Good morning. It is thursday, november 29th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Frances Rivera and louis burgdorf. D President Trump is now publicly discussing a possible pardon for his former Campaign Chairman. President trump left open the possibility of a pardon, telling the new york post, quote, it was never discussed but i wouldnt take it off the table. Why would i take it off the table . In that interview the president criticized Robert Muellers probe claiming they were all asked to lie. If you told the truth, you go to jail, trump said. You know, this flipping stuff is terrible. I have three people, manafort, corsi i dont know corsi but he refuses to say what they demanded. Its actually very brave. Im telling you this is mccarthyism. Mueller claims manafort violated his plea agreement by repeatedly lying to investigators. Those lies may include comments about his personal business dealings and contacts with a former associate in ukraine. Manafort allegedly made inaccurate statements about his communications with a man who worked for manaforts lobbying firm in ukraine. Both he and manafort for charged for trying to influence two witnesses providing information on manafort. Manafort may have also allegedly misrepresented information about payments he received related to his lobbying work. Manaforts lawyers dispute muellers claims, saying hes been truthful. At this point, it is unclear whether prosecutors to accuse manafort of additional lies. We are now learning some details about what President Trump is said to have told special Counsel Robert Mueller in his written answers to questions related to russian interference. Two sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news that trump says he was not told beforehand about the 2016 trump tower meeting with Senior Campaign leadership and an attorney tied to the kremlin and also he was not tipped off weeks before about the wikileaks disclosure by roger stone nap. I can honestly say that President Trump and i have never discussed the wikileaks disclosures before, during or after. You never had a single discussion about Hillary Clinton emails with him at all . That is correct. Sources tell abc news that another question dealt with the july 2016 Republican Party platform change, back off of providing arms to ukraine to guard against russian aggression. Sources familiar with the president s responses say the president told mueller he was not aware of it to the best of his recollection, which is also consistent with what trump said publicly. Why would you soften the gop platform on ukraine . I wasnt involved in that. Your people were. I was not involved in that. Id have to take a look at it, but i was not involved. Do you know what they did . They softened it i heard but i was not involved. Nancy pelosis fight is not over yet. Pelosi won support of 203 House Democrats to claim her partys nomination. 32 democrats defects and three left their ballots blank. That means pelosi will need to win over 18 democrats who did not vote in her favor yesterday assuming all republicans vote against her. Asked if she had those votes, she said, i think were in pretty good shape. Hoyer and clyburn were reelected. Secretary of state mike pompeo and defense secretary jim mattis gave all senators a closed door briefing on yemen and saudi arabia which included the Jamal Kashoggi situation. Youve seen all the intelligence. Do you believe the crown prince ordered the murder of Jamal Kashoggi . Ive read every piece of intelligence. There is no direct reporting connecting the prince to the order to murder Jamal Kashoggi. Thats all i can say in an unclassified setting. We have no smoking gun that the crown prince was involved, not the Intelligence Community or anyone else. There is no smoking gun. By the way, i have read all the intel. I have personally read all the intelligence. I have read all the translations. No smoking gun connecting the crown prince to the murder . That is correct. The cia has recently given a high confidence assessment that the Saudi Crown Prince ordered kashoggis murder, an assessment which the president couldnntinuo question and dismiss. One question, the notable absence of cia director gina haspel. Were you explicitly told that gina haspel was blocked from coming to this meeting . We were told that was a decision by the white house. Why wasnt the current cia director here briefing senators as well . I was asked to be here and i am. [ inaudible question ] i was asked to be here and im here. Can you explain to me why gina haspel wasnt there . No. Did you raise any issues . Yes, several times. I dont want to speculate, but we were not nobody was happy that she wasnt there. Not having the cia director at this briefing is a coverup. Its outrageous that the senate can be stonewalled from hearing from the cia director. Like most in the room, was disappointed that gina haspel was not there. Im not, quite frankly, im not going to be denied the ability to be briefed by the cia. Im talking about any key vote, anything that you need me for to get out of town, i aint doing it until we hear from the cia. Have you told that to the president . I just did. In a statement the cia says the notion that anyone told director haspel not to attend todays briefing is false. One of the main topics of