court that they're now investigating whether president trump lied to special counsel robert mueller?kate, of course, it's a crime to lie to federal prosecutors in the course of a federal proceeding. that's perjury. it was also the basis for the gop-controlled house's impeachment of bill clinton for lying under oath, for committing perjury. and it's obviously something e - that we take seriously. we take seriously the integrity of this entire process, which is why we've been frustrated by the white house's continuing attempts to blockade witnesses and to intimidate witnesses and to prevent us from getting all of the evidence to which the constitution entitles us. >> but congressman, how does this -- could this fit into the question of impeachment that we're looking at right now? >> well, obstruction of justice has been an independent article of impeachment in every modern impeachment case. so, essentially, there are underlying offenses. and then there is the obstruction of the process itself, which becomes an independent offense. in other words, say the president is found guilty or is

you talk to people in law enforcement who look at the way robert mueller handled this investigation. nt, they say you follow the facts wherever they lead. it appears now mueller was treating the president with kid gloves. now we know why. had the president been forced to sit before agents and the fbi, he would have been caught up in potential falsehoods and possibly lies because it's a pe ppears that it might not have been true. >> so the wherein question to president trump went like this. are you aware of any communications during the campaign, directly or indirectly, between roger stone, don junior, paul manafort, rick gates and, a, wikileaks, b, julian assange, -- here's the president's written response. i recall in the months leading up to the election, there was considerable media reporting about the possible hacking and release of campaign-related information, but at this point in time, more than two years later, i have no recollection of any particular conversation, when it occurred, or who the participants were. and as it came out yesterday, josh, in court, rick gates remember

we saw it with robert mueller. in this instance that's not available to congress.ongress as i said has to wear two hats. they have to develop the facts and do that publicly in a political setting just means a lot of rhetoric. it doesn't necessarily get to the facts themselves. and they are going to have to make the political judgment. i don't agree with judge starr that this process is a sham. i don't know how else it is feasible to have it unfold under what's clearly authorized in the constitution and that is impeachment. host: one other point, we saw house republicans storm into these closed door sessions. who is in these hearings? are republicans allowed to be in the hearings? can they ask questions? how does that process work? guest: the people from both sides of the aisle on the particular committee, so the house intelligence committee, they can be in those closed door hearings and ask questions. host: standard procedure in the house. guest: yes. both sides of the political spectrum were able to be in there. my understanding not all republicans who had access

about the e-mails in his testimony he provided to robert mueller. think that reinforces exactly why the president's attorneys have no appetite for him to personally testify at the impeachment inquiry. you recall at the time there were negotiations between the president and mueller about whether he would testify in the investigation, rudy guilliani said they did not want to be part of what would be a perjury trap. you had his personal attorney admit from their vantage point they could not trust their client, president trump, to tell the truth. i think one of the challenges for the president if he is weighing whether to testify in written form, the white house has blocked several trump aides from testifying, people directly involved in conversations with the president. if the president himself were willing to answer questions about ukraine, there's no rationale to keep them from testifying about the president. >> secretary of state mike pompeo had a chance to defend some of the state department officials today. listen to this. >> can you explain why yo

a trump campaign official under oath contradicting trump's answer to robert mueller about what he knew about stolen russian dirt. >>> and is it all just a joke to russia? today moscow saying, don't worry, we got this when asked about russia's plans for the u.s. election. >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead. 18 hours from now the first public televised hearings into the impeachment inquiry and the ukraine scandal, tomorrow we'll hear from two trump administration officials, bill taylor who repeatedly described in dpooe tail what he clearly saw as a quid pro quo saying he was told, quote, president trump wants ukraine president zelensky to state publicly that ukraine will investigate burisma, the company that hunter biden once worked for, and alleged ukraine interference in the 2016 u.s. election. and plus george kent who testified, quote, trump wanted nothing less than president zelensky to go to a microphone and say investigations, biden and clinton. democrats today laying out the process for the hearings they hope will convince even more of the

