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A recap of the day s news. firing. he was there shoaleder to shoulder he doesn t know what mueller knows. it seems implausible to me that he doesn t provide factual material that s illuminating about the president s state of mind. so i think raeurlts little bit over confident to be saying that at this point. but the real question is why would trump s lawyers not debrief mcgahn? the white house counsel has given 30 hours of interviews. much of which the trump legal team is in the dark with. it s like a book on tape, isn t it? that s a lot of testimony. the white house got nothing out of this in return for letting all of these people submit to interviews. you would have thought that they would have at least negotiated, been able to debrief everyone. strategy? let s go back to the question of whether or not he incriminated the president. the president seems not to understand that mcgahn is not his personal lawyer. so you think about the kinds of things that might have b ....
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. the 2016 election including some of president trump s primary opponents. this does spook to trump s own administration. speak to trump s own administration. the only person who doesn t see this is the president himself. this morning a series of tweets from the president but none condemning this. i was reminded instantly reading this of marco rubio. marco rubio, the republican running for president in 2016 warned when the john podesta e-mails were coming out through wikileaks i want to warn my fellow republicans who may want to capitalize politically on these leaks, today it s the intelligence agencies and in term of being able to stop this? i don t know that it s u.s. intelligence agencies or the president himself. there are two ways you can deter this conduct. one is to make it impossible for the adversary ....
A recap of the day s news. mr. trump, helped along by aras and amon. it s clear from the very beginning the information being offered to the trump campaign was coming from russia. and it was clear that the information being offered was dirt on clinton. it s the first thing they said. despite trump junior s initial claim the meeting was about the adoption of russian children. that claim coming in a statement we later learned was dictated by president trump himself. after white house press secretary sarah sanders claimed he didn t. how did we learn about the president s statements? well, his own attorneys acknowledge it in a letter to robert mueller in january. it s all right there in front of your face. it s all in writing. this is an administration that has tried to distract and deflect from the facts literally from day one when then press secretary sean spicer, remember, tried to claim that president trump s inauguration crowd was the largest ever. and kellyanne conway do ....
good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. day 578 of the trump administration. and tonight the president of the united states is coming off a vicious string of personal attacks, comparing people to dogs and rats and calling robert mueller discredited and disgraced. he is neither. and now tonight the president is talking about what is at the heart of all of it. the russia investigation. now that he knows his white house lawyer has testified fully before the mueller team. this afternoon, reuters interviewed president trump. they report, he is, quote, worried that any statements under oath he provides to special counsel robert mueller could be used to bring perjury charges against him. quote, trump echoed the concerns of his top lawyer in the probe, rudolph giuliani, who has warned that any sitdown with mueller could wbr id= wbr1113 /> be a perjury trap. reuters quotes the president as saying association if i say something and he, meaning comey, says somet ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. over 30 hours with the white house counsel, misspelled only, with my approval for purposes of transparency. the washington post reports that mcigan s own lawyer has told the trump legal team, mcgahn does not believe he implicated the president in any legal wrongdoing when he spoke to the special counsel. meanwhile the president s lawyer is now in damage control mode. earlier tonight, he explained that and he the president s former attorneys are now aware of what was in mcgahn s testimony. john dowd got a political version of what mcgahn said during that period of time. john, of course, because of what happened over the weekend, went through it thoroughly. i ve been on the phone with him for hours and gone over it with him. when it first came out, i didn t know the details of what mcgahn said. now do i. i knew not to worry because if the president said anything criminal to the couns ....