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told that national security adviser michael flynn was susceptible to blackmail by russia. that warning was issued by acting attorney general sally yates, who told white house counsel don mcgahn that flynn was vulnerable because he misled the vice president and others about the nature of his conversation with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. despite her warning, president trump chose to keep flynn on the job as top national security post for 18 more days, according to the report. mueller s goal in part is to determine whether there was a deliberate effort to cover up the information that yates had provided the white house. as nbc reports, multiple sources say that during interviews, mueller s investigators have asked witnesses, including white house counsel don mcgahn himself and others who have worked in the west wing to go through each day that flynn remained as national security adviser and describe in detail what they knew was happening inside the white house as it related to ....
that delay, that gap is it really interesting. because we know this isn t the only information that american intelligence had about possible russian attempts to influence the election. so there it were other channels coming in at the same time. also highlights the degree to which the fbi was put in an almost impossible position later in the campaign. we know they had this information or some of this information. we knew there was the ongoing investigation into hillary clinton s emails. you have the fbi essentially meant to it be a nonpolitical organization in possession of damming fascinating pieces of evidence, if not smoking guns, in either case, trying to decide how to play it, how aggressively to pursue their investigation and what political risks there are for a nonpartisan law enforcement agency to be perceived as putting its fingers on the scale if any of this nfrngs came out in the last few weeks. again, another piece, not the full picture, but justin s to provide co ....
the gunman. president trump calls to arm nation s teachers and also slams the deputy who was on duty. what he did, he trained his whole life. there s an example. when it came time to get in there and do something, he didn t have the courage or something happened, but he certainly did a poor job. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. a lot of news today. thanks for joining us. breaking news, another bombshell in special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation. a source familiar with the proceedings telling us that former trump campaign aide rick gates is expected to plead guilty today, an indication gates is cooperating with the special counsel. this comes a day after robert mueller filed a 32-count indictment against both gates and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort, charging both men with additional crimes, number of counts, some limited conduct that would vastly reduce his prison exposure. we believe this plea is happening in washington, d.c. as yo ....
nine months away. there is a lot to talk about. let s begin at the white house. kelly o donnell, we are learning that rob porter, the staff secretary, accused of domestic violence by his ex-wives that he could be out as early as today, is that correct? reporter: that s our reporting and the issue is that rob porter offered his resignation and sarah huckabee sanders said there would be an extended time of transition, where he would be able to help facilitate a successor. that has changed in the sense that there has been a lot of controversy around this, a lot of attention drawn to the two former wives of rob porter. the statements they have made publicly alleging verbal abuse, physical abuse and emotional abuse and porter has said that these are smears. he has said that these are baseless allegations and a coordinated campaign against him. we saw a shift, in fact, that at first, members of the white house senior team including chief-of-staff john kelly were very supportive of por ....
by his thinking, why deprive good friday visitors of a good visit to an iconic irish pub. submit ted without judgment. that is our program for a friday nig night. whatever your persuasion, we wish you a good weekend. good night from our headquarters here in new york. hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. icing is in and public criticism of russia is still very much out. nbc news with extraordinary reporting about donald trump s quote, president donald trump s national security advisor spent months trying to convince him to sign off on a plan to supply new u.s. weapons to ukraine to aid in the country s fight against russian-backed separatists. when the president finally authorized the major policy shift, he told his aides not to publicly tell his decision because doing so might agitate russian president vladimir putin. quote, he doesn t want to bring it up, one white house official tells nbc news. it is not something he wants to talk about, this source says. this new report ....