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the call to the ukrainian president, the famous july phone call happened within 24 hours of robert mueller finishing his testimony on the hill. the general view on the hill was it was not as much as expected.

and we need to remember, this is preceded by a very extensive report and investigation by robert muellerblic hearings with respect to robert mueller, including his own testimony as well as other public hearings related to these issues. it's not like this is being done on, you know, the cheap and dirty. this is a two-year process that's being culminated in the articles of impeachment the judiciary will draw -- >> that's interesting, you just talked about the mueller investigation. will that be part of the articles of impeachment? >> i certainly hope so. i don't believe we can proceed without addressing obstruction of justice, which was very carefully documented and described by robert mueller in his report. >> so are other members of the leadership -- are the democratic leadership, in total, are they on board with the notion of not limiting it to ukraine but expanding it to also include robert mueller's report? >> i don't know that. i think that will be part of our deliberative process. they're not wrong in putting a pre eminence on ukraine because that narrative is quite understandable a

a was trashed and i also know you work closely with robert mueller who came close to getting fired but was definitely trashed. [laughter] so my question is are you the problem with x. [laughter] [applause] are they all going to be like this? i figured we would start to slow. at the beginning, tell the folks how you ended up in the fbi. >> thanks everyone for being here. my first time doing this and i'm glad you were a part of it and it's even more special that it's happening before the actual release so thanks for coming out and for your support. to the question inside the fbi, my career started in earnest september 11, 2001 and i was a college freshman at the university of texas at austin. i had been just over a week into my college career when the attacks have been inducted that point, i thought i was going into the service. that was my goal at the point was to work in foreign policy to serve as a diplomat at the state department. but watching that incident occur ooccurred on that day like so many of us it can feel very diplomatic of that moment and i write about that in the book a l

robert mueller didn't really push it.he gates testimony is that the campaign talked about the wikileaks conversation at length. did the president not know about that either? we won't know. jim baker, thank you so much for that. really. >> thanks, john. >>> up next we have an interesting profile. a closer look at democrat adam schiff's journey into the spotlight. and the cult classic movie he knows beginning to end. that life of the party look walk it off look one more mile look reply all look own your look... ...with fewer lines. there's only one botox® cosmetic. it's the only one... ...fda approved... ...to temporarily make frown lines... ...crow's feet... ...and forehead lines... ...look better. the effects of botox® cosmetic, may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness may be a sign of a life-threatening condition. do not receive botox® cosmetic if you have a skin infection. side effects

one is why didn't robert mueller try harder to interview donald trump? he didn't remember ever talking to roger stone in the six months before the election. and stone told "the washington post" that he'd talked to trump quite frequently but he never discussed wikileaks and the e-mails. which is incredibly hard to believe given the amount that t, his enlistment of jerome corsi and other things that he did, would be embarrassing and bad for donald trump. and so he lied to congress according to prosecutors and now he's on trial and he's looking at several years in prison if convicted. >> it is going to be fascinating to see what the defense has in this case. and you will come back to us with that when they start presenting it. ken dilanian, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> thanks, lawrence. you bet. >> and when we come back, we will go back to presidential candidate senator amy klobuchar in new hampshire. we will establish a connection one way or the other. and we'll talk about what kentucky voters did last night when the

. >>> underway right now, did the president of the united states lie to special counsel robert mueller? the house now investigating after a new revelation. >>> will he plead the fifth? will he tell all? a key official at the center of the impeachment investigation is one of eight witnesses set to testify publicly this week. >>> and the president attacking another witness before she testifies, as her boss, the vice president, pretends she doesn't work for him. >>> plus the mystery deepens into the president's unannounced visit to the hospital. the white house is trying to spin it as a routine physical, but there are many signs it was not. >>> but we start with breaking news and a new investigation for president trump. the house now wants to know if the president lied when he provided written testimony to special counsel robert mueller's team. we have pamela brown with us. she's here with her reporting. and elliott williams has the legal angle on this. pamela, some people would say, what? robert miller is so this summer. what's going on, what's this about and why now? >> there was a cour

