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canceled it? on friday, the new york times wrote the following. quote, a senior white house official told reporters that even if the meeting were reinstated holding it on june 12 would be impossible given the lack of time needed. president trump 1307bded on twitter with this false accusation. quote, the failing the new york times quotes a senior white house official who doesn t exist, use real people, not phony sources. the source was, in fact, a senior white house official speaking to a large group of reporters in the white house briefing room. we journalists try as hard as we can to always identify our sources on the record so that we can tell you, our viewers, watchers, listeners, why you should trust our information. sometimes we agree to allow people to speak anonymously. we ll refer to that as talking on background. nbc news does know the identity of this official, although we re not identifying him because we agreed not to. we, however, do not invent people. if we did, ....
up 10 points. that has now evaporated. interesting to see who turns out, a testament to the excitement level. thank you all. that is all for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now with ari in for rachel. good evening. rachel has the night off. we have a pretty big show. today was day two of the federal criminal trial of the campaign chairman. the witnesses were several people who sold the defendant clothes and houses that he bought through secretive international wire payments. one important thing we learned from what happened today, this judge is holding mueller s prosecutors to the line, limiting their questions and how they present key evidence to manafort to the jury. a former prosecutor who tried these kinds of cases and inside that courtroom today joins me to explain if what the judge is up to could hurt mueller s case. there are reports tonight about the russian woman charged with trying to carry out the government influence campaign through the nra i ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. and senior reporter for the washington post, er rinne blake and anna palmer. carol, let me go to you. you are writing now about how the president sees this interview with robert mueller, how his legal team sees the interview. here s the thing, rudy giuliani is talking and talking and talking about this. you know who s not? roberts mueller. that s absolutely true, hallie. robert mueller has been silent and the president s lawyers have been la quashs. but one thing has not changed and that s the essence of donald tru trump, which is he believes he s his best lawyer and own best pr guy and own best thinker and diplomat and in this instance, he does believe and has as we were reported back in the spring, has always believed that if he could just sit down with these people, he could straighten this all out and explain no collusion, this is a hoax. now, his lawyers also have changed slightly in the sense tha ....
Chris Hayes discusses the day s top news. deliberating three days after this. i think it s very sad what they ve done to paul manafort. thank you very much. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. the president appears to be terrified he has a quote rat in his midst. inside the white house. that i should be clear, that s his word. rat. it s not the kind of language we are used to hearing from the president of the united states who is, of course, entrusted by our constitution when suring the nation s laws are faithfully executed and who is responsible for appointing our most senior law enforcement officers. you d expect to hear that word in a very different context. your uncle was a rat. sit down, sit down. your uncle was a rat and now he s in the witness protection program. that s my father s brother you re talking about. now the president is assuring the country not that he has obeyed and upheld the law but that he does not ....
A look at the day s latest news and headlines. case? i know the vice president has been tweeting about it this evening, and it does remind all of us have the story and ramifications for so many families who never would have lost their loved one if the person who killed them was not allowed into the country. this has been an overwhelming number one priority since he announced his intention to run for president. when i first met him, this was all he discussed, and he had families of these people whose children had been killed by illegal immigrants. this is the thing he wants to stop with the wall, with ending sanctuary cities, stop and catch and release and he s been left with nothing but obstruction by the democrats. he s going to go over this extensively tonight, talk about those solutions, talk about what needs to be done and talk about the obstruction that he s being met with. this is the number one story. michael: is being : cohen is beg indicted martha: look at t ....