robert: yes. samson: yeah. robert: but creatively, you get to do things that maybe you don't get to do when you have to deal with kind of a show or an ensemble kind of feel. samson: i don't know, but one of the advantages of a solo show, you know everybody there is there to watch you. so you do have a lot more liberty on where you can go with it. and then you're completely responsible for all your failures and successes. so i'm enjoying that. robert: yeah, and one thing too is, like, 'cause my son and i have gone to see standup comics at shows, as well as john mulaney. we went to go see him. and good standup comics, they establish a quick rapport, and the audience does feel kinda like almost they know you as you're talking, huh? samson: right, right, so my show tends to be a lot more friendly. i have a very friendly demeanor with audiences, where i talk to them as much as i can, and it's not about, "hey, i'm here, listen to me. i'm too smart." it's about my life is miserable right now, and i'm sur

robert: what's that? mirabelle: my family help--like, pushes me on and it's like-- robert: it's a good thing, huh? because everybody enjoy being able to kind of take this kind of a theme, you know, an asian-american growing up asian? was that quite a unique perspective for you to do? mirabelle: yeah, although i've been doing this, like, competition for more than a year, i guess, but i don't exactly know how long, and so this is the first time i got a prize. robert: well, you all did great, congratulations. thank you for being here, and we'll see you a little bit later on when we do some more of this, okay? all right, well, coming up next, we talk about one of the biggest honors given out during asian pacific american heritage month. and that award winner, carmen chu, will join us. with savings on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses and automatically adjusts on both sides, for effortless comfort. right now during our semi-annual sale, save up to $700 on sleep number 360 smart beds. ends soon. as

robert: no. he dreamed of walking on the moon and when he was on apollo 8 and thought he would be there one day. he went on apollo 13 and was scheduled to walk on the moon. there was an explosion in an oxygen tank. the crew nearly did not make it back. brian: what did these men do after they were astronauts? robert: frank borman went on to run eastern airlines. that is where i have my primary memories of him as a kid because i would see him on television commercials all the time. he was so much like himself on those tv commercials. in one of them he said, airlines are the same. what does it matter which one you fly? he is a very straight shooter. he was a very successful chairman. jim lovell went into private industry and became very successful. bill anders went on to run general dynamics, the defense contractor. and became extremely successful at that. brian: how did he become an ambassador? >> he was offered -- he was perceived by the government as being very evenhanded. a lot of people appreci

caleb jo: thank you, robert. robert: good to see you again.at to see you at the luncheon before. caleb: right. robert: give me an idea. your film "jory," now, is it a little bit autobiographical? i mean, it's always kind of tempting to kind of think that it is, but what elements are and aren't about you? caleb: so, actually, i grew up as a dancer. in high school, i started off freshman year as a dancer, but the funny story is, actually, i wanted to impress a girl, so that's why i picked up dancing, but actually it became a passion of just expression later on, but the story "jory," a lot of people think, you know, j-o is my last name, and then the two letters of "story" is, you know, r-y, so they thought it was an autobiographical--biographical? robert: yes, "autobiographical." caleb: autobiographical, but it's actually not. it does come from, just, like, the typical story that you hear in silicon valley about, you know, students who really want to pursue the arts, but they're kind of shut down: "no, you gotta be a doctor," "you gotta be a lawy

robert: december 21, 1968.rian: here is another fellow that was on that flight at your event. >> as we came around the moon, we saw the earth, which was a small blue and white ball. i have said this many times. when i first looked at it, i put my thumb up and i could hide the earth completely behind my thumb , realizing that behind my thumb , there was about 5 billion people. everything i ever knew was behind my thumb. brian: what are these guys doing to stay alive so long? robert: they are most of all engaged mentally with the world around them, as they were back then. people think of astronauts as these daring test pilots, which is true of almost all of them. they are also great intellectual minds. they were top achievers in scholastics and studies although the way up through graduate levels. also, three of them are very much active physically. they are all completely engaged in the world, thinking into the future about space to this day. brian: what is jim lovell like? robert: one of the sweetest man i have

