our latest episode is on housing with georgio angelini. you can download and it subscribe wherever you get your podcast. ari melber, congratulations. >> my show a baby and there's nothing wrong with being a baby, as you know. >> you're adorable. >> being a young show, thank you. i'm here as well. thanks for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. today at the white house, president trump presided over his first ever national security council meeting on election security. a major top tick president has not exactly prioritized, we can't show you any pictures, the white house did release the list of attendees afterward, including mike pence, secretary of state mike pompeo, james mattis, along with other high level officials noting trump got updates on the whole government

approach to safeguard elections. it noted, the president has made it clear that his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections from any nation state or other malicious actors. that statement is a contrast to trump's actual words in helsinki where trump sided with the russians on the question of whether russia interfered in the u.s. election. that was the press conference where putin fought back an idea. these two leaders that approximately talked about a join u.s.-russian cyber security group to investigate russian election meddling. sort of like having el chapo join one the dea to fight drug trafficking. now this quite absurd plan to team one the only country whose own agents have been charged for 2016 interference first came up all the way last summer when he wrote that he and putin discussed forming an impenetrable cyber security unit so that election hacking, and

many other negative things will be guard. comments lying this from trump ally lindsey graham, it's not the dumbest idea i've ever heard but it is pretty close. >> now idea may be dumb, even brainless. and it has some zombie like qualities because that idea keep coming back from the dead. this time courtesy of vladimir putin. >> president trump mentioned the issue of the so-called interference of russia. the russian state has never interfered and is not going to interfere into internal american affairs including the election process. any specific material, if such things arise, we are toward analyze together. for instance, we can analyze them through the joint working group on cyber security. the establishment of which we discussed during our previous

contacts. >> so maybe that will be all back on again. for now, today, we have the president sharing what looks to be his own very speedy meeting on election security with his whole of government approach. one reporter noting, the cabinet officials were seen leaving this meeting less than 30 minutes after it started, which may tell us a lot about how seriously this threat is being taken, and how many people are speaking and discussing and going back and forth in this supposed meeting chflt brings me to an nbc news report. 19 months into his presidency, no coherent trump administration strategy to combat foreign election interference, no single person or agency in charge. that according to officials that spoke with nbc. but there is anxiety on the part of american intelligence officials over russian interference in our elections this year. and there is something else that is very important. that rachel has discussed many

times this show. we are seeing the emerging evidence that an attack is not just out on some horizon. it is now underway. the director of national intelligence said in a recent speech, warning lights are blinking red and the digital infrastructure that serve this is country is literally under attack. and here we see the incursions coming. russian hackers have now already targeted at least three candidates in this year's 2018 mid-terms. reports that one of the targets is claire mccaskill. so while donald trump doubts much of this is even during, his pentagon chief does say there are secret actions now underway to combat it. >> what is the government doing to halt russian interference in the next elections? >> i'm not at liberty to explain what we're doing in that regard. just rest assured there are

actions underway to protect our elections, or to expose any, by anybody, external efforts to influence the american public, to show false news, that sort of thing. we have ongoing efforts. but i'm not going into any details right now. >> we've seen this pattern before with the administration. with the president either papers over the issue or questions the threat of the source of foreign interference, or waters it down, the closer he is to putin. while these top officials are pointing to him, they say it is very real and they even say they're doing things, maybe seegt things to stop it. so you have the president sharing this today on election security. it is worth remembering where we were in this story exactly two years ago when then candidate trump called on russia to get and release clinton's e-mails. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the

30,000 e-mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. >> maybe it was debatable what that meant and what at this time at the time. but looking at it now, we know more from bob mueller's recent indictment. it was two years ago to the day, july 27, 2016, the russians attempted on spear fish for the first time e-mail accounts used by hillary clinton's personal office. now, maybe the news gods also have some kind of calendar. it was last night, the eve of the anniversary, where this bombshell report came through that the president's former lawyer and all around fixer michael cohen has some information. a source close to him saying he's willing to tell mueller, the president knew in advance about this trump tower meeting with russians promising the dirt on hillary clinton. whether it is really true that michael cohen is ready to assert

