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The united states, things are going well right now as north korea reaffirms with allies like china and russia. >> will ripley live in hong kong. thank you. president trump is now ended up where he started a week ago. he is back to questioning whether russia interfered in the u.s. elections. he spent much of the last week trying to convince everyone he believed the intel as he stood alongside vladimir putin in helsinki and questioned the intelligence community and sided with putin. now the pres...

First of all, what is behind the presidents tweet? >> look, the key thing to point out is that apparently, from the indictment we know that the obama administration discovered this in 2016.before the election. the real question here is, why didnt they take immediate action and a counterintelligence operation to not only warn everyone involved in the political campaign and what was going on but take steps to prevent this from happening. there has really been no explanation. >> arthel: well, i wil...

Person. the other key thing here is that the special counsel goes out of their way here in these court documents and didnt need to put this in there. this is how they communicate about their investigation and where things stand. and this makes it clear that the russian investigation is very much alive, very much ongoing and it shows us how this attorney, how this even relates to the russian investigation. the other thing is, they went out of their way to talk about 2016 and the court documents. ...

What is it doing? >> but kudlow says it is not going to go up. itll go up, but kudlow says it is not going to. he made the argument with the president that the president uses. economic growth will go up, and we will grow ourselves out of the deficit. >> then this will be the challenge for larry kudlow. in the position that hes in now, he has to stand there and represent real data. >> right. but the fear is he may stand there and represent the president in the face of real data. >> well, as larry...

In from 2016. before we go to break, a quick programming note. ari melber along with the ceos of google and youtube describe how we deal with the rapid change of pace, its a special townhall event tonight. take a look. >> the tech companies have gotten bigger. i think with more power comes more responsibility. and i think the scrutinys important. its a big part of democratic systems. you need to hold companies accountable. and i think thats a healthy part of evolution that needs to happen, but...

Both with their independent power up against each other. >> and we didnt get to talk about bernie 2020, which apparently is also in the news this week. >> its gearing up. >> already gearing up. >> are you feeling the bern? >> im feeling the bern, lets bring it. have some fun. >> its nice to bring the bern in from 2016. before we go to break, a quick programming note. ari melber along with the ceos of google and youtube describe how we deal with the rapid change of pace, its a special townhall ...

Beyonce. okay. >> lets get to business. i had franklin gram on the show. and asked about evangelical support. >> these alleged affairs. and alleged with trump. didnt happen while he was in office. this happened eleven, 12, 13 years ago. and so i think theres a big difference. and not that we give anybody a pass. but we have to look at the time line. >> so. >> really? >> details are it happened. four months after melania gave birth. and the pay out to keep quiet. it came in 2016. before the elect...

Party. steve schmidt is here in studio to talk about that tonight and ill play steve for steve. this is you on election night. 2016. before the race was called. >> an extraordinary night. one thing we already know is that no matter what the outcome is, the party of reagan no longer exists. there are enormous issues geopolitically that will be dealing with this. there is seismic event of our political lifetime. >> steve, tonight the president returns from his international trip about a year after...

Stphrao new questions for hillary clintons campaign. a stunning report with possible ties between the clinton team and russia. it centers on a russian operative and her trump meeting with donald trump jr. in june of 2016. before and after the meeting she was meeting with the co-founder of fusion gps. a company working to dig up dirt on wapb date donald trump. >> is this switch with to be flipped and point to the hillary clinton division politically. >> i dont think its about to be flipped. think...

The author of that book, mark uptergrop joins me now. just to read for everybody exactly what the former bush presidents have said, we have the first one from george h.w. bush, that i want to read. it says here, his quote is, i dont like him. i dont know much about him, but i know hes a blowhard. and im not too excited about him being our leader. and then his son, bush 43 says, well, this guy really doesnt understand the job of president. did you have to prod them to say these things in the book...