president trump to decide within days whether he will talk to bob mueller. rudy giuliani telling politico that the president and his team will spend the weekend talking it over and giuliani adds they are on track for a decision in as little as a week as the president puts on a big show at the white house to show he actually is fighting election meddling. an official telling cnn the president told top security officials to step up. the only person missing from the stage was president trump himself. instead, they all were there, the national security adviser john bolten, chris wray and nsa chief. you see them all, no sign of the president. instead, his cabinet praised the president for taking on election meddling. >> the president has specifically directed us to make the matter of the election meddling and securing our election process a top priority. >> the president has made it very clear i think what his priority is. >> i appreciate the leadership and support from the president. >> leadership, a priority by this president regarding election meddling? it see

this is not bob mueller. >> that's a great point. our guests have agreed to stick around while we fit in a quick break. when we come back, how today fits and what it tells us about that point. the larger mueller investigation. and, later, bad news for another senior member of the trump team. it has to do with a house guest of his and another republican member of the house indicted. the news watch never stops, as they say on a new york radio station, we're here to cover it all "the 11th hour" just getting started on a tuesday night. this wi-fi is fast. i know! i know! i know! i know! when did brian move back in? brian's back? he doesn't get my room. he's only going to be here for like a week. like a month, tops. oh boy. wi-fi fast enough for the whole family is simple, easy, awesome. in many cultures, young men would stay with their families until their 40's. >>> as we have reported, president trump's long time personal attorney michael cohen turned himself over to the fbi today and pleaded guilty to a number of felony charges, includ

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this is not bob mueller. >> that's a great point. our guests have agreed to stick around while we fit in a quick break. when we come back, how today fits and what it tells us about that point. the larger mueller investigation. and later, bad news for another senior member of the trump team. it has to do with a house guest of his and another republican member of the house indicted. the news watch never stops, as they say on a new york radio station, and we are here to cover it all. "the 11th hour" just getting started on a tuesday night. >>> as we have reported, president trump's long-time personal attorney michael cohen turned himself over to the fbi today and pleaded guilty to a number of felony charges, including breaking campaign finance laws. the man who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump admitted he arranged payments for two women at the direction of the candidate, referring to trump with the purpose of affecting the election. right now it's not totally clear what this news means for mueller's overall russia inves

sill bell from bob mueller in more than a year. and i've got to add that mccarthy's lawyer, larry cohn, became donald trump's personal lawyer and mentor for decades. i mean the irony here, just amazing. >> all of what you said is factually accurate. director clapper, i want to talk about the focus on john brennan. after president trump's press conference with vladimir putin in helsinki brennan unleashed some pretty remarkable criticisms against the president saying it was quote, nothing short of treasonous. take a listen how brennan explained that comment just a couple days ago. >> and i did say it rises to and exceeds the level of high crimes and misdemeanors and there's nothing short of treasonous. i didn't mean he committed treason, but it was a term i used nothing short of treasonous. >> but you didn't mean he committed treason, though? >> i said it was nothing short of treasonous, yeah. >> we'll get into the president's behavior in a second. but do you think john brennan's hyperbole is an issue here, the reason why we're havin

look at the way he's been referring to bob mueller. bob mueller, who is a national treasure, an icon within the law enforcement and justice communities, who is doing his level best to investigate russian interference in the election. and the denegration of bob mueller as well as his team of investigators is reprehensible, it really is. i think when i speak out about some of his -- what i think are flawed policies, we can all have policy disagreements and differences. that's what makes this country great. but i must tell you that mr. trump's dishonesty, his lack of integrity, his nastiness, mean spiritedness, the types of things that he has just tweeted out the past 72 hours, the terms that he uses, this is not what i think of an american president nor of america. we're better than this. we have to be better than this. we have been a shining example to the world and mr. trump is letting this country down. >> do you believe he's motivated by a desire to please someone other than the american public? and by that, we've had a lot of conver

