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the trump organization. he was also the go between for trump's most recent and perhaps most controversial attempt atable trump tower moscow. >> according to "new york timeser urged trump to cop 0 moscow to tour this proposal and even suggested to him that he could help him within the presidency. >> the e-mails have now come out in which you see sater actually saying that we could use this is business opportunity to get donald trump elected. >> president trump would be so much better for u.s., russian relations. >> there is no question during the campaign that trump was trying to get closer to russia and repair releases with russia. >> there's nothing i can think of that i'd rather do than have russia friendly. >> in one question for the mueller investigation is whether the reason trump was reaching out to russia was because he was making money or expecting to make money from relationships with putin's people at red lobster... with the most lobster dishes of the year. new dueling lobster tails has two tails that'll fight to be your favorite. one topped with creamy shrimp and scallops, the other... steamed with lemon and herbs. and no, you're not dreaming,

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trump and his administration introduced his massive one point five trillion dollar infrastructure plan to the country and reviews are out shall we say. downright diabolical according to the new york times trump's plan puts little emphasis on how much an infrastructure proposal benefits the public and more on finding private investors and other outside sources of money elliot sklar a professor of urban planning and international affairs at columbia university told the times that instead of the public sector deciding on public needs and public priorities the projects that are most attractive to private investors are the ones that will go to the head of the line so in the competition for federal infrastructure funding it appears that trump's planted that a former developer is essentially putting private companies and other developers at the head of the line while putting the actual needs of society all the way to the back as professor scar elaborates private investors will become the tail that will wake the dog because they'll want projects that will give returns in two thousand and seventeen the american society of civil engineers annual infrastructure report card has given the united st

the "new york times," a couple more. "new york times" hald the stroir recently, trump's unparalleled war on a pillar of society, law enforcementprecedented. nine historians on why trump's war with the fbi is so stunning. the guardian, trump's attack on the fbi is an attack on the u.s. constitution itself. on the constitution itself, sarah. i mean, look, the. needs to be fair. and he needs to be balanced how he goes after and demands accountability from the fbi or anyone else. but what's wrong with asking questions of agencies that clearly are not perfect here? >> exactly. president trump has never attacked the fbi as a whole. in fact he and his allies in the white house have been careful to specify that what they're criticizing about the fbi is political leadership that's left over from the previoused a mshgs, particularly everyone a -- previous administration, particularly james comey. they never crypt sized the rank and file of the fbi. and they've been clear that they want to defend those men and women. democrats that have extrapolated the white house's skepticism of the political leadership to make it an attack on the bure

trump and his administration introduced his massive one point five trillion dollar infrastructure plan to the country and reviews are also always say. downright diabolical according to the new york times trump's plan puts little emphasis on how much an infrastructure proposal benefits the public and more on finding private investors and other outside sources of money elliot sklar a professor of urban planning and international affairs at columbia university told the times that instead of the public sector deciding on public needs and public priorities the projects that are most attractive to private investors are the ones that will go to the head of the line so in the competition for federal infrastructure funding it appears that trump's planted that of former developers is essentially putting private companies and other developers at the head of the line while putting the actual needs of society all the way to the back as professor scar elaborates private investors will become the tail that will lead the dog because they'll want projects that will give returns in two thousand and seventeen the american society of civil engineers annual infrastructure report card has given the united

the new york times" opinion. and i have one the reporters from "the new york times" just a reminer to the viewers, "the new york times" reporting tonight and in the discussions about this famous trump tower meeting in 2016 during the campaign that hope hiks, communications adviser to the president at the time made a comment that don trump junior's emails wouldn't come out. mark, you reported this story and tell us the significance of this. >> i think it's significant when corallo testifies to mueller this is a conversation he had with hope hicks. how he interpreted her statement. he believes she was perhaps trying to bury some of the e-mails or ensure they didn't come out. this would be maybe his word against hers. this is a senior member of the legal team who is going to testify to the mueller investigation that he was concerned about how in whole 24 hours went down. this is the day after the statement had been put out, the misleading statement aboard air force 1 describing the trump tower meeting in a certain way. he know that the meeting happened in a very different manner. >> no question. as you refer to, there, the initial statement from the white house said that in trump towe

