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a key advisor makes a guilty plea as the russia investigation closing in on donald trump's white house . palm on a four was at trump site when the billionaire outsider accepted the republican nomination so one floor and show he is said to have one pick trump's vice president mike pence the man just behind him has also been charged flanked by his lawyer he surrendered himself to the f.b.i. on monday the reaction was accused of acting for years as an authorized agent of the pro russian ukrainian government. for there is no evidence that mr mann of fort of the tribe campaign colluded with the russian government even so the judge placed metaphor under house arrest. the white house insists the charges are not definitive evidence of links to russia. we've been saying from day one there's been no evidence of trumped russia collusion and nothing in the indictment today changes that at all but washington was in for more surprises a special prosecutor robert miller's investigation into russian meddling in last year's election gathers pace miller's team had secured a guilty plea from former forei

about his contacts with russia the white house though is deflecting the news saying that none of this has anything to do with donald trump a white house correspondent kimberly helka reports. trump do solemnly swear donald trump has been in office less than a year but this is perhaps the most significant day of his presidency so far on monday two of his former associates avoided handcuffs and turned themselves into the authorities in washington the first is paul mann afford the former chair of donald trump's presidential election campaign the other is rick gates a longtime business associate of matter forts and worked with the white house until march both men appeared in court pleading not guilty to a dozen charges they include conspiracy against the united states also to launder money acting as an agent for a foreign principal providing false statements to investigators and failure to report foreign bank accounts there is no evidence that mr mann of fort with a trunk campaign colluded with the russian government. the announcement which caught many off guard that a third person tied to the truck campaign george papadopoul

it's interesting that you got robert mueller in his probe looking at connections between the trump white house and russian groups, including paul manafort and rt -- michael flynn and rt, i should say. at the same time, you've got congress trying to understand the technology, what was happening in northern california with the fake ads and fake news and and so on. kevin: absolutely. aside from the social media angle and these big social media companies' angle, i can tell you the investigation is very much ongoing. the president's personal attorney will be testifying toward the end of october, october 25 or 26.

trump. the white house will say they weren't talking about trump. house may not recognize is what a breath of fresh air it is to have two rational former presidents standing in front of a group and talking about values, which we have not gotten out of this president. the other thing i think that's interesting about it is it's only a former member of the gop who is willing to really go after trump on some of these issues. or members of the gop on their way out. corker and mccain. the gop itself, the heart and soul of the party, has yet to demonstrate the same kind of political courage about what is contemporary conservatism, what do they stand up for, what does trump represent vis-a-vis all of that. it's been left to former president bush, who by the way, left office without a halo around his head. he was very unpopular, obviously, because of the iraq war. >> son, he was missing more than a halo. but christina, it's not an endorsement of everything george bush did as president, right? he got a lot of things wrong. but there was a thing he got right. w

acting attorney general, justice department, came to the white house, told the trump white house their national security adviser was compromised by the russian government. later emerged that national security adviser mike flynn had also not declared income he had received from multiple russian and other foreign sources. he and his business relations ended up being the subject of multiple federal grand jury subpoenas. and mike flynn had to retroactively register as agent of foreign power. and after that learned about further meetings between flynn and russian officials during the transition he never disclosed. so mike flynn turns out not to be awesome choice to be advising the president of the united states on national security matters. he was allowed to resign in february. but by march the white house was insisting, honestly, they never really even heard of the guy. >> has anyone from the white house -- can i just amend? obviously just to be clear, trying to think through this for a second. obviously general flynn -- >> in the campaign before the election. >> and i'm not aware of any a

trump white house than any previous white house. what is historic about this new quote, i hate everyone in the white house, is that this is the very first time in history that the person quoted saying that is the president of the united states who lives in the white house. in a new report in "vanity fair," gabe yell sherman reports that many people say, quote, trump is unstable, losing a step and unraveling. the article has two sources quoting the president as saying i hate everyone in the white house. there are few exceptions. or few exceptions. but i hate them. gabe sherman reports according to two sources with knowledge of the conversation, former chief strategist steve bannon told trump that the risk to his presidency wasn't impeachment. but the 25th amendment. the provision by which a majority of the cabinet can vote to remove the president. when bannon mentioned the 25th amendment, trump said, what's that? joining us now, gabe sherman for "vanity fair." david frum. jason johnson at the root.com and msnbc contributor and david