he said bob mueller wouldn't tell his mother what he was going to do. so the idea that they've given the president the reassurance that he won't do that -- i think "the new york times" reports today they told the president that bob mueller wouldn't want to risk losing in court. mr. mueller threatened to subpoena the president if he didn't sit for a voluntary interview. law enforcement officials who work with mull early, head of fbi from 2011 to 2013 will try to get the president to answer questions. he will probably subpoena him if he doesn't agree to be questioned voluntarily. those are the kinds of people who worked alongside him. the president's lawyers have tried to reassure the president that he wouldn't take that step. that seems like a dangerous -- >> a high risk. how does one follow pele? >> how do you sue a name? >> one doesn't. one passes back the balance of your time to steve schmidt. >> i want to hear. >> in addition to all this, i feel like there is a kind of math game happening here in which the president's legal team are trying to get mue

they look at the way he is referring to bob mueller. a national treasure, an icon within the law enforcement and justice communities who is doing his level best to investigate russian interference in the election. and the denigration of bob mueller as well as his team of investigators is reprehensible. and when i speak out about some of his practices and his what i think are flawed policies, now we can all have policy disagreements and differences, that's what makes this country great. but i must tell you that mr. trump's dishonesty, lack of integrity, nastiness, and mean spiritedness. the terms that he uses, that is not what i think of american president nor of america. we are better than this. we have to be better than this. we have been a shining example to the world and mr. trump is letting this country down. >> do you believe he is motivated by a desire to please someone other than the american public. and by that, we have had a lot of conversations about his republicans of vladimir putin in helsinki. even white house staff started

and bob mueller's going to be coming after him. if bob mueller gets fired, somebody else is going to come after him. it's way past time for the united states house and senate judiciary committees to be having hearings with respect to richard nixon. this president has already obstructed justice, already removed the fbi director james comey, he has tried to fire session, tried to fire robert mueller. he has drafted a statement for his son that was a lie about the trump tower meeting. repeated instances of obstruction of justice. it's a very serious situation. and he had better let it alone. he is getting himself in very hot water. he's already in hot water. he's making it a lot worse. i'm amazed that congress doesn't stand up to him. that they don't do anything and all we're hearing about is congressmen running over to great britain to try to cause trouble and obstruct justice over there. a lot of people will end up in jail if they keep behaving this way. >> you say that, and katty kay, that was the same thing in the nixon administra

bob mueller's office will decide whether to retry this. i don't want to speak for his office, but it's probably likely like that will not be done. it would not result in the retrial. they are facing another proceeding against mr. manafort in october in any event. my guess is that we have now heard from this jury and that is the end of the manor. >> neil: you said that this was something that was much -- not easier to prove, but more black-and-white with financial matters. 14 of the 18 counts dealt with financial issues. they were black-and-white, tax disclosures, banking investment investments. >> the star witness in this case would be the documents. that certainly was true in regard to the counter that the jury ultimately was able to reach a verdict of guilty. >> neil: wasn't that originally the case that bob mueller was building? financial, follow the money? >> doesn't lead anywhere? that is the question, isn't that? does have anything to do, will it have anything to do with the investigation with the court mandate which is collusion? so

mueller. >>> the top story is not about trump's lawyer who keeps tangling with bob mueller, rudy giuliani, it is the news that trust's most pivotal white house lawyer, the man at the white hot center of the russia probe, as well as at the center of the warnings about mike flynn, at the center of the efforts to oust jeff sessions and rosenstein and even bob mueller himself, that man, white house counsel don mcgahn is out. that is the news tonight. axios first reported it today, that he has plans to exit in the fall and then donald trump rushed to get on top of that scoop, tweeting that mcgahn is leaving. we can also report tonight something about that tweet that is somewhat typical of this white house. sources say mcgahn didn't even know donald trump was announcing his exit that way. now, mcgahn has a job that is high power, but honestly low visibility. in fact, it was in one of his very rare public interviews at cpac when he explained how he was directly appointed by trump and how much he gets to touch in this post. >> the counsel to the president is an appointed decision, directly answer

the president asked you to fire bob mueller? there is no one who has a sense of donald trump who hasn't watched the arc of this, he has grown more agitate ed about robert mueller. if he tried to fire him last year, he said you didn't fire him the time i told you to. fire him now. it beggars belief he's asked him more than once. >> here's why trump is in so much trouble. when you look at the incompetence of this white house, they have only done one thing well. there is only one competent parliament of this white house and that is the arm of the white house that moves judicial nominations forward to confirmation. >> counsel's office. >> and the person who is in charge of that also happens to be the singularly most competent person in the white house, one don mcgahn. so don mcgahn has seen everything, knows everything and don mcgahn is going to tell the truth. and that is why the president had a meltdown because he figured out probably this weekend that, no, the guy who is the white house counsel is not your lawyer and he didn't li