fox news, the headline is, going to get it done, so they are going on a line of trump will sort this out. the new york timesying pa rents york times is anti—trump, saying parents and students plea with the president, how many children have to get shot? in terms of the general feeling, we have put out a twitter question asking for people, if anybody believes it is an idea to armed teachers. everyone's response is no, not a good idea at all. there are questions about donald trump's allegiance to the nra, which is a very powerful gun lobby in the united states. it is a difficult one to resolve. how will this change, if at all? the only easy thing is you have to step up the mental health checks and i think everybody is in agreement but beyond that it is difficult to find some compromise. we had trump saying the devices that turn weapons and firing bullets at rapid pace, they should be banned. something the nra is against. the first idea he has muted that is against the gun lobby. they say they are against raising the age for which guns can be purchased. that is against somebody‘s right. which guns can be purcha

the legal standing to question mr. trump about some of the matters he is investigating, like the president's role in providing a misleading response last summer to a "new york times" story about a meeting mr. trump's son, donald trump jr., had with russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. the advisers also argued that on other mat ers, like the allegations that the president asked james comey to end the investigation into the national security advisor michael t. flynn, the president acted within his constitutional authority and cannot be questioned about acts that were legal. joining us now harry lipman, now a professor at the university of california san diego. and nick ackerman, an assist tenant special watergate prosecutor. and natasha bertrand, staff writer at the atlantic. harry lipman, i want to go to what leads like a novel legal theory, that as a "new york times" reports, the president's lawyers are thinking that mr. mueller lacks the legal standing to question mr. trump about some of the matters that he is investigating, like the president's role in providing misleading response to the "new york times" and even the president's role in talking to james

so i think i have that right as a daughter to believe my father. >> the "new york times" reports trump'shas faced pushback from journalists and others who say she was at the olympics games in an official capacity and has positioned herself for a voice for women inside the white house. >>> after a controversy, the "new york times" reports first lady melania trump has parted ways with stephanie winston walco the tt last are are week terminating a contract by which trump's long time friend was an unpaid government employee. wallcot made headlines when it was learned she was paid nearly $26 million to plan events around it. sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell the times that mrs. trump was dispoliced by the news. a spokesperson said the first lady, quote, had no involved with the inaugural committee and she had no knowledge of how the funds were spent. >>> and melania trump delivered her first speech of 2018 yesterday and used the opportunity to address the recent tragedy that killed 17 in parkland, florida. the first lady commended the students who are leading the movement to

tower in the middle of the presidential campaign with a group of russians, that meeting was attended by donald trump jr., paul manafort, and jared kushner. tonight "new york times" is reporting on another conference call about the evidence that could reveal that the trump tower meeting was really about getting dirt on hillary clinton. the "new york times" obtained the e-mails that set up that meeting. they indicated that the russians were promising dirt on hillary clinton, to which donald trump jr. replied, i love it! that's all in the e-mails. the e-mails are very important in this case. tonight the times is reporting, quote, mr. corallo is planning to tell mr. mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with mr. trump and hope hicks, the white house communications director, according to three people. mr. corallo plans to tell investigators that ms. hicks said during the call that e-mails written by donald trump jr. before the trump tower meeting in which the younger mr. trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about mrs. clinton from the russians, quote, will never get out. that left mr. corallo with concerns that ms. hicks could be contem

the "new york times" and i have one of the reporters who broke the news. just a reminder to the viewers the "new york times" reporting tonight that in the discussion about this famous trump tower meeting in 2016 during the campaign, that hope hicks kmo communication add vie tor made a comment that donald trump jr.s e-mails would never come out. you reported this story. tell us the significance of this. >> it will be significant when he goes and testifies to mueller. that this is something the conversation he had with hope hicks. this is how he interpreted her statement. he believes that she was perhaps trying to bury some of the e-mails or assure they didn't come out. maybe his word against hers. this a senior member of the legal team who will testify to the mueller investigation he was concerned about how this whole 24 hours went down. this is the day after the statement had been put out the misleading statement aboard air force one. describing that trump tower meeting in a certain way. and we know the meeting happened in a very different manner. >> no question. as you referred to there the initial statement from the white house said that this trump tower meeting was ab

