not the trump organization. not the bank.elopers. >> nobody checked anybody out. >> reporter: people were spending millions for apartments -- >> they were buying five, ten, 10 units at a time. the money would go to ventura. >> reporter: if you want to know about the flow of dirty money through panama, monty freezener is the man to ask. he was convicted in federal court of 20 counts of money laundering and fraud. he still knows all the players. and all the plays. do you think it's possible trump didn't know the kind of people -- >> he didn't know. >> reporter: how could he not have known? >> because you don't walk up to somebody, are you russian mafia. >> reporter: trump didn't ask because he didn't want to know? >> would you want to know? >> i would want to know who is buying. >> because it's you. >> reporter: a team from global witness, an anti-corruption watchdog that is critical of businesses and their connections to government officials spent months investigating trump branded prombrand ed properties around the world. pat

this is the trump ocean club. and we've spent months going over mountains of paperwork and talking to lawyers, investigators, and businessmen. we were trying to figure out who exactly was involved, the investors, the brokers, and importantly, who bought the apartments and hotel rooms. what we found out is that this building attracted enormous amounts of dirty money from all over the world, in particular, from russia. because of the name on that building. that name is trump. ♪ ♪ good evening, we're on assignment in panama city tonight. this is a notorious money laundering center. it's also where the first tower to be built outside the united states and carry the name trump on it was built. our investigation as you'll see shows that criminals from all over the world use this building as a laundromat for their money. but the trump organization doesn't actually own the building. it made a licensing deal with a local developer so the president basically just gets paid for the use of his name. does that mean he can't be

trump. welcome. >> reporter: it was the first trump branded tower to go up overseas and the first trump projectvanka led from inception. >> visit our lobby concierge, beautiful pool deck. >> state of the art -- >> exclusive beach club. >> no request is too large or too small. >> reporter: now that sense of ownership is gone. the trump organization which no longer runs the building says it had no hand in vetting the people who financed, sold or bought it. now that president trump is in the white house. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: do you think the trump organization and the trump family are trying to distance themselves from you? >> i wouldn't say that they're trying, because i don't think that i can harm them. >> reporter: it took months to track alexander ventura down and persuade limb to shim to sit wi interview. he asked we disguise his appearance, he's on the run in panama wanted for fraud saying he sold hundreds of united nations in the trump club to hide their identities. >> banks weren't asking questions where the money was coming from? >> no. never. >> reporter: sounds like nobody was asking

the trump administration has unified control of capitol hill and the white house. ave passed no significant legislation since president trump was sworn in, despite their almost heroic efforts to try to repeal the affordable care act. >> the bill is so warped toward the wealthy and big corporations and they want to do so much, it's greed, that they have real trouble and they're stuck. on the one hand to pay for the tax breaks for the wealthiest and the biggest corporations who doesn't pay a 35% actual tax. the top thousand i believe it is pay 16%. >> hmm. >> but that they are stuck. they have to eliminate deductions that the middle class needs. that's very unpopular and it's unpopular particularly in their district, sort of middle class, upper middle class suburb an districts. if they eliminate them, the deficit goes uponed there a h-- there are a handful who still believe that is not right. now there are huge tax cuts that raise the deficit much greater, that's perfectly okay. >> do you think that the -- >> i think that they have a rough road to hoe and they're goin

now, this happened while sam clovis was working in the trump administration. and apparently tonight he remains the white house liaison to the u.s. department of agriculture, which is apparently a job. despite his ongoing white house role, abc news reports tonight that the white house had no idea that this senior figure from the trump campaign, national co-chair of the trump campaign, the top policy official on the trump campaign, this guy who is currently an administration official working for the trump administration, apparently the white house had no idea that he testified to the grand jury until they read about it in the press this week, which presumably means they have not been advised as to whether or not sam clovis sought immunity in exchange for his grand jury testimony. and just based on that plea agreement that's just been unsealed regarding george papadopoulos, i mean, clovis as papadopoulos's campaign supervisor, he has obvious exposure to matters that the special counsel is investigating. for example in the plea agreement, papadopoulos said that he