that and whether he can help prove it, that's an open question. we also know on the day that donald trump junior formally accepted that meeting, candidate trump touted the big upcoming speech about hillary clinton. >> i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week, and we're going to be discussing all the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you will find it very informative and very, very interesting. >> candidate trump did not make that monday speech. as trump now repeats his denials about any advance knowledge of the meeting, it is critical to note this is a meeting that team trump already lied about. his own lawyers often admitting to mueller trump dictated that misleading statement about the meeting originally. first they lied about what happened in the meeting. then they lied about the defense of the meeting. which he was choosing to offer,

even though he also claimed he didn't know anything about the meeting. now the question is whether trump lied about the worst possible thing. not what was discussed in it, not the pr afterward, but whether he took actions or had intent the meeting that could contribute to elements of a crime. that's not a question posed by, say, a trump critic or an investigator aggressively looking at the issues, or posed by journalists in the story. this is now the key question, facing the white house, courtesy of one of trump's longest serving once more loyal aides. a man who was with him as political staff, a man who documented and recorded interactions and that may be why these new reports say that this once loyal team, these two teammates, are now dead to each other, preparing to bury cohen, is what the white house is leaking. michael cohen used to be a loyal trump friend who gave privileged advice. but cohen is learning, trump's

return on that loyalty all depends on the situation. and trump currently isn't taking cohen's counsel anymore. it is a stand-off captured by some words of wisdom from a song, jukebox joints that says, it all depends with friends like you, who needs friends? sometimes best advice is no advice. especially when it's your advice. i turn now to former federal prosecutor joyce vance who has much experience here. i don't think there's any doubt that donald trump is not taking michael cohen's advice and counsel anymore. how do you view the significance of this aren't you are and the types of leaking and back biting that we're seeing? >> this is potentially very significant. you know, prosecutors are hard wired to be cautious. so it is important to say that we haven't heard this story in cohen's own words yet. that will matter. it will matter if he has any

evidence, text messages or e-mails that were sent contemporaneous reply back him up. so far the evidence we've heard is that there is no evidence of that nature. but this is really a bombshell. this idea that the president knew about this meeting before it happened, and signed off on it, places him squarely inside of collusion with russia. >> when this kind of information goes public, obviously prosecutors would rather they held it and no one else knew. how do you interpret that? >> it is interesting. we don't know the source of these leaks and frankly they don't make essential for mueller. certainly the leaks don't come from there. they don't make an awful lot of sense for cohen to be the leaker. it doesn't make it impossible for him to cooperate with the southern district of new york, prosecutors don't like to have their cases being carried out in the media. it also doesn't make a lot of sense for the president to put this forward unless he knew this

was coming inevitably and they believed it was so damaging that they had to somehow try to get ahead of the story. >> based on the idea that there's other people in the room, which was in the original cnn report, what do you make of the possibility that some or even all those people have already told this information to special counsel, or is there potentially an effort to get people's stories straight by talking about it in public? >> i think that's exactly the right question. we know, for instance, that mueller has already talked to hope hicks who would have likely be in the room. trump jr. has already testified up on the hill. so there's been a lot of opportunity for folks under oath to either tell truth and perhaps already be unbenoenlsed to us cooperating, or to have lied and subjected themselves to criminal charges which could possibly be used against them now to get them on finally reveal the truthful. >> a lot of this looks very bad

for donald trump. the videos we've played might have had other interpretations, now look more and more incriminating. i wonder what you make of it, that there was no speech given. if he didn't get goods to get speech, then was there not the finishing of the act? what do you think of that defense? >> you know, at this point, we can speculate. a lot of different directions about what happen. the reality is we don't know what happened in this meeting. we do know what it wasn't. it wasn't a meeting that was exclusively about adoption. was it a successful meeting where the russians came in and offered something? we don't know that. was it a meeting where the russians didn't make a full offer and it ended on

unfortunate terms? we don't know that either. one of the strong possibilities here is that there was a conversation about some form of future collaboration, and then we hear this incredibly awkward conversation where he says, russia, if you're listening, here's the favor you can do for me. come in and deliver hillary's e-mail. at the time it felt strange and awkward. now with everything we've learned in the past few days, perhaps that's the truth of what went on in that meeting in trump tower. that there was a conversation about some form of future cooperation with the campaign and that it came to pass that evening. >> just to be clear, you're saying that there's multiple cover stories. number one would be adoptions. number two would be, oh, this dossier type material on clinton that was not ghi or usable for the speech, but number three, the real action, would be, hey, we can do things cyber if you

