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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. This presidency, we will ask a celebrated historian if there is anything to celebrate in the history that we are witnessing. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. Day 561 of the Trump Administration and the end of another week brings a new sign of Robert Muellers increasing interest in one of Donald Trumps veteran advisers. His friend of 40 year...

All on his payment structure. and this raises a lot of questions, because as you pointed out, in the clinton impeachment, which is really the only prior example of this, because there were new ethical -- a new landscape of ethical regulations that came up after watergate so clinton is all we can compare this to. they went to the office of government ethics for consultation on their saidup. jay sec ow low told me, i dont deal with that, im not a government employee. he didnt get this consultation...

Going to assist the counsel. >> it makes the case this isnt a formal impeachment process but illegitimate. they are bringing in outside counsel, including trey gowdy, the former republican congressman from south carolina. he was at the white house today and met with chief of staff mick mulvaney i and my colleague are told that he is expected to help president trump in a private capacity as counsel. he is expected to work with jay sec low other outside lawyers as well. if you look back what he sa...

Policy mandates in protecting election security is one of those. theres no reason to believe you will hear a change of heart at the top from the president when hes been moving in sort of the other direction messaging wise to try to, you know, protect his own like legacy and talk about the legitimacy of his own election. one interesting development, jay sec ka lo, one of the presidents lawyers telling axios, there are no plans at this point for a war room in terms of the white house. well see whe...

Investigate you hire jay sec to investigate a democratic president, do you get huge pushback assigned to that legal team so heres -- but robert mueller says it shouldnt matter in the legal i never asked people their political affiliation. whats the truth? >> they were giving money to hillary clinton campaign and other democratic campaigns heres irony of this is bob was trying he says right to avoid even the appearance of bias or inpropriety yet they doapght ask that question and one that cant be...

Statements but guy who launches everything the guy who puts this whole story in motion you cant charge him. i think thats amazing. >> not certain im not certain i agree with your characterize. >> im reading from your report. >> you know what i dont think he can follow anything jim jordan was saying or even clued in to investigating of the investigator in some of the legitimate questions. they were asking him had about his had report and it was obvious yesterday he had had not written it. >> clea...

Pfnl back to what you said about fusion gps how it he not be familiar request that after we spent 25 million dollars basically two years of an investigation what is that telling you? does that tell you. he doesnt have a television or newspaper -- >> for year. >> ill tell you what it tells me he wasnt running this investigation. this was an investigation run by -- his deputies and his assistants. >> why make him the lead buy ?mple heres the question to ask yourself, why is it that when he asked a...

Congressman had knadler me or anybody else. they dont get to do that exactly. >> on to health care, iran, north korea and immigration, please we need something to get done. jay thanks so much. thanks for having me. happened again a third video of new york city officers getting soaked it is now surfacing. wheres mayor bill de blasio, is he president yet? thats when fastsigns recommended fleet graphics. yeah, and now business is rolling in. get started at fastsigns.com. booking.com offers free so ...

From the department of justice, that could change but at the moment, the real clear indication is waiting for william barr, the presidents attorney general to act and next steps. when you look at the outside associations with his personal legal counsel, thats a different category. the president has rudy ghoul jo -- giuliani and jay sec cue low and others working on his behalf. he said there is no conclusion or interference. he did not assert privilege. the president did submit written questions,...

Already got that list. >> thats a list investigators need to talk to, whether theyre on the legal side of the house or congressional oversight side of the house, we will hear from all of these people before its over. >> matt miller, you want to jump in and sort of lump any of those groups together? it seems like the last group, those are people involved in the illegal or partially charged conspiracy, the campaign finance violations charged by the southern district of new york. some of those name...