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>> when the fbi comes into contact with information about what a foreign government may be doing in our election cycle, i think they have an obligation to run it out. what i have seen, i dont know what the fbi could have or should have done other than run out a lead that someone loosely connected with the campaign was making assertions about russia. i would think you would want the fbi to find out whether or not there was any validity to what those people were saying. >> in other words, the cong...

Official of the united nations who is concerned by arbitrary mass dismissals of civil servants and private sector employees arbitrary closure of civil society organizations arbitrary detention the use of torture deal treatment during pretrial detention restrictions on free expression and movement arbitrary expropriation of private property those are things that he is concerned about not me hes concerned im talking about the chief security right sophisticated or my people is more important than w...

Discovery or document and things in terms of production of tapes like this. theres a process thats supervised by the courts this turning over this information. no one is just going to turn that over. it would be malpractice. >> if i could jump in, too. its very interesting after that court hearing michael avenatti goes in front of the media and makes this pronouncement when he was seriously and significantly chastised at the judge at this court hearing for speaking out so much about this case an...

Very terrible mistake for the country. gowdy threw cold water on the conspiracy theory that the obama administration was spying on his campaign. federal investigators were just doing their jobs. >> based on what i have seen, i dont know what the fbi could have done or should have done other than run out a lead that someone loosely connected with the campaign was making assertions about russia. >> reporter: white house response. >> clearly theres still cause for concern that needs to be looked at...

Trump was accuses barack obama of tapping his phones in trump towers and spreading all of these other lies, he was sufficiently frightened enough to take the extraordinary step of continuing to demand that his attorney general reconsider his recusal. which means that he knew he was headed for very choppy waters. >> you know, the attorney general at the very last moment cancelled from the gridiron dinner in 2017 and now we know why. it was to go down to mar-a-lago. lots of speculation that night ...

Denuclearize, but he wants to play this perception that hes peaceful, that hes reasonable. >> thats what im hearing from a lot of people in washington whe, that there is skepticism and they are going to denuclearize, and i think thats why were seeing this problem. i mean, because, i think a lot of people are septembkeptical, f they see that they will, they wont ultimately will. so i think thats a lot of the reason why people like rubio and jeff flake are making these assertions that they are ske...

Were not done. another conspiracy, after the election, the president began claiming that he lost the popular vote because millions of people voted illegally. he took this claim so far that he even created a commission on voter fraud. guess what? that commission found no proof to support the presidents wild assertions. and the president disbanded it earlier this year. were not done with this list yet, folks. stay with us. in november the president suggested that a well-known msnbc host murdered a...

Media, we will continue for the truth. and jeff zeleny picks up on this issue from the white house. >> reporter: president trump coining a new phrase for an old conspiracy theory. >> were now calling it spy-gate. youre calling it spy gate. >> and virtually no one is using that term except the president. >> reporter: he turned a false rumor no a conspiracy in short order and leaving the white house for a trip to new york he would not answer the questions about so-called spy gate. >> how could you...

Do a meeting in july mueller can have it wrapped up by september. what is giuliani doing with muellers team? >> i think he is trying to put down a public marker to condition the american public to anticipate that mueller is going to have this thing wrapped up by the fall. i would imagine there has to be some basis in truth for this. i would be very surprised are giuliani came out with false assertions. i suspect there is some truth to what rudy is saying. the big question is whether the presiden...

House really caught off guard by the last minute shift in position. south koreas president arriving here in i moment now with very high stakes. really trying to reassure a jittery president trump that north korea ultimately will negotiating in good faith. >> troubled from the start by the president quickly accepting the assertions from the south koreans before he had been properly briefed on it. agreeing to the summit. many people would say a good thing theyre getting together but expecting them...