flip the switch and he won't to flip the switch in public. >> and the problem is because there have been serial mistruths told about what happened in this meeting, we know it has to have been something significant. something that people want to cover up but we don't know exactly what it is. we do know what it isn't. >> fascinating when you put it like that. joyce vance, we always learn a lot from you. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thanks. nbc news national reporter ken delanian is reporting. his story headlining, the trump administration has no central strategy for election security and no one is in charge. ken, thank you for joining me tonight will. >> great to see you. >> your story digs in deeper than just what is blatant odd about this meeting and its brevity. walk us through what former and current officials are telling

you. >> yeah. this is not some great scoop. this is simply talking to folks and listening to cabinet officials talk many public about their efforts to combat foreign election interference. what they say, the department homeland security secretary with our own peter alexander in aspen talked about the things dhs is doing, working with the states on election security. then she said, that's not enough. we really need the whole of government strategy. what she didn't say there isn't one. that's what everybody you talk on has said. i was flabbergasted when they said there has been such a strategy when the white house took office. i haven't found anyone who has seen the strategy but i've talked to a lot of people who said no such strategy exists. the fbi is doing things. they've created a foreign influence task force. they are trying to focus this problem of the russians and others interfering in our

politics. the russians on on social media as we speak manipulating it. the national security agency has said they're stepping up their efforts in cyberspace. most of that is secret. what we don't have is anything that knits it together. we have no leadership from the oval office and this really requires it. there are some really hard problems. like the russians playing on twitter and facebook. those are private companies. first amendment issues at may. there may have been some changes in law or policy issues. when you don't have the executive branch leadership on this, you really lose the power of the full federal government. you have different agencies trying to do what they can. and don't forget, some of these officials testified to congress including chris wray, the fbi director, that they had never been asked by the president to tackle election issues. so it is hard to say what they mean when they say they've had a strategy from day one. >> and there are all these different states involved.

we have a system to decentralize. there was a proposal in the house to put $380 million into state efforts to combat this. that was defeated by republicans this. how much does this effort also require upgrading what states can handle in the mueller investigation has revealed, how these country-backed efforts are going after individual states that may not have the cyber know-how? >> yeah. every state official you talk on says they need more money, they need upgraded technology, more resources. i think that while the sort of vulnerabilities of state election systems are troubling, when you think of the three ways the russians attacked election, they can hack into, they attempted to breach 21 states and they got into seven. that may have been the least effective method that they used. the most effective was they thakd democratic national

committee. they stole the e-mails and released them. then the second most effective was their manipulation of social media. it is hard to measure their influence. they are everyday playing on social media. there is a webb called hamilton 68 that measures some of on it twitter and they're trying to divide americans on race, on guns, all sorts of issues. and dan coats, the director of national intelligence, gave a speech the other day and he said this is happening. they're interfering in our politics. what he didn't say is there is nothing that we're doing about it. we, the u.s. government, has not deterred this behavior at all. and the attempted hack of claire mccaskill as well. >> a huge story. when we look at the footage that looks different over time. we're bonl 100 days out from

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do you ever wonder what bob mueller looks like were he's out and about? is he imposing? super low profile? we actually got a rare peek today because politico published this photo taken this morning at reagan national airport in washington, d.c. at gate 35 x. you can see the welcome to dca sign there. on your left is special counsel bob mueller. he appears to be minding his own business and reading the paper. but that's not all. over there on the right is donald trump jr., plus the secret service agent who looks kind of annoyed, i think, that someone was attempting to capture this particular moment. you are looking at a prosecutor

and a witness passing each other at random. today mueller's office which is notoriously tight lipped. they rarely respond to any question on the record. they put out this statement confirming that yes, that is him, waiting to board a flight. if it is accurate that the other person in the photo was donald trump jr., mr. mueller was not aware of him and had no interaction with him. which is a bit like a reporter asked mariah carey about j. lo an and, and said i don't know her. he is very aware right now of trump jr.'s role in this trump tower meeting we've been covering. which michael cohen is now ready to say is a thing that trump jr. lied about. how his dad approved it. now that story first broke on cnn. and nbc confirming with it a source and saying that he knew about the officials that sought a meeting with official.