they are launching another investigation into whether the president lied to robert mueller.ut, so they are trying to get creative. but it's the same old thing. they are like a bunch of has-been executives that keep trying to institute the same old game plan to reinvigorate its business. it's like

he's also a leading member of special counsel robert mueller's team. mr.onor to meet you. thank you for being here. >> honor to meet you. >> i have been sort of watching the impeachment proceedings with one eye on the courts because it seems to me like the frum. and parnas indictments and what is reported to be an ongoing criminal investigation of mr. giuliani alongside them, those appear to be sort of parallel and potentially abutting cases to what we're seeing on capitol hill. do you see it that way as well? >> what you just covered with the peter carr announcement and brian benczkowski and the fraud-s very unusual because what it signals is there clearly is an investigation into rudy giuliani. because normally just because a lawyer has clients who get indicted doesn't mean that you say oh, i'm not going to meet with the lawyer anymore -- >> presumably most of the lawyers you meet with have clients who have been indicted. >> absolutely. all of them do. so it's a very, very unusual announcement. it tells you -- in fact, we now know there is an investigati

you know, at one point roger stone was seen as the potential linchpin in robert mueller's efforts to establish a conspiracy between the trump campaign and the russian election interference effort through wikileaks. as we know, robert mueller never ended up making that case but he did arrest and charge roger stone for misleading statements. what we already know from the evidence in this trial is it will show how keen the trump campaign, stone, and others were to get their hands on those emails, to figure out what wikileaks had and what they were going to dump the damaging material for democrats even though it was an open secret that those emails had been hacked by the russians, had essentially come from a foreign power. that's going to be front and center in this trial. jury selection is under way, it got delayed a little bit because of a medical emergency, one of the observers to the trial had to be attended to. one potential juror said she had a negative impression of president trump, nonetheless the judge dismissed objections by the defense and allowed those jurors to go forward. j

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>>> bracing news tonight, the robert mueller memos just released that show just how early the president was concern with the ukraine connection to democrats. and new reporting today that some republicans are ready to admit the president did ask for a quid pro quo. >>> the battle raging to contain multiple wildfires across california, now a new challenge. >> data confirmed drone siting. holding the aircraft down. >> unauthorized drones endangering fire crews. >>> the high schoolers hit, teenager arrested for allegedly trying to take out a faculty member. >> this is a quote. i need a guy who can kill someone. >> by hiring a hitman on instagram. >>> jane fonda jailed, the oscar winning actress locked up overnight arrested for protesting climate change. she says this arrest won't be her last. >>> and true grit, the marine who went viral crawling to complete a marathon making another run this weekend. what he says will carry him across the finish line. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with jose diaz-balart. >>> good evening we begin with breaking news that could help explain now ukra

last week the house is investigating whether or not the president lied -- lied in his answers to robert mueller. do you believe the president lied to mueller and, if so, will democrats include that in the articles of impeachment. >> yes, i do believe he lied and so did bob mueller. bob mueller in his testimony to one of the members of congress said that the president generally was not truthful. now it is becoming increasingly clear that the president had knowledge about these wikileaks. there is evidence suggesting that he actually engaged in conversations about the timing of those wikileaks. so this is something that should be included in the articles of impeachment. the president misleading the congress in not being honest is an impeachable offense. >> let me read to you a statement that the speaker nancy pelosi released today in a letter to democratic colleagues. she said among other things, she said this, the facts are uncontested that the president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our national security interest. do you agree with her? >> i do. and w

