nick mueller. [applause] dr. mueller: great to be with you all. i can move to the subject of my remarks. i appreciate that i am the only thing, as they say, between you and drinks. we will try to be brief and hopefully it will be interesting. i will tell you some stories about how this museum became involved in "saving private ryan" with steven spielberg and tom hanks became involved with us, and then a little bit about the film, especially from ambose's perspective and its early version. as you know, we began as a d-day museum. from our earliest incarnation, we were sort of hooked at the hip with saving private ryan in 1998 when i first became chairman and ceo. i was on the board since stephen ambrose and i became to envision what a small museum of $1 million to $4 million might look like. eight years later, after repeated failures to get open and raise money, steve says you have to help finish this off. the university gratefully gave me a couple of years three-quarter time devoted to the museum and that is what happened at the same moment of sav

up next on american history tv, normal national world war ii museum president nick mueller talks about rtd connectithe conm and steven ambrose, a consultant on "saving private ryan" mr. mueller talks about the reaction of historians and military leaders to the film and its legacy today. this 35-minute event was part of a symposium held at the national world war ii museum to mark the 20th anniversary of the film's release. >> okay, welcome back, everybody for our final session of the day. last and certainly not least, early this morning we mentioned that yesterday was the 74th anniversary of d-day, a slightly less known birthday is the fact that it was also the 18th birthday of the national world war ii museum or d-day museum. originally opened in june of 2000. we have a designation as the national world war ii museum and just beginning to grow. everything we see we're surrounded by, all of this wonderful construction that continues, it's really a testament of honor, respect and admiration that we all have here for the men and women who served and lived through the world war ii years. m

up next on american history tv, former national world war ii museum president nick mueller talks about the museum's connection to the film and shares stories about historian stephen ambrose, a consultant on ," and theivate ryan museum's early founder. mr. mueller also talks about the reaction of historians and military leaders to the film and its legacy today. this 35-minute event was part of a symposium held at the national world war ii museum to mark the 20th anniversary of the film's release. >> welcome back everybody for

nick mueller who will talk about what the film has met to the country, this museum and the overall lasting legacy still being felt today. also encourage you to keep your eyes out for another thing that will be coming out in the next year. which is nick is hard at work on a great book about the d-day landings from the perspective of our oral history collection. it's really a gang busters book. i've been lucky enough to see early chapters really powerful. in addition to this, we know that you the audience will continue as you are be a great part of the conversation and drive the discussions in good ways with your great questions and comments. onto the programs now, i don't want to drone on addressing these people. all of these speakers have amazing resumes and we could waste half of the day talking about accomplishments, instead i would encourage you to look at your programs and then again they are here with you throughout the day, engage our speakers, they are ready for it and looking forward to talking with you. our first speaker dr. marsha gord gordon, north carolina state is the author o

nick mueller. they will talk about with the film and the country, the overall lasting legacy still being felt today. i encourage you to keep your eyes open for another thing that will be coming out in the next year, which nick is hard at work on -- a great book about the d-day landings from the perspective of our oral history collection. it is a gangbusters book. i have seen some early chapters and it's really powerful. in addition to this, we know that the audience will continue to be a great part of this conversation. you will drive discussions with your great questions and comments. onto the programs now. i don't want to drone on addressing these people. all the speakers have amazing resumes and we can waste half the day talking about their accomplishments. i would encourage you to look at your programs you received if you're interested in the full biographies. again, they are here throughout the day. engage our speakers. they are looking forward to talking to you. our first speaker, dr. marsha

up next on american history tv, normal national world war ii museum president nick mueller talks about rtd connectithe conm and steven ambrose, a consultant on "saving private ryan" mr. mueller talks about the reaction of historians and military leaders to the film and its legacy toda

nick. in the end mueller has what mueller has and we are probably seeing the top centimeter of that iceberg. so what do you make of this whole mcgahn talked to mueller for 30 hours? >> i think that's quite amazing. because we don't know what was said. it sounds like trump's lawyers don't know what was said. and i know the press has been playing this up as part of what mcgahn knows about the obstruction of justice. you know, which is true with respect to the firing of comey, what happened with flynn. but i think what everyone is missing here is that also mcgahn was privy to statements by trump that relate to the underlying crimes. >> correct, right. >> so that to me is probably the most significant part of this, because once mueller has what trump said to mcgahn and then is able to juxtapose that and compare it to all the other evidence that he's developed, we don't know where that's going and it doesn't sound like it could be going very well for the president. >> elliott, a lot of things we don't understand. don mcgahn is the white house attorney and he has said before that his job is to pr