they are saying that trump knew and cohen said he will tell mueller if he can. which raises the question serena is talking about it. i touched on it briefly. why not tell mueller about it privately? why leak it across the airwaves? no one knows the anxious to that at this moment. he told the committee that he did not alert his father to this meeting ahead of time for his reported comments to the house intelligence meeting many december. if this news about what michael cohen is willing to tell mueller is true, then it does obviously call donald trump jr.'s testimony into serious doubt. now, the leading democrats in the senate ju dish area committee are saying they want donald trump jr. back in for questioning. senator leahy wants to question him in public. that would be different as well

as under oath. the top democrat adam schiff said he wants trump jr. back. the democrats do not control either of those committees so you can look at those as wishes. over on the house intel committee, republicans have already closed out what they view as their russia probe months ago. done. so can democrats get any fresh answers from trump jr. now? do they get another crack at it? or is this all a fan fiction showing how they would use their subpoena power, how they would run this if something changes in the november mid-terms. i go to eric swalwell, and other members of the committee met with donald trump jr. for several hours. first, thank you for making time

for us. >> if it is true that donald trump jr. told his father about that, did you view that based on what you heard as clear crime that he would commit before the house? or is it more complicated? >> more complicated. clearly a crime. and also, a crime if michael cohen himself was not truthful with the house. what i've learned with donald trump, his family, his son-in-law, his lawyers, none of they will have been straight with us about anything we've asked them and they were inoculated by a house republican investigation that never pressed them to testify under subpoena that never subpoenaed any of the records to see if any of their stories came out the way that they were telling us. >> how long is that? you're an investigator here. you just said none of them does that include hope hicks? other staff? >> well, so hope hicks, for

example, when she was pressed, she would refuse to answer questions. donald trump jr., when he was asked about conversations with his father about the june 9th, trump tower meeting, he refused to answer and the republicans did not want to subpoena him to compel him. they didn't want to know. it was a take him at his word investigation which we are seeing was so irresponsible. we're learning more and more every day. i'm anment o ment on miment onm. if people want to know, this is wrong, there is still an opportunity to come back to congress and reopen this investigation. we can still do it and i think people should tell their representatives on the intel committee they expect it. >> why do you think the trump tower meeting has proved so problematic for the trump team to get their stories straight? >> it is not about what donald trump did with that meeting.

i think what is significant is what he did not do. if he knew meeting was to take place, he did not his son to cancel the meeting. he did not tell the fbi about the meeting. if anything, he further encouraged and emboldened the russians to hack because he went out about a month and a half after the meeting and said russia, if you're listening work the years from today, you would be rewarded for hacking. it was green lights that he sent by doing nothing or allowing his son to take meeting. we found in our investigation that donald trump and donald trump jr. talked every day by phone, in person, about the most minute details of the campaign. it is hard to believe that donald trump jr. would not have told his father about it. it is actually stranger if that is what occurred. >> so finally, is this the blue print for what would you do with subpoena power after the mid

terms? donald trump jr. and the other staff? and what do you say to people who feel like, that would be two more years of fixating on 2016 election events? >> our investigations should always be about the future. we look back to inform us as to how we can best protect our democracy from something like the happening again. pling schiff has that, and i agree, if bob mueller's investigation and the senate investigation are not able to produce reforms going forward, of course we'll do our duty and go back and see what is unanswered. if they do their job and bob mueller can tell the country what happened, i don't think we want to reopen it. it is also not too late for republicans sign on. i think it is too charged to handle this in congress. we should put experts and elders and states persons on it.

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media. it is going to be historic when you step back and realize that we are about to begin a trial of a campaign chairman, numero uno for this sitting president of the united states over numerous felonies. that's what part of faces when he begins his first trial in virginia next week. jury selection already underway. today we got something always key, it is like traesh map, the witness list. 35 people prosecutors reserve the right to testify against manafort as the case unfolds. some of the names very much expected. r rick gates, everyone who follow this case knew that, because he pled out and promised to testify against his former boss. he has pled guilty and offered to cooperate with mueller. also, five people, their name we got because the court had to release them as part of the wrangling earlier this week.

