nbc chuck todd asked that question. said. >> chuck, if i did not have this recording people would still believe the false, incredible story that i was running around the white house. the false story that was told by a reporter and repeated by this network and other reporters that i tried to charge the residents at the white house. it's a lie. if i didn't have this recording, people would still think i was trying to set off alarms. yes, i had to protect myself and i have no regret about it. >> joyce, you know there's two sides. one is she face legal jeopardy here and was her defense of doing that good enough? >> this is the most reducktive vision of a white house and presidency that one can imagine. it's demeaning to the office. the people inside the white house were in such a state they felt like had to to tape and counter tape themselves. i can't imagine it. the reality is there's security issues, national security consideration going on in the situation room and this area. this is not a place for personal drama. this

with chuck todd on "meet the press." at issue is john kelly's secret recording. >> if we make this a friendly departure, you can look at your time here in the white house as a year of service to the nation. and then you can go on without any type of difficulty in the future relative to your reputation. >> can i ask you a couple questions? is the president aware -- >> let's not go down the road. this is a non-negotiable discussion. >> i don't want to negotiate. this is my departure, i want an opportunity to understand -- >> no, we can talk another time. this has to do with serious integrity violations. so i'll let it go at that. so the staff and everyone on the

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chuck todd also remains with us. garrett, i know you had a late night with vote counting, but this district has been red since ronald reagan was elected. now you have a 1,700-vote margin. the two candidates will face off in november in any case, right? >> reporter: yeah, let's set aside the question of who ultimately wins in the short term here today. as you point out, this race will be run again in november. just the fact that i'm here, that reporters are covering this race, that we're paying attention to this district at all, is an indication of the problems that republicans have as they go into november. as you said, this district has not been a democratic district in the lifetime of the democratic candidate who is running here. it's been reliably republican all that time. it's your classic john mccain, mitt romney, john kasich kind of district. the fact that republican voters are peeling a little bit away from the president in places like this and that democratic voters who democrats didn't even realize existed,

today rudy giuliani trying to walk back what he said on "meet the press" to chuck todd on why he does not want the president talking to robert mueller. >> and when you tell me that, you know, he should testify because he's going to tell the truth and he should worry. that's so silly because if somebody's version of the truth, not the truth. he didn't have a conversation -- >> truth is truth. i don't mean to -- >> no, it isn't truth. truth isn't truth. >> the big chill as the president compares bob mueller to joe mccarthy and threatens to revoke the clearance from a current justice department official. more than 175 former national security officials, most who have long avoided politics, speaking out signing a new letter today saying mr. trump has gone too far. >> that sends a signal to folks in the intelligence community and in the law enforcement community that if you cross this president, your livelihood, your ability to do your job will be threatened. >> in a sense, it undermines the principles that our country is founded on. and it's really an attempt to undermine the institutions

. >> yesterday on news 4 at 6:00, "meet the press" moderator chuck todd joined us on set to talk about john mccain. his legacy in the senate and the way he treated >> every decade there's an unofficial lion of the senate. for the d lastade it's been john mccain. inwhen i defe lion of the senate, i think of it as the person who sort of speaks for the institution, and speaks for the integrity of the country.ha ands -- you know, john mccain grabbed that mantle and it well. the beauty of john mccain is that one of the things, personally i thought w amazing, he didn't care about your station in fe. meaning he -- the first interview i had with him, i was doing a chat in 1996, we were doing chat room stuff -- newfound website, he who i was, but people agreed to do it. he didn't care if it was -- it sn't just because it was "meet the press." he didn't know w i was, that's the pers he was. he treated everyone as equal, --h some respect, and it that's why people say, press loves john mccain, because john mccainreated everyone with respect, his constituents, his political opponents. >> chuck todd

. >> much more from chuck todd's exclusive interview from omarosa including whether she actually heard president trump use a racial slur. >>> plus one year later we are live in charlottesville and washington, d.c., where protests are taking place a year to the day after those deadly riots. >>> and near the finish line, rudy giuliani says robert mueller should wrap up his investigation by the end of the month. so who is his source? >> september 1st was the date that bob mueller gave me. back two months ago where he said, when we were talk about getting his report done he threw out the date september 1 as being a reasonable date to get it done. >> all right. the anniversary of charlottesville, president trump is spending the day in bedminster, new jersey, but on twitter he is calling for americans to come together as one of his former advisers in an exclusive interview with chuck todd says she heard donald trump on tape using the "n" word while he was working on "the apprentice." >> you have heard the tape? >> i had heard the tape. >> since publication of this book. >> absolutely. >> so