but all of this, i would think, would be of interest to the mueller probe. >> nick akerman, always onhe case for us. thank you very much. up ahead, donald trump's under legal and political pressure in tonight's race in ohio. democrats say they may have an upset. i've got eugene robinson here when we're back in just 30 seconds. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than mail they're handing us their business and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you ♪ >>> the other top story tonight, donald trump's presidency increasingly looks like it is in crisis. there's the crushing legal pressure, but there's also political head winds going into the midterms. on the law it's rudy giuliani trying to buy more time, bob mueller pressing for more on that interview. and real reluctance, doesn't sound confident from giuliani. then the political side we are right now just an hour or so away from polls closing in the oh

nick, your view? >> my view is that michael cohen is cooperating with mueller and he's cooperating with the southern district. the plea that he entered into, that plea agreement was exactly the same plea agreement that i did with a client about a summer ago where there was also contemporaneous cooperation agreement that was put under seal at the same time in the judge's chambers. i think the same thing is going on here. there's no way that cohen would take a six-year exposure that the entire allocution in the plea agreement would be tailored the way it was unless it was being orchestrated by the mueller team. on top of all that, you also had this odd situation in the last day where lanny davis came out and said i really can't tell you whether or not mueller -- that my client knows anything about the russian investigation. i can tell you exactly what happened there. he went over his bounds. he started talking too much about what it was his client does know about the trump tower meeting and other aspects of the russian investigation. and the mueller team came down on him like a ton of bricks and told him that

trump wants to get in front of mueller so he can convince mueller that mueller's probe is a "witch hunt." that joining me is nick. that guy must be a prosecutor's dream. he loves to talk, believes his own story, he made a video joking about the russia dossier. i can imagine why mueller wants to talk to him. >> one of the things i learned as a prosecutor is it is remarkable how little many witnesses understand about whether what they've done is right or wrong. and i don't mean that in the sort of larger esoteric idea, when he says that meeting is nothing, he has no idea whether that meeting is actually nothing or whether it means something. he doesn't understand the u.s. intricacies of u.s. campaign finance laws, and how these things are put together. what mueller wants to talk about is what were the conversations that preceded that meeting, what did you promise, what did you understand was going to be promised to rob goldstone who was the intermediary, what was your relationship with don jr., did you have other conversations? and he doesn't even know whether his answers are relevant or not. but he could be a ver

superseding indictments since then and a loss would be problem mat nick the court of public opinion about this investigation. i know we all say mueller is above that and not paying attention. everybody pays attention to that. >> i don't know that we fully explored the political implications of what it would mean if there's an acquittal in this first case. i can imagine rudy giuliani coming out with all kinds of statements immediately and why wouldn't he? and president trump. i could imagine there will be some suggesting president trump maybe should pardon paul manafort before the next trial. >> or that president trump should shut down the mueller probe because look at what happened here. it's something people should be prepared for. i was taken aback by that question coming yesterday and i have covered courts but i know jurors like to wait until friday before they make a decision on snoig the fact that it was a thursday shouldn't be completely lost. >> all of this as we learned in a court filing that for this next trial for paul manafort there are three times the amount of evidence. a thousand pieces of evidence. they are different t

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nick manafort 18-0. instead it was 8-10. but in your view, arianna, does that change or maintain mueller's stance in this case? is a win a win? >> undoubtedly this was a win for the government. whether it's eight counts that he was quitted on or 18 counts. paul manafort was found guilty of all three categories of crimes from the indictment. that's a win for the government. >> i should also end this conversation with something of coda from "the wall street journal" tonight. they're reporting that michael cohen is the son of a holocaust survivor named maurice, who is quoted as saying, i did not survive the holocaust for the cohen family name to be sullied. the point of the article is that michael cohen was influenced by his father to fight these charges. cynthia, ariana, thank you so much. >>> coming up for us, as we approach our next break, back in october of 2016, some trump supporters were calling the upcoming election a referendum on government corruption. safe to say it's not working out quite the way they have planned or predicted when we come back. i'm april kennedy and i'm an arborist with pg&e in the si

nick watt reporting. coming up, breaking news. president trump makes a truly stunning call for the attorney general jeff sessions to stop the muellerite house says it's just an opinion. but could it be obstruction of justice? ♪now i'm gonna tell my momma ♪that i'm a traveller ♪i'm gonna follow the sun♪ ♪now i'm gonna tell my momma ♪that i'm a traveller transitions™ light under control™ let someone else do the heavy lifting. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. so you barely have to lift a finger. or a wing. tripadvisor. >>> happening now, breaking news. tweeting obstruction? president trump sends a very clear message to the attorney general that he should stop the russia probe right now. will the special counsel buy the trump team's defense that the president wasn't actually telling jeff sessions what to do? >>> downward spiral. even by mr. trump's standards his latest twitter tirade is over the top as he rails against robert mueller and complains that his former campaign chairman is being treated like a mobster. is paul manafort's trial the trigger? >>> reduci