robert: yeah.ive us an idea in terms of the background of this, in terms of how--what inspired for you for this. h.p.: well, you know those, like, christmas comedies where the whole family gets back together? yeah, and the hilarity ensues. the hilarity in question here is that the family's actually getting back together to conspire on how to best murder the abusive member of the family. and it's a dark comedy, it's a christmas comedy. and depending on where you are in your life, it might be darker than it is comedic, but i think it's actually pretty funny. robert: one thing i've always liked about the festival is that, you know, i mean, you do have important sort of themes that people kind of do in, you know, japanese-american internment and, you know, chinese exclusion act. and you hear those, but you do need to see these slice of life films. you do need to see asian-americans and pacific islander culture as like regular people and everyday life, right? masashi: yeah, absolutely. so, to your earli

i'm robert costa. we examine the extraordinary legal battlepl on mul fronts from russia to money to ghngress. toon "washington week." >> the fund and the president repaid t >> former new york mayor and attorney rahm emanuel -- rudy guiliani dropped a bombshell and claimed the president reimbursed his attorney for a $130,000 payment todu an a film star to buy her silence. that statement about the 2016 campaign contradicted the president's own words on airforce one just last month. >> do you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? president trump: no, no. >> why do people --um president you have to ask michael cohen. michael is my attorney. you'll have t ask him. >> do you know whe he got the money? president trump: no. robert: on fridayi guilian attempted to clarify that any actions coh took were to protect trump's personal reputation. the president escalates his attacks on the justice department and the mueller probe after the special counsel warns t he may subpoena mr. trump to testify, wri

robert costa. robert: good evening. there was a thematic thread running through articles this week from two of the sharp reporters w join u tonight. peter peter of "the new york times" said president trump was returng to his china-breaking instincts and upending diplomatic traditions. anne geara of the "washington post" wrote the the president president, guided b his new secretary of state, mike pompeo and security advisor john bolt season now intent on making gut-driven decisions and taking an out of the box approach that has real consequences for the world. by week's endru mr.'s moves remain hotlyec detted with his supporters praising him and already channg "knob bell prize" -- nobel prize at his meetings. on monday, the u.s. ambassador will home in juice lesm.hi earlier week the u.s. removed itself from the iran nuclear deal and three prisoners who were being held in north korea were relsed. later, president trump plans to sit down with the north korean eader kim jong-un. mr. trump's message so

i'm robert costa. the russia probe enters its second year, tonight, on "washington week." president trump: i have this witch hunt constantly going on for over 12 months now and actually much more than that. robert: as president trump continueso insist there was no wrongdoing by his 2016 campaign, the russiarobe hits the one-ye mark, and the president gets behind allies in congress pushing to discredit robert mueller's ongoing investigation. the latest delopment a showdown, over a top-secret f.b.i. source. b.i. director christopher ray issues a warning and the bureau scrambles. >> the day we can't protect human sources is the day the american people areaf less robert: a newa ple deal involving the former son-in-law of paul manafort that could put more pressure on the former campaign chairman. mr. trump's persoysl attorney he's more hopeful about the possibility of a sitieown intew between the president d special counsel. others remain skeptical or urge against it. >> we had the first hopeful communicati

robert costa. we discuss the hopes and kallenges of u.s. foreign policy in norea and with the iran nuclear deal. tonight on "washington week." president trump: i'll be meeting with kim jong-un to pursue a future o peace and security for the world, for the whole world. barry: north korea frees three north northwestern detainees, clearing the way for the summit with kim jong-un. president trump: our biggest achievement wh will be when we denuclearize that entire region. robert: can the president convince the north korean leader to stop his nuclear program and what will they expect in return? plus, one week after the u.s. pulse the iranian deal, a warning to iran. president trump: i advise iran not to restart their nlear program. robert: but the president of iran says ifma dipc means cannot solve -- come it with its own deal, iran may retaliate. we examine the global implications with per baker of "the new york times," shawna thomas of vice news, anne gearan of the "washington post" andle michael cr o

robert: is the meeting off or on? i'm robert costa. inside the brinksmanship between president trump and north korea. plus, the latest on the russia probe, tonight on "washington week." president trump: i believe this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed a sck for the world. robert: president trump calls off a face-to-face meeting with kim jong un. but both sides say they are ready for diplomacy. president trump: if and when kim jong un chooses to engage in constructive dialogue and actions, i am waiting. robert: north korea responds and say they will talk at any time. they call mr. trump's decision to back out of the june 12 summit extremely regrettable and insist they are ready to talk peace, after claiming to dismantle a nuclear test site. is the president's high-stakes gamble still on the table, and what role is china playing in the negotiations? plus -- president trump: if they had spies in my spain during my campaign for political purposes, that would be unprecedented. robert: the president steps up efforts to discr

