this weekend rudolph giuliani changed his story about the trump tower meeting. does he even know that he changed his own story? that's in "the 11th hour" with brian williams which starts now. >>> tonight president trump tells reuters, he is totally allowed to be involved in the mueller investigation and quote, i could run it if i want. meanwhile, what does white house counsel don mcgahn know and more importantly, what did he tell the special counsel during a report 30 hours of questioning? after some blockbuster reporting in the "new york times," trump allies realized they were in the dark. and rudolph giuliani's fantastic weekend declaring truth isn't truth and going completely and boldly against the facts regarding a key part of trump's path to the white house. all of it as the 11th hour gets underway for a new week on a monday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. day 578 of the trump administration. and tonight the president of the united states is coming off a vicious string of personal attacks, comparing people to dogs

and rudolph giuliani's fantastic weekend declaring truth isn't truth and going completely and boldly against the facts regarding a key part of trump's path to the white house. all of it as the 11th hour gets underway for a new week on a monday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. day 578 of the trump administration. and tonight the president of the united states is coming off a vicious string of personal attacks, comparing people to dogs and rats and calling robert mueller discredited and disgraced. he is neither. and now tonight the president is talking about what is at the heart of all of it. the russia investigation. now that he knows his white house lawyer has testified fully before the mueller team. this afternoon, reuters interviewed president trump. they report, he is, quote, worried that any statements under oath he provides to special counsel robert mueller could be used to bring perjury charges against him. quote, trump echoed the concerns of his top lawyer in the probe, rudolph giuliani, who has warned that any sitdown with mueller cou

i also think it will muzzle rudolph giuliani. a judge is not going to let rudy giuliani talk like this. i don't think mueller needs it. i would just go ahead without it. >> robert, this is out of balance like all the passengers on a plane moving to one side, all we hear is the rudy giuliani/trump's side. mueller never speaks. he thinks they're waiting to see if guilty or innocent, is that real? >> it is real to a point but i think the previous point about how mueller could issue a report any moment in my conversation tonight with mayor rudy giuliani, that stood out because he acknowledged bluntly that is a possibility that mueller could decide enough of the games between the trump team and mueller and all this back and forth and the letters sending of the interview, the longer mueller holds off on a letter back to the trump's legal team, the more it becomes a possibility. rudy giuliani says this is a possibility. mueller drops the report on an update of the investigation and gives it to the department of justice and rosenstein say

to that extent, rudolph giuliani might be working with them. he might be persuading that base. >> and rudy has been clear on it. he said this. this isn't a legal gambit. this is essentially and fundamentally a political one. i think, harry, too, when you watch paul manafort, he is doing all this stuff for decades and getting away with it. and there is some part of it that's like, you're getting me now? i've been doing it since 2006. nobody cared. and i have to wonder if the president is thinking that. you can tell from the conversation, not their first rodeo. it is not the kind of thing that was novel to them. and you wonder how much the president's lack of preparation has to do with his assumption that he will skate as he has thus far. >> right. so a couple things. first, the actual deal that natasha outlined. it is not until after the payment and in the thick of the campaign. it is only then that trump and cohen begin to think, oh-oh! this will be an ongoing thing, unlike the impugnity i've had. now i'm a political figure. briefly to paul's p

this weekend rudolph giuliani changed his story about the trump tower meeting.n "the 11th hour" with brian williams which starts now. >>> tonight president trump tells reuters, he is totally allowed to be involved in the mueller investigation and quote, i could run it if i want. i could run it if i want. meanwhile, what does white house counsel don mcgahn know and more importantly, what did he tell the special counsel during a report 30 hours of questioning? after some blockbuster reporting in the "new york times," trump allies realized they were in the dark. and rudolph giuliani's fantastic weekend declaring truth isn't truth and going completely and boldly against the facts regarding a key part of trump's path to the white house. all of it as the 11th hour gets underway for a new week on a monday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. day 578 of the trump administration. and tonight the president of the united states is coming off a

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former new york city mayor, rudolph giuliani says he believes that is not the correct avenue to go. this article, essentially suggests there's division amongst the ranks in the president's legal team. that said, the interview for mr. giuliani would contend otherwise. look, it's like, you know, you have -- you have the intrigue with the president's administration and this side show, this synopsis of inner fighting within the president's legal team. >> ozzie, the president just tweeting this about the report saying the failing at new york times wrote a fake piece implying because don mcgahn was given hours of testimony to the special counsel, he may be a john dean type rat. i allowed him and all others to testify. i did not have to. i have nothing to hide. okay. ozzie, what do you make of that? >> clearly, he doesn't feel like he has nothing to hide. he openly said statements he gives to the media may not be truthful. what is he actually doing? painting the picture and hitting the same drum he and his team tried to say before, there's no collusion, this investigation is going on too lo