that briefing was the situation in yemen where the offensive has left thousands dead and brought yemen to the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. The senate voted to advance a resolution that would end all u. S. Involvement in the war. The u. S. Currently supports the coalition primarily with training and oversight. The Trump Administration ended u. S. Midair refuelling for Coalition Jets several weeks ago. 14 republicans joined every democrat in voting for the measure. I changed my mind because im pissed. The way the administration has handled the saudi arabia event is not acceptable. The briefing today did not help me at all better understand the whole that mbs played in the killing of mr. Kashoggi. The yemen conflict is just one part of the puzzle. I think institutionally we have a right to be briefed by the cia. How can i make an informed decision as a United States senator about whether or not the crown prince is complicit in a murder if i dont have access to the intelligence that i read about in the paper . Thats unacceptable for me. Is it too much to ask of an ally that the de facto leader of the country not lure someone to a consulate and chop them up because they wrote a bad article . If we dont deal with this now, it gets worse. Joining us now eugene scott, reporter for the Washington Post. Quite a lot of drama playing out there after that all senators briefing. Have republicans drawn a line in the sand for President Trump and the cia related to the murder of Jamal Kashoggi . It appears so. Senators know that if they are to make the most informed decision, they need the most information possible. At this point much of the information that senators are getting about this incident is actually coming from places like the Washington Post amid msnbc. Perhaps in the past that would have been okay for them in terms of not pushing back more of the trump white house. But i think many of them have in their minds the fact that large percentages of the American Public voted against status quo of this months midterms and therefore want to have a senate that is a check on the white house and is not just a group of yes people for the president. I want to turn to Paul Manafort, specifically whats on the table, whats not. Youve got a plea agreement off the table. Pardon, not off the table according to the president. Does that look like the most likely option for trump now . Its hard to tell, but perhaps it was always an option. I think earlier in this investigation the president may have suggested that it was not something that he was very much thinking about, but the truth is he probably always was. He was always saying kinder words about manafort, especially when you compare them to some of the comments he made about his previous lawyer. I think if anything its a signal to manafort that if he is honorable and loyal to trump that things could work out well for him in terms of his future. Also seeing among that Rudy Giuliani emerging once again and being vocal about it. Stormy daniels alleges Michael Avenatti filed a definition lawsuit against President Trump against her wishes, saying avenatti also raised money on a crowd funding site for her Legal Defense without telling her. She says she is unsure if she will keep avenatti as her attorney. Last month the judge dismissed daniels defamation suit against trump and ordered her to pay the president s legal fees. She wrote, quote, for months ive asked Michael Avenatti to give me accounting information about the fund for my Legal Defense. Days ago i demanded again repeatedly that he tell me how the money was being spent and how much was left, adding michael has not treated me with the respect and deference an attorney should show a client. He filed the Defamation Case against donald trump against my wishes. Avenatti wrote i have personally sacrifices an enormous amount of money time and energy toward assisting her because i believe in her. I have always been an open book with stormy as to all aspects of her case and she knows that. Still ahead the department of Veterans Affairs not paying vets what they were owed. First, it was Paul Manafort. Now were learning trumps legal team may have been talking with Jerome Corsis attorneys about the mueller probe. 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So for me, it was this infusion of hope and perspective that i see in our Service Members that will be the men and women who will help rebuild our civil society. Ivanka trump is defending her use of a private email account while transitioning to a job in her fathers administration. She denied there was any connection between her situation and Hillary Clintons email scandal. In my case, all of my emails are on the white house server. Theres no intent to circumvent and there were mass deletions after a subpoena was issued. My emails have not been deleted. Nor was there anything of substance, nothing confidential that was within them. So theres connection between the two things. So the idea of lock her up doesnt apply to you. No. Lets turn now to the weather and see whos got it good, who doesnt now that were in the final days of november, which has been a really cold one. Feels like december already. Been so cold, had so many snowstorms. 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