barbara mcquaid, chuck rosenberg and frank figliuzzi on the phone. barbara, we just learned mr. rosenstein planned to stay, according to nbc news reporting to, in effect, see the mueller investigation and statement through. do you think anything we've learned today and tonight does anything to jeopardize that trajectory? >> i don't think so unless president trump panics in some way. we've seen this very strong statement from sarah sanders, his spokesperson, calling comey a political hack and mccabe a chronic liar, so it seems likely that rod rosenstein would want to stay the course. he's been there for about two years and i'm sure it feels like 20 for him and in some ways, can't get out soon enough but i think he's a loyal steward of the institution of the justice department and wants to be there as long as it's within his choice and power to do so, i think he'll stay unless somehow president trump wants to fire him before then. >> chuck rosenberg, does any of this impact chris ray's ability to continue to do his job day after day as fbi director? >> it really shouldn't and for

chuck rosenberg here with me as well, matt miller. so, the context is if he is appearing, will he answer a question about the indictment today of roger stone? it's very clear that they are long-time, closely connected despite what the white house and the president today might say. and he has already tweeted this was part of the witch-hunt that these were all false charges. >> the type of advice i would give has long, long gone out the window, andrea. >> you're not of counsel to -- >> i have not been retained by the president. >> to the president. >> no, not yet. >> yet. >> not yet. >> i think we have a sketch also from the courtroom of what happened in that magistrate's courtroom which you had described earlier in florida. and as you pointed out, there he is in a sport shirt. usually the natalie, excessively natalie attired roger stone in the pin stripe suit. he was taken from his home before dawn this morning. >> that's pursuant to law. people shouldn't misunderstand what the fbi did today was completely lawful. they had an arrest wa

thank you for joining us, chuck rosenberg. after the break, new information from the special counsel's office about paul manafort, what ro robert mueller is still investigating when it comes to the former campaign chairman and his ties to russia. >>> also ahead, u.s. service members are among the dead in syria following an attack from isis. that strajdy taking place on the very same day vice president mike pence claims isis has been defeated. nancy pelosi calls on donald trump to delay this year's state of the union address until after the longest government shutdown in u.s. history is resolved. all of those stories coming up. hey, what is it? i realize i love you, but as long as you're with jessica, there can never be anything between us. listen cassie, there's no need to cry. besides, i've got really great news. you're leaving jessica? no. i just saved a load of money on car insurance by switching to geico. i saved. i thought that meant something to you. geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. whoooo.

former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence, frank figliuzzi and chuck rosenberg, former senior fbi official. frank figliuzzi, let me start with you. i'd like to get you all on the record with these stories. let's talk paul manafort. we've talked so much, you and chuck have taken me to school on how a conspiracy is investigated and charged. we know robert mueller has charged the russian part of the conspiracy to meddle in the 2016 election. could paul manafort sharing polling data from the trump campaign with a russian operative be that link between the conspiracy and the trump orbit? >> got a significant revelation today and it's the result of an apparent error and inability of manafort's lawyers to cut and paste properly or use black magic marker because now we know precisely what manafort is accused of lying about. remember, it's one thing to be forgetful, if we read the story painted by manafort's attorneys, then he's an impressive multitasker who's trying to run a presidential campaign and we shouldn't be so harsh on him because he can't remember things, but forgetfulness i

attorney, chuck rosenberg. frank figliuzzi is a former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi. with us at the table, nbc news national political reporter, carol lee. and donny deutsch joins us for the hour. let me start with you, chuck rosenberg. as roger stone was in court today, you have to fight the temptation to feel any sort of numbness around the event of another person who's been in donald trump's political arsenal for decades appearing before court to face his, you know, whatever his legal fate will be. >> it's becoming remarkably reteer routine, isn't it? you'd think for any other president in any other time, it would be extraordinary. i think you're exactly right. i also think listening to john brennan during your introduction that there's more to come. there are other shoes to drop. not to be too cliched. i think there's lots of clues out there, nicolle, that mueller isn't quite done yet. >> well, you never say anything willy-nilly. what are those clues, chuck? >> i think there's a bun