attorney representing him with regard to the special counsel and those proceedings that his name is rudolph giuliani but again the president doesn't always seem to understand that perhaps that may have contributed to the frustrations of don mcgann who also we should point out was rumored to leave it was this was percolating in the news back in june because of some pushback he was receiving from the president with regard to the president's desire to fire the special counsel robert muller began suggesting that was not a good idea oh it's only when stories will listen that can be think you can't help it so white house correspondent. moving on millions of children around the world are beginning a new school year but the united nations refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. is worried about the growing number of refugees who won't get anywhere near a classroom and they say the problems getting a lot worse last year four million refugee children didn't go to school half a million more than in twenty sixteen compared to ninety two percent globally only sixty one percent of refugee children attending primary school and

and rudolph giuliani's fantastic weekend declaring truth isn't truth and going completely and boldly against the facts regarding a key part of trump's path to the white house. all of it as the 11th hour gets underway for a new week on a monday night.

condition, rudolph giuliani. >> back then rudy was the best man in law enforcement without a cape. >>atch all, about you we can deliver a message that if you get caught, you will go to prison. >> today as the prospect of a wider scandal seemed certain, the market was off more than 40 points after it was learned that ivan boesky was talking. >> this is like arresting the madam of a brothel and finding her private book of clients. >> he takes a fall and wall street is practically jumping out windows. he has been taping phone calls and private talks for three months and big shots -- you get the idea. >> he was guilty. there was no defense. all he had was bargaining power. who could he deliver? >> levine was a fish. boesky was a shark. who is the whale? >> i don't know. it's possible. >> in the middle of all of this until a few years ago, a little known wall street firm that shot to the top of the wall street world by specializing in junk bonds. high interest, but high risk. >> the head of the junk bond department made a secret deal with convicted stock swindler to make millions illegally

plus, hours after threatening to unload like a ton of prediction, rudolph giuliani says he is almostpotential subpoena fight and the trump legal team is ready to go to the supreme court. just hours away now in the case of paul manafort, the first big test of the mueller era as "the 11th hour" gets away. good evening once

this is getting reinforced by rudolph giuliani.ere other lawyers previously who were giving him a different set of advice. on the one hand trump believes his biggest risk is not necessarily from mueller but may come from possible impeachment if democrats take the house. so there is an elementary school where he believes this is a public relations battle. that he needs to discredit mueller in case the investigation finds anything but even if it doesn't and lay the ground work. as he likes to say, this is a witch hundred. collusion is not a crime and he did nothing wrong. we don't know. now that michael cohen has flipped, that's a risk. >> there was a seed change in the people close to him and i'm sure you talked to many more. there was a seed ghang the president's potential guilt on the question of collusion. they always thought, he is too incompetent to have colluded with russia. he couldn't even collude between the plane and the headquarters. he could have done something there. but after helsinki, there was a seed change in what p

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lemire, you were among the journalists and they could fit comfortably in a 747 who regularly talk rudolph giuliani. and you just watched that exchange with chris cuomo. does any of it matter? the target is moving almost on a daily basis. we had a former federal special prosecutor here in your chair last night who said it's all noise. there's the mueller investigation and everything important, and there is whatever they want to say on the other side. >> right. this is a unique brand of lawyering for rudy giuliani. he is trying to shape congress's opinion of whatever report mueller is going to come out with. he is going to move the goalpost, change objectives, sort of play to the cable television networks and sort of influence how people think about mueller. and we have seen at least some slippage in the poll numbers of people who believe that mueller's doing a good job and that he is impartial. he is not trying this case in the courtroom. that's never been his task. he is someone the president has sent throughout to mix it up on television, to get his message out there and to muddy the waters. and

rudolph giuliani did say robert mueller could indict him after he leaves the presidency. >> sure, and that's legally true. >> he's fighting for his marriage. we know from the cohen tapes perhaps that his prenuptial agreement is going to be in some trouble because of those revelations. so he will be fighting very vehemently. it's not just his political future that's on the line. it's donald trump personally who's on the line, the trump brand, the trump business, everything that donald trump has worked for for 70 years is potentially going to be decided in november because democrats will gain subpoena power, they will gain -- >> if they win, you're saying. >> gain the ability to have hearings, look at the financial disclosure statements, have hearings into the trump/russia probe, strengthen the mueller probe as opposed to allowing trump to shut it down. >> stephanie, if you want to party like it's 1999 for a second, let's talk dvd evidence, not the usual format everyone's familiar with. but michael avenatti made a lot of noise about this. they tried to get more details from him on "the

on the south and west sides of chicago the most violent part to city president trumps lawyer rudolph giuliani called the violence a result of the democratic rule in this city but mayor rahm emanuel president obama's former chief of staff and a frequent oil of trump's describe it is a failure of morality all of us. know that this is not chicago. what we saw. therefore all of us who love the city and call it home. have a responsibility. to heal. our neighborhoods protesters against violence recently shut down chicago's iconic lakeshore drive raising awareness of an epidemic of gun battles that draws little attention downtown in the affluent north side because it is largely contained in the poor mostly black neighborhoods we organize the march right in the middle of rush hour traffic and we want to make sure that we we distribute the pain in chicago because on the south east and west of chicago people are dying every day. not surprisingly the isolated weekend violence in the neighborhoods left the four day long a palooza music festival untouched downtown where one hundred thousand people descend