they all look like people who worked in financial services linked to manafort. and then buzz feed that rachel was reporting on last night, the prosecution witness list includes bernie sanders' chief strategyist in 2016, tad devine. and that is up through 2012, deconvenient was doing international political consulting work in ukraine. he worked directly with manafort. a pro putin ought democrat was turned out of the country. more or less, the last argument that is still going to be dealt with, adjudicated before manafort's trial, is about that very work. how much evidence should the prosecution know allowed to present from manafort. this is a trial about tax evasion and bank fraud and a bunch of material about the former leader of the ukraine. it is irrelevant and will potentially prejudice this jury

against their client. the prosecution counters, no, what manafort did in ukraine is directly relevant to this whole case in bringing it home. it was in the manafort indictment that you saw the millions of dollars in transactions and that manafort is accused to have made. for cars, rugs, fanny suits, hiring landscapers to do work on multiple homes. they were made from cyprus. prosecutors say they'll prove that he made his money working on ukraine. transferring the millions to shell companies had then went to cyprus bank accounts that were controlled by manafort which then funneled out to all of those very noticeable luxury goods. and who else is on this witness list released today? it appears to be the guy had sold paul manafort the expensive suits and the guy who sold

manafort his mercedes-benz, and a landscaper who worked on one of those very large, very expensive part of second homes. there's been a lot of talk about bob mueller following the money. a phrase everyone remembers from watergate. what we're seeing through witness list, a preview of the treasures that this prosecutor team wants to prove at trial. they want to trace for the jury the entire story of manafort's money from whatever did he to get in it ukraine to the individual vendors that he spent the money on, to all the ways he didn't, they say, legally fulfill his obligations to report foreign accounts and pay taxes on the money as well as misleading bank that's were loaning him more money. this trial begins next week. we turn to a white house political reporter for politico and also a legal report they are. thank you for joining us

tonight. >> great to be here. >> what do you see in the witness list? >> well, you hinted at some of this. this will be, if people can remember, as far back as the life styles of the rich and famous. we'll hear about the suits and the cars. hear from this fellow's landscaper and the sums of money, the amounts for an average juror, will be staggering. $800,000 with one particular clothing boutique in new york. half a million dollars spent on landscaping of a hole. that's not to guy home. that's to landscape the home. and the prosecutors have photographs have the suits, photographs of the landscaping, and so forth. and they're going to take this jury and this kind of a tour through manafort's luxury lifestyle. and then show his tax returns and pose a question of how he can possibly afford that if what he was making was however much he was reporting to the irs. >> why do they want to get into

the complex stuff and the shell companies? there are, as you know, as our viewers know, plenty of big cases that involve complex finances where prosecutors make a edchoice to simplify for the jury. but they're going in big and in detail. they're not dumbing it down. >> they are under some pressure from the judge who has urged them on consolidate and shorten the case. when she said it will take three weeks instead of two weeks, the judge expressed his dissatisfaction with that and is trying to urge them to narrow this down. they seem to be trying to show, one of the charges or some of the charges, that manafort had these foreign bank accounts. not just to use them and bring money into the u.s. without paying taxes on it. but that he never reported them at all and people are required to report those kinds of accounts when they have them overseas. so i think the foreign issue

here, the foreign bank accounts, does add an element of subterfuge and an element of intentioniality here that makes this seem exotic and somewhat beyond the pale. maybe there are other people who shave paying their taxes here and there but they may not have dozens and dozens of overseas bank accounts that are funding their lavish lifestyle. >> and it allows prosecutors to say this was a deliberate thing, not just corner cutting. rachel has reported the so-called rocket docket. this could take a while. we'll be watching this with you and probably calling on you again. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. any time. it has been a busy week. a lot has happened. but something that should have been resolved last night is a very big issue right now. that's next. stay with us.

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at least since the beginning of june, people have been trying to do something about the children ripped away from their families 20 trump administration's executive order on the border. thousands of people felt compelled to turn out. some showing up at a lawmaker's office demanding answers, protesting until police came to take some of them away. kids coming in from all over the country like these kids at 12:45 in the morning or this toddler separated at a texas facility. for many people it has been hard to watch this as another story. and we've seen some remarkable things, like moms posting bail and then relay team drove a woman to new york where her three kids were being held. it has been something of a communal effort for people around the nation to do whatever could be done by citizens to help bring some families back together. then there are, of course, the larger legal fights last month.