rer stonets lking abt roy cohn and the execution of the rosenbergs.hat. >> it seemed to me that someone in the early 1920's who had two who wasother of almost certain not guilty of the crime which she was convicted and murdered by the state might have some feelings of remorse for this later in life as he was on his own deathbed, for instance. that, and stone give that answer you just saw. amy: let's move to the mccarthy hearings in washington. roy cohn becomes his right-hand man, and this is showed beautifully in the film, famously constantly in the air of mccarthy. you have two sets of hearings, the original mccarthy hearings going after communists, in the new have the army mccarthy hearings. and you describe this as early reality tv, very trump like. explain. >> army mccarthy is a byword in our culture. the mccarthy era is the dictionary definition of witchhunting and demagoguery and politics. the army mccarthy hearings' details have been lost to history and lost to the very poorest education system we have in this country that does not teach histor

sarah root. .rew rosenberg carol willingham. oscar navarro. brock jones. michael grubbs. these are just names of americans whose lives have the loss to illegal immigration. they no longer have their voice but we can and must be the voice today. and if these names sound familiar as because we've heard them on the news. i would like to reflect on others who certainly weren't celebrating the status quo. the names may sound familiar because these are the same individuals that then leader pelosi said record on this floor oh year ago in february more the eight hours defending passion of daca and shutting the government down. vanessa rodriguez. vargas. jaclyn romo. rojas. ray panetta. kelly, crystal, carlos, --ianne, hugo, fernando fernando herrera. emily. claudia. cynthia sanchez. hugo alexander a costa. galvan. hector rivera suarez. juan carlos navarra. carlos emanuel diaz. -- gloria alonso. drid.y lama speaker, as this house adjourns for the week today, after just one rule bill, i implore my colleagues to take some time and think deeply about these individuals. their families

peter baker, maya wylie and chuck rosenberg, thank you. >>> the news in london that is likely making vladimir putin very happy. >>> and later, day 25 of this shutdown stalemate. no end in sight. all congress could seem to agree on today was steve king. "the 11th hour" just getting started on this tuesday evening. i am a family man. i am a techie dad. i believe the best technology should feel effortless. like magic. at comcast, it's my job to develop, apps and tools that simplify your experience. my name is mike, i'm in product development at comcast. we're working to make things simple, easy and awesome. >>> important developments over these past 24 hours, as we said, that are likely to have pleased vladimir putin. it was just last night at this time. our friends at the "new york times" reported president trump discussed pulling the united states from nato on multiple occasions last year. major parts of the united states government, as you're aware, remain closed tonight as the longest shutdown in our history is about to enter its 26th day, and tonight our closest ally across the atl

and chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney, former senior fbi official. and chuck, i'd like to begin with you. did barr say enough? did he do enough to convince you that the mueller investigation would be sealed, protected, walled off under his good care? >> yes, he did, brian. let me explain why. though i don't share his view on several matters of law that came up today, and while i imagine i don't share his politics, i've always believed bill barr to be a man of integrity, a principled man. he said the right things as far as i'm concerned in terms of bob mueller's character, the nature of the investigation specifically that wasn't a witch hunt which, of course, we know as well that he would do what he could to protect it, that mueller would not be removed except for good cause as the regulations require, and that he, bill barr, couldn't imagine mueller doing anything that would rise to the level of good cause. those types of statements give me great comfort, and i think bill barr undoubtedly will be confirmed to the job. >> maya, as i tried to point out

but go back even further to the rosenbergs. from before the mccarthy hearing. >> sure.eeth in public life as a junior prosecutor in the rosenberg spy case, which was an famous trial of two jewh americans who were acsed of d coicted o sring atomic secrets th the sieiet uon.. amy: conspirg to. >> yeah. and c was amo a groupf jesh lawyersndust -- judges w were apinted to give t impressn that iwas not an anti-semitic prosecution. he proved himself to be incredibly aggressive and very, very savvy and gaining publicity for himself and for the cause that he was pushing. and he is perhaps most famous in a veryr engaging in questionable collusion with the judge, judge kaufman. the judge, legend has it, would call roy cohn prosecutor in the of his park avenue synagogue in new york, to ask the junior prosecutor, for guidance on the sentencing he should hand down. amy: and to be clear, indications between judge and prosecutor are illegal. >> you said it. andohn was eouragingim to get the ath penay, not oy to julius, whot turnedut was l, whouilty, a ethe was not to be proven guilt f