robert mueller, bless his heart, a good man fuels the fire by the way he approached his job, and by the way he approaches court writing responsibilities. we are living in impeachment land. we need to get this in the rearview mirror of this country. as everyone is thoughtfully saying, my word, if you're disagreeing with the president style, unless there is some sort of truly corrupt bargain, ukraine, unless you do this, right? and it's really corrupt. and people -- i need you to give me a tax break on the -- we could all understand that. wait a second. that's abusing the power of your office. the argument now, is, you are using for political gains. the transcript lens itself to an unflattering interpretation, but also lens itself to an interpretation of, i'm really serious about anticorruption. and by the way, here is the joe biden situation. but he does not say anything beyond "do me a favor." right? >> neil: i'm sorry to jump in, my friends. thank you very, very much for weighing in on all of this. it does not seem to move the needle a lot one way or the other on both sides. we will se

there is evidence that was b presented to robert mueller.uestion robert mueller directly on the charges of witness intimidation and tampering. these things that we are seeing inai u are part of a pattern. a continual pattern of the president acting in a certain way. witness intidation, lying, obstruction of justice, these are all patterns. amna: by saying everything is on the table, do youry w it plays into the accusation that this is a witchhunt? rep. jayapal: no. when i say everything is on the e haven'tm saying w prejudged any outcomes. the facts and the truth, i that what these witnesses have been about. we are waiting to get the information from the committees. but i just have to tell you that -- and think the ultimate articles, should there be any, will be narrow and targeted. we understand that this is about the constituti. it is not about whether we like the president's policies. it is about the constitution. and whether he has betrayed the constitution. that is what we will be focusing on. amna: you pmised due process. you've said t

mr mcgahn famously told robert mueller that he had been told by the president in a late—night telephone get onto thejustice department and sack mueller himself, the special counsel, and when that story became public, the president had called on him to hold a press conference and deny there was any truth to it. what this could all do now is lead to renewed calls from the democrats for other former senior trump administration officials to be brought before congress to testify, not least of them of course the former national security adviserjohn bolton. but that said, this ruling by this federal court in washington, dc is expected to be appealed by the white house. the us navy secretary who was fired after falling out with donald trump over the handling of a misconduct case, has told american cbs news that the move risked discipline in the military. richard spencer sparked tensions with the president, after he demoted a navy seal who was pictured posing over the corpse of an i—s prisoner. here he is speaking to cbs reporter david martin. what were the ramifications of intervening in that r

the verdict marks the conclusion of one of robert mueller's highest profile prosecutions. raid at his florida home in january. as mueller's team was winding down its investigation. the trial revealed new details that had been redacted from the mueller report, like how eager the trump campaign was to get dirt from wiky leaks in 2016. >> wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> reporter: and a number of phone calls between stone and trump at a time when stone was claiming he had direct contact with wikileaks founder, julian assange. >> i actually have communicated with assange. >> reporter: a claim stone now denies. on one call in july, 2016, trump and stone apparently spoke about the upcoming release of hacked democratic emails. according to testimony from former trump campaign official rick gates earlier this week. trump, though, told mueller's team i do not recall discussing wikileaks with him. president trump, who has weighed whether to pardon stone in recent months, slammed the verdict, tweeting so they now convict roger stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come

keep in mind the president repeatedly toyed with giving testimony in the robert mueller investigationded only written answers, so don't hold your breath. but the key allies in congress are shifting their focus some, saying, you can't put this on the president, it just won't fly anymore. this from people who work directly with the president. so from republicans, here's the latest. >> the ukranians did nothing as far as investigations go to get the aid released. there was never this quid pro quo that the democrats all promised existed. >> the president's defense is those things never happened. the bottom line is ukraine got the money. >> those things didn't happen. they got the aid in the end, they didn't announce the investigations in the end, so never mind what happened in the weeks and months pressuring them to do that. that's the new republican strategy? >> that is. and we've seen democrats already try to rebut it with the witnesses last week, making the point that even an attempted crime like extortion is still a crime. and they point out the timeline. the aid was released on septe

