The extent is much broader than reported so far. Homeland security secretary jay johnson joins me. If President Trump is so concerned with alleged fake news, why did he try to pull one over on all of us yesterday . This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd in new york city. Welcome to m 2rmtp daily and President Trump seems to have gone 8 bit rogue from james comey. This is not the first time we have seen this. The president is stuck in a cycle of petty fights that seem to get worse in a crisis. He is stepping all over his own administration. He is making a mess of the russia issue. The governing issue is to feed the base. He still has affection for experience theories which he will talk about on twitter. The conflicts of interest are sitting out there on the sidelines and of course there is bipartisan concerns about the dysfunctional nature of the west wing. Its a mess. That seems to be getting worse. It feels as if there is a growing Cross Section of cons
The New York Times. That says that donald trump, jr. , romance with a russian attorney to get the dirt on Hillary Clinton. That meeting was june 2016, and in that room. Kushner, and then campaigned chairman paul man aboard. The term says dashcam team says that nothing came out of it. And could be the dirty tricks. The term, jr. , statement now. The woman stated that she had information that connected to russia were pending the committee and supporting mrs. Clinton. Her statements were vague, ambiguous, may no sense. No details or information was provided or offered. A became clear that she had no meaningful information. But the ranking house intel schiff is not buying the information. No reason for this russian Government Advocate to be meeting with Paul Manafort or with the president s son if it was not about the campaign and russia policy. Obviously they were trying to influence one of the candidates, the leading candidates at that time on the republican ticket. Spoon the kremlin is
Young girl who lost her prosthetic legs in the california fires now back up and running thanks to the kindness of strangers. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening and welcome to our viewers in the west. A moment intended to demonstrate all is well between the president and the Senate Republican leader turned into an improve two and wide ranging News Conference this afternoon. As those moments so often tend to go, President Trump had plenty to share from his frustration with the Russian Investigation to whether his predecessors reached out to families of the fallen to his wish to seeing Hillary Clinton in the political arena. Our National Correspondent Peter Alexander was there for it all and has details. Reporter President Trump tonight trying to present a united front with top Senate Republican mitch mcconnell. My relationship with this gentleman is outstanding. Reporter just months after blaming mcconnell for republic kansas inability for repealing obamaca
Vladimir putin. Plus this, the latest nbc news reporting about the russian investigation, including a new leak between the dossier and russian lawyer brought to the table at trump tower. But well start with you this hour on this saturday in alabama where Republican Senate candidate roy moore just delivered his most emphatic denial yet against the allegations by the Washington Post that he encountered a 14 Year Old Girl when he was 42 years old. Ive not been guilty with anyone. To think that grown women would wait 40 years to come before, right before an election to bring charges is absolutely unbelievable. Everybody in this room, every person watching on these cameras should ask their self, isnt it strange that after 40 years of constant investigation, people have waited to four weeks prior to the general election to bring their complaints. Nbc bond hillard was at that event today in alabama. Vaughn, it was like 100 people inside the room. Could have been more press than people there.
Today we learned about two additional ones targeted at former Vice President joe biden. Hollywood superstar Robert Deniro sent an explosive device at a house that houses his Production Company in downtown new york city. So this story it continues to develop in terms of the number of device apparently sent, the number of targets, also the progress of the Law Enforcement that has enviewed as more devices turned up, we are told the fbi started analyzing these things at their lavenl it is the sort of holly grail for investigators to have this much physical evidence. To have these up, ploeded devices will give investigators leads to pursue. In terms of who put these things together and how and what their intentions were. I will just mention one other thing about this, though. When we bought the news confirmed late last night about the two devices targeting Congress Woman maxine waters, one senned to her offices in southern california. One sent to her offices in washington, d. C. And then to