a medium. this could still be kind of slow rolling obstruction in plain sight and the three words in the obstruction portion are if youre trying to infl...

We have new reports that shows he was. there are probably half a doze other thing that trump doesnt know and mueller does and, yeah, i dont see his sitting down with them under any circumstances where theres criminal penalty and i dont see mueller situation. we knew if we needed any help that the presidents words were going to be impactful. the minute we learned how many news organizations got what the president meant to say, phone calls afterwards, i know yours was among them. >> absolutely. th...

Presidents words, just days ago the times reported that mueller is examining all the president has said about jeff sessions as part of his wide-ranging obstruction investigation. he can throw this mornings tweet on the pile. here with us to talk more about it, clint watts, former fbi special agent. his latest "messing with the enemy, surviving in a social media world, hack eers. i have to ask you if you came across the type of behavior were seeing from the nations top executive in your old day j...