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Two things we know about in the wake of release of a taped conversation between the president and his long time fixer Michael Cohen. Making a secret payment to suppress a playboy models story about the alleged affair with the president. Right before election day, the wall street journal reported the company that owns the National Enquirer purchased the rights and declined to publish the story. The tape released tonight was recorded two months before hope hicks made the claim. Rudy giuliani is offering up a characterization about the recording that is divorced from reality. Giuliani said it con...

Russia investigation. When the president might respond to Robert Mueller and new reporting over the controversy of the acting a. G. Who is speaking live in iowa. And two florida men arrive on capitol hill, a photoop with the high potential to get real awkward real quick. Well fill you in on how that deadline is looking. But we start with breaking news from the Justice Department. Pete williams is in our Washington Bureau with the latest. The Justice Department just disclosed that it gave the white house legal advice before Matt Whitaker was appointed by the white house that the president could...

Are you prepared to fly the flag at halfmast a lot more . Well, i dont like abusing any privilege. But when i see something we should do, i always do that, yeah. I believe you should. When somebody when its a worthy situation, i do believe it. [ inaudible question ] its up to him. Do you want him to rein in Robert Mueller . What a stupid question that is. What a stupid question. But i watch you a lot. You ask a lot of stupid questions. [ inaudible question ] were working well, because other things have come up. Is it a political stunt . No. Were signing it. Were doing it. And itll probably wor...

And the people are there for two years, and they are old by the time they leave. It is quite exhausting. The power strug thele and the new class of senators come to capitol hill including rick scott who has not won in florida yet. Are you contending fraud with this recount . Is this picture outdated by tomorrow . And political protection and this hour, the secretary of defense James Mattiss is stepping in for the president to the visit the troops at the border that have been deployed in the heat of the midterm battle. I dont think that there is much question what happened. It is a political st...

And that hes not fair minded. They pint to comments he made as a conservative pundit on cable news where he repeatedly criticized the Mueller Investigation and even speculated on ways the doj could handicap the probe, a probe that as acting a. G. He now oversees. So the big question we are asking today is if the federal judge rules that Matthew Whitaker cannot serve as attorney general, will donald trump try to test his president ial powers at the Supreme Court . Joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, White House Bureau chief for the Washington Post phil rucker. Phil i...