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interference. theyre trying to destroy a reputationsy they can win an election. i did nothing wrong and will fight this out just like weve been fighting for seven years. im innocent, and well prove that very, very soundly. >> fact check. when the former president is saying the word "they" he is referring to democrats. democrats did not indict the president. president joe biden did not indict donald trump. it was a grand jury based in florida. that is it. we should also note trump has a...

im stephanie ruhle. we continue our breaking news coverage on this historic night. nbc news has confirmed, donald trump, the nations 45th president, has been indicted on seven charges in connection with his mishandling of classified documents. let that sink in for a moment. weve been talking about it for months but here it is. for the first time in u.s. history,, a former president federal charges trump has received a summons to appear in u.s. district court on june 13th. that is this ...

Interference investigation. >> the inspector general states several times with regard to different parts of the report he oversaw even the fisa report which found there was no political bias or improper motivations. when hes using the words spying, he is misleading the public. the inspector general found no evidence that these informants were going in to collect information on the campaign. they were there to find out if russia was making any kind of outreach or trying, you know, to coordinate w...

Director christopher wray. listen. >> the inspector general did not find that political bias or improper motivations impacted the decision to open the russia interference investigation. >> what do you make of this apparent rift now between the fbi director and the attorney general and the president of the united states? >> this rift is absolutely unprecedented in a case of this magnitude. the director of the fbi is not merely defending its agency. he is stating the truth that whatever the errors...

More to come on that. that raging tweet that he put out about it. but first, we now know the russians are trying to interfere with muellers interference investigation. talk about irony. in a new doj filing, the special counsel claims nonsensitive evidence from the probe that was handed over as part of a criminal case was then altered by russians to discredit the probe. he also says hes identified individuals and entities yet to be charged who are interfering with our government. this news come...

That is the beginning of a great debate. and, another presidential promise broken. have you, my friends, been foxconnd? the argument for that ahead. what do you say? lets get after it. id like to say, well, it cant be, but you never know these days. did the president undermine the intelligence chief simply because they disagreed with him? cnns sources say the president seethed this morning as he watched tv coverage of his intel chiefs contradicting him on capitol hill. at one point, were tol...

Asked. i think its the most insulting article ive ever had written. and if you read the article, youd see that they found absolutely nothing. i can tell you this. if you ask the folks in russia, ive been tougher on russia than anybody else, any other -- probably any other president, period. but certainly the last three or four presidents, modern day presidents, nobody has been as tough as i have from any standpoint. >> that last part doesnt hold up to a fact check. with us to share their reporti...

They lobbed questions at republicans like jeff sessions and rod rosenstein about a second special counsel, about the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, about all manner of things. what do you think your former colleague is up there fielding, and when do you think well hear about how that went? >> well, well hear about it very soon because the transcript of that hearing or deposition will be made public tomorrow, but i dont think well learn much. heres why. if they want to talk about the hilla...

At this trial and looking for any hints. the fact that a couple of bench discussions were sealed, i think there are folks out there or there are folks out there looking at that and saying thats because maybe gates testimony pertains to the investigation going forward and are wondering how this trial might tie into everything else. >> so the case itself, the things with which manafort is charged dont seem to be at the heart of the russia interference investigation. but i think this is an importan...

Conference into we all heard live that are missing and we didnt have anybody in that room to give us a direct readout of what was discussed between these two leaders? >> i certainly hope we can see positive impacts of the meeting in helsinki. i believe the president walked back some of his comments. i think it was the correct thing to do. again, i differ from this administration on trusting fluent a vladimir putin. but we cant lose the facts either. facts are this administration has been pretty ...