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People turkish politics will remember that there was a recent election in turkey the constitution was changed giving the president more powers now how do you square that with the need right now of this acute need for the central bank to show to international markets that it is hinted i mean can you square that circle. well indeed the president made very clear in the run up to. election victory that when he did assume these powers. would be to take direct control over the running of the economy a...

Have seen from giuliani lately. arguing in the alternative. giving people choices about what to believe. here he says well, you could believe this conversation never took place, or if the conversation with comey took place, it wasnt a criminal act by the president. this is how -- he made a similar point about collusion. there was no collusion, but if there was collusion it wasnt criminal. these are arguments that are designed to give the presidents supporters a variety of choices, not so much to...

Former federal prosecutor. i dont even understand that. giuliani directly contradicting himself. now, one could say hes trying to muddy the waters, but what does this do to the investigation? are there any consequences for the president or rudy giuliani that he is state up lying, either then or now? >> i dont think a sitting presidents ever going to be indicted so there may be some ramifications if there are ever impeachment proceedings. mr. giuliani and mr. trump were put to the test. as we als...

That the presidents legal team has to not allow him to testify before robert mueller. they believe the special counsel is trying to set a perjury trap by asking the president what he told james comey and ultimately why he fired the former fbi director. ryan? >> all right. boris sanchez live with the president near his golf resort in new jersey. boris, thanks. lets discuss these developments now. joining me now, cnn legal analyst michael zeldin, a former special assistant to robert mueller at the...

Please, and thats normal, but it wasnt obstruction. today he said he never saidit. rudy giuliani is the worst thing the president has going for him from a legal standpoint. he should be fired because hes only hurting the presidents case. in fact, if you look at this dialogue over the last couple months, giuliani is sort of exhibit a for why mueller would want to speak to the president. there continues to be differing accounts of what happened. mueller cant reach resolution unless he speaks to th...

And he said a lot of things that turned out to be untrue. the reality is that as a prosecutor, i was told that many times, can you give the man a break either by the lawyers or the relatives or friends, and you take it into consideration, but that can doesnt determine not going forward wit. >> so just to be clear. last month giuliani said quote, what he, president trump, said to him, james comey, can you give the guy, michael flynn a break. and today, the story is that the two never even talked ...

Flynn. in august, he never had that conversation. >> doesnt it further play into this argument hes making that i remember when he first made this statement, it was a bombshell of news. it took him a long time to come back and try and clear it up, right? wouldnt that also be an indication hes not using this arguing from the alternative legal term? >> exactly. what giuliani said, the only thing he said that i have relied on consistently since he arrived on the scene is he doesnt know the law and i...

>> i still remember christmases where my brother and i would run around and deliver gifts to everybody. everybody was getting along. those were some happy memories there. >> sadly, a lot of unhappy ones, too. >> pretty much from when i can remember, fighting and arguing were pretty routine. >> after nearly nine years this marriage, like so many others, fell apart. >> we might have been a little bit more different than we were willing to admit early on. >> even at that age i could definitely see,...

We need to be better at calling that out. >> help us understand the perspective of the republican party here, bearing in mind the republican party, itself, is a big tent. and were looking at the extreme right here. but we saw the president all but praising david duke during the campaign. not rejecting what he said, not rejecting the groups here today, of course, and the tweet that he sent out, at least not explicitly. what are republicans to do? whats your counsel to them as all of this continue...

Ultimately at the end of the day, it ends up being about racial terror. on the other side of it, so often from, we go from the lynch memorial in montgomery, alabama. and you see 4,000 names. the many more who have been dumped in shallow graves. >> question about how to deal with what seems in white supremacist, white national rhetoric. channeled in less and less disguised fashion. question about persuasion and arguing. can you argue with this ideology or must you defeat it. how do you think abou...