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Day 750 of the trump administration, today one of its highest ranking officials was the very first to feel the full force of a highly empowered and at times angry democratic led house of representatives. Acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker spent nearly six hours answering questions from the members of the judiciary committee. Much of todays hearing was contentious. Heres just one sample of the mood in that hearing room. This hearing is important because there are Many Americans throughout t...

Alongside those other bad things was bird flu. That was the other thing that happened in 2005, the international freakout over bird flu. Deadly bird flu found across asia. Bird flu in turkey is deadly strain. Lethal bird flu. Week after week after week after headlines like this, particularly in the later part of 2005. Here is the b. B. C there hitting peak freakout. Bird flu could kill 150 million people. By halloween that year, 2005, nbc nightly news was airing terrifyings packages like thiso i...

Time last night when we last left the million mile an hour on the blink wildly spring out of control carousal thats the news cycle now. Jeff bezos, the founder of amazon. Com and founder of the Washington Post just published what he says were the extortion threats he received from a supermarket tab loid to the president s campaign in 2016. The president s longtime law r lawyer, of course, is about to start a fairly long prison sentence for his role in the felonies that lawyer himself, Michael Co...

Friday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 750 of the trump administration, today one of its highest ranking officials was the very first to feel the full force of a highly empowered and at times angry democratic led house of representatives. Acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker spent nearly six hours answering questions from the members of the judiciary committee. Heres one sample of the mood in that hearing room. This hearing is important bec...

Mueller must remain within the boundaries because matters within the scope of the russia investigation are covered by executive privilege. Lets go big picture on what all of this means. What is all of this . Serena is here, ryan lizza and michael. Good to have you on. Happy monday evening. Ryan, you first. President trump fighting a battle earth battle on race long awaited mueller testimony will refocus people on whether he obstructed justice. How big of a week is this for this president . I thi...

In new york. Day 750 of the trump administration, today one of its highest ranking officials was the very first to feel the full force of a highly empowered and at times angry democratic led house of representatives. Acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker spent nearly six hours answering questions from the members of the judiciary committee. Heres one sample of the mood in that hearing room. This hearing is important because there are Many Americans throughout the country who are confused im c...

At 4 30 p. M. Eastern time the staff of the House Judiciary Committee got a call somebody would be bringing a letter from the attorney general. Im sure they all immediately guessed what that letter was. A Justice Department staffer or messenger of some kind, all we know she was wearing a north face jacket, she brought, in fact, two letters to the committee in two separate manila envelopes because that was one letter for the democratic chairman and republican Ranking Member of the committee. The ...

Total indictments about collusion zero. Big take away here. And as we have talked about, there is no indictment of the person that was supposed to be colluding with russia in the first place, donald trump. So, if you are sitting in the white house this morning, if you are a supporter of this president and believe he won the election fairly, you feel pretty darn vindicated that this report has been submitted. We dont know the details at all. Submitted but no indictment of collusion. Katie that wa...

Arriving at the department of justice where he continues to review that report. Arriving right after him, Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein, while details of muellers report remain a mystery, we do know one major headline. A senior justice official says there will be no further indictments from the special counsel. Right now President Trump is golfing at his club in West Palm Beach, florida. Hes spending the weekend at marijua maralago surrounded by members of his key legal team. So far the...

About a week and a half ago the Washington Post filed a motion with the federal court in washington, d. C. That was handling a criminal case of president s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. And that motion from the Washington Post called on the judge in the manafort case in d. C. To release unredacted filings and transcripts from manaforts case. So that the Washington Post and by extension the American People could get a gander at those documents. Specifically the post motion called for unredact...