according to an indictment from special council robert mueller stone effectively acted as a liaison. nformed senior trump exam pai pai ination and in his written responses to mueller trump claimed he had no memory of ever talking to roger stone about wikileaks. quote, i spoke to roger stone from time to time during the campaign. i do not recall discussing wikileaks with him. today brought some amazing testimony from trump's own deputy campaign manager rick gates who told a very different story than the one trump told in his written testimony. joining me now is dan freedman who was covering stone's trial and was in the courtroom today. his news piece was headlined stone trial reveals trump likely lied to mueller. it was sort of the big jaw drop moment. what happened? he was of course a senior advisor to the trump campaign, a senior aide. he said on july 31st he was in a car with trump and heard trump on the phone and when trump got off that phone call he had wikileaks which had just released a bunch of national e-mails trump told him there'd be more information. of course that means tr

be coming, but that alleged phone call with stone contradicts what trump told special counsel robert mueller in his written responses. cnn contributor garrett graf is with me. since you were so in the weeds on all things mueller i wanted to talk to you. walk us through what trump said in the written responses to mueller compared to what we heard from rick gates today? >> yeah. the trump response, this is part of the evidence that came out as part of the mueller report. they released the questions in writing that donald trump had submitted to the special counsel, and the, he said at the time that he had no recollection of the specifics of his conversations with roger stone, and that he did not recall talking about wikileaks and he did not recall any -- any early sign that wikileaks dumps were coming. now, of course, you know, in sort of legal terms those are what bob mueller would call weasel words. that they left just enough room that they do not directly contradict what mueller -- sorry -- what roger stone's trial told us where rick gates said that he was aware of a conversation where roger

the case against stone stems from robert mueller's russia investigation.eatedly lied under oath about what he knew to save the trump campaign from embarrassment, stone pleaded not guilty to all charges. his defense said he did nothing deliberately illegal. he faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. let's bring in defense attorney who has dealt with cases about the witness tampering and making false statements, some of them in this same federal court. thank you for being here. prosecutors kind of methodical laying out this case, but it didn't take long. >> it wasn't long because it wasn't complex, it's a pretty simple case, it was tried in a very narrow manner and as it turned out, roger stone's biggest problem in the case in terms of the evidence was roger stone because his own words were used against him and his own texts were used against him, the very documents he told the congressional committee that he didn't have, he did. the very things he said he didn't do, witnesses came and including senior officials from the trump campaign and said he was "

among other things was a key member of the special counsel's team among prosecutors working for robert mueller. that is still to come tonight. this new news we're learning tonight is that the leverage part of this scandal, the part where president trump didn't just demand that ukraine help him with these investigations, he leveraged u.s. policy toward ukraine to try and force them to do it, he put a hold on ukraine's crucial military aid from the united states government while he was trying to pressure them into doing these investigations for him. that part of the scandal, the leverage part of the scandal, the withholding military aid from ukraine part of the scandal we are learning tonight for the first time that apparently caused two different officials in the office of management and budget, two different people who were involved in that process of trump holding up that military aid, it caused them to quit their jobs rather than be part of this, apparently. the news comes from this deposition which was just released tonight from the impeachment committees since the testimony of mark sandy w

and the next thing we see robert mueller before the radical dimms and he barely seemed to be able torticulate his findings or any knowledge of really what he was talking about. he was a disaster. >> i think much of what you are likely to hear before the judiciary committee will be process arguments about the fact the administration for various reasons has asserted privilege. and the administration in their view has stonewalled the investigation. but that's not really an argument that carries much water. it's not an argument that was particularly persuasive even during the nixon impeachment proceedings. the american people i think have baked that into the equation to say this is political. >> do you know any attorneys who think what the judiciary and intel committee has done to this point has moved the needle and had any influence on the american people other than the polls we see with the american people supporting the president and opposing impeachment. >> 81% of democrats are fixed in favor of impeachment. 81% are again. the whole point of impeachment from the time of alexander ham

