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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. lamier. thank you for making the trip. caroline, i want to start with you though. how legal csignificant is this? this is a 10. the reason people are scratching their heads because it is so blatant. i don t think you can over state the importance of this mission because that s what it is. his son took a meeting to get dirt on hillary clinton. why it is important is because there is a specific criminal statue that makes it illegal to accept something of value from a foreign national as it pertain to the federal election. he s taking all those boxes in terms of a statutory case. the president says it is totally legal and it is done all the time. getting information from a foreign enties ties is not all affiliated people with that conspiracy. these people now this meeting could be unindicted koch conspirator of the larger agency. stay with us, here in new jersey, phil rucker, as you are brewing of ev ....
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. when a meeting of that nature, would it constitute a violation of the law? you have to look at what laws, rules, regulation statutes are violated here. when did you learn that the denial wasn t true? well, let me tell you two things on that. i was on the case a couple of weeks, and there was a lot of information gathering and as rudy giuliani said, i had bad information at that point. in a situation like this, you have over time, facts develop. that s what investigations do. let s start with nbc s white house correspondent, kelly o donnell who was covering the president in new jersey first. before we g to to to the rest o great panel this sunday. what are you hearing right now? the president is certainly going after the special counsel today, isn t he? reporter: well, good to be with you, richard, and the president is really hitting a number of his major frequent targets, the spe ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories. as has peter baker, correspondent for the new york times thanks to all three of you for staying up late. congressman, again, just a civics and kind of a physical plant question. the winner gets to be an incumbent member of congress. the winner will go, will get really bad office space. they ll be on the bottom of the seniority list. he ll get his predecessor s office. you do inherit the office space? how does that work? i replaced the most senior member of congress.for eight months as a freshman, i had the best office on capital little. you had a beautiful view of the dome. then reality sets in. but they can t move in. they can t feel as much as anyone can move in with a two-year term. let s say it s 12 weeks before the next election. house is out till labor day. because it is an election day, they ll be in for about three weeks. whoever the incumbent is, they will be an incumbent for all o ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. will not be counted. if it is received tomorrow, lost in the mail, if that ballot gets in, it will be counted. so some are going to be counted terms of absentee ballots favored o connor. you would expect that whatever comes out of this would give him a little boost. and there are going to be a couple hundred, we would think, a small number of military ballots. it may be a bigger wedge the provisions and all of that math i m talking about does have the potential. i don t think to etrace 1750 for. but to get it inside half a percent. to cut it in half. it seems to have potential. so we have to wait. and again, state law saying they have to wait ten days before they can even look at counting these provisional ballots. just a terminology question. our viewers have heard us talk about provisional ballots all night. remind folks what that means? yeah. there s a question about the sta ....
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. remind folks what that means? yeah. there s a question about the status of the ballot. maybe a question about the status of the voter. they tend to be, i keep saying, they tend to be democratic ballots. they tend to be voters, especially in franklin county, from delaware county. oftentimes, you find that sometimes in nonwhite areas. you start having i.d., voter i.d. requirements. maybe it is folks who won t have i.d. so you end up getting a situation. when you look at the provisionals, they tend on come more from provisional counties. i think the number was something like 1,400. came out of franklin. i think it may have been in the democratic part. a lot of them end up being counted. they re cast provisionally and then they re reviewed afterwards. all right. we ll be back. thank you ....