steve rosenberg joins us from the georgian capital, tbilisi.e will his first court appearance in tbilisi. a judge will decide whether he should remain behind bars. then attention will turn to possible extradition. that is a process that could take weeks, even months. after ten months on the run and 2500 miles from home, jack shepherd had handed himself into georgian police. he'll spend another night in this detention centre, in tbilisi. tomorrow, he's in court and could soon face extradition. his defence lawyer told me that jack shepherd had made a mistake fleeing britain. i'm not saying that somebody forced him to do that. i'm not saying that we have to blame the british justice system. i'm saying it was his decision, yes. but i believe that this was not the right decision. he knows that, he agrees with it. now he wants to do his best to collaborate with the judges. last year, shepherd was convicted of the manslaughter of charlotte brown, on the left, after his speedboat crashed in the thames. he continues to insist it was a tragic accident. h

steve rosenberg, bbc news, tbilisi.ic, according to scientists meeting in norway. in what researchers claim is the first sign of a major modern climatic shift, they say the barents sea, which has been part of the arctic ocean for 12,000 years, is being swallowed by the atlantic. from the norwegian arctic, our environment analyst roger harrabin reports. sea ice, formed in the high arctic. it helps create a cold, fresh surface layer that acts as a cap on warm, saltier waters beneath. but with climate change, there is less sea ice getting to norway's barents sea. the north barents sea has been dominated for 12,000 years by sea ice flowing down from the high arctic. but now, that flow is diminishing and the character of the sea is changing fast. soon, researchers say, the region will have no sea ice at all, so it will no longer be part of the arctic. it had an arctic type of climate for the last 12,000 years. we are probably witnessing the first modern example of a rapid climate shift event where the arctic shrinks in respo

joining us now is chuck rosenberg, former u.s.rney in the eastern district of virginia, former senior fbi and justice department official. mr. rosenberg, good to have you with us tonight. thank you for making time. >> my pleasure. thank you for having me. >> i want you to tell me what you think is about about this. your feelings about the reporting in the first instance and also the statement from the special counsel's office about it. >> there is an aspect of 5-year-old soccer to this. if you watch kids play, they mass together and every now and then the ball squirts loose and they run over to the ball together. we did that in respect to the "buzzfeed" story and i fear we're doing that now with respect to the mueller statement. i think what you said earlier about the prosecutors laying a predicate when cohen pled guilty to lying to congress is exactly right, and here's why. go back to first principles. look at what the mueller team said in their sentencing memorandum regarding michael cohen and that charge of lying to congress. i

chuck rosenberg, always a pleasure. thank you, as well. >>> breaking at this hour, by the way, police responding to a possible hostage situation. this is the scene at a ups facility in logan township, new jersey. a law enforcement official telling wnbc's investigative reporter jonathan dietz a guy walked sboots eed into the fac shots, and took his ex-girlfriend and another person hostage. right now, we can tell you, it does not appear as if anyone has been hurt. again, this is an ongoing situation in logan township, new jersey. police on the scene there. we will, of course, continue to keep a very close eye on that situation. >>> also, blame game. president trump and lawmakers busy blaming each other for the shutdown. now, the longest in american history. a key republican says it may be time to make a deal. what's it going to take? >>> 2020 continues. president trump mocking senator elizabeth warren in a series of tweets. are we getting a preview of the 2020 presidential matchup? >>> and teachers strike. educators in th