trump hit him. first with a tweet. it's a shame the white house has become an adult day care center. someone obviously missed their shift this morning. imagine donald trump's rage when he read that tweet. and you have to imagine it because donald trump has been silent on bob corker since that tweet. but bob corker has not been silent. "the new york times" managed to interview bob corker after the tweet exchange with trump and that's when senator corker said that we could be heading toward world war iii and senator corker also said he concerns me. he would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation. senator corker said that donald trump was lying about him, that in fact, president trump urged bob corker to run for re-election and promised to endorse him in he did. and bob corker reminded us that he took himself out of consideration for the vice presidential nomination. bob corker says there is no grand strategy to what donald trump does or says. >> a lot of people think that there's some good cop-bad cop act under way. but that's just not true. it's like he's doing "the apprenti

what i'm suggesting is anybody that goes into the trump white house, even a revered figure as mr. ooner or later, is going to be tarnished, because the whole focus of that white house as viewed by the media that we both respect, this main stream media, it is such a villainous place and the participants would be it are so susceptible to the kind of endless, vituberrous view that they bring upon themselves and we hoist on to them to a greater degree. >> you make a point, you describe this vitiperrous view, it remained me where we saw the dirt that attaches to those that transact with trump makes them too dirty for any subsequent scrubbing, maybe those a book ends to a difficult week. it's okay you are sad today. we'll have you back again. >> i hope so. up next, who needs to fall back? ...you might be missing to stasomething... ♪ ...your eyes. that's why there's ocuvite. it helps replenish nutrients your eyes can lose as you age. nourish your eyes to help keep them healthy. ocuvite. be good to your eyes. during the yellow tag sales event, you can get $3,500 off a hard day's play. from

trump with this tweet. "it's a shame the white house has become an adult day-care center. someone obviously missed their shift this morning." and donald trump did not fire back at bob corker. someone in the white house must have been urging the president to do something he has never done. just put the phone down and walkway from a twitter fight, and he did. for two whole days and nights. possibly the most difficult days and nights of the presidency for donald trump. adult day-care center? bob corker says donald trump is in adult day care, and donald trump says nothing? until finally this morning donald trump couldn't take it any longer. and with two days of agonizing over how to respond to adult day care, donald trump came up with this. the failing "new york times" set little bob corker up by recording his conversation, was made to sound a fool, and that's what i'm dealing with. it was an historic tweet for trump. not just because it took him two full days to come up with an attack tweet against someone who had hit him hard, but because for reasons trump scholars could not

about me tonight the first move by the special counsel and what it says or doesn't say about the trump white house i'm bored off in berlin this is the day. our people nervous believe me if you're the person you know the morning. i've always found home and i'm going to be a very decent man we know that the russian government is reaching out to the trump campaign for reaching out to all metaphors and others if you've been asked come into the grand jury they've got to advise you of your status as to whether you're a target if you've been told your target believe me or not sleeping well i mean what information of course would mr metaphor have to offer the russians and he's like a lot of other people probably makes consulting fees from all over the place who knows i don't know it may ultimately help us answer those questions. also coming up in the war in syria he who controls the food winds tonight a report from a besieged area just east of damascus today food aid arrived for the first time in a year for some it was too late. i was already close to death when her parents brought to the doctor the mothe

been apparent over the last couple of months that this underscored is that it remains donald trump's white house and not john kelly's white house even if he has imposed more discipline and more of a process. number two, perhaps we saw that general kelly this week shares more of donald trump's agenda than we realized. you talked about the standards dropping. i found general kelly's comment to be surprising and even puzzling that he would have brought up in the same commentary about this incident with the gold star families, this notion that in the good old days, women were sacred and isn't it so tear table we get there, lot of people talk about irony of working for a president who has been accused of this kind of behavior. but to me, that issue, working for donald trump but there's also the question of, what's the good old days exactly is that what this america first is about, looking backward to some halls i don't know and almost myth impasse that was better. >> he could have been groping for an understanding of it. [ laughter ] but he's fumbling -- trying to touch on something that many other p

