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Frank to stay with us, and when we come back, more on this breaking news, that the fbi opened an inquiry into the president of the united states. and later, as we said, we're just moments away from a new record. one the white house and congress has done nothing to avoid breaking. "the 11th hour" just getting started on this busy friday night. night. [sneezing] ♪ you don't want to cancel your plans. [sneezing] cancel your cold.

Standards that are required to open a case, right, that this is not something done in a vacuum. if you're going to look into the president of the united states, you're going to the department of justice. you're showing them your evidence. they are concurring with your concerns and they're allowing you to pursue this line of inquiry. to open even a preliminary inquiry in counterintelligence, you need to have a reasonable suspicion that someone is or may be an agent of a foreign power or is being targeted by that foreign power to open a full investigation and you say, well, we don't know whether...

A lot of people are facing those expenses right now. >> neera and john, thank you again for helping me out tonight. great to see you. have a great rest of your weekend. and that is tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour with brian williams" starts right now. the breaking news we're coffering tonight. a showstopper of a headline from "the new york times" reporting that the fbi opened an inquiry into whether donald trump was secretly working on behalf of russia. that's a first for the american presidency. that inquiry later became the mueller investigation, which now threatens his presidency. t...

People said, in part because they were uncertain how to proceed with an inquiry of such sensitivity and magnitude. but the president's activities before and after mr. comey's firing may 2017, particularly two instances in which mr. trump tied the comey dismissal to the russia investigation, helped prompt the counter intelligence aspect of the inquiry, the people said." according to "the times," one of those instances was a letter that trump wrote with the help of senior aide stephen miller before he fired comey, laying out the underpinning reasons for doing so. "the times" reported on that let...

The fbi opened an inquiry into whether or president was secretly working on behalf of russia. and a reminder, because we sometimes lose our perspective with the daily barrage of russia stories, just the mention of this allegation is, of course, a first for the american presidency. we have the very best in the business standing by to continue our conversation. barbara, chuck and frank, who is with us on the telephone. barbara, we just learned mr. rosenstein planned to stay, according to nbc news reporting until, to, in effect, see the mueller investigation and statement through. do you think an...