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For legislation right now to protect mueller. Lawmakers seem ready to clash over this controversial memo about Justice Department and fbi. The House Intelligence Committee meets today at 5 00. The president will make a decision. The president hasnt seen it. This is such a hamfisted setup to undermine rod rosen stein so they can fire him and appoint somebody who can fire mueller. Its all about treating the Justice Department as an extension of the trump tower security force. The white house, not ...

Controversial as a person but the bulk of his positions are not controversial, not very. Check the polling on that. That may be the key thing to know about our current politics. Its mostly personal. If you read a trump speech in a british accent, pretty much everyone would applaud. Not everybody but most people. Maybe unfortunately last nights state of the union was not delivered in a british accent. Democrats are not applied. The modern Democratic Party, everythingry donald trump says s the hea...

Its 5 00 a. M. Here on the u. S. East coast at cnn world headquarters. Newsroom starts right now. Breaking news this hour of a major diplomatic development. The president of south korea has announced hes sending a delegation of highlevel officials to north korea monday for a twoday visit. One purpose is to build on that dialogue that developed between the two koreas during the winter olympics. Another is to try to open a path to direct talks between north korea, and the United States. Lets get t...

Administration and today another chapter of this administration played out as we watched live on cable television. In fact, into the night. A former Trump Campaign aide, as weve been saying, sam nunberg, today announced very publicly and repeatedly he plans to defy a subpoena from Robert Mueller. Katie tur says sam nunberg said hell probably cooperate with muler in the end. But the day played out this way. Without informing his lawyer, nunberg talked to his lawyer, appearing on cable news networ...

Gates revealing in a letter to family and friends that he had a, quote, unquote, change of heart and would not be fighting these charges against him. This guilty plea is a sign that gates is now willing to offer up incriminating investigation against the former Campaign Chairman paul manafort. Evan perez, shimon prokupecz. Evan perez, let me begin with you. Tell me what happened. Brooke, it was a surreal scene. I was here when rick gates was charged and the scene was quite different today. He sa...

Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. As we start off a new week, this was day 410 of the Trump Administration and today another chapter of this administration played out as we watched live on cable television. In fact, into the night. A former Trump Campaign aide, as weve been saying, sam nunberg, today announced very publicly and repeatedly he plane pls to a subpoena from Robert Mueller. Katie tur says sam nunberg said hell probably cooperate with muler in th...

The white house. Explain what we know about these alleged conversations about pardons because we should point out that dowd denies it occurred. Reporter anderson, thats true. John dowd denies it occurred, and the white house was doing some careful answering of questions today to say that these conversations didnt happen. But what the New York Times is reporting is that these conversations were happening indeed by lawyers last fall. Youll remember last fall as Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort were...

The best news is youre back and well get into where liz has been. Im Leland Vittert in d. C. , outside of our studios, there are teachers and students, political activists gathering in what they call a unified demonstration against gun violence and appears by the signs theyre against other things as well. Student organizationers hope that will force congress into passing comprehensive gun control and improving School Safety. The main rally here in d. C. , alison barber, just above that very larg...

Reporting that it includes new details about the alleged incident in that moscow hotel room. Comey reveals when the allegations came up, trump told him to consider having the fbi investigate the prostitutes allegation to prove it was a lie. Comey says in an apparent play for my sympathy he added he has a beautiful wife and the whole thing has been very painful for her. He asked what we could do to lift the cloud. In response he writes though i didnt know for sure, i imagine the president ial sui...

Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president and his allies are stepping up their assault on the Justice Department and the rule of law in the wake of last weeks fbi raid on trump fixer Michael Cohen. Tonight, in a press conference with the Prime Minister of japan, the president once again quite pointedly and clearly did not rule out firing the special counsel or the man that supervises him, the Deputy Attorney general. Have you concluded that its not worth the political fallout to ...