where are we in investigating this conspiracy, chuck rosenberg says, for me it's chuck rosenberg cautioned against reviewing mr. stone's indictment as the final word on whether the trump campaign did or did not conspire with wikileaks. i wouldn't take the fact they didn't charge it or they can't or won't charge it let me show you what christie said about the amount of trouble he believes roger stone is in. >> the fact is that he's got a problem because they've got all of these e-mails and text messages that he created that tell pretty clear story. i think if he decides to go to trial, he's in very, very grave danger everyone is presumed in the, george and so is he but the indictment i think is a pretty damning indictment. >> christie, super sober about all things mueller and has always maintained that this crowd was too incorrespondent, collude so that caught my attention. >> it does catch your attention. presenting himself as an ally of the president, having mr. trump's best interest at heart, when he says mr. stone is in grave danger, he's contradicting his own president. i think these q

ambassador to russia michael mcfall, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official, joyce vance, also a former u.s. attorney, and here with us at the table, charlie sykes, now editor in chief of the new news site the bull work. and philip bump, political reporter for the "washington post." chuck rosenberg, let me start with you and what i heard from a former u.s. intelligence official today that donald trump's now compilation of seemingly bizarre, seemingly random, seemingly, let me just be blunt, just stupid comments about russia, are probably at this point very likely under scrutiny by people investigating his relationship, his contacts, his coordination, if you will, with russia. >> my goodness, nicolle, they would have to be. you know, i think we wondered why michael flynn was debriefed 19 times. that struck us all as an extraordinary number. but maybe now we have a bit more insight into what the mueller team and the department of justice are looking at. this is extraordinarily serious, if not because it's a part of muelle

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. >> with me know is chuck rosenberg and betsy woodrow. they are both msnbc contributors.cance of this looking back, what is it? >> rudy giuliani's comment is confusing because it runs counter to an on the record claim by a person who was involved in the trump tower moscow talks, phillip saider, a businessman who played a role between michael cohen and senior officials in the government business as they were working on potentially doing this trump tower moscow project. i recently spoke to mr. sader that the conversation regarding potentially developing at trump tower in moscow teed off after the republican national convention. when it became clear and unquestionable that trump is going to be the public nominee and the talk will basically die. i was struck to hear that mr. rudy giuliani made that claim. besides him claiming these talks happen as late as 2016, nobody had gone on the record saying that. either he knows something that nobody else knows and has released publicly about these talks. either way it is really head scratching behavior from the lawyer for the presiden

i want my fbi agents to be like chuck rosenberg when he's happy or mad, i'm not sure. or say government workers are excluded from the shutdown, what would the incentive be to open up the government? part of the reason they are in the position they are is stories piling up about government workers not getting paid. you take that away and we could wind up in something that -- >> wind up in a place? >> no incentive to open up the government. >> we are going to wind up in a place where we keep the government open. is that a bad thing? sorry. >> we view this for political conversation. there's been gamesman ship around it. isn't this something that should embarrass the heck out of every single member of congress regardless of party? you can't do your job. maybe you should be shut down. >> i'm going to agree with you and be all in with you. >> love it. >> i'm going to go a step further. the tip of the founder fathers was not to have a king. what we are seeing happen in the senate -- look, mitch mcconnell, at some point, you have to let the senators vote. you can't see -- >>

we're 65 years away from the next crisis and also bullish on big cap tech and still bearish dave rosenberg now, chief economist and great to speak with you you see the risks of recession rising what is bill miller missing? >> i'm not really sure did you say 65 years or days >> 65 years. a lifetime basically from the next crisis. >> we should all give forecasts that we'll never have a chance to live to see anyway, look, everything that's happened in the past couple of weeks, volatility runs in both directions haven't altered my view on where the economy is headed and without trying to time it to the week or the month, we have to try to continue to play the probabilities. i've been saying all along is that we've had 13 fed cycles in the post-world war ii experience land of the economy in recession and three didn't and maybe this will be the fourth what i'm saying is that if you look at the historical pattern, 80% of the time in the past, the lag with the recession and i'm not saying it's an easy call to make most economists, in fact, the fed on the eve of the recession when you go back to th