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and robert, there was a side bar story out there today. are small stories but no unimportant stories about this plot line these days. this had to do with the guy who handled social media for roger stone. -apparently called in to be interviewed by the mueller investigation and excused. is it possible they call a guy like that in and say, you did social media for roger, did you sometimes have control over his twitter account? did you share it with him so it was sometimes shim speaking, sometimes you? and when he promised that dirt was coming out during the campaign, was that you or him? is that the kind of thing they would ask a kid from the social media department? >> i think they'll definitely ask that. they'll also, what were your orders about on what you put on social media and who were your working with? who were those people working with? i think one thing you're seeing throughout this entire investigation by bob mueller and his team is absolutely how thorough they are when they look at an investigate like this. when they call in an in

but his mind has clearly been on robert mueller. the president and this white house have a consistent strategy going after his investigation, sticking with the two-word attack "witch-hunt". they are so sure this message is resonating with his base they are fun raising off of it. the line of a brand-new e-mail is, they think they can intimidate us. then, it says on this anniversary of the greatest witch-hunt in haern history i'm asking you to renew your sustaining mim for the 2018 year to show the witch-hunters that not a single patriot backed down from our fight. >> then he tweeted the only collusion that was done by democrats who were unable to win an election despite spending more money. a few more tweets, one about unsubstantiated reports about obama's fight on the campaign. and sarah huckabee sanders only an hour ago briefing for the first time since monday. >> the president knows that there was no collusion in the campaign. and he has been quite clear about this. it's gone on for over a year. they have found no evidence of coll

that was while robert mueller was building cases against both men.yers denied making those overtures. manafort has since been indicted for financial crimes and pleaded not guilty. how could a manafort pardon help trump in the mueller probe? >> pardoning manafort would make sure that manafort would not need to cooperate with mueller to stay out of federal prison. >> reporter: flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi and cooperated with prosecutors. but experts say as he awaits sentencing, a pardon could still be in play for flynn and could still tlirump in the russia investigation. >> they would still need flynn's cooperation, following up on any documents or any statements he's given to mueller for a trial or for further investigation. >> trump's lawyers consistently deny discussing pardons for anyone involved in the russia investigation. but some legal experts say trump could pardon flynn and manafort if he wanted to stymie the mueller probe. >> the president has the ability to take whatever action he deems fit, pretty much for the reasons he se

frank, chuck, stephanie and robert are still with us.is this a case -- and we made your bias clear -- is this a case of the right man for the right job at the right time for our country, our democracy, really? >> yes. i mean, director mueller is a man of impeccable personal integrity. he is unflappable under stress. and i know that that article talks a little bit about some of the incredible experiences he had in vietnam. and he is -- you know, he will get the job done. and honestly, president trump should want bob mueller to be the prosecutor on this case. because he will be objective. even if it does not satisfy the demands of the american media or the public or the calling that he hears from so many different voices, he will stay with the truth. he will have to factually back up everything he presents as a finding, and he is the man for the job. >> robert, it's getting noisy out there, as you know. looking at the resume of robert mueller, it's difficult, if not impossible for a patriot to find fault and criticize, and yet we have hear

robert, do you want to elaborate? robert: it has to do with locality and sound. rhyme is the least of it. all of the european poets with their models, virgil doesn't rhyme, homer doesn't drive, hollis doesn't rhyme. do you know where rhyme came into european languages? you have a vague idea. it was from full artists in the fields of scotland. >> it is a limerick. robert: ryan came from arabic and persian. they had these people who knew ,e broke, arabic, -- hebrew arabic, french, and they experimented. it has distorted our idea of what a poem is. a poem is a work of art that use the sounds of language. a poem that is "not in run" because it got -- does not use in rhyme. this is from a poet in new jersey. from williamm carlos williams about seeing guys doing roofing from the window's of his doctor's office. fine work with pitch. now they are resting in the thet and in unison like stone regular about the roof ready after lunch. the copper and eight foot strips has been beaten length wise at right angles. strip.p a copper the only thing you could call that is coping.