president not to grant a face-to-face interview with robert mueller's team, according to "the new york times." trump's legal team is concerned that the president who admitted in a 2007 libel case deposition that he had lied in the past could contradict himself and be charged with lying to investigators. >> i would refer you to a statement from ty cobb on that. the professional and active discussions between the office of special counsel and the president's personal lawyers regarding how and under what terms information will be exchanged are understandably private. >> reporter: just two weeks ago, the president himself said he would gladly sit down with the special counsel. >> you know, again, it's -- i have to say, subject to my lawyers and all of that, but i would love to do it. >> reporter: cnn has learned that the president's legal team is prepared to argue that the special counsel hasn't met the high legal threshold to force the president to talk. sources tell cnn the president's attorneys are prepared to argue that other people can provide the exact same information sought from trump, which could

trump to release a democratic re-buttal. the president has five days to make a decision now. bay area congressman and intelligence committee member er er eric swalwell with a response. >>> the "new york times" reporting president trump's lawyers do not want him to meet with mueller. >>> the ceo of pepco saying they are looking into doritos made for women. many women are saying thanks but no thanks. >> reporter: you hear that crunch? in a podcast with freak nommics the ceo said men like to chomp down on doritos. women don't like to crunch too loudly in public and don't lick their fingers generously. looking for less quiet doritos. >> i am not sitting there with doritos in my hand, oh, no, there is going to be dust on my fingers. >> maybe they should come up with doritos gloves. >> reporter: the president of women's march bay area calls us degrading and offensive. >> we are going to show them this is not okay. >> reporter: teaching marketing and brand management saying the situation calls for more research. >> there is a possibility that all of the negative comments are coming from people who wouldn't buy doritos in the first place. >>> stay with us. chefs are showing off their culinary chop

. >>> the breaking news we're covering tonight comes from the new york times. what donald trump's legal team thinks about him sitting down with mueller. >>> also as trump spoke about the economy today and declared america open for business, the cable networks cut away to cover the largest single point drop in the history of the market. and the president says the democrats who sat silently and didn't applaud his speech are un-american and suggests they might be guilty of treason. all of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a monday night. >>> good evening once again as we start a new week from nbc news head quarters in new york. day 382 of the trump administration. a day when the stock market took a massive and history-making dive. at one point today falling nearly 1600 points before settling down more than 1100. it happened while the president was speaking about the economy. it caused, as we said, the cable news networks to switch away to cover the plunging market. this was also the day when the president accused his political opponents of treason and called them un-american for n

time soon. >> president trump released a statement to the "new york times" "hope is absolutely fantastic. she was with the campaign from the beginning and i could not ask for anything more. hope is smart, very talented and

trump to release a democratic re-buttal. the president has five days to make a decision now. bay area congressman and intelligence committee member er er eric swalwell with a respon >>> the "new york times" reporting president trump's lawyers do not want him to meet with mueller. >>> the ceo of pepco saying they are looking into doritos made for women. many women are saying thanks but no thanks. >> reporter: you hear that crunch? in a podcast with freak nommicss the ceo said men like to chomp down on doritos. women don't like to crunch too loudly in public and don't lick their fingers generously. looking for less quiet doritos. >> i am not sitting there with doritos in my hand, oh, no, there is going to be dust on my fingers. >> maybe they should come up with doritos gloves. >> reporter: the president of women's march bay area calls us degrading and offensive. >> we are going to show them this is not okay. >> reporter: teaching marketing and brand management saying the situation calls for more research. >> there is a possibility that all of the negative comments are coming from people who wouldn't buy doritos in the first place. >>> stay with us. chefs are showing off their culinary cho