bob mueller closing in on roger stone. donald trump says jeff sessions is not a real attorney general all based on the russia recusal, explain why that's so problematic. >>> we begin tonight with bob mueller's first criminal trial on the russia probe and what may now be today the worst day for paul manafort yet. he does face the potential of a life sentence on those charges. after two weeks of evidence from mueller and 27 witnesses, today was going to be the day that everyone started to hear the other side. when we cover trials, the beginning is usually tougher for the defendant. because prosecutors lay out their evidence, we hear from the star witnesses, all the worst things the prosecutors found, whether it be from surveillance or a home raid or from other people. owl of that piles up. and then today in this trial would be the day the defense steps up and starts poking holes in the case. and today, paul manafort's defense team didn't do that. instead they rested without calling a single witness. not one. and as we've rep

approached him in new york. >> has bob mueller called you in to testify? >> they did. they actually didn't call me in, they actually showed up and asked me to come in and do a personal voluntary interview, which i did not -- >> who is they that showed up? >> somebody from his investigation. they asked my lawyer if i would like to go down and do a voluntary interview, and he said no. i didn't get a subpoena. they asked me for a voluntary interview. >> that was the news last night. the news right now is that mueller, according to our reporting, has now since the interview aired reached out and said they do intend to subpoena mr. credico. they want to talk to him. now, we don't know for a fact what they intend to talk to him about, but we have a pretty good idea of how he fits into this case. number one, he's involved in an area of investigative interest because of his repeated contact publicly with julian assange. number two, something we also discussed in our interview, credico has a long-time political history with roger stone. again, that doesn't mean we'

there is the donald trump approach and the bob mueller approach. now, when we were in -- >> is one even -- one approach is the truth? >> what i remember, nicolle, when we were in the white house, which wouldn't even comment on ongoing legal cases that had to do with other people. never mind us. we were very careful not to comment on certain supreme court cases. that's the norm of how you deal with these things. trump is trying to create an alternative reality where he is the victim and the objective truth doesn't matter. what i also will tell you, i worked with bob mueller. bush appointee -- >> i worked with him, too. yeah. >> i remember when there was a terrorism case of a potential bomb on board cargo. bob mueller sat in the situation room days after and he personally recreated the printer and the cartridge that went in there. he had methodically put together these facts to nail the case against the terrorist group that had done this. he is going to be methodically building the facts here. and ultimately what is going to happen is a collision bet

they keep attacking bob mueller simply for doing his job. and the president tweeting his way into an obstruction of justice charge on top of all his other legal difficulties. more same old, same old. if he fires jeff sessions to get rid of mueller he's going to find another count of obstruction of justice. >> obviously this is making news today, some senators earlier in the week as well saying that it's just a matter of time before sessions gets fired. in doing so is the president signaling to his next potential attorney general what he wants done? and could that possibly become a factor in the obstruction of justice investigation? the way he's talking about sessions and what he wants sessions to do, which is to be a loyalist to quote leah. >> i agree, absolutely. and i think it's a rudy two step, if you will, what they're doing is clearing the decks for war. but the first step is to get through the midterms. and then they're going to do whatever they want to get rid of sessions, to replace mcgahn with whomever, and go to war. and the thing

he agreed to work with bob mueller's team. he referred the case to the d.c. prosecutor. perhaps the most striking part of the case is this, admits helping a russian and ukrainian making a $50,000 donation to the trump inauguration committee. of course, foreigners aren't allowed to donate money to inaugural committees. there's no sign trump inauguration committee knew about it. with me nbc investigative reporter, evelyn farkas, deputy defense secretary. kim lee, associate counsel during whitewater association and former u.s. attorney guy lewis. great to have you with us this friday. ken, let me start with you. tell us about this guilty plea and what unfolded. >> ayman, this case appears to have come out of the investigation of paul manafort, donald trump's former campaign chairman, running this massive lobbying on behalf of russian oligarch. he comes in after the oligarch had fled in exile to russia and manafort trying to reconstitute political party, known as party of regions, formed something called opposition block. he was lobbying for opposition bloc. inside the unite

