these are potential criminal felonies. that is why the mueller investigation needs to proceed. there is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the phone records. never subpoenaed the phone records placed to an unknown meeting. is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. i am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. it was clear that they were not interested in trying to find evidence of collusion. trying to do a whitewash of what happened.
and i think history will not judge them kindly. reporting yesterday about senator claire mc mccaskill. we are told it lasted 30 minutes. so very concerned about what is going to happen. you started off this interview by nodding to possible crimes committed if it is in
fact true, the president knew about the meeting. and there are people on the right
Acting attorney general, has already said the mueller investigation needs to be reigned in. then the president showed up at a combative news conference. the president ignoring the morning-after reality, calling the midterms almost a complete victory. then he depose after his fellow republicans who didn t support him and tonight he s punished a network correspondent. and about those potential house investigations. democratic leaders say they know what they re doing and they ll do it right. the 11th hour begins now. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. what s left of our election headquarters here in new york. we have a lot to catch up on tonight. this was day 657 of the trump administration. and just hours after democrats gained control of the house, the president forced out his attorney general, jeff sessions. if the president was looking for a distraction after the election, he got one. and this could have serious ramifications. earlier tonight, the no
They ve got this corrupted mueller investigation as a result of this misconduct during the obama administration into the trump administration. harris: what do you do at the fbi, though, because the person appointed the top, christopher wray, was appointed by this particular president. then you ve got the president kind of watching i saw him retweet lou dobbs, saying that you may as well have eric holder at the top of the doj. there has been so little done with regard to this. i think this is why the mueller investigation needs to be shut down, so the president can provide the proper oversight harris: do you really think that will happen? i think it needs to happen. whether it will come i don t know. but it needs to happen. the problem here is that the fbi is covering up for mueller and holding back these texts. holding back information, the justice department is holding back information, for instance, on what bruce ohr is up to. we are soon page for materials. the fbi s tel
These are potential criminal felonies. that is why the mueller investigation needs to proceed. there is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the phone records. never subpoenaed the phone records placed to an unknown meeting. is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. i am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. it was clear that they were not interested in trying to find evidence of collusion. trying to do a whitewash of what happened.
The motives of our sources on this one any further than we already have in the paper. okay. david kirkpatrick, thank you very much for your time. it is a very in-depth interview and reporting there. and i think everyone should read that. and if i could have will put up the statement offered by donald trump jr. s lawyer. he says that his client recalls a meeting at trump tower and that he was pitched on a social media strategy but that he was not interested and that was the end of it. okay. so right now let s bring in democratic senator ben cardin of maryland, a member of the foreign relations committee. senator, welcome on this sunday. i want to get your wraeks react this new report. what does it add up to if anything in your mind? good to be with you. it really cries out for why the mueller investigation needs to be able to be get to its conclusions and not interfered with by anyone. this is certainly very important information to understand whether there were contacts with