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You are talking about years of hostility, years of problems, years of really hatred between so many different nations. President trump met with north korean vice chairman kim yongchol for more than an hour yesterday. The president says they talked about many things including sanctions and denuclearization. Mike, the president said that he explained that removal of sanctions would only happen if they were willing to denuclearize. At this point it is still incredibly unclear if thats something nor...

Putin. Well see about today. Were looking for the United States to improve this computer glitch. That does it for us. Well see you right back here tomorrow. In the meantime, Stephanie Ruhle picks up the coverage. Good morning, everyone. Im Stephanie Ruhle with a lot to cover today. Starting with answers, emails and calls. Some of President Trumps response to Robert Muellers questions now revealed has new details on the investigation emerged. Latenight phone calls between donald trump and his ass...

[question inaudible] their party is in shambles right now. They have the squad leading their party. Take a look at so many of the people that were the most outspoken, and they say this was a devastating day for The Democrats, and you know it, john, and everybody else knows it. This is a devastating day for The Democrats. A very dumb and unfair question. If you look at his correction, he took that totally out of play. He made his decision based on the facts, not based on some rule, so you shouldn...

Happen. sol wisenberg asked the question or made the point, this did not move the needle, amazing when nancy pelosi, who we are about to hear from in a short bit, nancy pelosi was asked about the hearing and she was watching it. she said just a little bit, only a few moments. >> greg: passed by a big box store and saw it. dems are caught in this dilemma, they love the indictment strl and collusion story but americans doesnt. the more they use these golf clubs, it keeps them from coming up and ge...

Democrats as well. its complicated on both sides because the one thing mueller will make clear is there really was no conclusion, which is what trump was saying all along. >> and i think thats why nancy pelosi has been holding back. because the underlying claim mueller does not back that up. now youre in a situation its the cover-up of a noncrime you want to go after. at the same time you cant just let the president of the united states do whatever he wants to do and have no accountability? >> c...

Judge in virginia whos weighing paul manaforts sentence, hes not supposed to be sentencing paul manafort on whether or not paul manafort colluded with russia. thats not in this case. this is tax fraud, bank fraud and foreign bank accounts. theres no reason to believe that the no collusion, no collusion argument is going to have any impact on how the judge interprets the sentencing guidelines in this case, and figures out how manaforts conduct and these crimes might map onto those sentencing guid...

I mean, this judge, this federal judge in virginia was weighing paul manaforts sentence, hes not supposed to be sentencing paul manafort on whether or not paul manafort colluded with russia. this is tax fraud, bank fraud and foreign bank accounts. there is no reason for manafort or his lawyers to believe that the no collusion, no collusion argument is going to have any impact on how the judge interprets the sentencing guidelines and figures out how man manaforts conduct might bond to the sentenc...

Manaforts guilty plea in the district of columbia case includes no charges that he colluded with the russian government. footnote two. the special counsels strategy in bringing charges against mr. manafort had nothing to do with the special counsels core mandate, russian inclusion. and then, again, later on in the filing, your honor, lets come back to our main point. the prosecution in this case did not charge him with anything related to russian inclusicollu. and did we mention he was an altar ...

That suggests there may be unknown witnesses that the special counsel investigation has talked to and maybe still is talking to and maybe is still talking to in trumps circle. finally, youve got the factual predicate of one of his assertions about flynn is that flynn testified first hand about interactions between the trump transition team and russian government officials. that may be not collusion but it makes trumps no collusion argument pretty threadbare when they are asserting that interacti...

Case for a collusion argument than weve seen in a very long time. its fascinating. >> even though michael cohen was president trumps fixer, said he would take a bullet for him for years, hes quite different, at least in the last few months, than stone and corsi. implicated as the unindicted co-conspirator. but in the last few months, hes on social media, complimenting michelle obamas book, trying to put forward that hes turned over a new leaf. and president trump has turned on michael cohen. min...