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The judge did not rule today. bottom line, paul manafort faces serious charges both here in washington, d.c. and in alexandria, virginia and has a trial date in washington less than two months from now in july, craig. his case is moving forward and he faces up to life in prison if convicted in these cases. >> meanwhile, while all of this is going on, kristen, a meeting thats set to take place tomorrow between the doj and gop congressional leaders. what more do we know about the status of that me...

Charge. take a listen. >> any meeting between the justice department and capitol hill about such information should only be attended by members of the gang of eight. if the meeting goes forward as planned right now, only partisan, only the worst actors on the house side in the room, no one should trust anything they say coming out of that meeting. it will be a sham. it will be a sham. >> reporter: sarah sanders asked about this yesterday, craig. why no democrats, as you said, look, democrats did...

Usually in an unfair manner. i also have experience with that. so i am definitely against piling on no matter what definition you use. >> reporter: so this is really interesting with rosenstein. in recent weeks hes really been more unfettered and you recall our colleague julia ainsley had a report last month he said privately, look, i may get fired at any time. here i stand. taking it as it comes and stand up for what i believe is right in the justice department. interesting to see how that tran...

>> reporter: in a statement to nbc news, amazon writes in part, various agencies used recognition to find abductive people. amusement wo menment parks use d children. some people could choose to abuse the technology. >> derek thompson. senior editor business tech writer at "the atlantic" joins me and host of the podcast crazy genius. love to plug your podcast. >> thank you for that. >> is this, as was indicated there in the piece, is this, like, surveillance on sayre royd steroids? >> it is, but...

And affordable housing. john chiang. the proven, progressive leader we need for californias future. privacy advocates, sounding an alarm on a powerful new tool amazon is marketing to police and other government entities. program known at recognition helps law enforcement agencies recognize anyone, anywhere, and in realtime. nbcs kerry sanders explains how it works. >> reporter: its getting larder to be just a face in the crowd. amazon now marketing an advanced facial recognition technology to ...

Question, he said, whats the next question? so refusing to say whether he has confidence in his deputy attorney general. >> two straight days done that now. for viewers at home, the picture we just put up, those four individuals was the gang of eight that kristen welker mentioned there. the heads of the senate and heads of the house on both the republican and democratic sides. also the house and senate intelligence committee chairs. mr. delanian here, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein made ...

Muellers investigation yielded a number of indictments and guilty pleas. we know that. many in the country dont steam to care apparently. a recent cbs news poll reveal as majority of americans believe that the mueller probe is politically motivated. a lot to get into. well get to that poll in a moment. lets start with our nbc reporters. nbcs kristen welker live at the white house. nbc national intelligence and security reporter kim dee len d outside the courthouse in d.c. where mr. cohen just le...

But we have learned that rod rosenstein is going to be there. whats going on there? >> reporter: a test of compartmentalization skills for rosenstein compartmentalization skills for rosenstein and the president because they obviously had some other heated issues with respect to his claim of, quote, spygate with the campaign period. this is an issue where there is a lot of common ground on immigration plans where there will be a discussion of trying to deal with a very violent gang, ms-13. of cou...

Its unfortunate that we have a campaign going on at a time when we have a serious economic problem. by the way, he hasnt even been specific about what the he so-called hikes would look r ha. ive been in favor of the thing that warren buffett is talking about, the people who make bulk of income from investments to expire. i agree with that. but rich people who make millions of dollars in ordinary income every year, are already paying high taxes on that. >> i think if neil was her, he would say th...