Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Would have obstructed it. He has a right to defend himself. If he believes hes innocent, he is innocent, he should speak out. White house also moved quickly to frame trumps words as nothing more than his own personal view. Its not an order. Its the president s opinion. The president is not obstructing, hes fighting back. The president is stating his opinion. Hes stating it clearly. Hes certainly expressing a frustration that he has with the level of corruption that weve seen from people like jim comey, the president s angry. Frankly, most of america is angry as well and theres no reason he shouldnt be able to voice that opinion. But remember what the white house once told us about how we should regard what this president says on twitter. Are president trumps tweets considered official white house statements . Well, the president is the president of the United States so theyre considered official
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Already several witnesses in on just day two. All of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a wednesday night. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters in new york. This was one more in a string of extraordinary days in our country. Because this was what we woke up to from the president of the United States. Quote, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stain our country even further. Perhaps just as extraordinary, Nothing Happened after that. It was wednesday in america and tonight Robert Mueller and his team remain on the job. The negotiations for a possible sitdown interview between Robert Mueller and President Trump. We report on the latest offer
from the Special Counsel Writing that mueller, quote, indicated this week that hes willing to reduce the number of questions his investigation asks. According to two people briefed on the n
nasty. she was nasty about me. essentially i didn t know she was nasty about me. but i said, you know, she s doing a good job. i hope she enjoys her life. they took the train and tried to disgorge it from that. they talked about nasty. we were talking about she was nasty to me and that s okay for her to be nasty. it s not good for me to be nasty to her and i wasn t. how did those comments play in the united kingdom and on a larger topic how is the president s visit playing? what he was trying to say is he didn t think meghan markle was nasty, but what she said was nasty. it s still being seen as the same thing. we know the history between the people. even if president trump doesn t know what meghan markle said about him during the election campaign certainly everyone in the united kingdom does. it s clear she doesn t agree with his political views and managed to avoid meetings with
the first place and seeming more agitated as we get to the whatever moment we re getting to. i would never pretend i know exactly how this is unfolding. one thing to remember, questions being asked, the one thing we do know is that the questions will disclose a theory of a case. so they will ask trump, you know, yes or no, did you know that the meeting was happening in trump tower down the hallway with these russian operatives. it s either yes or no, and what trump doesn t know is how have other people answered. that s the agitation because for the first time i think he s starting to see what the theory of the case is, and he probably does not like the what those questions are showing in terms of what the mueller team actually knows. juliette, quickly, do you think he s getting information from whitaker? do you think whitaker has been briefed and giving him knowledge of this investigation? i have been on the fence with
know, yes or no, did you know that the meeting was happening in trump tower down the hallway with these russian operatives. it s either yes or no, and what trump doesn t know is how have other people answered. that s the agitation because for the first time i think he s starting to see what the theory of the case is, and he probably does not like the what those questions are showing in terms of what the mueller team actually knows. juliette, quickly, do you think he s getting information from whitaker? do you think whitaker has been briefed and giving him knowledge of this investigation? i have been on the fence with you and others about whitaker. you know, i obviously think others should be the attorney general but i can t say whether it s yes or no. sometimes when people get into those positions, they actually