now, there is evidence that was presented to us by robert mueller. in fact, i questioned robert mueller directly on the charges within the mueller report of wiess intimidation and winess tampering. let's not forget that these things that we're seeinin raine are part of a pattern, continual pattern of the presidenacting in a certain way, certainly witness intimidationuclying, obson of congress, obstruction of justice, these are all patterns of this presidt. >> nawaz: by broadening that and saying everything is on the table do, you worry it plays into an accusation tha is a witch hunt, you'll do whatever you can to bring a charge eventually? >> no, when i say "everything ib on the," i'm saying we haven'edprejudgny outcomes here. what is important is the facts and the truth. that's what these witnesses have beenbout. we are waiting in judiciary to get the information from the committees. we wrl have due pocess, but i have to tell you thatnd the -- i will say i think the ultimate article, should there be any, b winarrow and targeted because we understand

we know he testified president trump asked him to fire robert mueller at one point in 2017.ok. i don't actually think this ruling is going to affect how congress deals with airing that matter before the public because it's going to be appealed. it's going to drag out. and look, they're going to take a vote before thanksgiving on the ukraine matter. they're moving ahead. so congressman schiff keeps using this term rope-a-dope. he said i'm not going to be dragged into a long court fight hoping we get the testimony of these people. none the less, this is a hugely important decision that will last potentially long after the trump administration is gone. because since 1971, the executive branch has claimed this right of testimonial immunity, saying congress has no right to call close presidential aides to testify. and what this judge said was, that doesn't exist. that is not a thing. and so, you know, as you said, mcgahn will, of course, even once this is appealed and goes all the way through, and assuming this ruling holds, mcgahn will then claim executive privilege because he w

earlier this week that the house is looking into whether donald trump lied to special counsel robert mueller. politico reports said house democrats want to hold at least one public impeachment hearing on alleged offenses by the president that were outlined in the mueller report after long-time trump associate roger stone's trial raised questions about whether trump provides false statements to the special counsel's team. joining us now to take a closer look is danny savalas who we need here because really any time roger stone gets in the news, it becomes confusing for people. >> it becomes very legal. >> right. so what exactly did roger stone's trial bring up about why donald trump may have lied or -- or whether donald trump lied to robert mueller's team? >> in roger stone's criminal trial, he did not testify himself but others came in and testified against him. including an individual named gates who you may remember from several months ago who pleaded guilty and was cooperating against stone. >> this is manafort's number two guy. >> this is manafort's number two guy. when he took the stand

. >> they're trying not to promise too much as they did in the run-up to robert mueller's testimony, but adam schiff making it clear he believes impeachable fences were committed. >> but based on what the witnesses have had to say so far, there are any number of potentially impeachable offenses including bribery and high crimes and misdemeanors. >> despite that, republicans seem to vigorously defend the president. >> you can't actually know what was really said when you're relying on third-, fourth-hand info informati t information. >> they both said it was a good call. >> they've got a much bigger risk factor tomorrow than we do. democratic colleagues have a big issue to create some a-ha moment that'sd to do. >> far different from 1973 and from this. >> what did the president know, and when did he know it? >> that was republican senator howard baker during the nixon impeachment. watergate took place in a mass media era and tens of millions were watching. most americans will get their information from preferred cable tv, late night tv, and social media. >> lieutenant colonel alexande

so we were put robert mueller on the stand. and 30 seconds somebody please ask him if he has actually read the report that bears his name. [laughter] so this whole set up you realize it was all a sham. he was there not because he was a great prosecutor or a great investigator but because of his prior and passed and the decorated marine former head of fbi. he was above reproach he wasn't there because he was good at his job but because trump could not fight back without the media have a field day. that's what we see today version number two with the impeachment. the outrage of last week and i am at the center of all of this for some reason. i got that trumpet jean if i see something wrong i will say it. donald trump junior outs the whistleblower. i did? [laughter] i wish i did. but they make it seem like i hired a team of spies to figure out a cia operative? i retreat on - - retweeted an article that had his name in the article. then they don't know what secret actually means. it was literally on the drudge report but many peopl

