Plus the democratic partys big dilemma. Do they have to decide between appealing to aggressives or appealing to democratic party. T this is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening, im chuck todd here in new york city. Welcome to mtp daily. If someone tried to interfere in the u. S. Election, it would be a big story. But what if they were doing it to try to keep a certain person from winning, and what if they got caught, and what if the incoming president didnt believe a word of it. What would your reaction be . Heres the reaction. Crickets, of sorts. The cia has said they now believe with a high level of confidence, and they have hard evidence to prove the following, that russian president Vladimir Putin was covertly involved to interfere in the president ial election, first as a vendetta against clinton, then as a campaign to destroy american credibility when it comes to american democracy. In 1972, watergate started when a couple burglars opened a file cabinet. Now were talki
That day the governor of california and his wife came too orville, california, to tour a really big awesome new piece of water structure the california governor at the time was Ronald Reagan. He and his wife nancy went to orville for the dedication of the brand new orville dam. It looks kind of fun. They got to go inside the dam, see in the white sneakers with the super cute hair cut . Thats ron, jr. , he got to go along with an unnamed friend. Looks like they were having a good time. Looks like a cool visit. Ronald reagan made a speech. You can see next to him while he was giving the speech they had the big cooler of water. Just in case. There had been a big parade downtown to welcome to governor and dignitaries. They had not just the majorettes from the middle school, they had the high school band, too. Look how many people were there. Look at that. Thousands of people turned out for the dedication of the oroville dam. I think we have one picture of the crowd in color as well. Look a
Exposures. With this report, that trumps digital operation asked Julian Assange directly for help naflt new report. Woodruff saying there is the closest known connection between Trumps Campaign and assange. Julian assange claiming to be a publish we are the same rights as any other news organization. There is a finding that Russian Military intelligence related material to wikileaks as a conduit. It is an explosive move if they asked asergeant to coordinate on releasing emails and it shows potential intent if he finds that related crimes occur. Lets be clear. Nbc news has not obtained the emails cited in this report. And often these stories include denials but tonight i can tell that you Julian Assanges response where he addresses the claim, says no denial. He says we can confirm an approach by Cambridge Analytica. So for the first time Julian Assange confirming that Donald Trumps team approaching him and he rejected it. The report that the Trump Campaign was going to these lengths for
Just the beginning. The Washington Post reports cohen reached out to multiple companies bragging about what he could offer, quote, he showed photos of himself with trump and mentioned how frequently they spoke, even asking people to share news articles describing him as the president s fixer. Im crushing it, he said. Cohens defense it wasnt me well, at least it wasnt all me. His Attorney Says some of the transactions listed in the original financial document posted online by Stormy Daniels attorney were wrongfully attributed to Michael Cohen, the president s fixer. Some of them were to other Michael Cohens. One is in israel, another is from canada. So cohen is off the hook, right . Not quite. The moneys that went to the other Michael Cohens amounted to about 20,000. The total monies listed were more than 4 million. Cohens attorney isnt disputing two of the biggest payments, the 1. 2 million from novartis and 600,000 from at t. Those two companies confirmed they had given information to
Top of the gop field in 2016, is now behind bars. Paul manafort is spending his first night in a virginia jail, this after a federal judge in washington, d. C. , revoked his bail privileges and ordered him detained. All of this coming after allegations from Robert Muellers Team Manafort had tampered with witnesses in the russia investigation. Manafort is already facing charges of Money Laundering, fraud, and conspiracy and has pleaded not guilty to all of those counts. He will now be held in pretrial detention until september. The criminal case against manafort is not directly connected to allegations about Russian Election interference, but his role in the campaign and his ties to russianbacked politicians have made him a target for muellers team. Reporter Josh Gerstein of politico, who is standing by to join us, sums up the importance of this latest development, writing, sending the 69yearold manafort to jail could boost the pressure on him to cut a deal with mueller, whose main task