the day that donald trump jr. tweeted out the special link given to him by wikileaks for more efficient distribution of the stolen anti-clinton e-mails, that same day mike pence went on "fox and friends" and asked if there was any possibility that the trump campaign was in cahoots with wikileaks, and mike pence responded, nothing could be further from the truth. later that day, the trump campaign was actually in cahoots with wikileaks. is that actionable? either in terms of potentially prosecuting somebody or in terms of what investigators or prosecutors might do with that falsehood from the man who is now vice president and from all those other senior people on the campaign? how do you handle a case like this, that's both criminal and counterintelligence, it involved we now know dozens of surreptitious meetings and contacts, some of which are still being exposed for the first time today, now? how do you manage an investigatory mushroom cloud like this one? i mean, if you could invent a person to talk to about that

trump jr. has not provided to the committee. no word back from grassly as he and dianne feinstein has been squabbling for weeks, including whether to bring donald trump jr. to bring him in, guys. >> what do the house members, particularly the democrats, want to get from him? >> this is going to be all about russia from the house democrats. they will push him about apparent inconsistencies about his past testimony and russian contacts about what he knew and didn't disclose to senate committees as evan noted earlier, multiple contacts since emerged that we do know about, at least sessions was brought in -- was told about, including george papadopoulos, and carter page, that he did not disclose when he came before the house senate judiciary committee, and also over the firing of comey. jeff sessions would not disclose a number of those conversations in his past testimony saying they could be protechted by executive privilege. >> thank you so much. awaiting house members who will try to avoid him and will fail. >>> joining us to disc

the form of this press release. trumpotels and condominium association announce management l buyout. huh? here's the headline at "the new york times" tonight. trump organization will exit from its struggling soho he tell in new york. the hotel has not done very well, paired with condos that have been a nightmare for the trump family business. one lawsuit settled out of court claimed that it was developed with the undisclosed involvement of convicted felons. and financing from questionable sources in russia. and another lawsuit, buyers claim that the trump family, specifically the trump children, had inflated claims about how many units in the building had actually been sold. they eventually settled that lawsuit by agreeing to return over 90% of the millions of dollars that buyers had paid the trumps in deposits for those condos. those fraud allegations eventually led to a criminal investigation by the district attorney in manhattan. last month, a joint investigation by the new yorker and wnyc revealed just how close donal

the republican candidate to victory? >>> implicating others. president trump's close confidant and former bodyguard is questioned in the congressional russia probe. and now we're learning new details of what former campaign adviser carter page told investigators about more russian contacts. did his testimony incriminate anyone? >>> tone shift. president trump tamps down his rhetoric around north korea, just hours before a major speech, he'll give only miles from the kim regime's doorstep. we'll get reaction in a live report this hour from inside north korea. it's a cnn exclusive. >>> and calling it insane. president trump's nominee for a top pentagon post speaks out about the texas church massacre, saying it's insane that a civilian can buy a semiautomatic weapon like the one the gunman used. tonight, we're learning new details about his disturbing past, including his escape from a mental health center. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking ne

a year ago the "access hollywood" tape leaked. that showed president trump in his own words bragging about touching women inappropriately and talking about women inappropriately without their consent. so i think this is a sign that the white house is really nervous to get into in debate, but at the same time would rather, you know, i guess, avoid talking about it and avoid addressing those allegations against the president. >> and erin, i want to play for you hillary clinton's reaction during a recent radio interview on senator gillebrand saying president clinton should have resigned over his affair with monica liukin ski. take a listen. >> i'm not exactly sure what she was trying to say. there has been some confusion about it, but look, this was a painful time not only in our marriage but in our country, as i have written about. but it was investigated fully. it was addressed at the time. he was held accountable, and he paid a price for it, as was appropriate. >> erin, on top of the closeness between senator gillebrand and the clintons, how big of a deal ar

the trump organization plummeted. held companies from number three position which it held last year all the way to number 40. what factors -- what are the factors here? >> some things are smaller than they claim to be. he told us for years and claimed for years that the company was making billions of dollars, trump organization. i think he said $9.5 billion. we have the records with federal personal financial disclosures and shows that trump organization reality is hit this is what trump organization is really all about. >> according to this report in the "wall street journal" the average price per square foot has fallen 23%. golf businesses are struggling. revenue is down by 1.1 million at trump golf links. we also learned from "washington post" reporting that the number of professional sports teams have dropped people staying at his hotel. what part of the trump organization is taking the biggest hit? >> all of it. hotels. if you have a choice of hotels to stay at are you going to stay at a trump hotel? some of his f