i thought that doesn't sound like the bob mueller i worked for. the more i thought about it, i think he may have concluded that it's in his tactical interest to, for example, offer some written questions to the president. and here's why. let's assume that one of the written questions to the president is, did you ask director comey to lay off mike flynn? there are only two answers to that. if the president answers no, bob mueller may very well prove that's a lie and the president has earned himself a crime, false statement, as part of a federal investigation that could earn him up to five years. but what if he says yes, i did. that could be evidence that he committed obstruction of justice. >> you argue even though face-to-face may be preferable and we've heard all the stories about how they could trap him, it's not necessarily necessary? >> you know, it's not, and i have a feeling if mueller decides to put these questions in writing and he pushes that sheet of paper across the table figuratively to the defense, they may look at it, push it right b

but bob mueller is not one of them. today i was able to press steve bannon on why he told me he is a fact witness to both collusion and obstruction issues in this russia probe. he told me a story we have never heard directly from bannon on air before, how he met bob mueller inside the trump white house days before he was named special counsel and as mueller was walking into the oval office to meet with donald trump about the embattled fbi. we now know that was the last time that bob mueller and donald trump spoke face to face. i also pressed steve bannon about his standard for treasonous conduct at that trump tower meeting. here are these key russia highlights. >> so when i basically laid out the facts of what i thought the comey situation was, if people decided to go in a different direction, then it's not my thing. i'm not there to try to fight things to the very end. >> so you advised that. walk us through the day he was fired. >> i see it on tv like everybody else. i'm sitting in the chief of staff's off. i see it u

finally f donald trump should welcome bob mueller. he has given him the most due process i think of any criminal defendant i have seen. no leaks have come out of this investigation. despite the number of times donald trump keeps trying to move the goalpost as to what his interviewing terms are, bob mueller and the team seem willing to try to accommodate him so he has an opportunity to go under oath. >> i am going to paraphrase karl bernstein talking about how this is potentially worse than watergate. back then the system worked. it held. i bring that up because i want to get your reaction to what we saw in the white house press briefing room this week. five members of the president's national security staff saying in a unified voice there are real threats to elections. a few hours later you saw the president totally turn that upside down, not acknowledge the fact there is a threat. what does that say to you about the integrity of the system of government in this country today? >> we have patriots like fbi director wrong-w director wra

>> you know, i'm going to leave that to bob mueller. but, wolf, donald trump is the reason that this is delaying. he's the reason that this investigation is not wrapped up. he's been given the questions and it looks like most witnesses have already been interviewed. but when you tamper with witnesses, when you lie to investigators, when you obstruct justice and don't sit in the chair, it takes a lot longer. >> let's turn to another important story. you just heard jim sciutto report on the senate intelligence committee apparently requested that the wikileaks founder julian assange make himself available for an interview regarding russian interference in the 2016 election. do you think he has valuable information? >> i do, wolf. and if you remember it was back in october of 2016 just as we were hearing candidate trump's words as he was talking to billy bush and describing women in such awful ways, hours after that video was made available, wikileaks started to dump the documents that were stolen from john podesta by the russians and so th

with bob mueller. he owes that to the people. dave: i think it will be when het to do that calls it a witch hunt. he did that several times this week. he called on jeff sessions to stop it altogether. what potential chilling effect are these comments having on the people trying to investigate? rep. castro: you are right, the president has done everything short of getting bob mueller fired to a cop wish that. he did fire james comey, he said, because of russia, in his own words. he has basically badgered and bullied jeff sessions enron rod rosensteinand to shake the investigation as much as possible. i think that ultimately, for bob mueller, i think you will find some measure of obstruction of justice by the president in this investigation. shery: should their positions be protected? rep. castro: absolutely. the congress, in a bipartisan congress should come together to protect bob mueller in that investigation. we have to be able to get to the truth on what happened on russian interference. but more im

