Plus the news breaks from New York Times, the president speaking to rod porter, the disgraced former aide out because of spousal abuse as donald trump hopes to bring him back to the west wing. And Stormy Daniels goes after it in a court filing. Good evening once again from our news headquarters here in new york. Day 431 of the Trump Administration and the dwindling legal team of this president are back in the news. Another high Profile Defense firm declined to take on the lead counsel in this case writing a prominent chicago defense attorney said monday he declined an invitation to lead President Trumps legal Team Responding to special counsels Robert Muellers investigation. Tonight nbc news has received this statement from attorney dan webb, quote, President Trump reached out to dan webb and tom buchanan to provide legal representation. They were unable to take on the representation due to business conflicts, however, they consider the opportunity to represent the president to be the
Thank you for joining us. French president , emanuel macron says Lieutenant Colonel died a hee owe. He persuaded a gunman to let him take the place of a female hostage in a supermarket. He was wounded and hours ago, frances interior minister announced he died in the hospital. Police killed the gunman after hay stormed the building after a fourhour stand off. By then, the gunman killed three other people. Melissa bell is following the story. Me indianapol melissa, tell us more about this officer, what he did that has so many people calling him a hero. Reporter it is the tale of extraordinary heroism. It took place in the supermarket behind me. It remains kcore donned off thi morning. Its where the killing spree started with a carjacking, then an attack on the police, then a hostage situation inside. What he did was offer to replace the female hos tonlg being held, to take her place. It isnt simply he saved her life, but he helped bring that stand off to an end by leaving his mobile phon
Went further closing this consulate in seattle american officials said moscow used to spy on a boeing factory and a navy base with the nations largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Time will come. They will understand what kind of grave mistake. This morning the white house is firing back at Stormy Daniels. The president strongly, clearly and has consistently denied these underlying claims. He doesnt believe she was threatend . No, he does not. Her attorney, michael avenatti, telling msnbc, theyre getting closer to determining who made that threat. In light of the 60 minutes interview weve received a handful of leads a couple which are promising. The porn star is suing Donald Trumps personal lawyer Michael Cohen for defamation. Were suing him for telling effectively a lie about my client and his lie was that the affair did not happen effectively. Were going to prove, in fact, it did happen and, therefore, his denial was inaccurate. If you have an Android Phone and you use Facebook Messen
Security. The answer . Is kim jong un in china . Welcome to early start. That would be the first time he left north korea since his father died. Im christine romans. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. 11 00 a. M. In the moscow. 4 00 p. M. In beijing. 60 Russian Diplomats have one week to pack up and leave the United States. President trump ordering this as part of the effort with european and other allies. The move is a response to the poisoning in the uk of the russian double agent and his daughter. More than 100 Russian Diplomats e exspelled worldwide. This is the president s forceful action against russia so far. Although not related to election meddling. This announcement came from the press secretary and not the president. The white house said this. The United States has issued sanctions on key russian oligarchs in response to the meddling. I would not close any doors or preclude any potential action. The president doesnt telegraph his moves. One person even has been sanctioned by the
Good evening, im katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. Welcome to mtp daily. Here we are, another day and another attempt pby this white house to walk back something the president said about the Intelligence Community. How many different ways does President Trump have to say it for everyone, including republicans in congress, to believe it . He does not accept the intelligence on russia. Does he literally have to stand next to Vladimir Putin on monday and tell the world that he doesnt believe his own intelligence chiefs . My people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. They said they think its russia. I have president putin, he just said its not russia. I will say this, i dont see any reason why it would be. Does he have to respond to the crushing criticism about not believing his intelligence chiefs on tuesday by reminding us that he doesnt really believe his intelligence chiefs when they say that russia, not other people, attacked our democracy . I accept our Intelligen