robert mueller has no deadline. today does give us an opportunity to put the past year into context and talk about what is next. within the past 18 hours we have seen enough news to make your head spin. here is the deal. overnight rudy giuliani's dropping a bomb with an acknowledgment that they would not could not indict the president. who said what to who? here is giuliani this morning. >> i asked specifically if they realized or acknowledged that they didn't have the power to indict. he wouldn't answer. one of the assistants said they acknowledged they had to be bound by justice department policies. the next day or the day after they clarified it that they didn't have the power to indict. >> so that's rudy. and another lawyer. he set up the stormy daniels payment, michael cohen. a new report this morning saying some financial records are missing. i want to start with kristin welker at the white house. if the president is celebrating robert mueller's year versity they are doing so sarcastically. >> reporter: using

i agree with you, robert. president bush 41, my former boss, agreed in plainspoken ways, single syllable words. the ones i was thinking of as you were speaking were this will not stand, that is what i think people remember him saying. he also did not believe that as president of the united states there should be a lot of "i" in presidential speeches. if there were too many he would circle it and change everything to "we." in a democracy that is a good thing. as henry mentioned, or i guess it was ian, a few years ago i made a documentary about president bush and it is on netflix, it is called "41 on 41." it is only 90 minutes long. it is not 13 seasons of "game of thrones." it is the opposite of "house of cards" and it is nonpartisan and it is the story of a remarkable life. as we were researching how to do this, what we did was sent a researcher to the bush library and she found a bible that president bush's mother gave to him when he was confirmed at age 14. she inscribed a poem inside the bible. she did not

you had the emerging of robert kennedy as a candidate.kennedy would be elected in 1968 and he was assassinated, he would have lived through that. i remember that with great sadness and you have a race between a very damaged vice president hubert humphry who emerged as the democratic nominee and was carrying lyndon johnson's water into that race. you had richard nixon and let us not forget george wallace. george wallace, the segregationist governor of alabama who ran as a third parody candidate and by the way, you talk about were there roots of today's. look at george wallace and donald trump and look at the themes and thoughts. >> provocative. pioneered themes familiar with people today. >> to find out, no one is above the law. >> richard neixon campaign engages in the 1968 campaign, which is it establishes contact with the government and encourages the government to obstruct a u.s. diplomatic effort to end the war in vietnam and they are doing this because they know that hubert humphry, who is inching closer and closer to richard nixon i

has now become, robert mueller knows what robert mueller knows, which is more than we know about this whole thing. and all this now looks like -- not the use donald trump's words but the fact is if donald trump sits down and says something contrary to what robert mueller knows to be the truth, he then might be -- might perjure himself and this is not a good plan for the white house. michael? >> that seems more or less the universal view of lawyers surrounding the president outside the white house. people who like trump, people who hate trump, if they are a lawyer they think it's absolutely crazy for anyone could be counselling president trump that he ought to go voluntarily sit down and subject him to an interview with the special counsel about all of these issues both involving russian links and possible obstruction of justice. the problem all along has been that number one when you are the president you are a little different. you have got to project the image that you have nothing to hide that you have done nothing wrong. and trump himself we have been told repeatedly said he once,

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this is a huge project that robert mueller runs. boss would be someone that no one has ever heard of. not someone really accountable to the public. >> harris: you mean if both of the men were removed or recused. >> harris: the next person in line confirmed by the senate. >> it has to be a member of the hierarchy. a guy named noel francisco. not a household name. he is the solicitor general of the united states. he is an academic who argues before the supreme court. suddenly he will be in charge of the biggest criminal investigation in the modern era where the target or subject is the president. >> harris: and just because we don't know him, right, doesn't mean he can't do it? we don't know if rod rosenstein is going to recuse himself. but if what you are saying today is true and plays out, he is really in a complicated position. >> yes. all of this comes down to the following. the president of the united states under the constitution is the chief law enforcement officer in the land. he is entitled to an attorney general who has his

unclear if he said that to robert mueller's team today.e describe that as fair, but also said it was difficult, too, wolf. >> manu, thanks for that update. >>> just ahead, he helped president clinton survive the impeachment process. how will president trump's newest lawyer impact the next phase of the russia investigation? >>> and will the president's past as a reality tv star be used against him? our legal analysts are standing by to weigh in on the move, the newest move by a trump accuser. i just got a pretty sweet deal on this card for mother's day. nice. i got a sweet deal on this iphone at verizon for my mom. i'm not done shopping. i just start with a card and then work up to... (vo) this mother's day, get up to 50% off the latest iphone on us. unlimited is only as good as the network it's on. so allstate is giving us money back on our bill. well, that seems fair. we didn't use it. wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it. if you'd have told me thre

