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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. A source says Michael Cohen is prepared to tell Robert Mueller that donald trump knew about that meeting before it happened. He did not participate in any meeting about the russia transaction. The president . The president did not. Im happy to tell him, he wasnt there. He wasnt at the meeting. The meeting with the russians. How can you be sure that the president didnt know beforehand . Youre saying its jus...

The 11th moThe 11th Hour gets on a monday night. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 557 of the Trump Administration, 99 days now until the mid term elections. And this might go down as the day we witnessed a change resulting in the new defense strategy. On the part of the trump team. Its about something Rudolph Giuliani has started to say, and tonight, mark at the New York Times has put it this way. In the days after the 2016 president ial election, Donald Trumps a...

>> he was the chairman -- >> he was, but he really wasnt jared and the sons and bossy and these other people were really running that. >> note that he was the chairman of the campaign but he really wasnt. here with us to talk about it we welcome barrett berger former u.s. attorney with the eastern and southern district of new york and ken delaney is back with us, nbc news intelligence and national security reporter who will be inside the courtroom tomorrow covering the trial. ken, i would like t...

Correspondent pete williams points out if manafort is convicted, prosecutors would have powerful leverage for attempting to compel his testimony before a grand jury about whether he knows of any improper dealings between the trump campaign and the russians. the trial itself is not expected to shed any light on russias meddling. meanwhile, president trumps attorney, rudy giuliani who we might have mentioned in the previous segment, said today he is sure manafort has nothing on president trump. >>...

Another provable subject in which he would not -- >> the meeting so im clear, the meeting with the russians, who was in there? >> i have to -- jared. it was with donald jr., jared and two to three other people. im not sure exactly who. >> and the one who came -- >> and four russians. >> the one who told the president about it was donald, which donald denies and president denies and no kroks of and cohen never said this at any time up until now. >> when don jr. made that day before the meeting an...

Crime, colluding about russians. you start analyzing the crime. the hacking is the crime. >> that certainly is the original problem yes. >> the president didnt hack? >> he didnt pay them for hacking. >> as you know it led other places. if you got the hacked information from the russians ats cnn and played it, would you be in jeopardy of going to jail? of course not. >> the meeting with the russians, how can you be sure if the president didnt know beforehand? youre saying it was a he said he said...

Tweet on a president of united states as an article of impeachment. go read the law reviews, its scary. >> manaforts trial is starting tomorrow. >> they have no incriminating information about the president. they can squeeze him. with with him for four months. paul manafort was a brilliant gatherer of delegates. >> he was chairman but he wasnt jared and the sons and these other people were really running it but okay, but paul -- >> youre saying that he didnt have power? >> im not saying that. he...

He was obviously very close to his dad, very affected by his dad going to prison. i know youre not a shrink, but how much of this is behind everything -- >> ill tell you what some people have told me. one person i spoke to earlier this week said to me, the ultimate goal here is to get a pardon for his father. hes very close to his father. he used to visit him every single weekend when he was a young guy and his dad was away. the fact that he ousted christie and all of the christie allies within ...