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The latest political developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. order is, territory now. and i wonder if they ve had a chance to explain to the president what you reported last week, that under this beefed up post-enron witness tampering law, he may have more exposure than he understands. they seem to be leaning on a first amendment defense, which is not going to hold up if your reporting holds up he s being scrutinized for the way these fit together. what rudy giuliani said today is this is ridiculous, the clip you played. the idea obstruction by tweet. he said it was bizarre and idiotic and there was nothing to it and the president can express his opinions. the thing about the president and obstruction and collusion, you know, interference or whatever you want to call it is the president usually focuses on the russia question. he says, this is a witch hunt. there was no collusion. he repeats that over and over again. the thing is that does the ....
Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. influence american voters, including a covert campaign to spread divisive political messages. that has raised questions about what the government is doing to stop them. as the washington post reports lawmakers and independent analysts say that voting systems are more secure against hackers thanks to action at the federal and state levels and that the russians have not targeted those systems to the degree they did in 2016, but russian efforts to manipulate u.s. voters through misleading social media postings are likely to have grown nor sophisticated and harder to detect. there is not a sufficiently strong government strategy to combat information warfare against the u.s. outside experts say. joining me now nbc national correspondent peter alexander at the white house, nbc national security and intelligence reporter ken dilanian, white house bureau chief for the washington post, phil ruc ....
so we know she met with mueller s team. do we have any idea what they asked her? we don t right now, anderson. what was asked by mueller s team to davis. but we know this woman, as you said, known as the manhattan madam voluntarily spoke with investigators. and what she knows and how she fits isn t exactly clear. but sources tell cnn mueller s team would like her to testify in front of a grand jury. this really points to the fact that the special counsel seems to be focusing on stone as they continue this overarching investigation into russia s interference in the 2016 election. and davis really has a very close relationship with stone. they ve known each other for a decade. stone is the godfather to davis 2-year-old son. stone put davis on his payroll. and conversely, when davis made a new york gubernatorial run, stone worked on her campaign. perhaps she has information on his finances, his connections, his friendships, any other personal life matters. we should mentioned, and ....
hello again, everyone. thanks so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield in washington, d.c. it s the meeting that just won t go away. more than two years later, the story is still evolving on the in infamous 2016 trump tower meeting. president trump now taking a firm stance on the true purpose of the meeting, tweeting, in fact, today, this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. that message very far from the initial statement from donald trump jr. that we later learned was dictated by president trump himself, saying this, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children, with no mention of dirt on hillary clinton. so this shift comes as sources tell cnn the president is concerned about his son becoming entangled in the russia probe. cnn s white house correspondent wrong. reporter: while the white house has had difficulty sticking to the script, the president maintained ....
brynn gingras joins us now with the latest on her and how she may factor into robert mueller s case. do we have any idea what they asked her? we don t right now, anderson. what was asked by mueller s team to davis. but we know this woman, known as manhattan madam voluntarily spoke with investigators. and what she knows and how she fits isn t exactly clear. but sources tell cnn mueller s team would like her to testify in front of a grand jury. this really points to the fact that the special counsel seems to be focusing on stone as they continue this overarching investigation into russia s interference in the 2016 election. and davis really has a very close relationship with stone. they ve known each other for a decade. stone is the godfather to davis 2-year-old son. stone put davis on his payroll. and conversely, when davis made a new york gubernatorial run, stoneworked on her campaign. perhaps she has information on his finance, his connections, his friendships, any other perso ....