and keep in mind, bob mueller's people have indicted four people for lying to bob mueller, lying to his investigators. four people. if he wasn't the president, let's put it this way, any white collar attorney in d.c. would tell you you would be crazy to let your client go in and talk to prosecutors under these set of facts. >> laura, i think one of the reasons that solomon is noting this, that it was a lens of collusion and not obstruction lens they're looking through, remember the whole that don mcgahn played in protecting mueller. the president, "new york times" reported, wanted to fire mueller. you do that, i'll quit, walk out. so he has obviously talked to mueller's team about the questions surrounding the desire of the president to fire mueller. >> absolutely. i think don mcgahn has done an artful way of trying to show he is the one transparent last line of defense in the white house. whether that's entirely true in the end, poppy, i don't know. 30 hours is a long time to talk to the investigators. if the focal point of robert mueller's entire probe was obstruction, i would be shoc

this is a meeting that we know is being scrutinized by bob mueller. we know also the drafting of the statement about the meeting is being scrutinized by mueller. the fact that the president keeps changing what happened here, i think, speaks to the larger concern that his legal team has about his involvement, his potential interview with bob mueller, that he doesn't stick with one story. i think it will be most significant what he says to mueller directly if he does go forward with an interview. the fact he has so many public statements out there, he's answering questions for bob mueller without having to sit do down for this interview. >> to that point, i think we all get the same information, the president wants to talk to bob mueller. the president is certainly making the case mueller has reason to talk to him. this is the president changing his story repeatedly, evolving to be polite, or when he gets caught he changes his story. and making clear that if i'm bob mueller, i want to know when did you know about the meeting? what did you know about the

also, rudy giuliani makes a new threat to bob mueller. more on that. >>> later, we'll also give you new reporting why rudy giuliani has beef with another trump lawyer, michael cohen. >>> as i mentioned, the top story tonight is the day of reckoning for paul manafort. the jury is getting the official instructions from this judge, which means they are literally moments away from getting the case and deliberating on paul manafort's fate. a conviction on all the charges could give trump's cormer campaign manager an effective life sentence. he's yet to face a trial, nor what could come down the fiek wi -- pike with a pardon. what's happening is important, we've seen it in the -- this is bob mueller's first criminal trial in the russia probe. a courtroom is overflowing at maximum capacity, manafort entered the court with a small smile, we're told, his wife was sitting directly behind him in the first row. i will be clear, we know nothing about this moment about what this jury is thinking after all this, we do know what they're thinking about. 1

bob mueller is a professional. he's going to do everything necessary to make sure that they are careful in the pursuit of this investigation. and so far, at least it's my impression by the number of indictments he has, by the trials he's in, and by the way he has approached this job, that he is doing a careful job. and that's what we want. that's what we should want as the american people is to make sure that this is a thorough and concise and effective investigation into these issues. >> what did you make of kristin davis? she goes in there. she knows prosecutors and their tactics, and she talks in the grand jury. she comes away thinking, i think these guys are trying to indict roger stone. >> well, she obviously was getting a lot of questions related to roger stone and whether or not he was involved in working with the russians. clearly that's where they're coming from. whether they have the evidence to actually make that case, i think still is a question for bob mueller to decide. >> what's your biggest concern?

mueller gets anywhere near donald trump's money, donald trump starts threatening to fire bob mueller. it appears that they are closing in on the basic financial structure of the trump organization. perhaps the reasons why he's not disclosing his tax returns and what we may find there is really quite ugly. so this has been a very, very bad week for the president. you know, it's shocking that congress is doing absolutely nothing about this. we're well past the point where we were in watergate in 1973 when they had a hearing looking into the obstruction of justice and other criminal activities going on in the nixon administration. this is far worse and yet congress is doing absolutely nothing. it's pathetic. >> ken, how does this week of real news undercut the pr effort led by the president to undercut robert mueller himself? >> it's much more difficult for him to do that now and part of the reason is that the investigation is in new york and it's not something that he can put his finger on the scales as it relates to the justice department and try to have his also be heard. he can't re