attorney and jo.s us n nick, this is probably a political question but a lot of pressure because this is the first prosecution of the mueller team. 18 counts and only guilty on 8. how does that weigh into whether fey proceed forward and troy again? st of all, the premise of your question that only convicted on 8th fact of the matter is this is a huge deal. it doesn'tfe make any dnce if he's convicted on 3, 8 or 18. the fact of the matter is he would never get any more time than he's going to get eight counts. he's been convicted of bank fraud which is a 30-year felony. he's been convicted on a series of tax fraud counts. this is a big deal. no question about it. th has not happened since satergate where a presiden campaign manager has been convicted ofyelonies. ay you cut it, this is a major victory for the team. er >> all right. daniel, thanks for that assessment h.let's go back to peteilliams right nowho is at the courthouse and was reading it as the verdicts were oming in. what happensnow, pete? >> well, for the next step now, the government will ask tdg and the jury to let them take some money, ill-gotten gains to use t

black jar of caviar, we do not know, mueller is looking into this, but we have seen that the special counsel said rick gates told an associate that constantine clem nickpon a time. the gr you just got indicted for packing hillary clinton's emails, so as you start to follow the web, he could be pretty central to any collusion investigation. >> dana: if there was one, but the trial is different from tha that. i want to ask you about this, west virginia voters will become the first to vote in november, votes, i guess they call it votes. i got it, cool. available only to the members in eligible dependents, a photo of a self you style video of face, then verified by facial recognition software, the technology was tested by the rock and roll hall of fame. are we to have a lot of confidence in the integrity of that effort and it would not be hacked? >> experts say no, one of the experts about voter security at the university of michigan said it looks like snake oil, one of the things that makes it secure is it is recorded on blockchain, technology that records bitcoin transactions, but it does not mean that to your app and your phone is secure. so a lot of e

for mueller to nail manafort would prove that manafort is a criminal but not necessarily a criminal that he was originally tasked with finding. >> jonathan, this is nicki think you can make the case that absent the trump scandal, that this trial would be the most important lobbying corruption trial since jack has laid bare, a world of corruption, influenced bedling and yet i wonder if he is convicted, how does it advance the investigation into president trump or the white house and presumed convictions to russia? >> i don't think it does unless paul manafort flips and brings in some new information. it did peel away part of this world in d.c. i remember us talking over a year ago and saying that people are going to be shocked to the degree in which people on in thf these ukrainian, russian and other foreign interests. it's a cottage industry in this town and most that people are not aware of. it's part of the currency of washington, d.c. i'm not sure how long lasting it will be. in terms of putting trump in a materially worst position it won't unless manafort decides he'll bring something to the table, some real deliverables and get a deal from muelle

nick akerman. but first, papadopoulos's wife has revealed he's considering backing out of the cooperation deal, all this as rudy jewel -- cooperating with robert muellerou very much for being here. let me begin with -- >> thank you for inviting. >> let me begin with this possibility that your husband, george, is going to break his cooperation deal with the special counselor. can you give us any update as to where that decision stands? >> as i mentioned many times there are, first of all, george at this time cooperated for more than one year. he's -- the recommendation from the special counsel presents some discrepancies. and there are many events that came out, and changed the assessment and the context of these alleged lies he pled guilty to. we know today that -- likely to have played no role whatsoever in this interference with american actions. we. >>> provide i'm sorry to interrupt. i want to be clear to understand. tell us s there a decision? has he made a decision? has george made the decision. >> no. the decision hasn't been made. i was trying to lie the grounds of the fact that george is challenging the guilty plea and why i was the one sugge

nick, that came out a few months ago. i think it's worth bringing up again. this is the president asking don mcgahn to fire mueller and then when "the new york times" found out about it, he told mcgahn to deny it and mcgahn had to say this. in one episode the president told me the white house counsel don mcgahn should issue a statement denying the firing in january. he told investigators the president once asked him to fire the special counsel robert mueller. mr. mcgahn never released the statement and later had to remind the president that he had indeed asked mr. mcgahn to see that mr. mueller was dismissed, the people said. >> look, this is a president who is incapable of keeping a story straight for more than a day. he changes his story and changes his motivations and actions all the time. i think more broadly, just look at the tool kit with which donald trump constructed success in business and politics. he used payoffs. he used fixers. he used ndas, secrecy, right? these are all the tools he used. they are all crumbling around him. he can't enforce the ndas. his lawyers and fixers are testifying or cooperatin