: let's not talk about chuck todd. let's talk about the state. pardon me. i'm not going to -- pardon me! no, no, no -- the tape says that you said that he said it. you told me you never said that! speak about is not. we were talking about! >> ed: you were not on tape. >> this is the question -- this is regards to a specific discussion -- check the tape of what he said on chuck todd and savannah guthrie! she specifically said that i said and confirmed that donald trump said a derogatory term on a conference call with jason miller, that did not happen! that is what i'm refuting! what happened today, ed, what happened today, omarosa submitted two different tapes to cbs -- >> ed: we will not get sidetracked. >> we have to! >> ed: no, no, pardon me. it's our show. hang on one second. i will admit their struggle tapes. i will look to blame them. but first of all, i'm going to leave lead this discussion. the fact of the matter is, today, you clarified today and said, i just said, yes, he used the n-word because they wanted to

chuck todd, thank you very much. now, of course, when we think of john mccain, it was alluded to by kelly o'donnell's reporting as well as chuck todd and andrea mitchell and this is his service to the country during the vietnam war, john mccain was a prisoner of war as many remember for more than five years and his captors tortured him and held him in solitary confinement. more now on his military service from nbc's harry smith. >> reporter: he was john mccain iii, the son and grandson of u.s. navy admirals, but his war was vietnam. in july 1967 the brash young fighter pilot narrowly escaped death on the deck and his plane was nearly sank. three months later his plane's was hit by enemy fire. >> yesterday over hanoi three american planes were shot down and at least two of their pilots captured. one of them was lieutenant commander john mccain iii, the son of a u.s. naval commander in europe. >> i was hit. i can see that the wing was gone. i ejected from my airplane. i was knocked unconscious by the ejection and injur

let's bring in chuck todd. if you look at the arc of this entire story what fundamentally changed today? >> one big thing fundamentally changed. the president of the united states was accused of committing a felony by his long time former personal lawyer. that's the big thing. yes, the other stuff matters, too. his personal lawyers and admitted felon. former campaign manager is a convicted felon and that all happened on the same day. if you're to say of all this mess, courthouse to courthouse up and down the eastern seaborne today, what is the mark left, the fact that the president of the united states was accused of committing a crime. yes, a campaign finance crime. that could be the beginning what i think is a long nightmare for the president all things involving michael cohen. paul manafort is serious and shows mueller has more to go on here. it isn't a witch hunt. if you're the president tonight, the michael cohen news ab lutely petrified. >> chuck todd tonight, thank you. >>> more breaking news following t

chuck todd is not the lone ranger.f blitzer in a question this week asked shouldn't impeachment proceedings begin immediately. isn't it true that the mainstream media has all but convicted the president in the court of public opinion and forget the little niceties called evidence and fairness and law and a trial? >> we know this whole court proceeding has been going on for 18 months on all the different networks over and over again, and you know, this whole trump derangement syndrome has settled in pretty solidly. when they think republicans in the house are going to initiate impeachment proceedings over something like this bogus, you know, implication of the president by michael cohen, that's outrageous. listen, i think we're closer to impeachment than we ever were, if the democrats take over the house. absolutely, they will impeach the president for jaywalking if they take over the house. we need to remember that on november 6th. gregg: yet nancy pelosi said a few days ago impeachment's not on her agenda. what do you

"meet the press" moderator chuck todd joined us thi evening to talk about the events of the past week and what they could te us about the mueller investigation. >> mueller is thorough. okay? >> he has to be. >> he knothis. >> does that surprise you at all? >> one thing wren thedent says witch hunt, the fact of the matter if there was n there there by now, he would be done talked to people very close to mueller. mueller is not going after something willy-nilly.ry notg to find anything to get the president. he is doing the big investigation. but is he doing it like a rico case, like a mob case which is you start from the outside and you wor from in. and eventually you get at some point you have a theory of the case. i think mueller entered with mewhat of a theor of the case here. and you see the unraveling. the question is which one of these threads will be one that the sweater suddenly ppdirs. >> chuck will have much more on sunday morning including how the republicans will deal with the president's troubles before the midtermlections 10:30 right after "news4 today." he was the face gu

ed: let's talk about chuck todd. i'm not going to do that. >> let me tell you what i'm receiving. ed: you said he said it. you told me you never said that. you are on tape. >> that is not what we were talking about, not the question you are asking me. this was in regard to a specific discussion, check the tape on chuck todd and savannah guthrie that she said i said and confirmed donald trump said a derogatory term, conference call with jason miller, that did not happen. what happened today, omarosa submitted two tapes to cbs. ed: we are not going to get sidetracked by two tapes. >> there two tapes. ed: you explain them. first of all, i will lead this discussion. today you clarified and that i just said yes, he used it because he wanted to move the conversation around. >> a different discussion. >> there are multiple discussions. if that is the truth why didn't you tell me i don't know all the details, i haven't seen it but i did say yes he used the and word to move the conversation along. you didn't say that last night. >> the question i was asked about this conference call with j