you don't negotiate with bob mueller. if you need a question answered, guidance, approval, you stand outside his door at 6:30 in the morning. he gives you three minutes to explain the issue. you gives you information or the answer you need. it was always right legally and ethically. you don't negotiate with the man. i don't believe for a minute that bob mueller has been on the other side of this negotiation with mr. giuliani. this is all mr. giuliani all the time. when mr. giuliani says, i'm going to set the terms of the interview between mr. mueller and president trump so he is not permitted to ask him questions about what the president said to james comey about laying off mike flynn, basically, mr. giuliani is saying that bob mueller shouldn't be allowed to ask the president anything incriminating or relevant to the investigation. that's pure nonsense. as a 30-year federal prosecutor, we don't negotiate interviews with targets, which the president may have ripened into. this is nonsense. >> you are talking about the pre

and what bob mueller is investigating. potentially committing crimes by colluding and conspiring with russia to get elected president. i mean, the evidence just becomes more mountainous by the day. >> look at that image on your screen right now. we've got michael cohen in the front. we got donald trump behind him. we got michael flynn behind president trump. what a trio. maggie haberman of "the new york times" tweeted trump folks are worried about impeachment more than before. the thinking goes like this. this is something tangible. not hetheoretical. do you think that impeachment is likely at this point? >> i think we have to let it play out to see what prosecutors have directly corroborating what michael cohen said and linking the president in. but there's no question that the president's jeopardy is much higher this morning than it was 24 hours. that you have, after months of the president calling into question the credibility and the effectiveness of special counsel mueller's investigation, they've now added to their d

the best thing that donald trump can do is just sit down and interview with bob mueller. he has been given the questions. nothing would wrap this investigation up sooner than answering the questions and coming clean with bob mueller and the american people. >> white house insiders worry that democrats could launch a lot of investigations that could be very damaging to the president if they become the majority. they have the subpoena power following the mid term elections. are there issues you would like to see congress look into that are currently being ignored by the republican majority? >> absolutely, wolf. we want to scrub out the corruption that prevents us from doing the work we need to do on protecting health care, protecting paychecks, protecting our environment. we connect the dots that it is the money in politics, dirty deals, dirty maps, dirty money that effects our ability to get things done. when it comes to the trump administration, we see republicans unwilling to look at a president who is cashing in on the oval office, a president who won't turn over his ta

meanwhile, paul manafort has a case that bob mueller wanted to handle on his own. i wanted to read you something from an aaron blake column in the washington post and get you to comment about it. he says, cohen like manafort is widely viewed as someone who could flip on trump and is under investigation for things apparently unrelated to the campaign. the obvious difference was manafort was a key figure in the campaign and had existing ties to russian interests that could conceivably be involved in the case's future. while cohen may know derogatory things about trump, manafort may be viewed as a potential collusion witness. so, joyce, give me a read on that. >> it's possible that that's the correct take. manafort could be far more central to collusion between the campaign and russia than the bank fraud and tax fraud prosecution he's currently going through would suggest. in other words, mueller could have indicted the leading edge perhaps to convince manafort to cooperate with him down the road. but manafort might still offer a great deal of help to mueller discussi

bob mueller is totally conflicted and his 17 angry democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to

bob mueller walks n says this to you, and goes into the oval? >> yes. >> you say are you a witness of fact. a good thing for you. >> i think so. >> you haven't been advised you are something worse in their eyes, where you a witness to obstruction or collusion or both? >> i think i am a witness of fact for all of it they don't, they go through the whole thing. i have been to capitol hill, i have a witness of fact there also. >> the meet with the russians was treasonous, paul manafort. >> i don't think it just, people from other countries, russians, whatever, come in and try to get opposition research. there is enough, you had to get down there, and as we did, when i took over the campaign on that monday. coe with kelly-anne, the first monday we took over, we put out a statement from then candidate trump, about paul manafort, we referenced clinton cash. >> by your standard, it is that knowledge of the foreign offer of help? >> well, foreign offer of help, trying to do something like that. >> if donald trump knew about that he was in on treasonous

you are forever my boyfriend bob mueller. between the fact that you wrote this book in your doing the book to her. you're just in the soup all the time. and how do you keep yourself balanced. narrowly talking about self-care because that's annoying. this is exhausting. in my answer is you don't have to be miserable all day long. turn off twitter. do as i say not as i do situation. donald trump is present he's can be president when you get back from the gym two. if you take an hour and binge watch something. he still can be president. i think it's okay to do something fun and they get back to it. does that make you are not serious not dedicated person. you have to be miserable like 187. but you can take the other hours and rest up and save your energy. this will go on for a while now. when you turn off netflix pick up the phone to do simple baking. you have to do all the time. i'm asking if you like it. i would say i'm not great at it. my wife she runs a tight ship. if are going to a phone bank i'm there to do more than just t