as robert mueller now the thought police?s it now illegal in thehe united states of america for a sitting president of united states to have private thoughts? according to "the washington post," robert mueller has not even threaten a president with a subpoena if he refuses to sit down for an interview. forget that robert mueller was tasked with investigating russian collusion. forget after 50 weeks, they have found zero evidence of any wrongdoing by the president. this is now a political takedown of the person that you chose to lead this country. should we be surprised? well, this investigation is being conducted by some of the same people who were totally complicit in using hillary clinton's bought and paid for russian lies, you know, the unverified steele dossier, as actual evidence to obtain a fisa warrant to spy on an american, a trump campaign associate, and the lead up to an election. in other words, the fbi used democratic campaign material during an election, lied, and passed it off as legitimate evidence in order to

then you have robert mueller's top deep state democrats that remain today. former new york city mayor rudy giuliani will be here to give an extensive interview to discuss whether or not the president should ever agree to an interview with this band of trump hating sycophants of hillary clinton. he will help break down the brand-new charges and changes on trump's legal team including two nights breaking news. just hours ago the white house announced that ty cobb will be retiring at the end of may and powerful longtime washington attorney emmett flood will join his legal team. first, we have a shocking story to bring you. this ongoing witch hunt is taking on real people who have real lives and frankly anyone who has ever worked with president trump or on his campaign. former trump campaign communication advisor michael cavuto told the senate intelligence committee, there investigation had a devastating financial impact, he's incurred over $100,000 in legal bills and during his closed-door session he told the senate what america needs is an investigation of the

he will get the honor of having his limerick read by robert pinsky. robert: said trump with a great bit of zeal, we must protect our aluminum and steel, but he and navarro must not know dave and ricardo, because these tariffs are not a good deal. [applause] >> returning to the program, robert is a visiting professor at boston university. he is the 39th poet laureate of alsonited states, and is

robert mugabe is now in retirement. grand house with greys and not being bothered by anyone. you describe the treatment you receive from his zanu—pf and security officials during your political career, do you want robert mugabe to face a court, do you want him to face justice? i must say mr mugabe is passed of our past, part of the old order, and i have no time for us to be pursuing the past, to be pursuing the old order. our challenge going forward to is to make sure we resolve fundamental deep structural issues affecting our society. of course deep structural issues, including surely an accounting for terrible violence. the killings were thousands and thousands of people were rounded up and many were killed. wouldn't zimbabwe be a healthier society if people were held to account for what happened? indeed they have to account. part of what i'm going to do under my new administration starting injuly do under my new administration starting in july after the election is to institute a truth, forgiveness, reconciliation an

secretary, robert wilke. we know that the veterans choice program is out there just announced, a day or so ago, for our veterans to be able to choose some of the doctors and medical care on their own. that's been a big issue within veterans affairs after we've seen scandal with our military members formerly waiting on long waiting lists. might what about they talk about. that's a huge point. i bring that up. john roberts, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> harris: let's bring in andy biggs, from arizona and the house judiciary committee and member of the american freedom caucus. i'm glad you're here for the ride. let talk about what's happening with the special counsel situation. one year later, your thoughts. >> well, i can't believe that we're still one year later. you have to remember that it's one year with the special counsel the fbi was involved for almost a year ahead of that. we're looking two years. i think robert mueller's investigation is over, he needs to pull the plug, he's way over the scope,

robert: rhyme came from arabic and persian. the fertile crescent had these people who knew hebrew, arabic, persian and their own friends from old french. they experimented. it has distorted our idea of what a poem is. a poem is a work of art that use the sounds of language. i will quote a column that is not in rhyme because it does not use end rhyme. this is from a poet in new jersey. this is a poem from william carlos williams about seeing some guys doing roofing from the window of his doctor's office. it begins in the key of eh and modulates to ooh. fine work with pitch. now they are resting in the light, separately and in unison, like the stone step regularly about the flat roof ready afterwards to be opened and strong. -- strewn. the copper and eight foot strips has been beaten length wise at right angles. one still chewing picks up a , copper strip and runs his eye along it. the only thing you could call rhyme is coping. he picks up a copper strip and runs his along it. that is like sounds and unlike sounds. it has nothing