robert mueller wants more russia-related documents from the trump campaign. a lot more. >>> and jared kushner is back under the mike scope of the senate investigators tonight. let's get right to cnn justice correspondent pamela brown. what are you learning about what robert mueller's team is looking for from the trump campaign? >> we learned he has issued a subpoena to the trump campaign expanding search terms for documents related to the russia investigation according to a source who told this to my colleague, gloria borger. and the source describes it as a cleanup subpoena to basically cover more documents beyond what the campaign has already handed over which were the same documents it handed over to congress, and the subpoena is so wide ranging the source said it could take months to respond to this. but for context mueller has issued lots of subpoenas so this isn't necessarily unusual or unexpected. however, we are told the white house has not received a similar subpoena. >> also tonight jared kushner is again accused of withholding potentially significan

the electorate is following trump on the issue. democrats are talking about issues right now, they're talking about child. it's not good at broadening the democratic party electorate. that's why they're still struggling to figure out their strategy trumps talking about the issues people still care about, trade, national security and healthcare. that's why they continue to look in his direction. if he can start delivering on these will see the more. >> and how trump on, what is it like to be on the campaign trail and what is the reaction you got from the other reporters? >> when i joined i know i wasn't going to make too many friends. either they would not want that kind of relationship with the breitbart reporter maybe i wouldn't. i needed to focus on what i felt people were focusing on. the interesting thing was how few journalistic an interest in the crowd. there's a condescension, fear, not every reporter all of the time but i found i would just jump the fence. secret service was there but i didn't care. i was going to talk to p

sessions ran a large part of the trump campaign. sessions has never been known to say a cross word about the president, ever. and maybe there's some heartfelt personal conflict between them as men. i don't know, i don't care. but i do know that this is the fourth round of this president shoveling public criticism onto this attorney general for a specific reason. and creating an expectation among his base where jeff sessions is, as popular as he is, creating an expectation that maybe jeff sessions isn't so great after all and maybe jeff sessions has to go. and there have been three instances oh of this before now. we're having the fourth one now. the first was in march when jeff sessions was found to have had contacts with russians during the campaign, contacts he didn't disclose, even under oath. when those contacts were exposed, sessions recused himself from overseeing the russia investigation. that was the beginning of march. the president reacted to jeff sessions recusing himself from the russia issue by going "ballistic." the pre

if you are the trump organization, the real estate business, that bad news dump tonight came in the form release. trump hotels and condominium association announced management and license contract buyout for the trump soho hotel. here's the headline at "new york times." trump organization will exit from struggling soho hotel in new york. trump soho is a hotel that's not done very well, paired with condos that have been a nightmare for the trump family business. one lawsuit settled out of court claimed it was developed with undisclosed involvement of convicted felons and financed by kazakhstan. another lawsuit claimed that trump children inflated claims about how many units in the building had been sold. settled that agreeing to return over 90% of the millions of dollars that buyers had paid the trumps in deposits for the condos. fraud allegations led to criminal investigation by district attorney in manhattan. joint investigation revealed just how close ivanka trump and donald trump jr. had come to being indicted in that criminal probe over fraud at trump soho. very close to being indict

that's the energy of the trump resistance. at the same time though, ralph northam, the governor, he talked about important issues. he talked about health care and education. we talk about a contrast. he gave people a contrast. not just to the negativity but also what he wanted to do for them. >> issues. so fascinating. so obvious but sometimes the truth is obvious. issues, health care, policing, jobs. this is what we're hearing from people out there doing some of the work. thanks for joining us. >> one more thing. they also ran candidates up and down the ballot on all the state legislative races. democrats have to keep running candidates all over the places. i think those drives turn out in their districts. >> as always, a man who has been there and done that. thank you. coming up, why are trump aides suddenly remembering meetings they'd forgotten about? and bob mueller's way of cracking the amnesia defense. and obamacare back. thee effort to derail the law. and many expecting an emotional response from donald trump with these