bob mueller wants to interview this russian pop star who helped set up the secret meeting in trump tower. paul manafort's bookkeeper testifies with a big revelation about his spending. >>> and chuck schumer is blasting unprecedented process on info. >>> extraordinary press conference on russia today at the white house. it might have backfired. trump's top national security officials making a surprise appearance at the press briefing addressing threats from russia to u.s. elections, calling the threat real and ongoing. but then struggling to explain why trump has expressed the opposite view. trump infamously expressing doubt about russian interference while standing next to putin in helsinki, here's the question that was put to trump's director of national intelligence today. >> you're saying today that the president has directed you to make the issue of election meddling a priority. how do you explain the discorrect between what you are saying, his advisers, and what the president has said about this issue? >> i'm not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened a

but again, i don't think bob mueller's playing the public opinion game. right in that's a whole different question. >> i don't agree with that. he should take the time to take to discover the truth. the president did a good job and giuliani of this, why hasn't it wrapped up already? seems like it's gone on a long time. people don't understand how difficult it is. >> 77% of them disagree with this. >> they're wrong. the question is, the good news for those that believe that the mueller investigation needs to be left alone is a clear majority of the public believe that trump shouldn't intervene and end it and resonates with giuliani and trump say it should be over already and not willing to go to the next step saying we approve the president ending it. that remains a deterrent to him and point of view of republican elected officials i think they're willing to grumble a little. i wish it was over and not willing to say, yes, mr. president, fire bob mueller. >> saying to wrap it up is one thing and tired of listening to it and supporting president trump you d

what does this mean for bob mueller? . >> i think that bob mueller was sort of acting as the composer of a great opera. he basically played the first song for us. and he told us who the characters are. he talked to us about money. he already knows how this thing will wrap up. he knows how the second trial will come out, the third trial the fourth trial, how the investigation will end or his report is going to end. so i don't really think to the fact that the president wasn't a central figure means anything positive for the president. this will be a money case. which got no follow the money. this was the start, museumer is starting to tell us about that money coming into officials close to trump and his administration. so, you know, from good news for the president, i think there is none. i think the idea that i've heard some talk about the idea these accounts, there was a hung jury. he's looking to spend the rest of his life in prison. no good news for him yesterday. >> would appear he is playing for a pardon. it certain

the president tweeting this morning, "disgraced and discredited bob mueller and his group of angry democrat thugs spent 30 hours with the white house counsel, with my approval, misspelling there, anyone needs that much time is just someone looking for trouble. they are enjoying ruining people's lives and refuse to look at corruption on the democrat's side. the lies, firing, deleted e-mails and much more. dems are looking to impact the election, they are a "national

rob: but a former secret service agent the meeting with bob mueller is unwise. and the president has nothing to hide. >> his case is based on nothing. i know liberals have a difficult time with this but this entire case is based on this dossier, this nonsensical dossier. the director of the fbi said the information was salacious and unverified and that they would have no investigation without the dossier. the head of the decision, verification of the dossier is in its infancy and bleed investigator, why would you sit down with this guy, he did nothing wrong. >> donald trump's legal team sends a counteroffer to mueller, no word on if he will accept the terms. >> the trump administration will hit russia with new sanctions after the attempted murder of a russian spy and his daughter. the was expelled 60 suspected russian spies in response to the march attack in britain. last month and ask russian spy died after being poisoned by the same nerve agents, russia denies any involvement and calls the sanctions draconian. us and turkish officials given no indication they

i was surprised people would be surprised don mac began would be a witness and talk to bob mueller. as a former government employee he doesn't have a whole lot of choice of sitting and talking to bob mueller and his team. what was remarkable about that report is just how expensive the discussions seemed to be and how little limits were placed on the questions he asked and answered. and the other thing i think was very remarkable was how little the president seems to understand that the white house counsel is the lawyer for the office of the presidency, the institution of the presidency not his personal lawyer. and then finally as a former prosecutor i think he's going to be a very, very valuable witness. if you're an investigator, you're a prosecutor, you want somebody who's been in the room when the key discussions happened and that's don mcgahn. >> it's very interesting. general hayden i want to ask you about a new attack from the president this morning on bob mueller. quote, we're now in a period that makes joseph mccarthy look like a baby, rigged witch hunt. to compare bob muell

