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Now, i dont know if that military deployment, if that expenditure of resources was just done for political effect to try to influence the midterm elections. if it wasnt, its presumably because the administration has another reason for that military deployment. the problem with that argument is that the president had a really hard time explaining what did justify that commitment to the border at that moment and in that way? for example, for example, i kid you not, the trump appointed senior manag...

Detailed assertions that part of crisis is the southern border is that women are being tied up with tape in cars to traffic them across the border while they are all tied up with tape. the president says this over and over and over again. there does not as yet seem to be any known factual basis for the presidents repeated claims that this is part of the crisis at the border. there also does not seem to be any factual basis for the presidents claims that mexican smugglers have amazing cars like y...

Likes -- seemed like a sideshow, but this indictment is about lying. does this bring you any closer that members of the trump campaign conspired -- >> i wouldnt say its tangential. the assertions are that roger stone was in contact with senior officials within the trump campaign allege telling them about his efforts to work with wikileaks. they were in turn trying to find out about what he was doing, so on and so forth. that is at the very least highly unusual and concerns. if, for example, some...

He reported that president trumps attorney michael cohen ordered him to lie to congress. buzzfeed is a joke. this is the outlook that gives us stories like 19 husbands who sent the most hilariously random texts ever and ten signs your cat is a wizard. you mightve thought how could buzzfeed have gotten the one story that nobody else t can replicate but that everybody else has been searching for? you might have asked yourself thatat question before repeating the key assertions in the story mindles...

Lie to congress. now, if you were a normal editor or reporter you might pause before repeating this because buzzfeed is a joke. this is the outlet that gives us stories like 19 husbands who sent the most hilariously random texts ever and 10 signs your cat is a wizard. so, you might have thought how can buzzfeed have gotten the one story that nobody else can replicate but that everybody else has been searching for? you might have asked yourself that question before repeating the key assertions in...

Whether cohen relayed that was in to the special prosecutors office and the other is whether the claim that the special counsels office had been privy to -- prior to cohen saying those things, privy to other things, notes and material inside the trump organization. those two seem to be the factual assertions that are most controversial and i think one of the questions is was the special counsel denying both of those things or one of them? clearly its got to be one of the two or both. if either o...

The publication of the story and after. >> so back with us is susan joining the conversation along with na ta sha, im wondering what you make of the decision to release that statement. >> it was earth shattering, right? i think they have released a statement a few times in the two or three years, so for him to outright dispute the report is really big. but the statement was also pretty carefully worded, right? it didnt say that it was completely false, it just said the assertions made about muel...

Suddenly, as a subsidiary matter, an investigation of the presidents own conduct. >> that, i think, is the crux, right? we had an ongoingn chairman has been pulled into it. questions about what his attorney did and questions about what his son and son-in-law may have done at that infamous trump tower meeting. its all been people close to the president, about russias efforts to assist donald trump in becoming president. this is about the president and his own activities and also his own assertion...

Thank you very much. >> shepard: the presidents assertions are refuted by his own government. the government that says the majority of drugs come through ports of call. the democrats have offered up money to increase security at ports of call. in addition the funding of a border wall was the superintendent -- subject of the mid-term elections. during the elections, president campaigned for candidates saying you have to vote for republicans to build the wall. the democrats picked up more than 40 ...

The president of the united states says my way or the highway, theres nothing to negotiate, either agree with me or its over. it wasnt even high stakes negotiation. it was a petulant president of the united states. >> president trump went to the capitol to strengthen senate republicans spines for keeping the government close. >> i think were going to win. we need border security. very simple. whatever it takes. >> well, the collapse in talks after he made a nationally televised pitch and a small...