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it gave no means of tracing this back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trump tower. and it appeared to be from somebody inside the transition or inside trump tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing. and a lot of what s written or conveyed in this letter has sort of come become true over time. it s taken a while for a lot of this stuff to surface, including this detail about this discussion over a back channel or a private channel of communications with moscow. again i just want to i m trying to sort of bend over to read this as charitably as possible. so i mean is it possible that they were setting up lots of different back channels with lots of different foreign leaders? well, we don t i mean i suppose it s possible. clearly they were in communication and meeting with a lot of leaders, a lot of foreign leaders. most of them, as you point out, were coming through the front door, not the bac ....
The day s biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. donald trump saying bob mueller has a conflict of interest. what s he referring to? a dispute i imagine he disclosed it to rosenstein when he appointed him because it involved something last year wasn t settled to this day. that s up to the president and mueller to describe. what s the conflict? i can t tell you. are you saying the business conflict mueller and president trump had, is that about his golf course. i m not going to go any further. he s not going further on that. there were some specifics when guiliani talked about other alleged meetings before the trump tower meeting. the meeting with the russians, how can you be sure that the president didn t know before. it s he said she said. nobody can be sure of anything. in a situation like this you have two things that argue against cohen. two-on-one sorry, three like an independent contradictions. he ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. this is a threat we need to take extremely seriously and to tackle and respond to with fierce determination and focus. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders told nbc news today that president trump instructed his team to speak at today s news conference. asked when the president made the request, sanders didn t respond. and it s important to point out, just last friday the president met with his national security council on election security for less than one hour. after the meeting, the white house released a statement that said the administration would not tolerate foreign interference in elections. but it did not mention russia by name. let s bring in our lead-off panel. jeremy bash, former chief of staff ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. should is, that s rudy s latest talking point. was this performance today something long in the works, they were asked to submit their remarks, or were they asked to change the topic from the mess the president created yesterday with his early morning tweet about getting sessions to end the russia investigation? i think this has been building for some time. we saw dan coats a week or two ago raise some alarm in that interview with andrea mitchell in aspen. we ve seen alarm is a good way to put it. let me show you his answer about helsinki. let s watch that. in the run-up to the helsinki summit, u.s. officials, ambassadors to nato, ambassadors to russia, said the president would raise the issue of malign activity with president putin. he didn t discuss that, at least at the press conference. you re saying today that the president has directed you to make the issue of electio ....
and they all know that the 11th hour with brian williams starts right now. new tonight, raging against the media. donald trump s pennsylvania barn burner. he claims he s being riddenered hindered by the russian hoax. meanwhile, back at the white house, the president s top intel and law enforcement officials show a united front and say what trump won t, that russia poses a threat to our upcoming elections. also new tonight, robert mueller is looking to speak to another person with ties to that trump tower meeting. and ivanka trump, off message, on her white house low point and a break from her dad on a popular talking point. the 11th hour on a thursday night begins now. good evening once again from our nbc headquarters here in new york. i m nicolle wallace in for brian tonight. he ll be back tomorrow. it s day 560 of the trump administration. and president trump just wrapped up a rally in pennsylvania where he ramped up his attacks on the media. just hours earli ....