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Attorney general in el salvador and william barr has more questions now than ever before about the earliest origins of the russia probe. Here about how he finally plans to get some answers. New revelations of what is behind escalating tensions with iran and top gop lawmakers says there was a directive to kidnap and kill american soldiers. We begin with an exclusive from Katherine Herridge on a key section of the Mueller Report flying under the radar about how long Michael Flynn had been tracked....

Theories and terminology the president pushes and prefers. Most recently he echoes the president s spy claims and doesnt back down the claims of a witch hunt. And a look at the harm the trump name has brought to the trump brand that the president covets as the 11th hour gets underway on a friday night. As we bring another week to an end, good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 848 of the Trump Administration, and the president s latest assertion that the russia investig...

Agency had kept secret. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge has been following this case from the beginning and has this intervie interview. Confirmation of the fbi in vacation of my flynn , evidence of a longrunning effort to trap his brother, the federal judge orders the release of more secret documents. New special counsel record show former National Security advisor mike flynn reported multiple instances before and after his guilty plea where he or his lawyers got calls from ...

Voice mail according to newly released court documents. And flynn is back in the spotlight tonight for another reason. A little unnoticed section of this being the report reveals intelligence officials under investigation themselves at this point have their eyes on flynn earlier than anybody thought. What does that mean for this whole investigation . They did that based on his relations with the russian government. The president had this to say about that it now seems general flynn was investiga...

Nightmare and led to a revolution. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead. President trump this afternoon capping off a wild tweet storm by reacting to newly unsealed mueller evidence that showed that his former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn, aided the Mueller Investigation into potential obstruction of justice, offering evidence that members of the trump team and Congress Reached out to flynn in a way that mueller asserts could have affected both flynns ...

People close to the president to interfere in the investigation. According to newly unsealed court filings. In that filing, they say flynn informed the government of multiple incidences where either he or his attorneys received communications with persons connected to the administration or the congress that could have affected both his willingness to cooperate. They provided a voice mail records of one such communication. Nbc news notes its the first public acknowledgement that a person connecte...

Tirade of tweets on the russia investigation, iran, and immigration. Is he using twitter to validate his viewpoints and make policy decisions . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin defies subpoena requests from a powerful house democrat, refusing to turn over six years of President Trumps tax returns. The issue is now certain to move to the courts. Also tonight, President Trump seizes on new documents from the russia investigation, showing...

If we are worried about foreign influence for the same reason we should be worried about whether government officials abuse their power and put their thumb on the scale. Im not saying that happened. That phrase dont hang together is something he said repeatedly during his trip to central america. We talked about many things including the president s claims there is a witch hunt an has no time for it. The attorney general reacted on that. The president calls there a witch hunt. He calls it a hoax...

Law . And in another administration that might be true, but this attorney general is doing the president s bidding, as always, speaking to an audience of one, as always, acting more like the president s attorney instead of the attorney general. The former fbi director james comey tweeting just tonight, and this is a quote, the ag should stop sliming his own department. If there are bad facts, show us, or search for them professionally, and then tell us what you found. An ag must act like the lea...

It has taken the tariff off t aluminum and steel. Donald trump calls it a fantastic deal for the american people. Hopefully congress will approve it quickly and then the great farmers and manufacturers and steel plants will make our economy even more successful than it already is. In the meantime canada and mexico are also dropping their retaliatory tariffs. The two will also drop any of outstanding complaints against the u. S. At the world trade organization. Those trifs we tariffs were a signi...