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I dont remember it. >> laura: we dont have the video. he is a smart guy. dont smart people have a good memory? during his 5.5 hours of testimony comey said i dont remember 73 times, and i dont know 161 times, and i dont recall 8 times. heres why this matters. republicans are still struggling to find the answers about the origins of the russian collusion probe and what is happening with the biassed investigates who advanced it should donald trump win the election in 2016. which asked if he could ...

Cooperate with bob mueller. the new reporting here is that manafort was trying to basically be an apparent double agent and that explains the news you may have heard earlier this week when bob mueller suddenly canceled the plea agreement with manafort. and it gives context to this other story tonight. donald trump telling the "new york post" that pardoning paul manafort is not off the table. those words are farther than donald trump has gone off that topic so far and it would further tie donald ...

Is voluminous. >> in the scheme of things, does it make any difference, laura, if they drop those ten charges that the jury couldnt agree on, whether or not they decide to retry him? >> it largely wont move the needle for sentencing. you also have the charges he pled guilty to in washington, d.c. as well. hes looking at serving time in prison. what moves the needle is whether or not the prosecutors will opt to have a lesser sentence and sigh due to his cooperation wed like an allocution thats mo...

Serve at the pleasure of the president, but he only oversees the collusion probe, so if jeff sessions is no longer the attorney general, they need to have this interim person oversees the russia probe in the stead of jeff sessions, also goes away, so in many ways you kill two birds with one stone. if youre the president saying i already have some real reluctance to keep jeff sessions on board, im already angry with the way he refused himself. i can make it rosenstein is obsolete. he could accomp...

Imports. after this latest round, china has already announced tariff increases on most u.s. imports into china. >> translator: we are willing to make concerted efforts with the u.s. but regrettably, the current u.s. actions of unilateralism and protectionism are on don mcgahn acceptable to us. >> commerce secretary wilbur ross on cnbc said that americans wont really feel the increase in prices because of these tariffs because he says they will be spread across thousands of products. though these...

Around rightsfield beach. weve got the inland flooding concerns, too. as we go tlouts the weekend once the storm kind of fizzles out to tropical storm or tropical depression on saturday we still have 20 inches of rain. in a short period of time, its going to cause record river flooding in some areas, and were going to deal with flooding right through sunday, right into monday in some of these areas. were going to get destruction tonight, all day tomorrow because of the storm surge and some wind ...

Cia director john brennan to take legal action over the presidents move to strip his security clearance. and they try to stop the critics. the president tweeted today that if brennans he was able expose records of his poor performance with the cia and his involvement in the russian collusion probe. it rudy giuliani also took to twitter daring brennan to move forward. the special counsels case against former tron campaign chairman paul manafort is still in the hands of the jury after another day ...

Investigations, in fact, most prosecutors would chuckle at the thought of 15 months being the time you have to wrap it up, particularly if youre thinking about the other investigations like the iran-contra, and benghazi and white water. its more of an apt comparison because there have been some findings mid way through. there have been a lot of indictment that have come down, a lot of criminal charges that have actually come down. it is the myopia of the president who believes that unless there ...

To dictate the terms of someone who holds a greater bargaining position than you do. im showing the court of public opinion, and maybe the court of law that i am being reasonable. i am negotiating in good faith here to try to voluntarily sit down and avert even a compulsion of a subpoena discussion in the court of law, its mueller who is tieing my hands who is making it impossible for me to do what i know the american people and my leadership dictates that i do. but theyre playing this game of g...

Resort preparing to do what he best and does well, thats speaking with his base. >> he is heading to ohio today, days before the state votes in a crucial special election there tuesdays race, key to republican efforts here to maintain control of the house. >> and a new poll shows why republicans have r so concerned about this a latest monmouth university poll shows the candidates are neck and neck. >> that is a swing from over a month ago when the republican lead or the republican candidate are ...