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We cant -- we cant measure their performance. we cant know about their misdeeds and abuses of power without the truth. we have to know what the truth is. and we only have a few ways of really getting at the truth. we depend on our leaders in congress for example, exercising their article i power of the constitution in order to conduct oversight over the executive branch in particular. but we also depend on the media. the media is critical in that regard, too, asking tough questions, doing invest...

Adviser sam vinegrad. she spent two years in the obama administration helping to prep for the presidents daily brief. the president making a lot of accusations about this reported assassination attempt. where do you think its headed. >> president said a shield of love protected him from this assassination attempt. i think youd be hard pressed to find any madoro supporters. more than half of the population lives in poverty. hundreds have fled because of extreme shortages. he runs a virtual dictat...

Guys are creating alternative information universe where people can go and therefore ignore all of the damaging facts about donald trumps misdeeds and abuses of power. and its harder than pull them out. >> that issue here as well is the coziness of this group apparently has with the president of the united states. want to play a quick bit of tape here. sarah huckabee sanders asked about the group in tampa. lets take a listen to what she had to say. >> president condemns and denounces any group t...

As we know were getting close on the nafta deal with mexico as well as continuing to put pressure on china to stop these abuses of the trading practices, which no other president had ever really forcefully done. were seeing movement in that area as well. so i think what youre seeing, you saw vice president pence coming back with the remains of those fallen soldiers from north korea. again, pushing north korea in a direction to basically live up to their promise. this is a president who is a non-...

Official at the fbi. and you had a lot of juice. >> the president upsetting mainstream media asking jeff sessions to end the mueller probe. when you heard what the president said, is this donald trump blowing off steam or is there something more? >> he wants the mueller probe ended. he is constrained for the meeting, probably for political reasons. the attorney general and justice department to step up and curb the abuses of robert mueller. you see from peter stzrok who compromised the investiga...

Cant you cant give me one you walk a mile saying why nobody came to visit us after the coup you cant give me a single one almost all of them really yes and you cant give me a single name almost all of them you can pick one get one almost all of them pick one almost all are sensors almost all of the really yes you have no evidence for that whatsoever i have the evidence of that many ministers that night actually question me three oclock in the morning how turkey was going to treat these plotters ...

Have done such great reporting on this. you were also doing some reporting on another case we will try to get you next week that involves criminal justice reform, and i can tweet something -- you know what im talking about. i dont want to get too far into it. i want to bring you back to discuss that particular case next week. thank you so much. >> thank you, laura. i am so grateful. wrongful convictions are a huge issue for me. >> laura: wrongful convictions, prosecutors who are out of control i...

Going to trye to get to it next week. it involves criminal justice reform. i tweeted something -- you know what im talking about -- i dont want to get too far into it. >> i do. >> laura: i want to bring you back to discuss that particular case next week. thank you so much. >> thank you, laura. im so grateful. wrongful convictions are a huge issue for me. >> laura: yeah, wrongful convictions. prosecutors who are out of control in our country and peoplecu rotting in prison when they could be gainf...

>> april, trump often retaliates against people critical of him. why do you think he hasnt done that with lebron? >> its a losing moment for him. lebron james is riding high with the i promise school. its amazing. at the same time once the president -- all of this kind of really came to a crescendo moment when the philadelphia eagles were not allowed to come to the white house and they declined or whatever you want to call it. and we called it out. they kept saying that it was disrespectful. and...

And we called it out. they kept saying that it was disrespectful. and then i remember asking that day to sarah huckabee sanders does the president realize what taking the knee is about? that put the real piece on it. they kept the narrative saying its about disrespect of soldiers. its about disrespect of flags but the issue is police involved abuses and shootings, and america supports police but they want to weed out bad policing. if youre the president of all america and theres one segment of a...