trump lays into former president obama for failing to stop russian election meddling. plus, political hackery meets presidential history. so-called experts in "the new york times" say trump isn't just bad, he's the worst president ever. but first, the fallout from the shooting at a parkland florida high school wednesday that killed 17 people is turning into a student led massive movement against guns. now president trump is signaling he may favor gun control legislation. students are involved in the planning at least in four major upcoming protest, including a march on washington next month. parkland, florida, students who survived last week's shooting are taking to the airwaves to promote the new campaign. >> the tragedy at stoneman douglas was not because of stoneman douglas, was because of people like nicholas cruz were able to buy these weapons. we are not going to let the 17 bullets we just took take us down. if anything we are going to keep running and leave them a nest of the nation behind us. >> katie: meanwhile, president trump was reportedly moved by the sight of the victims during a visit to the hospital on friday and discussed gun-control options w

that's according to a front-page article in "the new york times" today on the trump administration's newly-released nuclear policy plan, which critics say will srk

so, according to the "new york times," former trump legal spokesman mark corallo was concerned hope hicksice on air force 1 when concocting the public excuse for donald trump jr.'s meeting with the russians reportedly saying the e-mails would never get out, and that set off a light bulb for corallo who ultimately and quickly resigned. what do you think about this? especially the fact, starting with you, a lawyer for hicks who normally doesn't say anything about the charges, the lawyer came forward publicly to deny it. speaks volumes that the lawyer did that. >> yeah. there seems to be a great amount of concern with people in the white house about what happened in the call, involving this meeting and attempts to lie to the press about it functionally. seems they lied to the press about it, may have crossed legal lines as well. i don't know. it's one of the things where it's not illegal to lie to the press. >> right. >> i hope people don't do that. >> they do, they do, by the way. >> that's what i heard, jake, but i just have questions whether it is broader. the broader story here is did th

the fbi speed on the trump campaign aide. >> nbc10 national correspondent tracie potts looks at the latest in washington. >> reporter: "the new york times" reports president trump's lawyers do not want him to interview in the russia investigation. >> he's becoming increasingly desperate as the investigative vice titgh tightens around the office. >> reporter: the white house saying talks with the special counsel's office are private. if there's no interview, the special counsel could subpoena the president to testify before a grand jury. there are also multiple reports this morning that the president's former chief strategist steve bannon will not testify at the house intelligence committee today. reportedly because the white house has not cleared what questions he can answer. bannon is under subpoena. >> if he does not show up tomorrow, does not answer our questions, i think he needs to be held in contempt. >> that committee has agreed to release the democrats' version of how the fbi convinced a court to allow surveillance on trump campaign aide carter page. president trump has the final say on whether the second classified memo goes pu

the us market for carbonated soft drink. now it is time look at the stories that are making the headlines —— in media across the world. we begin with the new york times. it's looking at president trump's, highlighting the fact his speech focused on mental health support rather than gun control and oving on to the financial times now and another example of what's known as "gouging", this time an irish pharmaceutical company's charging three thousand dollars for a bottle of two—in—one pills — the problem, says the paper, is the drugs can be bought seperately for 36 dollars. our next story's covered across the world but here it is in british tabloid the sun, its headline, "it's good to be stinky and lazy" after research showed cosmetics are causing air pollution and fumes from household cleaning products can be as harmful as smoking 20 cigarettes a day. turning the page on president zuma — south africa's enca profiles his successor and the eventful career that's taken cyril ramaphosa from activist to multi—millionaire and now given him the presidency. and finally the gulf today with a story that seems like an accident waiting to happen. how do you fancy taking in art exhibitions while yo

