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So, interview after interview where one of two republicans would say, hey, did you conspire, collude or cooperate? and the witness would invariably say, no, and the republican colleague would say, oh, thats good. and wed move on. no attempt to follow-up, no attempt to, you know, look at phone calls that we would have liked to have known were made. certainly, chris, this doesnt get a lot of coverage, but incredibly broad assertions of executive privilege including for the period of the transition...

In the last four weeks. thats when paul manafort reached a deal with the special prosecutor. today president trumps national security advisor, john bolton, was in moskow down-playing the effects of a russian interference in the 2016 election. bolton said in an interview, quote, the point i made to russian colleagues today was i didnt think whatever they had done in terms of meddling in the 2016 election, that they had any effect on it. but what they have had an effect in the united states is to ...

Mix, you end up with these interpretations in the market. the market has corrected a lot. s&p 500 are down more than 10% from the most recent 52-week highs. were in the midst of a correction. there will be some work needed to do here even if we close up today. >> ron, thank you for your analysis as always. ron insana, cnbc contributor. moving to the other major story, the presidents uptick and false claims and flat-out lies. joining me now is jeff bennett. one of the people in it often with the ...

So, interview after interview where one of two republicans would say, hey, did you conspire, collude or cooperate? and the witness would invariably say, no, and the republican colleague would say, oh, thats good. and wed move on. no attempt to follow-up, no attempt to, you know, look at phone calls that we would have liked to have known were made. certainly, chris, this doesnt get a lot of coverage, but incredibly broad assertions of executive privilege including for the period of the transition...

"the washington post" report on roger stone says in recent weeks a grand jury in washington has listened to more than a dozen hours of testimony and fbi technicians have poured over gig bites of electronic messages. prosecutors are both examining public comments and alleged private assertions roger stone made in 2016 suggesting he had a way to reach assange, the people familiar with the investigation said. on august 21st, 2016, in the presidential campaign several weeks before hillary clintons c...

This story of these people paid by george soros. >> and its -- and so some people believe it and theres zero evidence of it. its made up out of cloth. >> could it work, george? >> look. susan says heres the man sowing division with fact reassertions. and we begin the program talking about this little pop gun from russia. what are they doing? sowing discord with fact-free assertions. what the russians are doing is nothing compared tos done on a daily basis by the president of the united states. s...

I supported the mission as a tool for free expression. from that point of view, us trying to draw those impossible to draw lines around whats acceptable is a losing strategy. >> tucker: why are they doing that? its fraught with peril. its obvious and you just said it. i actually think congress could fight back but they are doing it anyway, so why? >> its hard to imbue intent to anybody on these things. i wouldnt pretend to be able to put myself in their shoes. what i can say though is that execu...

Thought about it as a tool for micro free expression. i support the mission as a tool for micro free expression. from that point of view, us trying to draw those impossible to draw lines about whats acceptable is a losing strategy. >> tucker: why are they doing that? its fraught with peril, its obvious and you just said it. i think congress could fight back but they are doing anyway, why? >> its hard to imbue intent to anybody. i wouldnt pretend to be able to put myself in their shoes. what i ca...

Anymore weapons. dont do that until we get to the bottom of it. and we will get to the bottom of it. >> governor, this isnt the first time that trump has elevated the assurances of despotic leaders over his intelligence community. perhaps more than any president in modern history, donald trump is willing and sometimes even eager to uncritically repeat the assertions of authoritarian leaders, breaking with his own government experts. lets take a look at some of those examples. >> hes a funny guy....

The art works being brought to berlin that dated from before nine hundred forty five were also checked for provenance. pot singer the president of the pression cultural heritage foundation also had to deal with assertions that some of the works in iran were forgeries. and wed heard that some works had allegedly been replaced with forgeries over the decades and that the originals had been sold for huge sums of money but you cant just say that these are bandits so its hard to say anything about th...