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Billion and $10 billion. he and allen weissleberg had me there, and they were detailing to me -- >> do you think he was as fast and loose with others as he was with you? >> hes been fast and loose with everyone, ari. this is part of the donald trump operating manual. >> so you think he has legal exposure when he walks into this grand jury? >> does allen weissleberg have legal exposure? i think everybody around donald trump right now has legal exposure. >> hang with me. i want to bring in howard ...

Enclosure question of how hes -- what putin has on him and how its being leveraged. we can mine that to see whats happening. the second one is donald trump does not believe in the post world war ii consensus, period. and there are folks around him that dont believe in the post world war ii consensus. what happens is we have a convergence of the fact that donald trump may be compromised and the ideological commitment that hes not invested in the world as it is. >> can we talk about kirstjen niels...

At a summit? >> i dont know if it would be appropriate for president trump to raise it in a public context but youre dealing with an individual that really sees relations with washington as a zero-sum game. hes skilled and practiced in using the the language of arms control and he talks about the end of the cold war. inside, its a cold person who is putting his own national interests first at the expense of others. >> shepard: is that what he did today? how would you categorize the news conferen...

This was the first time that the two had an opportunity to sit down in the room together for any appreciable amount of time in the past year. there have been a lot of things that have happened since then, it was clear that they both want to improve the relationship. vladimir putin saying that they have points of divergence of the relationship, but they also have points where they come together. it is better to focus on those points of convergence than what separates the two countries. >> stunnin...

And the southeast european six economists is actually prolonging the time of waiting to achieve convergence to catch up with the e.u. why is this the countries of the region have a huge trade deficit with the e.u. for about two hundred billion euros in the last ten years to pay for importing so much they have to save they have to have a stereotype policies they have to cut on the investments and because they. cant accumulate enough capital for investments the growth rates are not that because th...

Have you ever heard him say anything positive about nato? off the cuff in rallies, its always criticism, criticism, criticism. not just of nato but also the eu, the two great institutions that have created the post-war european order founded upon peace and prosperity. donald trump is really calling all that into question with his hostility towards our allies and alliances. at the same time, his sympathy for vladimir putin, who is also trying to destroy nato and the eu, and there seems to be a co...

This is well before the haight-ashbury. this is before the summer of love. this is long before any of that happens. >> the gamble worked. the year the ad first appeared, vw sales spiked. and that mysterious convergence, that elusive jackpot of cool and timing hit big. ♪ >> just as the counterculture was starting to explode. >> you could feel like you were so different from your parents, with their loaded, oversized car, that you could feel free and independent and a little bit of a maverick by...

At the end of the day there can be k not be any genuine partnership and certainly no kind of convergence of interest between a democracy and an authoritarian kleptocratic regime. its only a question of time before the current u.s. president fwiends out what his predecessors have. >> appreciate that history. there have been attempts at a russia reset as hillary clinton called it but the difference is that the previous presidents didnt seem to cultivate a sort of mentor mentee relationship with vl...

Mccarthy peopled you good people came forward, including in our military and said enough is enough, good people in the media played a crucial role. you go to the pain of vietnam and watergate, we saw an amazing convergence of leaders, republican and democrat, both sides coming forward and saying its a moral crisis, this doesnt represent american values. that ran through the question of transparency and openness in our government. in all those cases the government was lying to us and withholding ...

Michael, thank you so much for being here. i want to start off by asking about that donald trump convergence where he believes these issues where he attacks players like nfl players who take a knee for the national anthem, the sort of cultural racial culture war issues are good for him and make him seem strong. what do you make of that? >> i dont think it makes him seem strong. i think were trying to bring up issues that are happening to all-americans and want to be able to create those voices f...