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they declined comment on chuck todd's notion.eard david gergen tonight suggest to the republicans at least look like you have rigor behind your processes. put forward a resolution protecting mueller. pass a law protecting mueller. put forward a revolution saying mr. president, stop waving pard ones around in the middle of an investigation. you can look tough and sound tough but still be trump republicans. i heard you today at 4:00 say the only thing that will turn republicans against trump is the day after the midterm elections, if they lose those. >> that's right. i had various views about some of these people on the basis of some things paul ryan did during the campaign. he occasionally stood up to trump in the campaign. i had some hope that some of these republicans would behaich in a more responsible way. i lost all hope. to me, i think the house, in particular, is just a math problem for them. they're guided by polls. it's not that different from the nixon era. the nixon era republicans turned against nixon because facts cam

they declined comment on chuck todd's notion. john, i heard david tonight suggest to the republicans at least look like rigor behind your solutions. pass a law protecting mueller. put forward a revolution saying mr. president stop waiving pardons around. you can look tough and sound tough but still be trump republicans. i heard you today at 4:00 say the only thing that will turn republicans against trump is the day after the midterm elections, if they lose those. >> that's right. i had various views about some of these people on the basis of some things paul ryan did during the campaign. i lost all hope. to me, i think the house, in particular, is just a math problem for them. they're guided by polls. it's not that different from the nixon era. the nixon era republicans turned against nixon because facts came out. then the public turned against nixon. they were a lagging indicator. it's the case now it may be worse, in that sense. >> they lost 40 seats. >> exactly. crucial. so at this point, they've been doing the math and every

here's what rudy giuliani told chuck todd moments ago, down playing the trump tower meeting but here'sist. >> this mcgahn thing leaked from them. if they had some kind of evidence that there was collusion or there was obstruction, don't you think it would have been leaked? they leak everything else. >> i mean, let's talk with collusion. the trump tower meeting itself is at least evidence of you better investigate. >> it's not -- >> how is it not? >> well, because the meeting was originally for the purpose of getting information about clinton. the meeting turned into a meeting -- >> which in itself is attempted collusion. you said it. the meeting was intended to get dirt on hillary clinton from a criminal lawyer. >> no, no. >> that was the intention of the meeting. you just said it. >> that was the original intention of the meeting. it turned out to be a meeting about another subject. it was not pursued at all. of course, any meeting with regard to getting information on your opponent is something any candidate's staff would take. if someone said, i have information about your opponent,

chuck todd is nbc's political director and moderator of "meet the press."et's start with don mcgahn. three interviews. >> yep. >> 30 hours worth the course of nine months with the special counsel's office. i'm reminded of the report in "the new york times" a few months ago back in april when mcgahn was reported to have threatened to quit if president trump didn't find a way to get rid of mueller and his special investigation. did mcgahn sit down with mueller to protect the president or himself as the piece suggests? it's not clear. here is what we do know, willie, makes this whole thing so fascinating. the president's first legal team that was led by john dowd and ty cobb, ty cobb, most viewers will remember had that terrific mustache that people remember and just trying to give a visual to remember who the previous legal team was. they took the president at his word. he did nothing wrong. full cooperation. don mcgahn was operating under that principle. now you have rudy giuliani leading an -- emmitt flood leading the cause here. flood believes in fighting

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news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. no ordinary august. we have a big show. john brennan and rudy giuliani. we are going to get to both of them in a moment. it was almost a half century ago we learned of president richard nixon's enemy list, people like daniel shore, congressman john conyers, even actor paul newman. it grew over time. then white house counsel john dean wrote in a white house memo that administration sought to use incumbency to deal with the opponents. stated, dean wrote this this white house memo before he turned, how we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political opponents. dean of course eventually testified against his president. the nixon watergate era list gained renewed relevance this year. he threatened to do more to the highest profile critics. yesterday we learned that president trump's white house counsel don mcgahn has been cooperating fully with robert mueller's investigation. that was, of course, the president's legal strategy at one time. not an

