Hour gets underway on a monday night. And good evening to you, once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 417 of the Trump Administration, and by one measure, the whole investigation appears to be over. The news was so big, the president switched to all capital letters tonight to say this the House Intelligence Committee has after a 14month long indepth investigation found no evidence of collusion or coordination between the Trump Campaign and russia to influence the 2016 president ial election. In fact, there it is on the summery of the investigation quote we have found no evidence of collusion, coordination or conspiracy between the Trump Campaign and the russians. They go on to despite their Intelligence Agency findings that russia indeed developed a preference for then candidate donald trump during the 2016 campaign. So those are all accurate depictions there except this wasnt the finding of the House Intelligence Committee tonight. What the president wrote abo
No evidence of collusion of the campaign. One republican member tom rooney of florida offered harsh words for the panel. We have gone off the rails and basically a Political Forum for people to leak information to drive the days news. We, as you alluded to, we lost all credibility. The republicans move accelerated into the disintegration of partisan warfare. I think it really is all too easy and bit of a copout to say that. The reality is the mission of the chairman from the beginning was to protect the president , not follow the facts where they would lead. That was a fundamental problem we had to deal with and it left us in the position of either going along with with essentially a whitewash or calling out majority every step of the way. That is the course we were forced to take. The gop plan to give democrats a 150page draft report. Democrats are expected to produce their own report arguing collusion did occur. With the House Intel Committee and the investigation imploding, Robert M
Meeting in which donald trump jr. And other campaign figures sat down with russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. So what did the testimony reveal . And well see. President trump said he hasnt received any information on north korea threat to cancel his planned summit with kim jongun saying well see what happens. Did harsh u. S. Rhetoric lead to north koreas sudden turnaround. Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. President trump reveals his reimbursed Michael Cohen for a six figure expenditure, apparently the money paid to Stormy Daniels. That disclosure is passed on to the supervisor of the russia probe, even as the fbi director now said the russia investigation is not repeat not a witch hunt. Ill speak with congressman andre carson of the Intelligence Committee and our correspondents are standing by. But lets begin with President Trump now admitting he paid back his fixer, his longtime lawyer for campaign expenses,
Investigation into it. Just over an hour ago the committee voted 139 on party lines to adopt and issue that report. It will soon be sent to the Judiciary Committee which will decide whether to draft articles of impeachment. Make no mistake the report is conclusive and damning for the president. As the report points out most of the facts presented are uncontested and solicited the interference of a Foreign Government ukraine to interfere in his election. The evidence of the misconduct of the president is overwhelming and so too is his obstruction of congress. Indeed it would be hard to imagine stronger or more complete case of obstruction than that demonstrated by the president since the inquiry began. Heres Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff explaining why all of that matters. Now, what does this mean for americans . Why should they care about what the president did visa vi ukraine . Why should they care indeed about ukraine . First of all, this is not about ukraine. This is a
Thats a good reference. Ill give you that. Thank you for the big setup. Chuck todd with a big announcement. We have a big show, even though we didnt know he was doing that in the toss. Look at whats happening now. Let me show you this. Roger stone new, could be jailed for violating the gag order, brand new order from a judge with a new hearing scheduled. If that story feels like it is repeating, remember, he was told this was his last chance. Also tonight, news broken here on the beat. Michael cohens lawyer revealed new trump hush money check written in office while he was president for a crime because Michael Cohen confessed to the crime. We have more on that story that broke last night. And later, you can call it only a serious and embarrassing rebuke, Donald Trumps own party, republicans rejecting trump in the heart of his agenda on immigration. So we have a lot going on as seems to be the case these days. We begin with what could be the epic subpoena showdown of this term. The whit