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Speak, a day after dropping bombshell after bombshell in an open hearing. the presidents former personal attorney is testifying at the house intelligence committee behind closed doors. manu raju is on capitol hill. this is his third day testifying. what are you hearing in the fallout from his public appearance yesterday? >> hes been in there since 9:00 a.m. eastern time. we expect this to go on through most of the day today. theyre questioning about the false testimony he previously gave in 2015...

This was an unforced error. there is no way the dictator of north korea wouldnt have known exactly what was going on with this young man. >> the president has cited with authoritarian leaders before, this is a pattern. listen to what he said about the leaders of russia and saudi arabia. >> i have president putin. he just said its not russia. i will say this. i dont see any reason why it would be. i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> i hat...

That in singapore, there was no more nuclear threat as a result of the negotiation that he had achieved. that was not misleading and he put his own staff in an impossible position of having to negotiate after the fact a deal that he already claimed to have achieved. he didnt claim that. in fact, just a few weeks ago, they were threatening to fire the director of national intelligence for testifying accurately that the conclusion of u.s. intelligence agencies was that, in fact, the kim regime was...

Finally done is turned back on the track that originally was and was supposed to be. and, in fact, now what president trump managed to do which i actually thought was impossible, exactly because singapore had set the stage for the wrong path. he finally managed to put the ball back into north koreas court. >> just final words, susan. do you think the ball is heading in the direction it should be now, to borrow whatever sports analogy were using? >> i do. im not going into a metaphor, but i think...

>> so thats an interesting point that basically said, he didnt want to release his tax returns because he might end up in an audit. so could you presume from that statement that he wasnt under audit? >> i presume he is not under audit. >> that was an exchange with jimmy gomez who joins us now. so you are a member of the house committee as well as the ways and means committee, which is a pretty important tax committee, and where the chairman has the power to at least request tax returns. when mic...

Leading up to warmbiers death. >> i did speak to him. he felt very badly about it. he knew the case well but he knew it later. a lot of people, big country. a lot of people. in those prisons and those camps, you have a lot of people, and some really bad things happened to otto. some really, really bad things. but he tells me he didnt know about it, and i will take him at his word. >> warmbier went to north korea on an educational trip. he was put in prison and he was returned to america in a veg...

Who was racist. >> that set off a chain of e-mails between democrat rashida tlaib. >> mr. president, i reclaim my time. he is setting a precedent that the highest office can be obtained for legal activity. >> hillary shelton is director of the naacps washington bureau. hes with us now. what did you think, mr. shelton, as you saw this? >> it was such a distraction. the issues going on at the time was testimony from the presidents former lawyer, someone thats been close to the president and his fa...

This is actually a great outcome for the united states. >> why is that? is it because walking away and saying no way, this is not something were going to sta for, its just important to make that statement? >> absolutely. and it was critical that president trump did it face to face, eyeball to eyeball, with kim jong-un. and whats actually quite surprising to me, president trump did it in a very measured manner and he didnt come off, you know, flying off the handle which everybody thought he might...

Bushs grandson and president george w. bushs nephew and he interviewed me about some of my memories of covering the bush family. >> brianna, its so special to be here with you and turn the tables a bit and get to ask you questions. im sure this is somewhat weird for you. >> it is odd. but i love it. >> so, when you came to d.c., one of your first assignments was going to the white house in 2006 and you thought you were going to get an empty weekend at the white house. what happened? tell us abou...

From members of both parties that president trump walked away rather than accept a bad deal, which was a concern among many of the petition own advisers walking into the summit. but i think clearly that is a little bit after-the-fact ju justification. the president himself was looking for a big breakthrough to answer. they actually had a signing ceremony scheduled which they canceled. it wasnt as if this was the plan all along. it was an embarrassing defeat for the president on the world stage a...