mueller in terms of that security clearance. >> kelly o., thank you. we'll look forward to seeing you again. joining me now, beth fouhy and jo nick john nichols. beth, your reaction to the latest back and forth. >> wow. well, one could never really imagine this in another presidency that the president of the united states would be going after a former cia director in a tweet as he did as you were discussing with kelly calling him a partisan hack who can't be trusted with our secrets. i mean we're in un3res departme unprecedented territory here. but for the president this is very personal. he claims that he doesn't watch anything other than fox new, but he obviously watched rachel maddow's interview with john brennan last night and that has to get him actual stimmed up again. he decided to take he revenge and what better way to do that than for a guy who is a spy master to take away that power, the thing that has given him the juice in his chosen profglgs pr. but john brennan is not taking it sitting down and he will continue with his challenge. >> and is there any national security justification for the revocations of these skurcurrend former

nick is telling me i got to go. thank you. >>> coming up next hour, president trump appearing to lose three confidants if the span of a week. what does it mean for muellerout the friends and associates causing some to compare him to mafia boss. ♪ [ coughs ] ♪ ♪ [ screams ] ♪ [ laughs ] ♪ whoa, whoa, whoa. your one item would be the name your price tool? it helps people save on car insurance. why wouldn't it save me? why? what would you bring? a boat. huh. >>> it's called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal. >> if you're a rat, then biggest [ bleep ] in america. >> i know everything about flipping, everything's wonderful and they get 10 years in jail, and flip on the next highest one is, or as high as you can go. >> always keep your mouth shut. >> the president is using vocabulary on mafia movies. joining me now, mark land letter, author of that article. it is a great article, talk about the message the president is sending with his particular choice of words. >> well, it's almost as if he's narrating his own mob movie. you saw in that interview with fox where he gave that knowing definition of what flipping is, and how he's known about flippers f

nick? >> james one of the uncomfortable exchanges and there are many during the past several days but some of it is entertaining. there is one point where judge ellis thinks that one of the lawyers for mueller is not looking at him. and so the judge says, i'm here mr. andres, like i'm here from the ben of, andres says i'm sorry, judge i'm listening. ellis says i know but when you look down it's as if to say you know that's bs i don't want to listen to any more from you. andres says judge you are the continue to interpret our reactions in some way. we don't do that to you and we're not being disrespectful in any way. ellis says alright, then look at me. and he kind of -- i mean he kind of apologized, i guess was it yesterday, saying you know well things get kind of out of hand. but what do you make of all of this? it's kind of normal back and forth? when i was pressing cases i would not have taken the judge to task for reprimanding, not in the way they did. but they kind of feel like they have a head of steam against the judge. >> well they've had a tough go at it. he's been very intrusive, very opinionated. it's starting to sound like he's going to send greg to bed with no dinner at this po

see mueller's team shuffling to figure out which of their counts, which of their evidence they can sure up without needing gates. >> right. so, seth, when you think about this from the perspective nick gave us, the real prize is going to be russia, not the payoff to stormy daniels or karen mcdougal. does the prosecution in manafort -- do they get -- do they tie him to it in the second trial? are they able to do that? because it's still conspiracy to defraud the united states trial. >> yeah, i think it's going to be similar to the one we saw in alexandria. russia will be in the background. conspiracies don't just drop out of the sky in spring of 2016. there is a back story to all conspiracies. so manafort's interactions with the russians to the extent there were foreign accounts related in the d.c. trial in the fall, there will be some discussion about that, but i think very similar to the alexandria trial, it will be kind of a straightforward white collar criminal prosecution that will be document based, maybe a cooperate error two sprinkled in here or there. the question is whether that case is going to take place, is mr. manafort going to walk in and say, right now i'm facing ten

mueller will twist his head into circles that he's such a liar. there would be a problem if the editor of the "new york times" called me up and said we can't let nick him tell the truth. every time giuliani and his lawyers say he's just too stupid or he's not smart enough, they come on and say, you know what? we can't let him on there because he'll perger himself. >> a sit down with a special counsel is no joke and even an innocent person would go into that with some fear and trepidation. if he can learn to tell the truth for two hours, he can get through it without being in perjury. >> this isn't a clear obstruction of justice. you have a lot of construction here. we need to call it out. >> he sets these arbitrary deadlines and he keeps moving the goal posts trying to outrage republicans or others. it's been effective. the polling on mueller's probe has dropped in recent months. they're the ones who are dragging this on. that's part of this argument here is they're saying this is too long, it's a waste of time, it's a distraction, it's slowing on the president's agenda. >> mueller may push pause here. he doesn't have to wrap it up before september