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And they may specifically be trying to say something to the white house about whether or not pardoning paul manafort would make it look like paul manafort was pardoning the guy to the russian campaign during the russian attack on the campaign. the special counsels office said in court filings and prosecutors said in open court that this guy kilimnik, manaforts right-hand man, right? he is assessed by the fbi to have active links to russian intelligence. this big redactions fight happening in d.c...

One is whether or not they believe that the president committed impeachable offenses, is it strategically wise to pursue. youre starting a process that will freeze everything else. what they want to do instead is follow up on the specific factual assertions that michael cohen made. he accused the president of committing bank fraud, campaign finance violations, that is what democrats will try to do next to is get their hands on his tax returns. >> i get the political, and then there is unintended...

Things about how the trumps do business, this is the opening act. >> mimi rocah, your old shop, the southern district of new york, kept coming up in every conversation, but they left out the part where the same prosecutors said donald trump directed these crimes. >> exactly. you hit the nail on the head. what they wanted to do was paint cohen as a liar, which really isnt surprising since the first thing cohen did was admitted hes a liar. hes lied on behalf of trump. and thats the part that they ...

Testimony today, its very, very damaging for trump. and so thats why instead of, as you said, going after the facts and trying to counter some of the actual assertions he made about what trump did like direct him in essence to lie, although he was careful not to overstate it, you know, help concoct this scheme of silencing women and then reimbursing through this essentially a fraud scheme. if you believe all of that, thats very damaging for trump. and so the only thing they can do is to attack h...

Been holding out hope for a pardon. he was on much better terms with the president. he now has no reason to believe that the president or anyone else can save him if he were to have been dishonest once again in his testimony today. >> im really anxious from your perspective, the legal perspective, what jumped out at you today? >> i think fundamentally, the perjury issues potentially. based on cohens testimony, of course, if its true and can be corroborated somehow, the president has two major is...

In new jersey in 1984. why would we not want to bring her back to question her, perhaps even to try her? >> you have to remember the context. weve now taken down all but the last square inch of the caliphate in syria and iraq. millions of people liberated by president trump and our administration, the great work our soldiers have done on the ground. there are now over 800 terrorists that are being held, foreign terrorists fighters being held in syria today. shes just one of them. she is a terror...

The chinese government while way denies those assertions. hopefully a constructive conversation today when new talks between the u.s. and chinese trade delegations begin lets go now to our financial correspondent frank for daniel cope daniel what do investors want to see out of these talks. well stephen you can be very sure that if there is something what investors dont like at all here behind me at the frankfurt stock exchange and also at other exchanges around the world is certainty when we th...

We have invested significantly in reducing the flow of drugs into our country, we want to do it in a way that actually works. the president is fixated on this border wall, this vanity project thats not effective and wont achieve what its trying to achieve. i think his own republican colleagues by voting on this voted for things that will actually work. >> david cicilline, thank you for joining us. have a great weekend. during his announcement, the president made a number of assertions about the ...

>> the looser he is on the facts. he was very loose today saying hes built a lot of wall. there was a gunfight two weeks ago, one mile from the border, 26 dead. theres no evidence for those sorts of assertions, he was lying about president obama and things like that. the through line here is that it continues to portray this as an emergency with statistics. just dont line up the reality. >> there was a moment where he talked about the drugs coming across the border. i want to play what he said. ...

Cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the united states under the 25th amendment. >> "the new york times" reporting that mccabe wrote in a memo deputy attorney general rod rosenstein looked into the 25th amendment issue and determined he would need, quote, a majority or eight of the 15 cabinet officials, the justice department slamming mccabes assertions as inaccurate, the response reading as the deputy attorney general has previously stated based on his personal dealings ...