the federal judge in san diego ordering the government to return thousands of these children to their families, giving the trump administration a firm deadline. that's 3:00 a.m. eastern this morning. if it seems day on theic and ill p , improvised, putting them together has seemed very chaotic. there was a local reporter for telemundo who walked into part of it happening in new york city. >> i asked them, why the vans here? they all came out holding some in a nil a envelopes. i asked them if they would move the children and nobody is responding. >> then hours later, the governor of new york said the vans ended up shuttling more than a dozen kids around all night because there was confusion about which of the children were eligible to return to their parents. the government says clearly this

is gross incompetence and purposeful chaos. a federal judge in san diego, california, held a hearing a few hours ago. saying now that the deadline has passed, the trump administration dividing these kids into custody and the rules within two categories. he will jishl for reunification and not eligible. the children they call eligible, they said they got all 1820 back to family or what they are calling appropriately discharged by this deadline. msnbc had a report he in the courtroom. the judge says 650 children are not eligible to go back to their parents which is of course what this whole thing is about. those families remain apart and they'll continue that situation until, well, the government is not saying. forle, they've been deported.

so they agreed without knowing they were leaving their kids behind. and the aclu lawyer said this is torturous for a parent thinking i gave away my child because i was confused and made a mistake. the case is not finished working this issue of reuniting families, whether they're called ineligible or not. i'm joined now by the legal director of the aclu which brought this case to court. thank you for joining us. what is the most important part of work the remains? >> well, thank you for having me on. the important thing that remains in the case, is that there are many hundreds of parents who still have had their kids ripped away from them and not yet returned by the u.s. government. the government walked into court today and claimed that it has been working as hard as it can to reunite these families.

the truth is that there are two major groups of parents we're very concerned about. the first as you mentioned is that there are about, as far as we know, 400 parents who have been deported from the united states without a chance to reunite with their kids. those parents, we need to know and have them identified so we can find out. did they make a knowing waiver of their right to be reunited with their kids before they were sent back to their home countries, possibly back into harm's way? the second group of families -- >> let me ask you. >> for anyone listening, why would a normal parent agree to that if they understood it? >> well, there are many who may have been deported without having been given notice that there was a court order that permits them to be reunited with their kids. a lot of these parents who end

up with deportation orders will be put to a very difficult choice. a choice that could have long lasting, lifelong impacts on their family and they need to have a chance to sit to make a decision. if i'm going to be deported, should i take my kids with me, or do i have a family member here in the united states who i can leave my child with if the child is going to be returned into harm's way? and these families, we believe, did not have a chance to get legal counsel, to sit down as a family and to make these potentially life or death decisions. that's what we're seeking from the court, the ability for these families to be reunited, whether or not the parents have been deported, and to have seven days as a family to consult with attorneys, to consult with each other and in cases where a parent has made that awful choice to be returned but heave

their child here with a family member to explain to their kids why they are doing that for the kids own good. >> well, it is important work and clearly it is something that has forced a little bit more transparency on what has been, according to many experts, a total mess. deputy director for the legal program at the aclu, thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you. now, we have more to get to tonight, include ago real life piece of news that does sound like it came right from the onion. that's next. stay with us.

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here is that other thing. we may have saved the best for last. this is a story rachel was hoping to bring everyone last night, but couldn't because of other breaking news. the white house has finally corrected the transcript from the trump-putin summit on july 16th. the official transcript had a big old weird hole in one section. it was miss ago key thing that happened, the part for a journalist asked putin if he wanted trump to win the 2016 election. >> did you want president trump to win the election, and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? >> yes, i did. yes, i did.

because he talked about bringing the u.s.-russia relationship back to normal. >> that's what happened in the room. but after the summit, the official white house transcript didn't have it which meant in the official government record there was no mention that putin expressly said in front of everybody he wanted trump to win. that was flagged by the atlan c atlantic. the white house transcript and video of the event both had that part missing. you can see her point. in general, you want to have a real word of what happens between two world leaders especially when the president said the russians want democrats to win the next election, not him at all. all the more important that the actual truth get nailed down for a real word in a real transcript in a real history reflecting that putin did say he wanted trump to win. and then yesterday ten days after all this, the white house

finally did correct their transcript so it does include the question to putin and his answer saying he wanted trump to win. but the record they still have not corrected the video. the video still leaves out the putin wanted trump part, and we thought that was worth noting. that does it for us tonight. i will see you back on monday at 6:00 p.m. eastern for my show, the beat. but now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell where katie is in for lawrence. if you have time, i have a quick question for you. >> sure, go ahead. >> yeah? you have time? >> sure. >> i was going to ask you, katie, because i always love talking with you, do you know what is black and white and red all over? >> a newspaper. >> it's a teleprompter. >> wow. you are a very clever man. >> i wish you a fantastic show and a great weekend, my friend. >> ari, good to take it f