. >>> now to our other top story according to "the new york times," president trump's lawyers want him to refuse an interview request from robert mueller's team. the times reports that they are concerned that the president could get caught lying to investigators. this follows cnn reporting that the president's attorneys argue mueller's team have not met the threshold for a face to face interview. cnn's abby phillip is live at the white house with more on this. good morning, abby. >> reporter: good morning. the white house confirmed the democratic memo is now in president trump's hands. he now has five days to decide what he's going to do with it. will he block it or redact it or perhaps release it as he did with the gop memo. all of this coming as we are also learning through new reports that the president and his legal team may not be on the same page about whether or not he should sit down with special counsel robert mueller. lawyers for president trump are urging him not to agree to an interview with special counsel robert mueller. partially out of concern that the president, who ha

nbc news has confirmed today that the president chose not to stop its release, though he has chosen not to release it himself. back to the hill it goes. "the new york times" reporting, mr. trump who had a brief window to block the memo's disclosure on national security grounds was expected to tell congress on friday that he had no objections and would likely not request any material be redacted, according to a senior administration official. it would then be up to the house intelligence committee whose republican leaders have pushed for its release, to make the document public. new reporting by the "washington post" gives us some insight into how the president arrived at that decision, that conclusion. according to to the post, quote, before he had even read it, trump became absolutely convinced of one thing, the memo needed to come out. that the president did not actually see the memo until wednesday afternoon, that would be yesterday, following committee's monday vote to initiate its release. that was after the president was caught on a hot mike coming up the aisle after the state of the union tuesday night promising 100% to release the memo. the decision goes against the s

the new york times. this story about the trump vacancies on top of vacancies. we knew that he was having trouble filling the thousands of positions but this is really the top tier they are talking about. story talks about the incredible turnover rate of staff within the white house. 34%, which is much more than a number of administrations going back years and yea rs administrations going back years and years and years. it's interesting that some of these, it almost a daily occurrence or a weekly occurrence at the moment but we hear ofan occurrence at the moment but we hear of an official within the white house losing hisjob of an official within the white house losing his job offer of an official within the white house losing hisjob offer some other reason and this all comes on the back of rob porter, a white house secretary, losing hisjob the back of rob porter, a white house secretary, losing his job over allegations of domestic abuse. when you go for a job in the white house, a lot the pressure is down to the background checks. to work within the west wing a

the "new york times" and left some key things out of his tweet. he said, according to the new york times a russian sold sold phony seek on trump to the u.s. 10 million brus down to $1 million to be paid over time. i hope people are now seeing and understanding what is going on here. it is all now starting to come out. drain the swamp. he is intentionally trying to paint a different picture here, conspiracy theory here? >> from what i know of donald trump, absolutely. this is part of the deep state conspiracy he has been advancing as way to deflect from the very legitimate investigation going on against him and officials in his administration. this is classic donald trump. deny, deflect, accuse. that is what he does. so this is what he has been doing forever. he is master manipulator of the media and he also understands his base. he understands that his base is already interested in conspiracy theorys. they listen to alex jones. they listen to all of these con spirer toal programs that come on the far right programs and so he knows that. he is tapping into that. and his base, as a matter of fact, is loving it. they are receiving this. they

hicks, according to "the new york times," told the president -- president donald trump on this conference call that trump jr. e-mails will never get out. now, we're -- according to "the new york times," corallo plans to share this conversation with the special counsel, bob mueller. it is important to note that hicks' lawyer in a statement to cnn clearly denies this story, says that hope hicks, that the suggestion that hope hicks ever suggested that e-mails or other documents would be concealed or destroyed is completely false. >> okay. >> shimon prokupecz, thank you very much. joining us, mary ellen o'toole, profiler and steve caladnik. this new report out of our white house team, the president wants this republican memo discrediting the fbi, released because he thinks that he thinks it discredits the mueller investigation there are short-term implications for this and long term as well. short term, he may be doing this because he wants some excuse to put out rod rosenstein or bob mueller, you know. short term he may be doing this as an excuse not to testify before the special counsel's i

the trump campaign led broadly to who paid this money? who was paid to not talk of her alleged affair with president trump. now michael cohen told the new york timesd that money out of his own pocket and neither the trump organization or the campaign was party to the transaction. mr. cohen is not answering mr. trump himself was aware of the payment or what the motivation was for the payment. mr. cohen is not saying whether he made similar payments to other people over the years. >> that story just broke. this happens a t a time when all of washington is on the edge of their seats wondering if the president is about to lose another chief of staff on domestic violence charges and how the white house handled those questions. that will scandal is raising skee questions o f tf the chief of s kelly and white house counsel, chief mcgahn, the one person that i know and who has literally seen it all and never rattled and who knows how to keep these things in contact, andrea, thank you for being here. >> i am rattled. i am officially rattled. i am about to lose it. well, what else can happen tonight? >> tell me what rattles you the most? is it accumulations