the dems want to investigate whether the president lied to the robert mueller special counsel which theyried to ignore all together because its concluding reported exonerated president trump. meanwhile the president has a government to run and not the least significant issue confronting the nation is national security. and the people's republic of china and the negotiation of the trade deal between the two countries. our own edward lawrence reports. reporter: the commerce department announced it would extend the temporary general license allowing american companies to sell to huawei the extension is for 90 days until february of 2020. it could be seen as goodwill fruvment s. towards chinese. huawei relies on u.s. technology for some of its products. government-backed chinese companies are buying more soybeans and lifting the ban on poultry imported from the united states. that ban has been in place since 2015. robert light highser says that -- ligh -- robert lighthizs that could mean a billion in trade for i.s. farmers. the chinese would like to see tariffs rolled back or paused. the u.s

in the past when they brought robert mueller in and corey lewandowski in.ll of the hearings for democrats in the judiciary committee have been a disaster. i think they will take up a report written by the biased, lying adam schiff. and they will try to fashion that report in articles of impeachment. judge jeanine: should there be a trial in the senate where at the very least the minority in the senate will be able to call witnesses. we haven't heard from one witness on behalf of the president. >> i don't believe a trial will be warrant. this would be the type of thing that a motion to dismiss would resolve this in a courtroom. but i understand the president's frustration. lies have been told about him and he has been smeared and he wants the opportunity to talk about the corruption and hunter biden and burisma to smear donald trump before and after his election. because he viewed this conflict in a different way than many people did. and just viewing a conflict differently isn't the reason to replace the will of the american people with the will of the deep

. >> president trump may have lied to special counsel robert mueller. >> and they are actually going back to trump's written interrogatory answers in the russia probe. this is just a complete and total sham. and most fair-minded americans know it. now cnn sent a reporter to the battleground state of wisconsin. a lot of people were surprised by that back in 2015. they wanted to go there to testing impeachment waters and see what people thought. well the folks didn't seem to actually be gung ho about much of anything in the ukraine's saga. >> veteran, business owner and independent says -- that's a pretty drastic step. whether i like the man or not is immaterial. impeachment is pretty drastic. >> laura: that's on cnn. they couldn't get anyone striking up the band for impeachment. of course there was the career civil servants, but lastly kenton taylor came across as amiable and kind of professorial folks. yovanovitch was irrelevant to the underlying conduct in question. but you don't have to take my word for it. the television ratings are in and it's not pretty. while 13.8 million peopl

as far as robert mueller, he produced multiple indictments.re are people that are in prison because of that process. some that were very close to the president of the united states. so the question of if that was successful and important, the answer is yes. it produced a 400 plus page report. there is unequivocal evidence that the russians did interfere in the 2016 election. all of that is established. congress decided that they were not going to do anything about it. it doesn't mean the facts gathered is not serious. pin on thisa care about thee russians interfering. when we go to the polls, we want our vote to matter. to make ar vote determination over who gets the power to govern. there is concern about immigrants crossing the border physically. the idea of russian interference is people from other countries crossing the border of our and basicallyess hijacking, to some degree, that precious privilege that we have to make the decision for ourselves. that is something robert mueller focused on. it is bipartisan. it is not about any particula

the russia probe ended 8 months ago, robert mueller testified 4 months ago. why is this coming up now? >> i'll tell you, why because the house democrats, they want to see the grand jury information in the mueller probe as part of their oversight investigations that are ongoing along with this impeachment probe. the house lawyer basically told the judges today that it needs to see that under lying information from the grand jury. it believes that there's reason to believe that the president lied. this is what the council said. did the president lie, was the president not truthful in his responses to the mueller investigation. there are questions in this in the wake of the roger stone trial. as you know, rick gates testified he was there when the president got off the phone with roger stone and said more wiki leaks information would be coming. in the mueller report it 11said that manafort was giving information about president trump and where he believed the wikileaks situation was going. and he was updating the president. he said he didn't recall anything about