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maybe, maybe through their prejudices the "new york times" and chuck todd can figure out the truth that comey is telling the truth but i can't. i believe the president is telling the truth. >> martha: let me just bring this up because it goes to the same point in terms of whether or not the president, you know, don mcgahn the story obviously that everybody has read over the weekend about this 30 hours of testimony that he gave to the special counsel. now, one of the issues that they are apparently interested in is whether or not he, the president, sort of had an active back and forth over whether or not he should fire mueller in the summer. is discussing that with don mcgahn illegal? is asking his white house council advice -- >> -- let's just say again the president says we didn't discuss it. and don mcgahn says we did. it's not illegal to have discussed it, so there would be no reason for the president to lie. that's just his recollection. but if you have a prosecutor that's out to get you. and wants to select the truth in the way chuck todd thinks can you determine the truth. >> mart

i think the headline truth isn'r h, as soon as he said that, i thought chuck todd doe things well.t time kellyanne conway said alternative facts. i think the idea that truth isn't truth is going to go down as this white house's legal strategy and approximate president' preside -- and this president's legal strategy. >> let me go to the campaign thatashe made against mueller. the question is, he is going after the intel community. admiral mcrave he put up a tough statement. he goes i would consider it an honor if you would revoke my an security cle as well so i can add my name to the list of the men and women who have spokenin up a your presidency. you think your mccarthy erare tactics su the voices of criticism, you are mistaken. that's not good? >> admiral mcraven has been on myhow. gave t best commencement speech in history. he is a hero. bill webster is another man i admire. i still question the letter because it ignores a lot of the 2014 problems with john brennan. mark udall called for his resignation for spying on democratic staffers. dianne feinstein does not hold him in hig

brennan is a paid national security analyst for nbc, and he will join chuck todd for an interview this more asell as the attorney for the about, rudy guests.i will be >>> it's almost back to school time, you got to get your kids ready with a fresh fade. alexdre de paris is offering $20 hair cuts for children and collegestudents. college students you have to show yr school id and it's on a first come first served basis. d that salon is in citizen's park in fairfield. >> a lotrg of g mason students headed over there. >>> so ovi's stanley cup runneth over, he's now aroud papa. >> ovi announced the birth with an instagram post showing the baby's foot and then he went and jumped into the fountains. this is obviously some footage of hime after won the stanley cup. is he eating caviar out o the stanley cup there? i could watch him do this all day. just fantastic stuff. meantime the baby's name is sergei. sergei ovechkin. >>> the challenge of securing ftr schools took center stage of course several school shootings this year. now as kids get ready to start a new year, we'll show you how one sc

but also told chuck todd he's exploring his leg options. >> i have been contacted by a number of lawyers and they have given me their thoughts about the basis for a complaint, injunction to try to prevent him from doing this in the future. if my clearances and my reputation as i'm being pulled through the mud. if that's the price we are going to pay to prevent donal done frm doing this other people, it's a small price to pay. i will do what i can to try to prevent these abuses in the future. if it means going to court, i will do that. kennedy: the president saying i hope john brennan, the worst cia director in our country's history brings a lawsuit. it will be easy to get his records, texts, emails and documents to show not only the poor job he did, but how he was involved with the mueller rigged witch hunt. he won't sue. rudy giuliani doubling down. he tweeted, john brennan, president trump granted our request to handle your case after threatening if you don't it would be just like obama's rid lines. the former director of national intelligence, james clapper. >> john is like a freight

chuck todd, thank you as usual. chuck's exclusive interview with omarosa an "meet the press" sunday morning. >> it's a first name. just a first name. >> maybe cher is inour future, too or oprah. >> bono. >> there we go. >> he's making the rounds. find plan "b" even if youdo t ride the rail. >> doug is back to let us know >> is this weekend going to be washout? >> thanks for asking, wendy, by the way. perfectly done. no, not a washout everybody but be ready. if yom've got outdoor plans, um mrs. and a lot of concerts this weekend. montgomery county fair going on right now so watch oute if you outside. can't take the umbrella just in case but, again, not a itshout. on't be raining the entire time. evenhere right now doesn't look like our city. kind of a different vantage pot than what w see towards the bridge. out towards woodrow wilsonnd bridge points beyond. 89 degrees and winds out of the southwest at 89 miles per hour.a temperaturund the region at 84. huntingtown and eastern shore coming in at 90. love to be going t

chuck todd will moderate on. september 26 >>> no verdict in the trial of paul manafort. the jury end their second day of deliberations yesterday. they'll return on nday. manafort faces 18 crges of tax and banking fraud related to his time as a political consultant in ukraine. on thursday the jury asked t judge for clarification on reasonable doubt. wernave also l the names of jurors will not be released after the judge revealed that he is under protection from u.s. marshals after receiving threats. >>> we have the surveillance video showing a man breaking into a restaurt on georgia avenue northwest. it's video that we got from d.c police. you can see him throw a cement inblock into thew of the restaurant. the video picks up inside where the man is t seening bottles of liquor and a computer as well. if you recognize the suspect, please call police. >>> angie, your lunch is on me today. okay? >> ok. >> we'll double up on burritos. chipolte offering buyne get one free deal. >> do you know how big these things are? >> i know. this is a nationwide promotion geared toward stud