the last 50 years at least. he somewhat famously visited president trump in the oval office in march. that's president trump and mbs. less famously, he hosted jared kushner last week. when jared kushner took an unannounced under the radar trip to saudi arabia that we were not allowed to know he was on until he returned. david ignatius at "the washington post," who always has all the best dirt on saudi arabia, today he reports that during jared kushner's unannounced trip to saudi arabia last week jared spent several nights staying up till 4:00 in the morning plotting with mbs, with the crown prince. and jared came home and the crown prince launched his coup. so the lebanese prime minister shocking everybody by announcing his resignation in saudi arabia followed by the arrests of all of the princes, followed by the death of one of the princes. that all happened in very quick succession on saturday. president trump then called the saudi king the day after on sunday, and whatever happened in that conversation, the white house gave a readout about what that discussion was about and made no

the trump foundation is closing. now, reporting on the dubious financial practices of the trump foundation last year earned washington post reporter a politzer prize. that's how we learned that trump himself had not donated any money to his own charitable foundation since at least 2008. since that round of reporting sparked by the president's campaign last year, since that round of reporting began, the trump foundation admitted formally to self-dealing, meaning it disbursed charitable funds to benefit trump's rather than for a charitable purpose. the foundation is under intense legal scrutiny in the state of new york. that leads to a really interesting detail to watch in this story as notes at nbcnews.com tonight even though president trump may wish to nail closed his charitable foundation and indeed he may have started the process of desolving it, legally, he might not be able to close it. while the foundation is under legal skrut kncrutiny by the at general. you cannot evade legal skrut knee to cease to exist by the

but then today the trump administration wiped all that away. der new trump appointed leadership announced they plan to do away with virtually all of the existing rules that protect net neutrality including the obama era regulation that is filed the tidal waive of public outcry now the part i should tell that you msnbc is owned by comcast which has an interest in this fight. they say they support net neutrality but would like to get rid of the regulations that currently guarantee it. before the trump administration's net trurltty proposal gets put in the box, the fcc has to put it to a vote on that commission. that could come as early as next month. that's expected to easily pass the commission because it's controlled by republicans. for the people tracking this stuff. the people in the streets in 2014 none of this came as a surprise. they have been getting ready for this moment. protests already started even before today's announcement. the pressure is already on. there's been some specks today they might have announced this before thanksgiving

marched in the streets to protest donald trump's election. the biggest inauguration protest in united states history. the biggest single day protest of any kind in the united states history. every day of the trump presidency has continued to mobilize outraged citizens. a week after his inauguration, people spontaneously showed up at airports to protest the trump travel ban. in the spring, people packed the town halls of republican members of congress to protest repealing obamacare. >> do your job! >> yeah. do your job! do your job! >> i think it's time to repeal and replace you in 2020. >> and all of that was before jimmy kimmel joined the fight. >> a little over a week ago on friday april 21st, my wife, molly, gave birth to a boy, a baby boy. his name is william and he appeared to be in a normal, healthy baby until about three hours after he was born. they did an echo cardiogram, which is a sonogram of the ground and found billy was born with a heart disease. a lot of families there and no parent should ever have to decide if they can afford

it's because of the trump brand. they don't want to be associated with it. >> fredricka, can i say one -- >> real quick. >> one of the criticisms is trump is benefitting from being president. you said he's losing money. it can't be both. >> the d.c. -- >> might be both depending on geography. >> depends on geography but absolutely in some other places he's losing money. >> we'll leave it there. from someone who makes a lot of facial expressions myself, i couldn't help but notice atima. thank you so much. appreciate it. >> happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving. >>> hey, speaking of such, thanksgiving, want it take you outside the studios here in new york, the maty's thanksgiving day -- macy's thanksgiving day parade as the floats wind their way through the city, an extraordinary sight, the floats, the balloons, everyone enjoys the parade officers are working around the clock to keep everyone safe. mayor bill de blasio says the presence of the nypd is stronger than at any previous thanksgiving day parade. get you on

that he would give them an update on the trump campaign. in mind what is not in the indictment. that is also important to charlie: there are hints that is to,. >> we have heard that from law enforcement and intelligence sources. keep in mind all of the other players here that have been under scrutiny. michael flynn, golf junior, jared kushner, carter page. there are several other people who have been under scrutiny. this was hardball from the special counsel's office and we expect there will be more download -- down the road. charlie: more about the meeting that took place between the russian lawyer and paul manafort and trump jr. you now have that she came having been brief by high-level russian officials. in your -- >> another meeting closely mirrored this one. undermining a man named bill browder who spearheaded the magnitsky act. putin really really hates them. there was this effort that was coordinated at the highest levels. the russian lawyer essentially brought with her a memo that looks exactly the same in some places as this memo w