but robert jackson did. he took leave as a justice of the supreme court in 1945 so he could go to germany and be america's lead prosecutor in the nuremberg trials. so a fascinating character in american legal history and somebody who ultimately ends up becoming rod rosenstein's legal hero, up to and including the handsome portrait of robert jackson that looms over rosenstein's right shoulder in the conference room right outside his office every day. and when rod rosenstein on tuesday of this week went to do that event in washington and somebody confronted him out of the blue with a quote from robert jackson, he knows it off the top of his head, he expounds on it at length. and that was the day, later on in those remarks is when he went on to say you know what, the justice department will not be extorted. and i will not violate my oath. so that was a couple days ago. now check this out. rosenstein today. i know lots of cable news shows like everybody talks about the same thing all day long, this is one of tho

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e. -- by robert e. lee. instead, he said that he looped once more around lee's right flank in a maneuver that his troops had come to perfect in by this point in the campaign. this time, they came to pottawatomie creek and the there was yett of another sniping battle, and another stalemate, it was then too cold harbor. an all-important crossroads about 9.5 miles as the crow flies north of richmond. this particular leg of the campaign demanded what haley called a lively pace made all the more difficult by the marshy terrain, the steep banks, a warren of streams. rations were becoming spare. for the past week, he confessed, on the evening of may 31, on the eve of the battle of cold harbor, we have been hard put to keep body and soul together. through a spiteful drizzle, the maine made one of its most 17th difficult marches of the war. there was no halt he protested. -- there was no halt, haley protested. we kept right on until we came to a place called cold harbor but it was anything but cold now. the seco

it's up to robert mueller.m has been negotiating with the special counsel and his team for months about whether the president will or will not testify. we reported last week that actually there was a date set at one point. january 27th potentially for president trump to testify. that's not occurred. this has been going back and forth. if this is getti inting dangero close to the election, maybe the president ought to look at his own negotiations and say, what's been going on with this. we could get this over with a lot faster if we figured out what we were going to do with my testimony. >> these tweets that the president has been launching going after robert mueller, so called criminal deep state that's out there to get him. it's presumely intende to motivate that republican base and gethem out to the polls. >> we're book to 2016 where the polls and many people thought secretary clinton would win the 2016 election and then president trump was already priming everyone for the idea that the system is rigged. the

they knew that the second gunman shot robert kennedy. >> bobby kennedy's son, robert kennedy jr., obviouslygrees with you from this perspective. do you talk to rfk jr. a lot? do you speak with him often, and what do you think about his new push for a second investigation to take place? >> well, i've been talking to him for the last several years, and he finally decided that he had to take a stand as well because justice for his father is finding second gunman. justice is not dealing with sirhan. he deserves justice, too, and should be out of prison, and he understands that. we've been talking about this for several years. when i decided to go to the parole board hearing a couple years ago, i talked to him about it. he says -- and i said is it okay with you, and he says, yes, you're doing the right thing. he did the right thing, too, recently by going there and telling sirhan that you did not shoot my father, and i know that. >> quickly, sir, because we do have to wrap up. if there is a cover-up, who do you think is behind it? do you have a theory? >> have no theories at all. i don't operate

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what does the request reveal about robert mueller's investigation?, as we're learning more about what mueller wants to ask the president, the white house is refusing to comment tonight. what did mr. trump know about the questions before they were published in print and online? >>> won't be exextorted. what's that the man who oversees the mueller investigation is saying tonight. rod rosenstein is firing back at trump allies who want to oust him from the justice department. >>> and doctor's orders. the president's physician for decades says mr. trump's medical records were stolen from his office by key white house and trump organization officials. his claims are raising new concerns tonight. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> we're following breaking news in the russia investigation. the special counsel's office asking the court tonight to wait two more months before going forward with sentencing for the president's fired national security advisor, michael fl

and washington post reporter robert costa has once again been talking to rudy giuliani today, and robert costa will be talking to brian williams next on "the 11th hour" with brian williams which starts now. >>> tonight, michael cohen fights back. his lawyers disputing some of the allegations from stormy daniels' attorney michael avenatti who notes, they don't contradict 99% of what's been alleged. what all this means for the president as well as the ongoing mueller investigation. >>> plus, how the firing of jim comey one year ago today has haunted this president and this white house each day ever since. "the 11th hour" on a wednesday night begins now. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. this was day 475 of the trump administration. and there is building legal drama tonight between stormy daniels' attorney and cable news staple michael avenatti, and president trump's long-time personal attorney, michael cohen of new york. tonight, attorneys for cohen filed a document calling into question some of those documents put forward last night by michael av