joining me now is former fbi official is chuck rosenberg and criminal attorney ashley mercha merchantchuck, you first here. we were not supposed to find out about this. look at the ma in thgnitude of investigation. look how explosive this is and how shocked you may be and are you surprised that the president with this tweet minutes ago saying wow, just learned in "the new york times." as if it is a surprise to him. >> let's take the last part first, alex. good morning, by the way. the president's tweets have never been a reliable source of information. i'll put that aside. that's not where i look for the truth. this is a big deal. this is unprecedented. you have to let this wash over you. the fbi, a meticulous investigation, opened an investigation on the president of the united states is extraordinary. i hope you know i'm not giving in to hyperbole. it is extraordinary. it is troubling to me we read about it in the paper. these types of investigations are deeply sensitive and secret. that's how they ought to remain. just because an investigation is open doesn't mean anyone did anythi

back with me matthew rosenberg, juliette kayyem, and michael moore. on this controversial unsolicited memo that barr shared with president trump's lawyers, it concluded that comey's firing could not cu constitute obstruction. today he clarified that when he wrote it on speculation. he said his goal with writing it was not to get back at the government. does that add up to you? >> not really. it really doesn't. i don't know why you would circulate to it the legal team for the white house about the time you knew they were looking for another attorney general. i don't know why you would be putting it out there. i think it's commonplace for there to be interaction between former officials and especially if there is a need to have a sort of some continuity of decisions and discussion, but i don't think that you can take the time to write a 19-page memo and say, you know, i think the guy's doing a bad job and this is why. it's not lawful, and i know you're looking for somebody, but i don't need the job. that defies logic to me. and i just don't know why you

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and chuck rosenberg, a former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official. robert costa, i have to start with you. you've covered donald trump for a long time. you've covered rudy giuliani for a long time. i have this little soft spot for rudy. and when i see the reaction shots from chris cuomo and when you hear sean hannity, "oh. i didn't know that." you couldn't make it up for "snl." what is rudy doing? >> to understand the president's relationship with his lawyer you have to see them as generational peers. the president's already isolated. doesn't have a lot of people he trusts around him. and he sees giuliani, former new york mayor, as someone who played at his level in the big apple for a long time. they knew each other socially. weren't particularly close. but now that he's part of the team it's really not so much a team. jay sekulow and others are part of it, but it's really the president communicating with his generational peer, an isolated president trying to manage his legal case with robert mueller, with the media. and giuliani's the only person w

let me bring in chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney, nbc news analyst. chuck, what do you see here? what- is the should be the level of concern at the white house as this case begins to unfold? > sarah sanders' statement aside, they ought to be concerned. she said this is not about the president. his name is throughout this inctment. now, to chuck todd's point, there are sti pieces that are missing, but we're seeing more and more of the picture filled in. if you remember, lester, back in july when the mueller team indicted the russian intelligence officials, they left a bread crumb for us and told us that u.s. persons were volved. now we know who some of those u.s. persons were definitively. and with each hdictment, w each additional document dropped into the public domain, it gets closer and closer to senior campaign officials and perhaps,s and per is an important word here, perhaps to the president himself. >> i'ms,curi there has been this expectation that the mueller team was prepared to issue its report and maybe wrap things up as soon as the next mo

. >>> joining me is nbc news reporter ben collins, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and former chief of staff at the fbi, aisha rasco and shannon pettypiece. chuck, let me start with you. for folks who may be saying something like the president, going, yeah, really, that seemed a little much from the fbi when you look at that video. what's your response? >> nonsense. >> why? >> let me break it down and talk as a former federal prosecutor. first you have somebody who is charged with witness tampering, obstruction of justice. so i'm not at all sure why you'd trust that person with a summons to show up on his own and to handle all the evidence that is in his house appropriately, legally, properly. second, if you read the indictment, page 20, he threatens to kill witness. he writes to one of the witnesses in the indictment, prepare to die, expletive. the way they think about people who threaten to kill witnesses is we're not going to trust them to turn themselves in. third, the fbi doesn't get an arrest warrant by itself. with federal prosecutors they go to a fe

