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Russia is not our peer. while president trump says, vladimir putin isnt my enemy, hes my competitor, no, mr. preside president, he wishes he was your competitor. the russian economy is the size of new york state. they have been in a recession since 2014. in part, because of the sanctions the powerful united states and the eu imposed on russia after the annexation of crimea. couple that with russias dep d dependency on commodities and falling crude prices. every dollar the crude prices drop, the ...

Pfeifer. >> we looked at each other, and wondering if we were both going to be okay. as he turned around and took his firefighters, that was the last time i saw my brother kevin. >> reporter: did kevin say anything to you? >> no. we didnt have to. we knew we were worried about each other. >> reporter: the chief shows me one of the dispatch call slips from that morning. >> you see the date, september 11th, 2001. >> reporter: and it says right here on the ticket that this one went out at 9:08. >> ...

The election. obviously thats a hugely sensitive election because of what happened in 2016, and my guess this will be in the front of muellers head and he won want to do anything that look like it is playing into the politics of the moment. >> all right. michael schmidt as always thank you so much for being with us. jeremy, we were talking before about trump voters, theres a lot of focus now, a book out on counties that went for obama in 08, obama in 12 and then trump in 16. you were out talki...

Is this -- did he fall asleep at the wheel? what happened? >> theres an incredible irony with whats happened with joe crowley and it is this -- hes been in congress for 20 years. he was elected in 98. a sort of the back-room maneuver got him into that place in the first place. he set out to climb the democratic ranks in d.c. but was blocked for years because he had a poor relationship with nancy pelosi. he sided with steny hoyer. in 06, 08, 10, cro had sights on moving up. in the last four years...

Can we go back to that chart one more time? the next time you hear that millions of illegal immigrations or immigrants are flooding into our country. look at this chart. look at this chart. its pretty bad in 2000. no doubt. 220,000? >> all predates donald trump too. >> almost dropped by 10%. when barack obama became president, and even at the end of george bush. 07, down. 08, down, 09, down. 10, down, 13, up a little. 14 up a little. whatever barack obama was doing, holy cow. thats amazing. 16, ...

07, in 08, uh -- >> anthony: 2007? >> abdou: yeah. in, in, in 2008 we were at the start and we didnt start. >> jean: thats right. >> abdou: we didnt start. >> jean: they cancelled the, the race. >> anthony: in 2008, officials shut the event down with racers from all over the world at the starting line. a response to the murder of four french citizens in maritania and to the discovery of potential terrorist threats against the race in the region. the race, now called the dakar rally, was moved of...

Can within the confines of the law which have been established to fix the problem. this is congress problem. the democrats had supermajorities in the u.s. in 60 votes, in the majority in the house in 2006 and 08 and they chose not to fix this problem. >> who signed the 2008 law that guides today, who signed it? >> barack obama. >> wrong. 2008, it was signed by president bush. okay? im not big into politics blame game i think there are problems with both sides toos why weve been stuck with a bad ...

Theres a live shot 4:08 in the nations cap poll. wilbur ross before u.s. committee as u.s. goes back and forth on tariffs. so a lot of people keeping an eye on that today. also happening today president trump heading to minnesota. his first trip of 10,000 lakes since taking office. the president will hold a round-table event with representatives from the mining and steel industry. president trump will be joined by republican congressional candidate pete who is running in a traditionally democrat...

Tonight in meet the mid terms, michael bloomberg is making a big investment into the democratic partys effort to flip the house this november. for him you have to ask is it really a potential investment into 2020? the "new york times" reports the former new york city mayor has committed to spend $80 million in the run-up to the 2018. he says he will back republican and democratic candidates for governor you about solely support democrats for the house. he has recently told associates that if he ...

Supreme court had the opportunity to stay the ten-rounds law and the opinion did not. thats all we heard from the united states supreme court on the ammunition. so finally, i think they need to step up and clarify this for the nation. >> quickly, do you think they will? because theyve turned away a lot of appeals. theyre treating the second amendment like a second-rate or second-tier constitutional right. it should be on par with all the rest of them. >> thats right. the supreme court hasnt take...