retaliated on twitter which led senator corker to then send that infamous tweet comparing the trump white house to an adult daycare center you know here is part of what the senator said today upping the ante against the u.s. president. someone of this. mentality or any present united states is something that is i think the basing to our country and. you know it's. you know you would think he would aspire to to be the president united states and act like a present united states but you know there's just not going to be the case apparently and it's up to others who serve unliked of capacity where their governors or mayors or senators to you know try to conduct himself in a manner that is more of a coming of a leader but he's obviously you know not up to that i've said to me on multiple occasions where the staff has asked me to please intervene it was get right to something that was really off the tracks and and look i have seen no evolution an upward way i mean he's matter of fact i would say it appears to me that. he appears he's said that the president actually deep valving i mean those are str

i want to get your reaction to the breaking news that reince priebus, the former trump white house chiefed by the special counsel today. you're a former white house chief of staff. what does that say to you about the fact that he was called for this interview by the special counsel? >> well, it doesn't surprise me. obviously the chief of staff is in the white house close to the president, close to other advisers that are involved with the president. he was also involved in the campaign, so he's familiar with those that were part of the campaign. so it doesn't surprise me that bob mueller, who is conducting a very thorough investigation, would want to interview priebus and also probably interview others that are not only working in the white house, but those who have worked in the campaign. >> is it more likely -- and obviously we're just speculating -- that the questioning focused more on the russian meddling in the presidential election or on the possibility of obstruction of justice in the firing of the fbi director, james comey? >> well, there's no question that the chief of staff was

white house is about this? this was a guy who was president for a lot of the things president trump did that, you know, factored spew the appointment of mueller? >> look, i think that the white house is aware and has been for some time that reince priebus was going to be a pretty crucial person for bob mueller to speak with. he was present obviously during transition. he was present when key things were decided about the firing of michael flynn. he was present when james comey was fired. he was, i think, by a stroke of good fortune of his own not present aboard air force one when a decision was being made about how to respond to a new york times story about a meeting that donald trump jr. had with a russian lawyer who had come offering quote, unquote, dirt on hillary clinton. but he offers a key window into a bunch of different issues that bob mueller is looking at. he's certainly the top official to be spoken to, but he will not be the last official spoken to. i think the white house is anxious about the mueller investigation generally. i don't think it centers specifically on priebus. i think that trump has d

reporter: cheestles john kelly came to the briefing room today to assert there is no chaos in the trump white house. despite weeks of controversies, including reports secretary of state rex tillerson referred to the president as a moron, and bob coark, a key republican senator, saying the white house was an "adult day care center" and that the president may be leading the country towards world war iii. corkers comments were made publicly, but the president has still blamed the media for his troubles. today, kelly channeled his boss. >> one of his frustrations is you, all of you. not all of you, but many of you. >> reporter: he refuted numerous reports that he is unhappy as chief of staff, a job he took over in august in one of the white house's many senior staff shake-ups. >> you guys, the cameras always catch me when i'm thinking hard, and it looks like i'm frustrated and mad. >> reporter: "don't believe your eyes" he said. these tense-looking images of him listening t listening to tht at the u.n. and listening to trump's remarks about the charlottesville violence do not tell the whole story. kell

talk to me about the impact of corker's criticism today i mean will it make a difference in the trump white house in the long term. well probably the world impact has just started because it is now another republican senator you name to name him jeff flake who has announced that he's not going to run again for senate in the midterm elections and next year in november and that means he has nothing to lose just as corker who is also retiring from senate so also flake from very clear very hard words against the president of the united states he said we should not normalize donald trump's behavior you can excuse one thing or two but not continuously we have to speak out and stand up i hope that more of us do we can't wait any longer we can't continue with this behavior and this clearly shows a kind of for belly in the republican party and as we know also senator john mccain will retire from senate because of health reasons and in the past he also has criticized the president donald trump mccain said that donald trump is poorly uninformed and impulsive and also asked yesterday on whether there was a r

now finger-pointing inside the trump administration as it is asked to explain the delay. is the white house deliberately dragging his heels. >>> and then trump said he has one of the greatest memories of all-time, and he declares himself a nice student and blaming the news media for making him, quote, more uncivil than i am. why does the leader of the free world seem to be so insecure? i am wolf blitzer. you are in the "situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news tonight, donald trump painting a picture of republican party unity amid his open war of words, and he launched new attacks on senators jeff flake and bob corker who both blasted the president's behavior and performance. also sources are telling cnn the head of data analytics campaign contacted julian assange seeking thousands of hillary clinton e-mails that she used as secretary of state, and a trump campaign official saying most of the data came from the republican national committee and claims that data from any other source -- denies any other source played a key role saying all the allegations are

in new york city we have some breaking news this hour in the russia probe in the trump white house. noon, mr. trump, the president is pledging to pay the legal bills for some of his white house staff and associates. jonathan swan is breaking this story. he said trump is offering to pay more than $400,000. jonathan swan is on the phone. thanks for joining us on this breaking story. what else are you learning about this? >> we just reported the republican national committee has so far paid $430,000 to lawyers representing president trump and his eldest son don junior. the white house official told me that trump will not be reimbursing the rnc for the costs.