. >> chuck rosenberg, you are none of those things. i'm curious to get your take on what you've witnessed in this last session since the first break. >> yeah, i think he continues to answer questions, brian, as expected. there haven't been any big moments, in my view. as i mentioned earlier today, i don't share his politics or his view of the law, which is a very robust reading of article 2 of the constitution with respect to the president's authorities and powers. but this is fairly mainstream conservative republican stuff. nothing surprising here. the republicans have the votes. the democrats simply do not. and he hasn't tripped in any way to cause concern among his republican support. i'll also say this. he strikes me -- well, he doesn't strike me. i know him to be a man of tremendous integrity and principle. that's not to say i agree with everything he says. but he's the type of person we should expect -- we should hope for, i would think, in this administration to be an attorney general. he he is far superior to what we have now,

chuck rosenberg, let me satart with you and what i heard today that donald trump's now compilation of seemingly bizarre, seemingly random, seemingly, let me be blunt, just stupid comments about russia, are probably, at this point, very likely under scrutiny by people investigating his relationship, his contacts, his coordination, if you will, with russia. >> my goodness, nicolle, they would have to be. we've wonder idea michael flynn was debriefed 19 times. that struck us all as an extraordinary number. but maybe now we have a bit more insight into what the mueller team and department of justice are looking at. this is extraordinarily serious. if not because it's a part of mueller's initial remit. it's at least part of the counterintelligence investigation. why is the president speaking about russian interests with respect to montenegro and poland and belarus and sort of a revisionist -- and that's to use the term loosely. a revisionist history of why the soviets invaded afghanistan. it's extraordinary. >> chuck, you just blew my mind as you often do. let me just press a little farthe

let me bring in clint watts, chuck rosenberg, glen kershner, betty woodruff, and jason mason. thank you for being on. we have a gang busters team. chuck, i have to start with you. there's a lot here, and it seems like one phrase that is doing the heavy lifting is a phrase that we read to you at the top of the show. the idea that a trump campaign official was directed to reach out to stone about what he knew about this wikileaks release. >> all right. paragraph 12. fascinating. don't know exactly what it means yet. here's what i'm thinking. the senior -- may i read it? >> please. we have the graphic too. >> after the release of stolen dnc e-mails by organization one which we know to be wikileaks, a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone. who directs a senior campaign official? somebody more senior. >> right. >> now i guess that could be a couple people. but it's a fascinating question. i would love to know who that is. >> and we also when you look at that phrasing, that is not accidental from robert mueller. >> there's something about bob mueller that's ac

chuck rosenberg, a former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official.oyce vance, also a former u.s. attorney. with us at the table, charlie sykes, now editor and chief of the new website bulwark. and political reporter for "the washington post". let me start with you and what i heard from a former u.s. intelligence official today that donald trump's compilation of seemingly bizarre, seemingly random, seemingly -- let me just be blunt, stupid comments about russia are probably at this point likely under scrutiny by people investigating his relationship, his contacts, his coordination, if you will, with russia. >> my goodness, nicole, i think they would have to be. we were wondering why michael flynn was debriefed 19 times. it struck us all as an extraordinary number. maybe now we have a bit more insight into what the mueller team and the department of justice are looking at. this is extraordinarily serious, if not because it is the part of mueller's initial remit, it is at least part of the counterintelligence investigation. why is the president speaking

steve rosenberg has this report.un and 2,500 miles from home, jack shepherd had handed himself in to georgian police. he could soon face extradition. his defence lawyer told me that jack shepherd had made a mistake fleeing britain. i'm not saying that somebody forced him to do that. i'm not saying that we have to blame the british justice system. i'm just saying that it was his decision, yes, but i believe this was not the right decision and he knows that, he agrees with that and now he wants just to do his best to collaborate with thejudges. last year, shepherd was convicted of the manslaughter of charlotte brown, on the left, after his speedboat crashed in the thames. he continues to insist it was a tragic accident. he's been found guilty and convicted of manslaughter. how can someone continue now, still, to be in denial about their reckless actions? a british court had sentenced jack shepherd to six years in prison. now, it's the courts injorja that will decide if he'll be sent home to facejustice. steve rosenberg

