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Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. day 411 this was. it brought us a number of developments, the president spoke out about russian election meddling. it appear s mueller has convincd yet another witness to cooperate. and an adult film star is now suing donald trump. more on all of that ahead, but we begin with a major departure, another departure from this white house, gary kohn, a wall street heavyweight, who is the president's chief economic adviser has resigned. kwoen a new yorker like the president is former president of goldman sachs, he served for 14 mont...

>> we want the votes in the senate to get the tax bill through. the only endorsement that matters in this race is president trump's. when he came out questioning the ideology and the vote of doug jones, he'll an reliable vote for tax hikes, he'll be a reliable vote against border security, he'll an reliable vote against national security, keeping isis in check, be a reliable vote against the second amendment, against life. he's out of step for alabama voters according to the president. >> so you see how those two media appearances from the white house lawn can be viewed by some as de facto cam...

Be patronizing, counting their blessings that there are adults in the west wing around the president, they included gary cohn, h.r. mcmaster. your view on the departure of another of the adults today. >> i always said, i thought the replacement of michael flynn by h.r. mcmaster, historians will look back and say that was really important. can you imagine where we'd be if michael flynn was still in the general security council. gary kohn's been there throughout. kept the trade wars in check, kept other things, bad things from happening, now cohn is out, mcmaster is very strongly rumored to be o...

The moderates inside of the white house. leaving who's there, peter navarro, stephen miller, hanging around, guiding this president. it has real political consequence and it has consequence for kushner and his wife, two senior advisers. where do they fit now in this west wing run by a nonideological chief of staff. still has a lot of nationalist, conservative hardliners dominating policy discussions. >> we should probably add in addition the name kudlow, in addition to navarro has surfaced tonight as a potential replacement for mr. cohn. people come and go so quickly around here. our thanks to...

>> that's certainly true, that's a criticism we're hearing about gary, that he -- you know, he was obviously -- according to what he said publicly and expressed privately to the president at the time, upset about charlottesville, it was not enough to make him leave. it was these tariffs. that were sort of the most immediate catalyst. i will say that sort of since charlottesville, he fell out of favor with the president, but had worked his way back, but there was a sense ever since then that gary could be on the way out. he both had some frustrations and on the other hand, he was ascendant in s...