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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. This presidency, we will ask a celebrated historian if there is anything to celebrate in the history that we are witnessing. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. Day 561 of the Trump Administration and the end of another week brings a new sign of Robert Muellers increasing interest in one of Donald Trumps veteran advisers. His friend of 40 years, roger stone. Nbc news reports that according to a source with direct knowledge, a member of muell...

Other tax preparers and book keepers and the days of testimony about all the luxury goods that manafort bought with money from a foreign bank account that his tax returns clearly say he didn't have. >> eric, about those very luxury goods, this speaks to the judge to say he is brisk sounds like an under statement. he has not allowed the artwork to come in and said the juries will get that. he told both sides to take a week out of your arguments and moving it along so much so that i heard former fed say he could hurt the case. he is taking the juice out of the federal case. having said that abou...

That we used to have to at least hear from aides or in the extraordinary case of the nixon tapes, we would hear nixon himself denouncing the press. the unhappiness of presidents, usually in the most casual kind of remark off hand or a leak, this is a case where the president has turned the working media into a permanent foil and political enemy. he is basically in the tribalized culture of the moment. he has said the media is as much an opponent of ours, meaning him and his base, as the democratic party or those who oppose on policy grounds. it takes the role and put it it in jep earth. >> you...

You don't get that impression. he is projecting confidence in his blue suit, looking at the jury, participating with his lawyers and seeping like everything is fine. the evidence has been very damning and the defense thus far has been ineffective. they stipulated to most of the facts and i guess their story is going to be these frauds and these failures to fill out tax forms was not intentional. >> i heard them say this is a paper case and further while they can be on the boring side, the feds like a paper case because paper can't get cross examined. having said that, where do you think the op...

Witness wants to say his or her peace and gets off topic, so to speak. or defense counsel thinks no harm is being done or that even some hay is being made and lets it go on. i would think in this situation the former circumstance would be more likely than the latter. >> what's the chance the mueller team said at some point we are good, we've got enough and don't need the president. is there any chance of that happening? >> i would estimate that that is a low chance in that thus far at least, what's been released publicly any case involving the president seems to be highly circumstantial. of co...