but has bob mueller called you in to testify? >> they did. they didn't call me in, they showed up and asked me to come in and do a personal voluntary enter view, which i did not -- >> who is they that showed up? >> somebody from his investigation. >> where did they finding you? >> i don't want to say where, but they found me. >> they came to you in person? >> i'm kind of elusive these days. there are people out there saying bad things about me. >> well, you're making news as you often do. you're confirming that federal agents working for bob mueller came to you in new york? >> yes. >> and what did they ask you? >> they asked me if i would like to do a vol -- well, we set up a conversation with somebody from the mueller team. and they asked my lawyer if i would like to go down and do a voluntary interview. and he said no. i didn't get a subpoena. they asked me for a voluntary interview. >> let's make sure we understand. i don't believe you've said this on air before. >> probably not. >> okay. so let's make sure we understand it because the pro

i never felt aggressed in any way. >> you thought bob mueller's investigators were fair? >> yes, they were, really. >> that is, of course, the wife of george papadopoulos who's a central figure. "the new york times" first broke the story by explaining papadopoulos was talking to an australian diplomat who had dirt on hillary clinton. that kicked off the -- he had a seat at the table. his indictment was a bombshell. >> the separate plea bargain deal made public today between the feds and a former trump campaign adviser -- >> admitting he lied to the fbi by denying he was involved with the campaign when he communicated with the russians. >> in the papadopoulos statement of the offense, he very carefully attests to all of that stuff as fact. >> joyce vance is here. this is certainly unusual, and we wouldn't deal with it so seriously if it were a rumor or from an unnamed source. but this is an on the record plea from his wife. your view? >> she goes right to the heart of the matter when she says he wants to withdraw his plea because there's exculpatory material. that means ma

>> i don't think he'll ever talk to bob mueller. if i were his attorney, i would urge him not to talk to bob mueller, particularly about obstruction, because it's a lot easier to prove that you lied to a law enforcement officer than to prove obstruction of justice. >> sol wisenberg giving us a lot of wisdom today. thanks. >> thanks. >> thanks for coming on. >>> up ahead, are republicans hitting the panic button? why one closely watched congressional district could spell bigger trouble than they thought for the gop in november. the fact is, there are over ninety-six hundred roads named "park" in the u.s. it's america's most popular street name. but allstate agents know that's where the similarity stops. if you're on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the washoe zephyr could damage your siding. and that's very different than living on park ave in sheboygan, wisconsin, where ice dams could cause water damage. but no matter what park you live on, one of 10,000 local allstate agents knows yours. now that you know the truth, a

and by the way, my open is going to be on bob mueller. i am so tired of this guy messing everything up. he's got to go. i hope you'll tune in. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to a special inside the issues edition of "tucker carlson tonight." over the next hour we will take a deeper dive into some of the biggest matters affecting american life today. we start with speech. as you probably heard, recently many of the biggest tech companies joined in a coordinated effort to sensor content from alex jones. apple, facebook, spotify, very manyio, youtube, all of them pulled or froze jones' accounts on the grounds that his views are too dangerous to be heard publicly. the left which seeks to crush anything it can't control applauded the news. the institutional right in

and what bob mueller's job is. the fact that bob mueller, a man i defended because i work with him and i know he is a man of integrity. the fact he hired 13 democrat contributors and a former lawyer for hillary campaign and he hired them to investigate the president. bob mueller opened himself up to the allegation of the bias despite his own integrity. that was a mistake by bob mueller from the start. >> harris: when we do learn about his team and we may not know every dime, every dollar and every resume point but when we do know what we can learn about the politics of the certain member of mueller's team you have meat on the bone if you are trying to show a look of fairness there. not a lot of republicans on the team. why would it matter? politics are talked about because of the f.b.i. and the potential bias. >> that is all what congress will have to consider. the credibility of what he comes out with. if mueller and his democrat largely investigators say no problem, trump didn't do anything wrong. it's over when