talk to robert mueller. nip -- >> we know better than that. >> come on. >> an end of the investigation. if he has nothing to hide, he should go in, answer the questions. >> if i had nothing to hide, i wouldn't go in and fall into a trap. if i knew -- >> i don't think it's falling into a trap. robert mueller was confirmed twice by the united states senate and the democrats and republicans -- >> even if -- >> the questioning that was written by jay sekulow, not but the special counsel, but obviously the special counsel said they were going to ask the president questions about paul manafo manafort, michael flynn and george papadopoulos. paul manafort is in deep trouble. flynn and papadopoulos have completed guilty to lying to the fbi. the white house has been worried about them flipping and giving the special counsel information. what that means is, when the questions are asked to the president about what he said, the communications with paul manafort, flynn, papadopoulos, they have one story that they told the

>> i want to get to robert acosta. i know you have some reporting here that's going to shed more light on what's going on. you just spoke with rudy giuliani who's recently come aboard in the sort of informal role there with the president's legal team. what did he tell you about the decision to make this switch? >> well, he's pretty formal role in the sense he is negotiator now for the president's legal team in the russia probe with bob mueller, the special counsel. giuliani told "the washington post" today in an interview that he now wants to have a narrow set of questions. he also wants to have a real limited time frame if the president decides to sit down. he said no way there's going to be a 12-hour interview. he said two to three hours, max. >> but so he is still talking though about the possibility of an interview. this is not something he's ruling out. >> he's not rule it out right now. people close to the president say they're doing this legal dance because they know if they formally decline, they could get that

as it turned out, robert e. lee woodwind that foot race. robert e. lee would make it to spotsylvania courthouse first. in preparation for what he soldiersre carnage, from both armies heaped mounds of earth into a elaborate choked thist soon tiny little county seat. federals made some preliminary and ultimately unsuccessful attempts on the confederate works on may 9 and may 10, 1864. but the attempt on may 10 in the afternoon, early evening of may packedlving a tightly formation of 12 regiments led by a 24-year-old colonel from batavia, new york. they came rather close to success. -- it came rather close to success. and nearly punched through those confederate works. and this inspired ulysses s. grant. allegedly mused -- we will try a brigade today and decor tomorrow. that night, there was a steely new resolve in ulysses s. grant as a wire went off to henry .alleck back in washington i propose to-- fight it out on this line, grant said. if it takes all summer. as it turned out, the climactic moment at spotsylvania courthouse came not the next day , as

. >> robert kennedy. >> to keep the kennedy dream alive. ♪ ♪ >>> several thousand enthusiastic texans on hand to give the president and mrs. kennedy a warm welcome. >> in november 1963 president kennedy arrives in dallas to campaign for re-election. >> he probably, as he was coming down those steps, felt pretty confident about his political prospec prospects. >> his health is better. his marriage is better. he's a very confident leader. he is a person recognized as having enormous potential for his second term. >> jackie was very happy to be with her husband during her trip to dallas. and it was really the happiest time of her marriage. >> the president's car now turning onto elm street and it will be only a matter of minutes before he arrives at the piedmo piedmont. >> bobby kennedy is at home with his family and close colleagues. >> attorney general kennedy is in his back yard, having lunch with robert morgenthau, the district attorney for the southern district of new york. >> we were having lunch by the pool with ethel, having clam chowder and tuna sandwiches. >> and bobby had a qu

several people stood up who were robert e. lee graduates during this school board meeting, and they would say how they did not want the school's name changed, and they kept repeating the old saw that if you do not know your history, you will be doomed to repeat it. it really struck me, particularly since i live in the south, with my background, that these people might not necessarily know their own history, and they might not be aware how this man came to be. so i got curious about it and started to look into it. with aaving discussions publisher, and she was very interested in looking into this. she asked me to drive in, and very quickly decided to call the tyler county historical society, asking what they had. originally, i thought they would theyave anything, maybe would not have anything, but they had a treasure trove of information. in 1957, the decision came down, they were looking at building a new school, a segregated high school in the white community and the southern part of town, and there was a debate, what should