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Running. Thats tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts right now. Tonight donald trump and his new Jersey Golf Club after a wild ride of a week moving the goal posts on collusion calling for an end to the Mueller Investigation and a full on assault on the media all while his own team beats the drum warning of the russia threat. Plus new developments in the Paul Manafort case. The testimony today that compelled his wife to leave the courtroom. And after another stunning week ...

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Thats a really good thing. Now were being hindered by the russian hoax. Its a hoax, okay . Earlier this week he wrote, quote, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now. Bob mueller is totally conflicted and his 17 angry democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to the us...

Trouble even if there are ground rules for this? >> absolutely. that kind of client, a ceo or a highly placed public official, they have those positions because they are confident and persuasive and fluent. and they tend to believe and overestimate their ability to persuade prosecutors and agents of the righteousness of their position. prosecutors and agents are generally in the business of building cases not deconstructing them, and they come to an interview with that mind-set. so it can be a v...

So it can be a very precarious situation for the president to go into an interview ground rules or no. >> so, jack, to your ground rules point let me ask you this, lets say they agree on ground rules, we can agree on this but not this, the president starts to talk but takes them into an area that had been walled off by ground rules. thats now open. thats fair game, correct? >> that happens often just because of the dynamic of an interview especially a voluntary interview as opposed to, for examp...