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Lockstep, all major markets are down. But the dow and s p 500 are down 6 10 of a percent. The nasdaq tech stocks which populate the nasdaq are down a lot more. The nasdaq is down 1. 4 . That wraps up this hour for me. Ill see you tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. Eastern with stephanie ruhle, then 3 00 p. M. Thanks for watching. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace starts now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. In a single round of media appearances Rudy Giuliani today torched two years of Donald Tr...

News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Meaning in this other than you have to pay your taxes, and you cant lie on a loan application. Time is going to tell who is to be trusted around here and who isnt. Including everybody. We begin there with the president in crisis and the stunning fact, yes, fact, that the foundation of that crisis. The president of the United States is an unindicted coconspirator in a felony Campaign Finance case. If that isnt enough, the Special Couns...

Whether or not a development shows that president trump is in serious trouble and how it may play out politically without really appreciating how successful, devastatingly successful the russians have been in doing what i think, and ben would know this even better, trying to do, which is undermine americans faith in our republic, in our democracy. and they have been very successful at doing that and spreading misinformation, even when theyre going after bob mueller and making president trumps ar...

Reward donald trump by confirming someone else. >> if he were to fire sessions, the department attorney general rod rosenstein would be the acting attorney general, the president has no great love for rod rosenstein either. so if he fires him you move down that chain of command. lets talk about rudy giuliani, the presidents personal lawyer. hes trying now, hes open to the strategy of undermining mueller and the entire investigation as a witch-hunt, a rues. mueller is slightly more distrusted and...

Hung counts were related to how he came across to the jury. >> i think mueller is definitely prop propelled. he wound tn on the tax fraud, b fraud. there was a great deal of worry at the beginning of the day yesterday that this may not turn out so well for the special counsel. i think today, i think this is very much after months of the presidents rhetoric, undermining mueller, i think today hes propelled. now we have a jury that is part of the witch hunt. >> appreciate you coming in. next, a ...

Deals with paper instead of going on television all the time. but what weve seen, what you just played in that clip is that the presidents, you know, legal defense all along has really just been a p.r. strategy. its been all about messaging, undermining mueller, trying to convince his supporters and anyone else who is listening that he has done nothing wrong without really delving into the nuances and the details of what the actual law is, what the actual circumstances that are under review migh...

Investigation, and look at things like uranium one. look at things like the fisa abused we saw in chairman devin nunes memo. some of the very same people are involved in the mueller probe now. i asked jim jordan, are you suggesting here that the mueller probe is fatally flawed because of what you are seeing now in this ig report? he said im not saying that. but he did identify that there may have been a third individual, another person thats mentioned in this inspector general report whos been i...

We should also note the investigation is being led by robert mueller. a registered republican first appointed fbi director by republican george w. bush. and the investigation is overseen by the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein a republican appointed to that job by president trump, and also the fbi director is christopher ray who has given money to republicans, a registered republican, appointed by president trump. joining me to unpack this conspiracy-minded president is judi haberman. -- m...

Republicans, so important to the president, so important to the white house? because it is a way of undermining muellers credibility, trying to portray mueller and everyone associated with the investigation as bias and out to get trump and having something to hide. youll start to see the president invoking the memo in this context. if hes asked about why he might have he luck answer the to talk to mueller on muellers terms, hell say its not fair. its not only level. i dont think the middle of th...

Privileged leak out tonight. >> michael crowley, frank makes a very good point, a series of them. in a political sense, can the president ever -- this is by the way why bill kristol compares this to the o.j. trial and efforts to get to the jury pool. were all the jury pool if you go by franks argument. can the president politically afford to say, no, im not going to sit down and talk about this case? >> i think its possible he can, brian. this is where this storyline merges with the storyline ar...