my new game is trump, the game. >> the donald j. trump signature collection. >> welcome to the trump network. >> now i have my own trump home mattress collection. >> at trump university, we teach success. >> trump steaks are the best you can give, and believe me, i understand steaks. it's my favorite food. >> his favorite food. republicans in congress apparently saw that and thought that is just the kind of branding genius we need to name our new tax cut bill. and so what trump came up with is thing 2 in -- actually i can't wait that long. he's insisting they call it the cut cut cut act. the story behind that is thing 2 in 60 seconds. jimmy's gotten used to his whole room smelling like sweaty odors. yup, he's gone noseblind. he thinks it smells fine, but his mom smells this... luckily for all your hard-to-wash fabrics... ...there's febreze fabric refresher. febreze doesn't just mask, it eliminates odors you've... ...gone noseblind to. and try febreze unstopables for fabric. with up to twice the fresh scent power, you'll want to try i

the trump administration will be remembered for many things. read infectuous corruption of institutions and individuals. maybe its most damning legacy. corrupting of institutions when i read that made me think of the longtime justice department officials who are aghast at how the president clearly sees his justice department as sort of an arm to prosecute and investigate his political rivals and protect him from crimes. >> but these institutions, the sanctity of our democracy, all of these things that we put a moral authority -- things we used to expect from a presidency, trump is concerned primarily with his base. people who are moetsivated by grievance. they don't really care if he is -- sarah huckabee sanders is right when she says people knew about the allegations from all the women against him and they voted for him anyway. all he wants to do is maintain his ability to hold this office and govern is to hold on to that base. the white house put out a list, for no reason. no vacancy on the supreme court. they just put out a new list of 25 pot

day 307 of the trump administration. and as the president begins his thanksgiving holiday, there is news tonight on key players and events in the overarching russia investigation. first, we begin with former national security advisor and retired general michael flynn who lasted in his job just 24 days before he was fired. tonight julia ansley reports for abc news that robert mueller is zeroing in an an associate of flynn's who was one of flynn's business partners. according to this report mueller wants to know what role he played if any regarding the flynn lobbying groups failure to disclose foreign governments. he's already discussed work on behalf of turkey. subpoenaed e-mails also showed he joined him on a meeting september 15 with dana rohrbacher. it's under scrutiny by team mueller. tonight's other report comes from "vanity fair" writer howard blum, and it's about the controversial oval office meeting back in may between donald trump, russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and then ambassador to the u.s., sergey kis

president donald trump is in japan at the first stop on his told asia tour truck met with prime minister shinzo ave for lunch and a round of golf trumps asia tour the longest in the region by a u.s. president in twenty five years will include south korea china vietnam and the philippines iran is accused saudi arabia the u.s. and israel of trying to fuel tension after the sudden resignation of lebanon's prime minister saud resign while in the saudi capital riyadh he did this on saturday he's accused iran of sowing strife in the arab world iran says everybody is playing a game designed by those who want ill for the region up on the guineas immigration minister has told al jazeera that australia must facilitate immediately an offer from new zealand to resettle refugees from its decommissioned prison camp amana silent zealand's prime minister met her australian counterpart in sydney on sunday but was told the offer would not be accepted there is a tense standoff on man and silent or six hundred refugees who are refusing to leave the camp over safety concerns those are the headlines the news

two days after the inauguration of donald trump, the jerusalem post described a meeting between papadopoulos and regional leaders that occurred in washington, clearly referring to papadopoulos as a trump advisor. this is after inauguration. meanwhile today, in the case of trump's former campaign chair, paul manafort, u.s. district judge amy berman jackson proposed a may 7th trial date. the counts include conspiracy against the united states. michael isikoff from yahoo! news, natasha bertran join me now. it seems plausible papadopoulos was not high ranking but when the american jewish committee is contacted and why do you have that guy there, because the trump campaign sent him, seems to mean something. >> i asked a former trump campaign official about this. he's just a low-level volunteer talking point. and he said, well, reporters should really feel free to push back on that narrative because pretty much everyone on the campaign was a volunteer because trump didn't want to pay anyone. so this whole idea that he was a volunteer, hey, manafort was a volunteer too so he could have had very, ve