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into that good night. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> just days after republican senator bob corker compared the trump white housedult day care center, a new report is shedding lite on the turmoil at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. vanity fair spoke to a half dozen prominent republicans and trump advisers, all of whom describe the struggles. to contain a president increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods. vanity piece researches cnn and other reporting over the weeks, including how the president's backing of luther strange in the republican senate last month took a toll. a source close to trump says alabama was a huge blew to his psyche. the magazine also reports that the president vented to his long term security chief saying, quote, i hate everyone in the white house. there are a few exceptions but i hate them. now the white house we should note denies the report saying that if president's mood is good, his outlook on the agenda is very good. joining me is the author of "the truth about trump. michael, on that i hate everyone in the white house remark, you liken it to a parent who beats his child and then co

white house has not been forthcoming about this attack. >> thank you. sara murray at the white house. >>> also tonight, "the washington post" is reporting that president trump promised the father of another fallen soldier $25,000 over the summer. our white house reporter caitlin collins is working the story. she's got details. the white house is confirming that president trump sent a personal check to the family just today. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, wolf. amid all this rising scrutiny over the president's claim that he's mow more attentive to the families of fallen soldiers than his predecessors have been, "the washington post" published a story today that said when the president called one grieving family, he offered them $25,000, but never followed through. "the washington post" reported that the president had called chris baldridge after his son who was just 22 years old, was killed in afghanistan over the summer. they say the president called him a few weeks later and during this 15-minute or so long phone call with the father, they started discussing the military's survivor benefits program, that the president then offered to write him a check f

trump is not a moron. that part of the story has been skipped over by the white house. and on day two of this controversy, the secretary of state continues to refuse to deny that he called the president a moron. the state department spokesperson has said that the secretary did not call the president a moron but she was not present during the meeting at the pentagon. where it is said that rex tillerson called the president a moron and nothing could be easier for the secretary of state than to issue a one-sentence written statement saying, i did not call the president a moron. the secretary of state very deliberately has not done that. which is infuriating to the president of the united states according to a new report tonight. nbc news reports tonight that four senior administration officials said the president first learned of rex tillerson calling him a moron exactly when the rest of us learned it, yesterday morning when nbc news reported it. president trump complained immediately to white house chief of staff john kelly on wednesday morning which led to general kelly

trump-russia collusion which doesn't exist. nbc's kelly o'donnell has more from the white house. >> reporter: on a dreary gray sunday, president trump stayed inside the white house. but active like a cloud burst on twitter. venting broadly about the russia investigation, blaming democrats for a, quote, witch hunt for evil politics. while washington, a town that thrives on being in the know, waits in the dark for special counsel robert mueller's first indictment. >> we haven't been informed of who it is, and i don't think it would have been appropriate for bob mueller to tell us. >> reporter: reports that an indictment is coming makes secrecy a factor itself. investigators and by law grand juries work behind closed doors. >> have to be very careful about this. grand jury secrecy is important to the effectiveness of a grand jury investigation. >> reporter: the big unknowns, who has mueller targeted and for what kind of alleged crime? >> it's going to be really important whether or not this indictment involves 15-year-old business transactions or 15-day old conversations with russia. >> reporter: among those under scrutiny, foreig

office to now direct a brand-new set of investigations that's all throughout the trump operation, maybe even up to the white house itself in taking on, indicting president trump's former campaign chairman and his top deputy, the clear message, the clear implication is that nothing is off limits. the president and his own finances could potentially come on to the table and more intriguingly a junior level aide who is now pleaded guilty cooperating with authority, the question is who else is cooperating? did he wear a wire? are there other people he will implicate in his explanation of the facts? this probe is very clearly now getting much larger before it gets smaller and the clear indication from anything and at anything that leads him from the directions that he started. even if that means going far afield from his original mission, he is not going to stop until he pursues every lead that gets at the truth. diane and kendis. >> and, rick, clearly he'll look at anyone because the mueller investigation has now led to the resignation of a top democratic lobbyist, tony podesta has stepped down from his lobbying firm

"deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. donald trump today fielded a blizzard of shouted questions from reporters in the rose garden of the white house. making fresh headlines on the russia investigation. the federal response to the california wildfires. the nfl anthem controversy. and his relationship with mitch mcconnell. it would be an insult to hastily arranged events to describe this as one. according to peter alzonder, reporters were gathered in the press briefing room awaiting sarah huckabee sanders when they were told to run to the rose garden for a press avail with the president and mitch mcconnell. today's media event was no doubt part of the pr offensive that began last week with john kelly's unannounced appearance in the briefing room to beat back the narrative that the trump white house has become an adult day care facility. so described by gop senator bob corker. unsurprisingly, at 6:00 a.m. today, a brand-new press account detailing the west wing as a place where aides spend a significant part of their day devising ways t

in new york city we have some breaking news this hour in the russia probe in the trump white house. axios is reporting this afternoon, mr. trump, the president is pledging to pay the legal bills for some of his white house staff and associates. jonathan swan is breaking this story. he said trump is offering to pay more than $400,000. jonathan swan is on the phone. thanks for joining us on this breaking story. what else are you learning about this? >> we just reported the republican national committee has so far paid $430,000 to lawyers representing president trump and his eldest son don junior. the white house official told me that trump will not be reimbursing the rnc for the costs. he promised out of his own money to pay the same amount, at least 430,000 to defray the cost of legal fees of his associates including former and current white house staff. there's so many unanswered questions. i pressed this official for answers and they didn't answer. we don't know who makes these decisions about which of the associates get the money. i did just speak to -- this is really just about fi

the reality is, the trump white house is trying to work with some of the republicans bannon called out. president trump even has a lunch scheduled with mitch mcconnell monday. >>> disturbing new details emerged today about what it was like for an american woman, her canadian husband and their family as they endured five years of captivity in afghanistan. they were held by a group linked to the taliban. the husband is describing their ordeal. nbc's lucy kafanov has the story. >> reporter: until this week, the only life he and his two siblings knew was captivity in afghanistan. his father speaking out about the hostage ordeal publicly for the first time. telling nbc news exclusively they had lived in an underground dungeon, just 66 square feet. dripping water and their beds covered in thick mold. murdering their fourth child, a baby girl. >> the stupidity and evil of the hakani networks, kidnapping of a pilgrim and his heavily pregnant wife was eclipsed by the stupidity and evil of murdering my infant daughter and the subsequent rape of my wife. >> reporter: the pakistani military releas

least there was no name calling from the white house today as there was last week when congresswoman wilson described the president's phone call. president trump then said that congresswoman wilson was lying and the white house chief of staff john kelly called her an empty barrel. kelly attacked the congresswoman at length in the white house press briefing room and refused to ever say her name and it is very hard now to make sense of what earns an attack from the trump white house or earns praise from the trump white house. southern bap tis pastor praised by the president on friday. when the president called him a wonderful man in a tweet, the president was using the office to help to try to sell books for the pastor in that tweet and here's what robert jeffries has said about john kelly's religion. >> today the roman catholic church is the result of that corruption. much of what you see in the catholic church today doesn't come from god's word. it comes from this cult-like pagan religion. >> so if you call catholicism a cult-like pagan religion, donald trump will call you a wonderful man and john kelly will not call you an empty barrel. every

broke out. >>> last thing before we go here tonight, tricker treating at the white house that included some sour jokes. donald trump hosted the children of the white house press corps in the oval office this afternoon. they could not have been cuter or wearing cuter costumes. personal favorites, batman or bat child and princess laya, but along with candy they got a taste of the president's running dislike of the job their parents do. >> i cannot believe the media produced such beautiful children. how the media did this, i don't know. come on over here. come on. come on over here. come on right here. do you know who they are? do you know who they are? they're the friendly media. that's the press. are you crying? come here, sweetheart. >> she's japanese. beautiful. i'm going to be in japan in two weeks. i'll be in japan. are you going to grow up to be hike your parents? don't answer. that can only get me in trouble, that question. who likes this? you have no weight problems, that's the good news, right? so how does the press treat you? i'll bet you get treated better by the press than anybody in the world, right? i t