>> exactly. they ve been saying, oh, well, you have to work out your judicial remedies. but then once they try them, they try to shut them down. but it s worse than that. it s scarier than that. it suggests that everything he s done and will do is now off the table once these impeachment articles have been brought. it s wrong also because the mcgahn testimony -- recall from mueller, mcgahn is told by trump to fire mueller and then told by trump to lie about it. there s a pattern there, and the articles invoke that. and of course as doug letter says, it s a little bit of saber rattling. but if they find more stuff -- this happened with andrew johnson -- that s more counts of impeachment. nothing is changed in that respect. so there s no less urgency than there was before to get their hands on the mcgahn testimony. >> you know, john, i have to ask. you think about this going to the senate at some point in time. we know the senators are going to essentially be the jurors.
table once these impeachment articles have been brought. it s wrong also because the mcgahn testimony -- recall from mueller, mcgahn is told by trump to fire mueller and then told by trump to lie about it. there s a pattern there, and the articles invoke that. and of course as doug leder says, it s a little bit of saber rattling. but if they find more stuff -- this happened with andrew johnson -- that s more counts of impeachment. nothing is changed in that respect. so there s no less urgency than there was before to get their hands on the mcgahn testimony. >> you know, john, i have to ask. you think about this going to the senate at some point in time. we know the senators are going to essentially be the jurors. but it s interesting to hear that from him considering that he said that he s not trying to be a fair juror from someone like senator lindsey graham and the same goes with mcconnell. what are you thinking about the notion of having this fair trial if you have at least two senators already who are saying, this is not going to be a fair
said it would be a disaster for trump to fire mueller. that s why jeffrey said we re past that issue. he said publicly, he wants to make sure mueller is fair to trump. that s the concession he wants from barr. i m interested to watch that exchange. what are those guard rails to make sure that he s fair? >> does that include a subpoena to have trump come answer questions? we learned overnight the robert mueller team wants to ask questions has been rebuffed. >> that has been an issue outstanding. it s unclear to me whether mueller will have to go to his supervisors in the justice department, now, rod rosenstein, soon to be bar, to ask permission for a subpoena. day-to-day he doesn t have to but for this he might have to. the subpoena for mueller, he knows there will be a court fight, the president s lawyers
a new nbc news exclusive report details efforts happening right now on capitol hill to protect robert mueller s russia probe. the so-called plan b. would ensure that his work lives on, no matter what. democratic senator richard bloomen tha blumenthal confirmed, involved reports done in special counsel is fired or other political interference is undertaken by the president. simply put if they can t protect robert mueller at least they can protect his work. nbc s national political reporter wrote the story is joins me on this friday. so, heidi, plan a., a bipartisan bill, making it harder for president trump to fire mueller, quickly shot down by majority leader mcconnell. refused to bring it to the floor
3-1 win in game four. you see all the capital fans have been through this so many times before, they come close and they think this is their year and pittsburgh just squashes them. >> what you said. thanks, bill. still ahead, everybody, has rudy giuliani exposed president trump to new legal peril with his comments about the hush money paid to stormy daniels. we ll talk to a legal expert about what s at stake whachlt we know about federal authorities monitoring the phone lines of trump s personal attorney of michael cohen. we ll be right back. and floss to set a good example. you fine tune the proposal, change the water jug so no one else has to, get home for dinner and feed the cat. you did a million things for your family today but speaking to pnc to help handle all your investments was a very important million and one. pnc. make today the day.
they come in sets, now the two page filing orders each subpoena recipients in alexandria, virginia, at 10:00 a.m. on july 10th to testify. this filing is in addition to 35 previously requested sets. now in virginia, manafort is facing several charges including bank fraud and filing false tax returns. he s also facing charges in a washington, d.c. manafort has pleaded not guilty to all the charges that he is currently facing. we re also learning that mueller is focusing on alleged interactions between former trump campaign official rick gates and political operative roger stone. sources on a condition of anonymity saying the questions have been largely about what was discussed at meetings including dinners between stone and gates, before and during the campaign. sources telling cnbc a long time adviser to donald trump is one
♪ welcome back, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian. we ll begin with a new questions for president trump this morning and whether he s a new legal jeopardy following a stunning admission from rudy giuliani about hush money paid to porn star stormy daniels. giuliani s comments they actually seemed to contradict what the president has said raising red flags about whether campaign finance laws were actually broken. kristen welker has more on this. >> reporter: presidential flip-flop, president trump pressed about why he s reversed his account about the $130,000 payment to porn star stormy daniels. >> mr. president, why are you changing your story orn stormy daniels? >> reporter: this after a bombshell, the newest member of the president s legal team rudy giuliani announcing for the first time the president reimbursed his personal attorney michael cohen for that hush money payment made to daniels in the days before the 2016
election. >> it s not campaign money, no campaign finance violation, so -- >> they funneled it through the law firm? >> funneled through the law firm and the president repaid it. >> oh, he did. >> yeah. >> the president initially claimed he knew nothing. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> then why did michael cohen make that if there was no -- >> you have to ask michael cohen. he s my attorney and you ll have to ask michael. >> reporter: but for the first time tweeting he repaid cohen through reimbursement. and extortionist. giuliani insisting the president only found out what hisk money was used for several days ago. so was the payment illegal. an independent watch dog group argues mr. trump broke the law
dimini diminished. it comes on the heels of an nbc news report from earlier had week. back in february john kelly successfully dissituated trump from withdrawing all u.s. troops from the korean peninsula. americans troops are there due to the alliance and it, quote, has nothing to do with signing a peace treaty. something that south korean president moon jae-in kim jong-un has actually agreed to. the trump administration is responding to reports that the three americans detained in north korea had been moved from a labor camp to a hotel outside of pyongyang and while we await news anticipating their release, it appears president trump s attorney rudy giuliani and the white house are not on the same page regarding the current status of these three americans. watch this. >> he s getting ready to negotiate probably one of our most historic agreements since the opening to china -- >> with iran, perhaps.
i guess that s what it s for. nbc news has learned that federal investigators have monitored the phones of the president s personal attorney and fixer michael cohen according to three senior u.s. officials. only the phone numbers of the callers and receivers were logged. a source tells nbc news that the monitoring was put in place in the weeks leading up to the raids last month on cohen and that at least one call associated with cohen and the white house was actually logged. after the raid, members of trump s legal team advised the president not to speak to cohen, that s from a person familiar with this discussion, two sources close to rudy giuliani say he learned that days after the raid the president had made a phone call to michael cohen and that he told trump never to call again out of concern the call was being recorded by prosecutors. we re also told that giuliani warned trump that cohen would likely flip and that the president pushed back telling giuliani that he expects cohen to remain loyal. giuliani now tells nbc news that he doesn t believe cohen will