the fender of a car. you're like -- >> mr. trumpng about the blacks -- >> as he sparred with kate mckinnon's hilarious hillary clinton, viewers ate it up. >> this man is clearly unfit to be commander in chief. >> wrong. >> he is a bully. >> shut up. >> he started the birther movement. >> you did. >> after that night, baldwin's rendition of trump was forever cemented in america's psyche. >> and number four -- ahh! >> "saturday night live" has a permanent character. they always have presidents, but this is now this iconic "saturday night live" character. >> send in steve bannon. >> members of trump's team gave "snl" even more red meat. ♪ >> kate mckinnon stole the show as trump's overworked campaign manager, kellyanne conway. >> do you want a drink? >> jesus. >> and kate impersonation trying to win over cnn's jake tapper >> i'm not going to be ignored. >> gave "snl's" version of "fatal attraction" another hit. >> i'm here to swallow gum and take names. >> comedian melissa mccarthy struck gold as press secretary sean "spicy" spicer. >>

the reporter pointed out trump has been silent about the news on flynn. he has been more and more quiet about the issues. i think it's a reflection of the concerns that the administration has about the investigation about how close it is, tapping on the inner circle. miller, hope hicks, manaford. obviously this is more of a risk. before it was a nuisance now they're recognizing this is serious. >> it seems he has advice from council not to talk about the russian investigation. appreciate your time sir, as always. we will be on the podcast. >> thank you. >> despite word of monitoring systems detecting what appears to be a explosion deep under water just after argentina's navy lost contact with a vessel. benjamin hall is live. what are we learning as time is running out. >> yes it is indeed. experts say it's highly unlikely anyone will be found alive from the sub. not just because of the explosion you mentioned but we're nine days in and people think oxygen would have ran out by now. news broke yesterday on the explosion. the sound was picked up by an in te

he was apart of the campaign and trump's earliest and biggest supporter. flynn has had his own trouble and problems with contacts and russian and he had a conversation with the russian ambassador where sanctions were discussed and he denied that had happened when he was confronted and interviewed by the fbi about that. he eventually, it was determined that he lied about his conversation which ultimately led to his firing from the white house. this was according to folks who had said that he would lie to the president about it. it is a whole host of issue. also, he had some exposure on his own lobbying work that he did on behalf of turkey which seems to be some of what's causing some legal trouble for him now. >> and we recall that flynn had asked for immunity when it came to the congressional investigati investigation. if he is cooperating with the russia probe, is that surprising? ? it wou >> it is surprising that he's being talked of potential plea deal. his lawyers are trying to get the best deal possible for him. you know there is so many scenarios here

now, the trump campaign at the highest levels denied knowing of anybody on the campaign having contactn officials while trump was running for president. well, now with this transcript just released tonight, we know who on the trump campaign carter page said he informed about his trip to moscow in july 2016. we have now got a name. that's next. he mirror everyday. when i look in the mirror everyday. everyday, i think how fortunate i am. i think is today going to be the day, that we find a cure? i think how much i can do to help change people's lives. i may not benefit from those breakthroughs, but i'm sure going to... i'm bringing forward a treatment for alzheimer's disease, yes, in my lifetime, i will make sure. i love you, droolius caesar, but sometimes you stink. febreze car vent clip cleans away odors for up to 30 days. because the things you love can stink. >>> we'll see tomorrow. it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" with aforementioned lawrence o'donnell. >> it is my turn to blush. >> a nice lady named judy who wants you to run for president. >> wow, wow. >>> i'm

the al franken incident took place. it was 2006. this is a year after donald trumpaid to billy bush that as a celebrity he just starts kissing beautiful women he likes and that he feels that he can grab them by the -- you know what he said after that. it's important i think to make that -- put that in context as donald trump is attacking al franken for exactly the behavior he bragged about to billy bush literally a year before al franken kissed this woman without her consent and took the stupid picture apparently at the time he thought was funny and it was vulgar and the gross and the difference is not just the ages, al franken manned up, admitted he did wrong and apologized to miss tweeden and what he should do and we are seeing this constriction of the boundaries of what celebrity men and even men just with power and no celebrity have felt forever. that they could do. as a woman you know men with money or power start thinking their boundaries much wider, if they're interested in a woman they can do anything. donald trump voiced that literally in the access hollywo