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steve rosenberg sent this report from the georgian capital tbilisi. shepherd had handed himself into georgian police. he'll spend another night in this detention centre, in tbilisi. tomorrow, he's in court and could soon face extradition. his defence lawyer told me that jack shepherd had made a mistake fleeing britain. i'm not saying that somebody forced him to do that. i'm not saying that we have to blame the british justice system. i'm just saying it was his decision, yes. but i believe that this was not the right decision. he knows that, he agrees with it. now he wants to do his best to collaborate with the judges. last year, shepherd was convicted of the manslaughter of charlotte brown, on the left, after his speedboat crashed in the thames. he continues to insist it was a tragic accident. he's been found guilty and convicted of manslaughter. how can someone continue now, still, to be in denial about their reckless actions? a british court had sentenced jack shepherd to six years in prison. now it's the courts in georgia that will decide if he'll

thanks to david rosenberg and liz anne saunders. >>> president trump invited congressional leaders comeo sit down discussing the government shutdown. ylan mui is at capitol hill with the latest >> this is built as a briefing and not a meeting. it gives you the sense of distrust on both sides democrats and republicans are worried of getting burnt here. in the past they thought they had a deal with the white house that did not pan out democrats do have a serious office that's on the table they plan to reopen the government which they plan to vote on tomorrow would fund the department of homeland security february 8th to give them time to continue these discussions. they would open the rest of the agency and fund them through the end of the year. nancy pelosi, she sent out a letter to her colleagues yesterday and she said this. we are giving the republicans the opportunity to take yes for an answer. senate republicans have already supported this legislation if they reject it now, they would be comply sit icite. president trump treatweeted ove weekend, let's make a deal, question mark. late

few weeks of his life so yalta ended february 11, 9045 and died april of 45 and he to told, anna rosenbergkey the number of people he said you know, avril was right. we can't trust stalin. already breaking his promises. mark: and churchill also told them. >> , and the worst quote from fdr was where he said this, i believe that if i give stalin everything he asks for and asks nothing from him in return and he uses the word -, he will work with me to advance the world of democracy. stalin will not try to annex anything and will work with me through a world of democracy and peace with fdr is not a communist but he did not understand the communist threat. he thought the threat was from fascists and not enough these which is true but had a total blind eye to the communist. mark: because he was a leading progressive back that's right. mark: which is the progeny. that's the progeny of marxism and of the other -- >> and his wife as well. eleanor was very -. mark: so here we have kennedy undermining reagan because he's tougher on the soviets. fdr with alger hiss in others and really we can say he w

talk about all of it, national political reporter for the washington post, jill coleman and chuck rosenberg. robert, let's start with you. you covered donald trump for a long time. you have covered rudy giuliani for a long time. i have this little soft spot for rudy. when i see the reaction shots from chris cuomo and when you see the chris hannity, you couldn't make it up for snl. what is rudy doing? >> so understand the president's relationship with his lawyer, you have to see them as generational peers. the president is already isolated, doesn't have a lot of people he trusts around him, and he sees giuliani, former new york mayor as someone who played at his level in the big apple for quite some time. now that he's part of the team, it is really not so much of a team. it is the president communicating with his generational peer, trying to manage his legal case are robert mueller, with the media. and giuliani is the only person speaking with the president about those sensitive issues in that way. >> chuck, that seems to put the blame right in the guy in the office with no corners because

a very special parent named don rosenberg, his son tragically killed by illegal immigrant. the man on a mission to hold the feet to the fire so his son's memory will never be forgotten. [cell phone rings] where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won't call an exterminator... can i call you back, mom? he says it's personal this time.. if you're a mom, you call at the worst possible time. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. where are you? it's very loud there. are you taking a zumba class? .. >> ed: tomorrow will mark the very first mist paych >> tomorrow will mark the first missed paycheck because of the partial government shutdown. many are facing cause of hypocrisy proposing the border wall or bury their once supported. before donald trump was in office. and evolving position from capitol hill. >> two years before being elected president politician shaping future platform want by the dangers of a porous border. think it can only be donald trump? it was barack ob