states who has consistently lied in fact on this issue, denied knowing about these payments until rudolph giuliani, his lawyer, waiving attorney-client privilege, said oh, he knew about the payments directly contrary to the lie on air force one. so to answer your question, mr. cohen be dedicated to telling the truth. if that amounts to the word cooperation, i'll leave that to my cohort, the great criminal defense lawyer guy pet trillo to explain. >> the special counsel's office, special counsel's robert mueller and any of the prosecutors don't appear anywhere in the court filings today. they weren't discussed in court. that makes them a looming presence in this story and what we know about the future of your client. the future of michael cohen. is there anything to do with the special counsel that was involved in this plea agreement today? has the special counsel approached michael cohen already about whether he would like to speak some of that truth to their inquiry in addition to what he's just faced in sdny? >> so, i can't tell you the answer to that question about kaktz between mi about contac

. >> paul, one more question, reading from this reporting it says that rudolph giuliani and jay sekulow, the president's attorneys, advised that mueller could interpret firing sessions as an effort to obstruct justice and thwart justice. do you agree that this is a concern, that it would be obstructive? >> i agree. it would be just a number of things trump has done. giuliani's right, the audience is the republicans and congress. and, frankly, at this point, i think they let him get away with anything. >> well, it's a breaking story, paul butler and ty kelly, two able attorneys riding along with us as we unpack it. >>> i want to turn next to what was donald trump's ally devon nunez doing in london? rushed into booking one. that's why we created expedia's add-on advantage. now after booking your flight, you unlock discounts on select hotels right until the day you leave. ♪ add-on advantage. discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. only when you book with expedia. >>> a chairman of the house intelligence committee was rejected by british spy agencies. this is a somewhat bizarre

particular reason to to make these kinds of allegations at the same time this is exactly what rudolph giuliani is also doing trump's personal lawyer now who's also trying to discredit the opponent and that's a strategy we've seen before not just with michael cohen but with other opponents of trumps what so surprisingly for observers you know especially from the outside is after that whiplash yesterday's witness that has been quite restrained reaction from the political establishment i do believe that some senators have reacted they've gone on the record let's take a listen then we'll continue our conversation at the other end of it. i think we need to remind ourselves that again when the president united states has essentially been named in an event a coconspirator and we are on the threshold of a cost crisis in this country the president personally tourney has pled guilty to wrongdoing involving the federal law we are having a constitutional crisis in our country is what the president describes as a which is actually our law enforcement agencies doing the job that they. have committed to do t

here's the case with rudolph giuliani. he's not read the case or the documents but not preparing for legal defense but for a political attack back on the mueller report because they know that they can only go to the house and senate. that's shortsighted for this reason. the midterms are coming up. if the house goes to the democrats and senate goes to the democrats everything changes and i mean legally, politically, everything changes. whether he gets impeached for not. they have a political response and they can lie all they want. but the reality is, if politics change and those houses change, then you could be looking at impeachment or beyond. >> all right. everyone, stick around. he's the man whose watergate testimony helped bring down president nixon. >> i began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. >> now, president trump is calling him a rat. john dean joins us do respond next. >>> then, president trump's former fixer could be facing criminal charges any day. could this spell trou

jason, to that point, want to quote, "his attorneys, rudolph giuliani and jay sekulow advised him thatller could interpret such an act for it as an effort to obstruct justice and for the investigation. white house aides have tried to convince trump that firing sessions could trigger more problems than it would solve." it sounds like mueller is much more about going after the obstruction of justice thing then he is on russian collusion at this point. >> if that was true, if he is looking at obstruction of justice, then rod rosenstein should be recusing himself. he's the one that authored the memo that went to the president recommending the firing of james comey. how is it that he then still sees -- oversees the investigation of the special prosecutor? there are a lot of people that believe there should either be a second special prosecutor or get rid of jeff sessions. he's been the most ineffective attorney general we've ever had of the history of this nation. he should have never recused himself and he's not playing with an even hand. >> shannon: how do you really feel, jason? i want t

it comes as rudolph giuliani also echoing the president in terms of how he is defending him.ich the jury is still out with paul manafort. the previous campaign chairman, that juries still deliberating. they will return today. a lot happening on the investigation front. this going to see the president? it was fascinating in terms of the intelligence community that released a letter. it is rare to see such high caliber folks to get on board for a letter refuting president trump's decision to revoke be security clearance of the former cia director. i spoke with someone who tried to put it in perspective. the community tries to stay out of political issues driving agendas. they feel, according to this person, they have to speak out. francine: talk to me about the trade war. seeing more lobbying from chief executives trying to convince the administration that escalating the war is a bad idea? a survey in the last couple of days saying that the trade policies are going to hurt the united states more so than other countries. the second point i would make is that $16 billion worth of