the "new york times" with another big scoop. mueller investigating a possible on cover up of the trump tower meeting between russians and the trump campaign. joining us on the phone is cnn political analyst and "new york times" reporter maggie haberman. maggie? >> reporter: chris, thanks for having me. >> i insist to bother you late at night and early in the morning when you are with your family. thank you very much. the headline matters. tell us what you know and what you think it means. >> reporter: sure. look, mueller will be the one who can decide how significant all of this is. we have learned more about how things went down in terms of drafting, the statement that was crafted aboard air force one about the trump tower meeting. we know mueller has been asking people about it. some prosecutors are -- not prosecutors, excuse me. some people involved in the interviews are a little bit puzzled as to why because the argument is that being, you know, not candid with the press is not a crime but not that it would be. and that was not the issue here. it was simply the former. we also know of a conference call that took place the day

the new york times." read you their lead. melania trump has parted ways with an adviser after news about the adviser's firm reaping $26 million in payments to help plan the trump inauguration. stephanie winston has been friends for years, working as a senior adviser to the office of the first lady. mrs. trump's spokeswoman says now that the office of the first lady has severed its contract, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation the move was prompted by displeasure from the trumps over the news that a firm created was paid nearly $26 million for event planning for mr. trump's inauguration. mr. trump was also enraged to learn that she brought on a close friend, david monn. mr. monn's firm was paid $3.7 million. she is complaining about news coverage of her role in the inauguration calling news coverage completely unfair but according to these reporters from "the times" she did not specify any errors. do we have ken on the line? have we been able to get him? joining us now by phone on unbelievably short notice is "new

that was a response to that meeting, the initial report about that meeting in the "the new york times" that donald trumpet with this russian lawyer who was alleging to provide incriminating information about hillary clinton and so now the "the new york times" is reporting that mark ca roll lowe who is is a spokesman for the president's personal legal team is expected to testify before robert mueller that during a conference call that he had with the president and with hope hicks the communications director that hicks said that she believed the e-mails will quote, never get out, and according to the "the new york times" it's unclear whether she was suggesting that she would prevent them from getting out or whether she was simply being naive in believing that those e-mails would never see the light of day eventually did, of course. hope hicks' attorney is firmly, firmly denying these allegations. he said in a statement to cnn, she never said that and the idea that hope hicks ever suggested that e-mails or other documents would be concealed or destroyed is completely false. all of this of course raises que

trump lays into former president obama for failing to stop russian election meddling. plus, political hackery meets presidential history. so-called experts in "the new york timesjust bad, he's the worst president ever. but first, the fallout from the shooting

the actress once claimed that she had a sexual relationship with mr. trump in 2006. michael cohen tells "the new york times" he was not reimbursed by the trump organization or the crumb campaica -- trump campaign. >>> a woman is leading the charge to shut down a suspected east oakland -- it's been in operation for more than three years. lisa amin gulezian has the story you'll see only on abc 7. >> we heard there are a lot of dogs being sold out of here. >> no, no. >> the park at the end of douglas avenue and east oakland sits this broken down rv where carmella harris lives. >> i'm an animal lover. >> she has four miniature doberman pinschers. >> according to animal that's a lie. >> she's breeding them and selling them over a period of, i'm for sure, three years. >> these are eight dogs that were rescued. she paid nearly $300. >> she brought them outside, they were just filthy dirty, covered with feces. they couldn't all hardly stand in there. >> lewis called oakland animal services and the police. no one said much to us either, other than it's an open investigation. >> there's been some contact with the si