that is robert mueller for clarification. you brought up the point of the process, and this is from republican congressman stuart echoing your point of view. impeachapolusa tour comes to an end. two and a half years of these absurd accusations against the president and russia collusion. we have gone from quid pro quo to bribery to extortion. seven weeks of hearings, 16 secret closed-door sessions, 12 public hearings, of which you are the last, unders of hours of testimony, and i think for those who hate the president, they have not changed their minds but there are a lot of americans that look at this and say is that it? you are going to impeach and remove a president for this? like i said, if you don't like the president, you have already come to that conclusion. many people wanted this three years ago, but a lot of americans can see this. zero evidence of any bribery. zero evidence of extortion. zero evidence of any quid pro quo. yet, impeachment is almost inevitable. why? because the leadership of this committee has been u

and i realized it's robert mueller over again. they were not matter that i outed him, they were mad that now that the name is out there, people could actually do some research like has been done over the last few days. they could realize this guy was joe biden's special guest at a state dinner. they could realize that he worked with the brandon dies in the all these people that started number one and lied to congress and miraculously gets away with it cause he's on the team. they could see the photograph of him crying. remember the photographs outside of the oval office with susan rice crying like a little child. [laughter] and they regionalized then when the lawyer of his comes to their defense other than the allegations like i have security clearances for those that have been put away. i don't know if i would defend that on twitter. you see their feed. january 2017. the two started and the impeachment is next and you realize here we go again. it's just another set of. so that is what we have been dealing with. kimberly, you even

a former fbi lawyer, accused of altering a document, connected to robert mueller's russia investigation. sources briefed on the matter, says the document was part of the package that was used to get a warrant for former campaign adviser carter page. the probe by the internal watchdog, likely to fuel claims of wrongdoing by the fbi, when it investigates russian meddling and the campaign. >>> xi jingping says that china wants to work out a phase one deal with the u.s. but china is not afraid of a trade war. when necessary, we will fight back. we have been working actively to not to have a trade war. time is running out. on a american side, a source familiar with the state of play, says there's two options on the table. first option, is more tariffs next month or to defend american workers from chinese aggression. the second option is a minideal. the deal was not skinny. but anorexic. this deal involves more access to chinese financial markets in exchange for rolling back tariffs and cancelling tariffs scheduled for december. the president believes there's room to stand tough on china, bec

i thought it was or after we saw robert mueller's testimony, but the democrats have to continue withmpeachment and investigation. but i have to say i just finished your book. it explains so much about what's going on in our political dynamic. instead of engage us substantively on the issues, instead of cooperating with us to move the country there are two major problems with the democrats case. so many of it is built not on what people observed. but what they presumed, what they felt, what they believed. that's not actual evidence and it's not enough to overturn the results of a presidential election this country. the second problem the democrats have is this is rooted in a policy disagreement. they have an establishment way of thinking about the world. donald trump love him or hate him is not traditional. he has a different style, a differentdi approach, he uses different tools, and that is not the basis t for impeachment. you have a country who overwhelmingly believes in thebe economic agenda of this government. 57% of the american people are supporting president trump's economic a

stone's trial is the last case filed by special counsel robert mueller in his investigation into russiane in the 2016 presidential campaign. one of mueller's prosecutors in his opening statement today directly tied president trump to the charges that roger stone lied under oath to the house intelligence committee, the same committee now leading the impeachment inquiry. prosecutors argued that roger stone lied to congress, quote, because the truth looked bad for the trump campaign, and the truth looked bad for donald trump. prosecutors say hundreds of text messages, calls and emails show roger stone repeatedly tried to contact the founder of wikileaks and that he discussed those efforts with senior members of the trump campaign. joining us now is nbc news intelligence and national security reporter ken dilanian who was one of the lucky ones in the courtroom today. ken, it was really -- rachel, read much of the transcript including just the very beginning of the prosecutor's opening statement, and it seemed like a very dramatic presentation in that courtroom today. >> it was, lawrence. in