flynn and kushner met with the russian ambassador at trump tower during the transition and were allegedly brainstorming on how to create a secret back channel for trump aides to talk with putin's government. that proposal is suspicious because it allegedly included a discussion of literally using the russian embassy for those conversations, but there are no reports that kushner suggested that arrangement for talking to any other country in the world. sounds bad. we will note as well though that he denies that he was pushing that. as for the interview, a source telling nbc news that kushner spoke to mueller's investigators for under an hour. that account would suggest that kushner was maybe a mere witness with a small amount of information to offer and maybe not a focus of the investigation. there's an alternative and that would be that he is going to get more scrutiny later and right now they just happen to be focused on flynn. the idea would be that these investigators might grill kushner in a longer interview down the line about undisclosed russia meetings, about the trump tower meeting

this is the story of the deeper reasons why trump won. we begin with the most fundamental aspect of his character. >> fellows, turn the cameras around. >> donald trump is a performer. >> life is acting to a certain extent. life is not always sincerity. life is an act to a large extent. society loves me and i connect differently for different people. give me the mirror, please. let me see the mirror. come on, let's go. can i see the monitor, please? can you turn that one down a little bit? i think that looks good right there. >> he starred in a prime time reality show for 14 seasons. and he's done hundreds of television interviews. no president before him, not even movie actor ronald reagan, spent as much time in front of cameras. still more important, he spent years honing and perfecting a powerful message. >> the system is totally rigged. ordinary folks get the shaft. >> they don't care about you. >> the big shots get all the breaks. >> they just like you once every four years, get your vote, then they say bye bye! >> and that message of

the issue is how far up did that go? we know from trump campaign official george papadopoulos's guilty plea that he tried to collude with russia, and who knew about it? well, jeff sessions knew about it. who else knew about it? and with all the reporting that we're seeing today how people try to connect the dots between trump campaign and russia, it's one big dot, wolf. that's what we're seeing. it's just staring us in the face. everybody connected to the trump campaign happens to be lying about the russian contacts. that can't be a coincidence. >> well, do you think this senate judiciary committee subpoena could give a clearer view of the roles that george papadopoulos, he pleaded guilty, as you know, carter page and other national security adviser to the campaign, that the connections that they may have had with russia and who they were taking orders from on the campaign? >> absolutely. and it's now been reported in the "washington post" that there were at least 31 contacts between trump campaign officials and russian officials and at le

the few u.s. attorneys not fired by president trump. in fact he was invited to keep concurrently serving both as u.s. attorney for eastern district of virginia and also he took over for mary mccord, the national security division within maine justice. we reported that dana boente was leaving both jobs. we know now he was fired unexpectedly from both jobs a day before grand jury signed and sealed criminal indictments against paul manafort and his associate rick gates. we still don't know why dana boente was all of a sudden fired the day before the indictments were sworn but nbc news confirms it was not voluntary, he was pushed out by the trump administration. we're working right this second, trying to figure out why dana boente was suddenly fired. still don't know. possible it's just a coincidence but trying to figure it out. as soon as we do, i'll rush to a camera and tell you. also learned that president's long-time staffer and communications director hope hicks is scheduled to be interviewed by mueller's team later this month and presi

the virginia race closely watched was a national referendum on the trump presidency. here are the numbers. raffle northam beat ed gillespie by a wider than expected margin. the countdown will begin to the next year's mid term elections. we have more from northam headquarters in fairfax, virginia. >> reporter: christine and dave, lieutenant government northam winning in a earlier evening than expected, they were biting their nails and expecting a very late night, but in the end, that is not what happened. they said it's an indication of a bigger picture of an anti-trump sentiment, raffle north -- ralph northam spoke about that. >> we will not condone hatred and bigotry and to end -- the politics that have torn the country before. >> reporter: a lot of confidence that the democrats across the country are feeling coming out of the virginia governor's race. they are looking at the bigger picture here saying that in 2018, it's going to be difficult to run as a republican. as one democrat very deeply involved in the campaign said, there's a big democratic turnout right now,