consultants llc, the name of the company set up reportedly by trump lawyer michael cohen to cut this check. so that was the complaint. two days ago this turned up in "the new york timesen, trump's longtime lawyer says he paid stormy daniels out of his on pocket. that may have been a little ahead of the story. he didn't say he paid out of his own pocket. what he said what, "quote, i used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to stephanie clifford, aka stormy daniels. he said neither the trump organization or trump campaign was a party to the transaction and neither reimbursed me for the payment. he said he was not reimbursed by the campaign but there was no denial he might have been reimbursed by donald trump himself. when he says he used his own funds to facilitate the payment, honestly that means he could have paid out of pocket for the stamp on the envelope with somebody else's check inside, right? to facilitate that payment getting to its destination. so who paid? and there's also this matter now of why michael cohen would come out and admit this payment right now. the "new york times" suggested his statement was linked to a deadline requiring

. >> way back last summer in an interview with "the new york times" president trump suggested investigating his finances or his family's finances would cross a line. the word he used is violation. he doesn't get to decide that, does he, jeff? >> no, he doesn't. the jurisdiction rosenstein last may is very broad. it's russian collusion and anything related. it seems as written that it's mueller who gets to decide what's related or not. keep in mind, though, that donald trump always has in his pocket the possibility of directing the justice department to fire mueller. but in terms of day-to-day activities, it's up to mueller what he investigates. >> rod rosenstein, when he appointed robert mueller specifically said that could investigate russia but also any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation. if this arose during the investigation, fair game, at least according to rod rosenstein. let's talk about the abby lowell denier. abbe lowell who defended a whole lot of very powerful people. o there has not been a single question asked or document sought on the 666 building

the president. yet there's no confirmation of the tape. here's trump's response, according to to the "new york times" a russian told phony secrets on trump to the u.s. asking price was $10 million brought down to $1 million to be paid over time. it's all coming out. drain the swamp. >> it all appears if you finish the article that they were trying to do. >> right. so meanwhile the fox is in charge of the hen house. i mean here we are again, another kind of scandalous moment in the trump administration, with, you know, questionable leadership. here's someone, here's donald trump jumping into -- you know, jumping into the fray and started discord, you know, engaging in all kinds of battles, unnecessary battles with the very agency and agencies he should be working with. it's representative of an administration that really is not taking any of this seriously. but that also is giving very little oversight and attention to the real concerns. and instead has decided that this is a political -- you know, there's political capital in turning this into a fight with the very intelligence agencies that are supposed to support, support the white house,

trump right before the election? well, now the president's long-time personal lawyer michael cohen has told "the new york times" in a out of his own pocket. neither the trump organization nor the trump campaign was party to the transaction. mr. cohen is not answering whether mr. trump himself was aware of the payment, what the motivation was for the payment. mr. cohen is also not saying whether he made similar payments to other people over the years. that story has just broken. this happens at a time when all of washington son the edge of their seats wondering if the president is about to lose another chief of staff in the rob porter scandal. the staff secretary who was just pushed out last week amid domestic violence charges and now serious questions as to how the white house handled those questions. that scandal is raising serious questions about the future of chief of staff john kelly. also about the future of whoo white house counsel don mcgahn. joining us to try to make sense of this milieu in which we now live is andrea mitchell, the anchor of "andrea mitchell reports." and the one person i know i'm fortunate t

trump jr. about the nature of a meeting between him, jared kushner and a russian lawyer. in that statement to "the new york times," don junior said the trump tower meeting during the campaign was primarily about russian adoptions, but we later learned the meeting was set up in the hope that the trump campaign would receive dirt about hillary clinton, to help trump win the election. sources tell abc news that former white house legal team is set to meet with robert mueller. he was consulted on the drafting of the memo the next day and he has more information on the intention. he says he will show the true intention. while it's not i will lie to the press or the public, legal analysts say in the past lying to the public has sometimes been used as evidence for obstruction of justice case. >>ed any lie can be used as part of an obstruction case. you're putting together different pieces and lies become part of those pieces. remember, in the case of bill clinton when ken starr recommended the articles of impeachment, one of them was strictly based on lying to the public. >> reporter: hope hicks' attorney flatly deny t