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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 ....
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. we ve not heard from cohen s attorneys either for any comment on our reporting. stand by for a moment, kara. i want to get back to you. shimon, what else are you learning? wolf, some of what we re told the u.s. attorney there in new york has been looking at are payments michael cohen received. this all came out that he received them for potential lobbying, potential influence at the white house and other places. some of the people who have come before the grand jury there in new york were asked questions about this money, about the money that michael cohen had paid them. some of them who have been asked to appear before the grand jury, they were told they did not need to appear right now while prosecutors could be close to negotiating this plea deal. of course, keep in mind, as kara said, at any time this could fall apart. there are some questions about money, whether or not what kind of fine potentia ....
A weeknight look at the news, featuring interviews, analysis and panel discussions hosted by Bret Baier. guilty to one count of filing fraudulent information to get a bank loan but the ones that could be most problematic for president trump are counts seven and eight in which he said he coordinated with a candidate for federal office whose name was not revealed and worked at the direction of that candidate to provide payments of $150,000 to one woman which would likely be karen mcdougall. remember that payment she received from the national enquirer was $150,000 and that was classified as an unlawful corporate contribution and a contribution of $130,000 to stormy daniels that was made on october 27th just a week before the election. again, cohen saying he did this on behalf of and the direction of and in coordination with a candidate for federal office, that person unnamed. just heard from rudy giuliani a second ago about all of this because people are talking about a co ....
that. it doesn t involve me, but i still feel, you know, it s a very sad thing that happened. this has nothing to do with russian collusion. this started as russian collusion. this has absolutely nothing to do. it s a witch-hunt and it s a disgrace. harris: the president also claimed a double standard in the charges against his former attorney tweeting. this. michael cohen pleaded guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. president obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled. but democrat leader nancy pelosi says, quote: the guilty verdicts are further evidence of the rampant corruption and criminality at the heart of trump s inner circle, end quote. chief white house correspondent john roberts. john, day two of this and a lot of movement. yeah. and still a lot to talk about. first of all, let me just reflect back on what you illuminated in the president s tweet about obama campaign finance Interviews with newsmakers ....
A recap of the day s headlines and a look at what s in store for tomorrow. all tried to convince her to look at the paper trail, we laid it out in front of her again and again and she still said she had reasonable doubt and that is the way the jury worked. we didn t want it to be hung so we tried for an extended period of time to convince her that in the end she held out and that is why we have 10 counts. is that where the note did not come from, performance in the note and said can you explain reasonable doubt? wasn t connected to that? it was. most of us did not want that question out there but one of the jurors did. we felt a little foolish sending it but that is the way the jury works. deliberation requires we submit that question to the judge. judge ellis said this about the situation. i received criticism and threats. i can imagine they would too meaning of your names were released. if you told jurors their names would be public at the outset of this trial i mi ....