By the thousands still left. Theres approximately 8,000 of those still left. And so we will not have a winner, we will not have a concession by a loser, in this race until all of those votes are counted by august 18th. That is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight, President Trump calls the russia investigation an illegally brought rigged witch hunt but says stay tuned. While Rudy Giuliani puts the chance of a sit Down With Mueller at 50 . In the manafort courtroom, the judge tells the jury disregard my criticism of the prosecution. And nearly one year later are we getting closer to learning the truth. What really happened in the dark aftermath of Hurricane Maria in puerto rico. The 11th hour on a thursday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 567 of the trump
presidency. Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani spoke with axios. They report, quote, there are two topics the president s lawyers want to rule out
fraud exception, do you agree with that? well, first, yes, we re pretty far down the line. i wouldn t make manafort the exact analog. i think that s the headline. the focus is not on corcoran and bobb. what happened here is they lie about the subpoena. that s flat out obstruction. they brought corcoran to a grand jury, and want to know, and there s some evidence that s independent of all of this that maybe there was fraud in the communications between trump and corcoran. they say, what did trump tell you? he says, well i refuse to answer because of attorney/client privilege. smith says, fine, see you in court, it s the kind of aggressive move you contrasted with mueller up top, that mueller wouldn t do. and it s got trump, and really trump alone in the cross hairs, the question is what was the
his purview to look into the or i havorigins of the steele dossr and the origins of the fbi counter intelligence investigation. the steele dossier was supposedly rooted in russian intelligence, russian information. wouldn t that seem to be central to a probe about russian meddling? absolutely. and he had an obligation in my mind to answer those questions republicans put to him, basically saying, look, how is it conceivable that given that your mandate was to investigate russian interference in our election that you did not look at the central document that, again, supposedly was sourced in large part from senior russian officials, that s according to christopher steele, and decide whether or not itself was dis information and mueller wouldn t answer those questions. he walled them off from the opening statement he gave. i think he knows that to have gone there would have required him to admit that the dossier
well, we don t know the answer to that because mueller wouldn t answer the question. so you re right. so in the last segment i talked about general flynn. some brits dirtied him up claiming that he had a russian girlfriend, right? so these were former intelligence guys, a story that went public. this is why they were investigating flynn, you know, back in 2015. then if you move into 2016, someone started setting up these so-called events or symposiums that it just so happened that all of these people got invited to. now, you re going to have george papadopoulos on earlier, which this is another track where you had a foreign politician named alexander downer who still is unclear because he claims he didn t ask about e-mails, papadopoulos said he didn t talk about e-mails, but yet somehow the fbi uses papadopoulos to open the investigation, and then they continued to ask papadopoulos about e-mails all through the rest of 2016.
mueller said it was not part of his purview to look into the or i havorigins of the steele dossr and the origins of the fbi counter intelligence investigation. the steele dossier was supposedly rooted in russian intelligence, russian information. wouldn t that seem to be central to a probe about russian meddling? absolutely. and he had an obligation in my mind to answer those questions republicans put to him, basically saying, look, how is it conceivable that given that your mandate was to investigate russian interference in our election that you did not look at the central document that, again, supposedly was sourced in large part from senior russian officials, that s according to christopher steele, and decide whether or not itself was dis information and mueller wouldn t answer those questions. he walled them off from the opening statement he gave. i think he knows that to have gone there would have required him to admit that the dossier