Page 241 - Split Screen News Today

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current political-campaign news.

Jonathan lamere, peter baker, and carol lenning is back with us. good evening to the three of you and welcome. jonathan, you were inside the west wing for the split screen day we had yesterday. what can you report about what that was like and what today was like there? >> so this is a west wing that has become accustomed to bad headlines. yesterday was a particularly striking one. it was a day for the history books. seeing that image. the dual images of cohen in court, manafort in court. both of...

Special counsel, really turning some of the heated rhetoric into action, steph. thats the big question mark as we continue to follow this story line. >> just think of that split screen for a moment. the president of the united states who says i could run it now accused of a co-conspirator of a crime. and another on fox news, theyre likely talks about the mtv music awards. joining me, a reporter for "the new york times." and evan siegfried. and a democratic candidate for new york attorney general...

Of manafort or cohen during that speech that lasted more than an hour. i want to bring in kristen welker at the white house. kristen, as all of this was unfolding the president was on air force one. and you know, if you remember, when first lady melania trump watched cnn, the president banned that and also watched fox news. so its unclear what information he got on air force one. take us inside the white house, because you know everyone there is watching every minute of this. >> every single min...

Prison right now. 69 years old. your reaction to that? ten counts there was a hung jury on. >> think about that for a second. split screen basically today you have the man who the president entrusted to be his campaign manager. >> chairman. >> the chairman. but basically, the number one person, maybe number two person in the campaign. going to court, getting convicted and then his personal lawyer of many years, his confidant, his fixer also making a plea agreement and will be sentenced later on....

The cohen thing. gu guys, are we ready to move over to that? lets move over to that courthouse now. press conference split screen day. >> with me is bill sweeney, assistant director in charge of the new york field office of the fbi, and james rodna, who is the supervisory agent in charge of the new york office of the irs. also with me are the prosecutors from the united states attorneys office in the southern district of new york who prosecuted the cohen matter. im going to have a brief statemen...

Said on a split screen. the white house reluctantly imposing sanctions on a regime that -- we are not talking about the mueller interview. the russia sanctions. you have senator rand paul presenting a letter of introduction of donald trump to vladimir putin. two different optics. >> very different optics. coming on the same day. the other element, you assume the white house would rather impose sanctions for chemical weapons than election meddling. that is the thing that president trump thinks is...

Condemnation of russia continuing to have this ongoing effort to undermine american democracy and then you have the president of the united states split screen going there saying never mind what my top aides are saying. never mind all this is disrupting my relationship with putin who didnt want me to win. and of course for those of us who were in the room in helsinki when putin was asked that, you dont have to speak a lot of russian to know that the answer to the question of did you want trump t...

Chicanery. the president said putin was unhappy he won. >> ill tell you what, russia is very unhappy that trump won, that i can tell you. >> well thats a far cry from what putin himself said in helsinki. >> did you direct any of your officials help him do that. >> translator: yes, i did. because he talked about using the u.s./russia relationship back to normal. >> joining us now. and malcolm nance, msnbc analyst. first to the reporters, michael and then john. isnt that what is going on, this spl...

Either one, it is another way to get closer to donald trump as candidate and president or roger stone may be the new target, the same way we didnt think michael cohen had anything to be afraid of, suddenly everything changed. paul manafort, same thing. roger stone may be in the next category. >> i remember when bill clinton was president many years ago, rush limbaugh would say how many of your associates do you know who have been indicted or died or been killed under mysterious circumstances, wh...