the fact is, it is a common trend of trump associates. there's now seven that we're aware of that have had communications with the russians. most of them prior to the election. it begins with the denial and then sort of a faced with reality acknowledging to the very minimal extent they possibly can. yes, there was communication. it's part of the problem with the investigation. this is going to take time. we're going to have to have others come forward, probably dozens of more witnesses, to get the full truth of what actually took place. >> and i'm curious, congressman, in your experience as a member of this committee as you listen to people, what is the rationale for behaving so evasively? is it that someone is trying to protect themself, someone is trying to protect the bigger picture? someone has been told to behave this way? can you categorize that at all, why someone would be this evasive? >> i guess if i had to guess at this point in time, it would be the fact that they're just protecting themselves. you know, i was a criminal defense

i think it was a referendum on the national policies. >> on donald trump? >> i do believe so. >> a cnn poll shows how bad things look for republicans in next year's congressional elections. 51% of americans say it's bad for the country that republicans currently control congress. 38% say it's good. when asked which party they would choose in a generic congressional race, democrats are preferred 50% to 38% over republicans. now, i'm about to show you what speaker of the house paul ryan had to say today. but remember, before you watch it he is a politician. and remember that paul ryan had exactly one job in his public comments today. to try to prevent the outbreak of public panic among professional republicans. paul ryan shows that there's a wave out there. paul ryan knows that the wave is headed for him. and that the wave can wipe out not just his speakership but it can actually knock him out of his congressional seat. he would not be the first speaker of the house who lost his own re-election in his home district in a wave election. last time that happened n

here's the thing that's really striking about trump right now, moore is the anti-establishment play, d trump wants to be, still, the anti-establishment candidate. most of his tweets are anti-establishment tweets. and define the establishment, the media, establishment of the republicans, you get it. and his problem is that his anti-establishment allies are all failing him. they're all disappointing him. and moore is a disaster for trump. an absolute disaster, because moore if he goes down, takes down bannon too. and bannon is useful to trump. so i think there's a lot going on here, it's not just that president trump doesn't want to talk about allegations of sexual and predatory behavior because they affect him too, it's because his brand is an anti-establishment brand and it is tied to moore whether he likes it or not. >> david, help me out on time here, how long can he avoid speaking on roy moore? >> he can avoid it for a long time, if not forever, unlike a typical politician, president trump is not sort of -- he's impervious to feeling shame. senator franken was ashamed of what was r

the trump campaign's statement called the story totally false and ridiculous. number 12, karena virginia, a yoga instructor and life coach. he said she encountered trump in 19 98. >> he then walked up to me and reached his right arm and grabbed my right arm. then his hand touched the right inside of my breast. i was in shock. i flinched. don't you know who i am? don't you know who i am? that's what he said to me. >> so that was 12. that's a dozen. but there's a 13th accuser who wishes to remain anonymous. she is a friend of cnn's erin burnett, and she says trump tried to kiss her on the lips at trump tower in 2010. she says he invited her into his office alone, told her she was special and gave her his cell phone number. she told erin, quote, i ran the hell out of there. 13 women, 13 stories of behavior that was at the very, very, very least inappropriate. maybe president trump is right. maybe you think they're all lying. but how to explain donald trump's own words? >> here to discuss all of this, cnn political commentator jack kingston, also kirsten powers and

trump's campaign told people the incident never happened. number six, temple tag gart, a former miss utah claims trump gave her a none consensual embrace and kissed her on the lips during a rehearsal for miss usa when she was 21 years old. she spoke to our erin burnett. >> he's married. this is awkward for meel. this is much older. this is not at all what i came here for. >> trump toll nbc, quote, i don't even know who she is. number seven, is kristen anderson. she says she was at a manhattan nightclub. it was the early 1990s, sitting on a couch talking to friends. this is what she said happened next. >> the person on my right, who unbeknownst to me at that time was donald trump put their hands up my skirt. he did touch my vagina through my underwear. >> spokesman hope hicks called the story, quote, a political attack designed to take down mr. trump. number eight is summer zbler voes she was an apprentice contestant. she says trump first kissed her during a meeting in new york, but since she says she hoped to get a job at the trump organizati