. >> all right, let me bring in chuck rosenberg, nbc news analyst, former u.s. attorney. white house as this case begins to unfold? >> sarah sanders' statement aside they thought to be concerned. she said this isn't about the president. his name is throughout this indictment. to chuck todd's point, which i think is an important one, there are still pieces missing, but we're seeing more and more of the picture filled in. if you remember lester back in july when the mueller team indicted the russian intelligence officials they left a bread crumb for us, they told us u.s. persons were involved now we know who those u.s. persons were. and with each indictment, each document dropped into the public domain, it gets closer and closer to senior campaign officials and perhaps -- perhaps is an important word here -- perhaps to the president himself. >> i'm curious. there's this expectation that the mueller team was prepared to issue its report and wrap things up as soon as the next month or so. does this change that thinking in your view? >> in my view, there's several separate str

. >>> next, chief economist david rosenberg with his thoughts on jay powell's speech and the state of global economy a bagg. not that encourin wereack in a couple of minutes. one-millionth order. millionth order. ♪ there goes our first big order. ♪ 44, 45, 46... how many of these did they order? ooh, that's hot. ♪ you know, we could sell these. nah. ♪ we don't bake. ♪ opportunity. what we deliver by delivering. >>> he is the best a new report of standard charter says the u.s. could lose its top spot as the world's largest economy as soon as next year when measured by purchasing power and nominal gdp china expected to take the tight frl the u.s. in 2020 while india may surpass the u.s. by 2030 >> federal reserve chair jerome powell gave his take on the global economy and the impact on the u.s. economy at the washington club earlier. >> i would say the u.s. economy is solid there's good momentum into this year the principle worry i would have is global growth if you look at asia, europe. you are seeing slowing in growth and the question will be, how much does this affect us it's a tight

matthew rosenberg and phillip mudd are both with me. good evening, gentlemen. number one, how does this happen, but listen, sharing polling data with a russian intelligence operative, this is a bombshell. is there legitimate explanation for this? >> i -- >> phillip, phillip. >> yeah, i -- i can't think of one, but that's -- that's my judgment. that's not a legal issue. the legal issue i would have here is pretty simple. you're talking about one case in isolation, that's paul manafort. there are other cases, obviously, the special counsel is looking into, for example, other people involved in the campaign who were in contact with wikileaks. the one piece missing here, and we're about half a step away from that, don, is we have paul manafort offering information, polling information to someone who is evidently connected with russian intelligence. the one question -- why? what did the campaign want to get in return, in particular, did they want to offer the polling information to ask or suggest to russian intelligence that russian intelligence offer to intervene i

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i want to bring in steve hall, susan glasser, and matthew rosenberg. susan, there's so much so talk about when it comes to this investigation. robert mueller wrapping up, and then there's this dog fight about how much of his report that we're going to see. how do you see this all playing out? >> well, you know, my crystal ball is murky when it comes to knowing what exactly is going to happen. let's just say that i'm looking forward eagerly to read this report whenever it does come out. you know, i'm not yet convinced i know enough what to make of these sort of signs of the last couple days except that, a, there's an enormous amount of evidence that the mueller investigation has gathered that we've seen, you know, the individual shards of. we haven't been able to put together the mosaic yet, if you will, in that roger stone indictment, for example, it's just under 30 pages. there's tantalizing glimpses of a bigger picture that involves not only wikileaks, named only as organization number one, but the direct connection to the trump campaign itself is st

as commissioner rosenberg said, i'm going to read deetje boler's brief. she says -- oh, and i should say that miss boler is a long-time friend of the library. she's been active in working for the library as a friend of the library for 30 years, she told me. it is said that st. francis talked to the birds. maybe, maybe not, but what is certain that no one will be able to talk or even listen to the birds if the presently proposed removal of the groev of 19 trees that harbor then is allows to proceed. as will be shown such an attack on the city of st. francis is not only undesirable but it is also unnecessary, wasteful to the environment, costly to the city and demoralizing to the public. to begin with, in 1994, there was no library in this location nor even these trees, just a parking lot and a one-story office building. in is 996 -- in 1994, the main library was moved from its original location, which the art museum now occupies into this new construction at the corner of grove and hyde streets, at the southeast corner of the civic center, centrally locate