To step down over a racist photo. I am not either of the people in that photo. Of course he should resign. Its just raw racism. It is disgusting. It is offensive. It is racist. The governor needs to resign. 2020 dreams. The democratic field just got bigger and more progressive. How far is too far left . And from healing old wounds to choosing greatness, expectations for what President Trump will say at tuesdays state of the union address. But new details this morning on the controversy over Virginia Governor Ralph Northam. He is refusing to step down, despite mounting pressure from nearly the entire democratic establishment. Northam insisting yesterday it was not him in this racist photograph from his 1984 yearbook page. That is a stunning aboutface. He initially said friday that it was him in the photo featuring a person in blackface next to another dressed as a member of the ku klux klan. But yesterday, he revealed that on another occasion in 1984, he did darken his face to impersona
Details on the meeting between Paul Manafort and a russian with connections taking place a few blocks from trump tower at a critical time in the campaign at an interesting address. What this could mean for robert mueller, whose team is set to meet with manafort in a sealed hearing tomorrow. Meanwhile, inside the west wing a president who tauted himself as a dealmaker now unhappy about a bipartisan agreement. All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a tuesday night. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters in new york. Day 754 of the Trump Administration and there is new reporting underscoring the poshs of that man, Paul Manafort, as former Trump Campaign chairman to the mueller investigation. Tomorrow manafort will be back in federal court for a hearing behind closed doors. The judge is expected to rule on whether she believes manafort lied to prosecutors, a decision that could impact his sentencing greatly. Thats coming up in march. But it was a manafort hearing last week that
Easy to recognize. And they were all pumped up. Because when the president was talking about jobs and women, they got jobs because they won a lot of elections, too. Ainsley the president right out of the gate talked about unity and bringing our country together. Not about democrats and republicans. Its victory for the United States of america. If you missed any of it here is a montage and we will continue to go through different topics he talked about. Watch this. The agenda lay out this evening is not a republican agenda or a democrat agenda. Its the agenda of the American People. We must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution. Victory is not winning for our party. Victory is winning for our country. [applause] we have unleashed a revelation in american energy. Im asking you to defend our very dangerous southern border out of love and devotion to our fellow citizens. The proper wall never got built. I will get it built. [cheers and applause] the next major priority
Former Trump Campaign chairman to the mueller investigation. Tomorrow manafort will be back in federal court for a hearing behind closed doors. The judge is expected to rule on whether she believes manafort lied to prosecutors, a decision that could impact his sentencing greatly. Thats coming up in march. But it was a manafort hearing last week that continues to be of interest, last night and tonight. This evening the Washington Post has new reporting with revelations from that hearing, particularly the august 22, 2016 meeting in new york involving manafort, his deputy rick gates and their russian counterpart. As they write, quote, it was at that meeting that prosecutors believe manafort and kilimnik may have exchanged key information. They also report a former senior u. S. Intelligence official who spoke on the condition of anonymity called the details about what occurred the most interesting and potentially Significant Development we have seen in a long time. Manafort, gates, and kil
Monday but bolton made it clear he strongly disagreed. Then by tuesday morning, he was out of a job. The president said he fired bolton but bolton says he resigned. Joining me now to discuss it all, Nbc News National Security and pentagon correspondent Courtney Kube as well as brett mcgurk. We also have elise labbot. What more do you know . So thats according to one person close to now former National Security adviser ambassador john bolton that in fact when President Trump brought this up, this possibility of potentially easing some sanctions against iran in exchange for bringing iran back to the table, that that was pushed ambassador bolton over the edge and caused him to what he said was resign but of course President Trump said was to be fired. We still dont really have a lot of resolution, its still sort of a he said he said situation, morgan. What we know is that ambassador bolton, in this administration he has been one of the strongest on the importance of a tough line on iran.