And good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell In Washington where President Trump is reportedly pressuring his legal team to secure a sitdown with the special counsel. Robert mueller has a new Interview Offer on the table for the president. What personal attorney Rudy Giuliani calls slight improvement by investigators in their offer. Three sources briefed on the matter are telling the New York Times that the mueller team wants to discuss possible coordination with Trump Associates and russians and whether President Trump tried to obstruct adjustmenjustice. The special counsel is willing to accept some written answers from the president but wants the ability to ask followup questions of the president. Peter alexander is at the white house. Bob bauer is here with me. Peter, what do we know so far about this possible Interview Offer . It appears from this that as of now mueller is not really
considering the possibility of pushing it all the way to a subpoena for an unwilling president , whic
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. This is a threat we need to take extremely seriously and to tackle and respond to with fierce determination and focus. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders told nbc news today that President Trump instructed his team to speak at todays news conference. Asked when the president made the request, sanders didnt respond. And its important to point out, just last friday the president met with his National Security council on Election Security for less than one hour. After the meeting, the white house released a statement that said the administration would not tolerate foreign interference in elections. But it did not mention russia by name. Lets bring in our leadoff panel. Jeremy bash, former Chief Of Staff at the cia and the pentagon
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Should is, thats rudys latest talking point. Was this Performance Today something long in the works, they were asked to submit their remarks, or were they asked to change the topic from the mess the president created yesterday with his Early Morning tweet about getting sessions to end the russia investigation . I think this has been building for some time. We saw dan coats a week or two ago raise some alarm in that interview with Andrea Mitchell in aspen. Weve seen alarm is a good way to put it. Let me show you his answer about helsinki. Lets watch that. In the runup to the helsinki summit, u. S. Officials, ambassadors to nato, ambassadors to russia, said the president would raise the issue of malign activity with president putin. He didnt discuss that, at least at the press conference. Youre saying today that the president has directed you to make the issue of election
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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. And commerce committee. Collins lawyer is saying, we are confident that hell be completely vitamndicated and exonerated. Lets start with tom outside the courthouse. Tell us about the fbi investigation, what did they say Chris Collins and his son did . Reporter the key thing they say is the congressman came into a possession of privilege material inside information. He was aware of Material Information of this company specifically that a major drug trial they have done. Whats not okay the government says and whats against u. S. Laws was for him to pick up the phone and call his son and let him know that information before the information thats publicly released by the company and allowed his son and fiance and other associates and stockbrokers to be involved in
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Stock sale that helped his son and others avoid millions in losses. The fbi said theres a better inside tip. Do not lie to its agents. And assange to testify . Wikileaks said the founder is asked for the Senate Committee to testify about russia interference. Would he leave the London Embassy where hes been holed up for years . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. The u. S. Announces its imposing new sanctions on Vladimir Putins government after finding the kremlin responsible for the nerve agent poisoning of a former russian spy and daughter in britain. Also breaking, republican congressman Chris Collins pleads not guilty to charges of Insider Trading and lying to the fbi. Collins, the first member of of
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. The admission for wikileaks has long been clear after revealing the clinton campaigns hacked emails. Wikileaks, i love wikileaks. This wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. This wikileaks is like a