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but chuck todd promising big stuff. it undermines your credibility.resident an unindicted co-conspirator based on the outstanding word of michael i coulden. >> he's drinking the partisan kool-aid and he said republicans should be pursuing impeachment proceedings against president trump it's silly. david: another nbc story is ronan farrow and a producer who left nbc, it was the top brass trying to kill the harvey weinstein story. ronan farrow had to leave nbc to report on it and presented it to the "new yorker" magazine. >> the #metoo story is one of the biggest pieces of journalism done this year. any journalist would be proud to go after a villain like harvey weinstein. but nbc tried to kill this thing so many so that ronan farrow had to leave the network and go to the "new yorker" to publish it. they were stopping them from doing interviews. they weren't even allowed to do the interview with the sources they were looking to pursue. nbc reported to have threatened ronan that he wasn't able to take his reporting with him when he left nbc. this is bad

here's what he told my colleague chuck todd, listen >> when you tell me that he's going to testify to the truth, and that's silly because it's somebody's version of the truth, not the truth. >> truth is truth. >> no, truth isn't truth. >> former fbi director dpired back at giuliani's truth statement. writing on twitter truth exists and truth matters. truth has always been the touch stone of our country's justice system and political life. people who lie are held accountable. if we are untethered to truth, the truth based on the rule of all degenerates. >> petthanks all for being here. jef jeff, first to you, we learn some very interesting things about mcgahn, first of all that mcgahn allegedly referred to the president as king kong do to his outbursts. >> didn't mcgahn himself isn't commenting, but the white house press secondary put out a statement saying the president and don mcgahn have a great relationship and that the president values his expertise. and to be clear, don mcgahn has done a lot of work on policy issues that could become legacy issues for donald trump. he spearheaded

we'll tal to tom brokaw, chuck todd andistorian john meacham about senator mccain's legacy. but first let's begin with kelly o'donnell who is near his ranch in sena, arizona this morning where he passed away. kelly, you have covered senator mccain for many of his im campaigns, his on capitol hill. few reporters knew him like you did. talk about theou reactionng in today, kelly. >> reporter: good morning, kristen. the nator's passing came at 4:28 p. local time, surrounded by loved ones in a place that meant so much to him, his ranch near sedona, somewhere tranquil and a sanctuary for him. he w k a mannown for his straight talk and hisservice. sedona at dusk. a slow procession and police escort carried senator john mccain away from home one last time. a two-hour journey through the state he loved and represented for more than 30 years. signs of respect and appreciation along the way. and a crowd came to pay respes outside the phoenix funeral home. the most personal loss belongs to his family. seven children, five grandchildren. his mother roberta svives him at age 106. wife ci

chuck todd is nbc's political director and moderator of "meet the press."nother extraordinary day in the presidency of donald trump across the street from where he works. he is not there today but wheil be this demonstration. it comes one year after charlottesville when the president said, of course, there are fine people on both sides seem to put equivalency between the left and racist white. i know you'll tackle this on the show and what has the president learned 12 months on? >> oh, look. i think we are in a pretty divided place today. i mean, i think we are probably more racially polarized today than we were a year ago. as for the president, since charlottesville, think about the biggest fight he has picked since charlottesville. the anthem protesters with the nfl and african-american players kneeling there. so i don't think if the president is, quote, learned anything, i think in his mind he has seen this is an effective political strategy to keep his base, his base. i can tell you pretty much every other republican who has to be on a ballot in 2018 be

. >> joining us with more on the legacyf john mccain is chuck todd. we're taking a t look at senator's legacy this morning. and here, particularly in washington, it was extensive. >> when somebody's 81 years old d is fighting brain cancer and you think on one handhis is an expected moment and expected death. but yet the timing is something hard to deal with for, i think, one big reason, berause s a sense that we're in a horrible political moment right now, our institutions are under attack, there's so much partisanship, and it's like wait a minute, john mccain is the one man who might be able to fix this, build a bridge. we knew he might not comeck, now we know he's not coming back and you look at the other 99 senators who's going to say i'm going to put the democracy ahead of my own mission, i'm going to put democracy ahead of my own party. that's what it is because you put the democracy ahead of your own political interests. that seems to be in s shortply right now and i think that's why there is such an outpouring -- there would have been an outpou