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Well. Jon meacham, always such a pleasure to have him as part of our broadcast, especially on a consequential friday night. That is our broadcast indeed for this friday and for this week. Thank you for being here with us. Have a good weekend. Good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. A couple of hours ago, maybe even less than that, i was standing knee deep in a trout stream in tennessee. But now its mueller time and so im in a studio in the great state of tennessee. The trout are basically just as safe as they were when i was flailing away at them ineffectually this afternoo...

You were here the day andy mccabe said he opened a full-field investigation into donald trump around these questions because the conduct was so in line with vladimir putin's national security objectives. has anything changed? i mean, post-mueller, donald trump went to the g8 and advocated for putin to be invited, to be welcomed back into the g8. i mean, isn't his conduct exactly in line with the kind of conduct that raised suspicions in the first place? >> well, not only has nothing changed, you could assert that it's actually gotten worse. that the evidence continues to pile up that there is ...

I think the key point there is the president had to take a proactive step. he had to bestow this upon the attorney general. if ratcliffe is in that position, sits atop the nation's 17 intelligence agencies, that wouldn't be necessary to bestow that authority on him. it will be inherent to his job to declassify and to classify. to keep what the president wants secret and declassify what the president wants out there for his own personal and political ends. >> we're out of time, but could he apprise donald trump of what the contents of the counterintelligence investigations that are still going ...

Declassification authority. >> yeah. >> when it came to the russia investigation. i think the key point there is the president had to takepto active step. if ratcliffe is in that position, sits aen totop the ns 17 skbejs agencies, that wouldn't be necessary to bestow that authority on him. it will be inherent to his job to declassify and to classify. to keep what the president wants secret and declassify what the president wants out there for his own personal and political ends. >> we're out f o time, but could he apprise donald trump of what the contents of the counterintelligence investigati...

The campaign. whether or not that actually moves the needle at all in terms of trump's support and his base, that remains to be seen. i do think there could be some bombshell moments there. then of course the house democrats are still trying to get all of trump's financial records and the courts have actually signaled a willingness to hand over some of those financial documents from his accounting firm. trump of course is fighting house subpoenas to deutsche bank and capital one, who have been his main lenders over the last decades. there's a possibility that if these cases move through the co...