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what every prosecutor knows. you tell them what you are going to tell them. you tell them that and then you told them what you told them. but beware. the jury is going to have to keep ya honest and they will hold you accountable. thats why, for so many, you underpromise, and then you over deliver which leads you right to that moment when you have more than satisfied your burden of proof. there is no room for any recommend doubt. well, last night as hearing was that tell em what you are...

Fully with the special counsels office, and the other big Breaking News this hour is that President Trump is announcing that he is not in fact going be meeting with Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the g20 sideline and that is hours after the kremlin announcing that the meeting would in fact be happen i ing, and again, we will continue to closely follow the Breaking News stories. Andrea mitchell is picking up the News Coverage right now. And right now now on Andrea Mitchell reports Breaking Ne...

Long-time coming. >> i do encourage everyone to read this really important piece to give that information, to give that con ttext. and also, really dive into that notion of the barricade versus the active-shooter component that really stems -- is dovetailing perfectly from the conversation about the steel doors as well. james, thank you so much for bringing us this information. i appreciate it. >> thank you so much. reaction ahead from a texas senate senator who has been demanding answers from...

Maybe get a job at hhs or something where you dont have to have clearance but its just not done that you override in this way. >> it is just not done and chris, lets put this in the broader con ttext of how this president handles security matters. hes held national security meetings in front of mar-a-lago guests and disclosed qualified information to the russian foreign minister, to fundraisers and revoked the security clearances of his political opponents and on top of that, ran an entire campa...

By the russians. >> pete alexander, such useful information to the con ttext. and also to the viewers, this is the first time that the kremlin has not announced a major change. and remember when lavrov and sergei kissalov was coming in, and they did not make the announcement first and so perhaps this is the first time that putin was caught off guard from this announcement from the president on the air force one. and joining us is mike mcfaul. and the cancellation of this meeting, and despite wha...

Surveillance is letting people know that they have the goods, and what that i have done is to put mohammad bin salman really on the firing line, and internationally, he has been damaged. maybe he is king and maybe king for life for decades and decades, but he is damaged internationally, but they are also getting something in response from the u.s. your exclusive reporting. >> yes, and according to the reporting that the turks have asked secretary pompeo when he went to meet with president erdoga...

Privilege as an african-american woman in this moment, and yet continues to feel that privilege should always be put to work particularly for the black die s a. >> this is someone who is a wife of an international celebrity and beautiful home in connecticut at one point and travel around the world, but she leveraged the privilege and the celebrity to speak out against injustice in the world and particularly colonialism. she became a journalist, and paid a price for it in the mccarthy era. >> unc...

The president may be constitutionally obligated to ignore this debt ceiling fight, so if he follows the two scholars lead and simply issues new bonds, congress be damned, he may be fulfilling the constitutional duty and that would be of course at the expense of the pesky separation of powers. oops. because that old document also stipulates that the congress and only the document has the power of the purse. article i of the constitution state s th states that the congress and not the president ha...

About the cable chatter and dont follow it, they do, and they want to win each news cycle and the administration officials are aware of that. >> and it is not everyday, john, that we hear donna brazile, our cnn political contributor, and the democratic strategist say that the white house is wrong, and the administration is wrong, and she was critical of the naacp even though now the naacp is reversing itself and saying that the woman should not be fired. theres a lot of angry people right now. >...