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May have funneled money to michael cohens llc. whats your reaction? >> well, first, i congratulate michael for crossing streams and bringing together the stormy daniels scandal with the trump russia scandal. i think we have total convergence tonight. so thank you for doing that, michael. but, you know, to me the two things that stand out here, one, you were talking a minute ago about viktor vekselbergs american company columbus nova and the company saying that theyre american. they have nothin...

So theres been a convergence of the nra and trump. i got to say, i dont know how kanye west will play with the nra. i think killer mike is probably more than rapper du jour, but i do think he just instinctively knows where the red meat is. its also the only thing he can say. he hits those familiar talking points. the election. its been what, 560-how many days since the election, so hes always going to go to that, and they get it on a gut level. they dont need to hear anything about trigger locks...

Issues, gets a very, im sure, polite reception from the crowd. yet trump goes in there and hes riffing on names in the news and throwing out insults at people, and probably forged a closer bond with that audience than ted cruz for instance would have. >> he did have some stats loaded in his teleprompter. john lott, the stat about mass shootings is probably wrong. he talked about knife crimes in london. this is where the nra is. this is who trump is. but the nra has changed a little bit too. dana...

Polite reception from the crowd. yet trump goes in there and hes riffing on names in the news and throwing out insults at people, and probably forged a closer bond with that audience than ted cruz for instance would have. >> he did have some stats loaded in his teleprompter. john lott, the stat about mass shootings is probably wrong. he talked about knife crimes in london. this is where the nra is. this is who trump is. but the nra has changed a little bit too. dana lash, their spokesman, theyre...

Mirrors the russian bots. they inject a powerful raushl content into it. -- racial content into it then it gets to the major networks, mostly to the one down the street and we have this cycle. everyone for their own interests. the president, the base. the russians, to mess with our heads, alt-right, theyre conspiratorial. the network, for ratings, theyre all driving in the same direction and the sum total is a more divided american society. including within my own family, when it comes to take a...

Least in public -- >> you can throw it out to naivete, inexperience, they werent surrounded by anybody whose antennas would go, whoa this cant happen. >> are they as skillful as the russians? >> one hopes. >> based on your experience in intelligence-gathering, does anything youve seen here, maybe the meeting at trump tower, look like collusion to you? >> i dont know the legal definition, so the words i use are, a word i use a lot in the book is something called "convergence." where you may not b...

Wont -- but mika and i were going at it for about three or four days. and then after about three or four days we looked at each other and we were like, you know this is exactly what donald trump wants. not only us, but the entire country to do. which again -- >> is what the russians want us to do. >> and the same thing with this white house dinner -- people are still tweeting about that. >> four days later with north korea, with you name it. that is custom-built for russian bots. >> and a trump ...

It is america. according to the bureau of justice statistics, violent crime has fallen by two-thirds from the early 1990s and property crime is down by more than half. why in the world did this happen? and why are we not talking about it and studying it more? i sat down with adam gobnick, doing just that. he wrote a terrific "new yorker" arlen titled "the great crime decline." so adam, lets start with this first. why? why the dramatic drop? >> many competing theories. hypotheses about it. the st...

That our discussions allowed us to shed light on our convergence of views. we need to cover four topics. the first one is to block any nuclear activity of iran until 2025. this was feasible thanks to the summit. the second is to halt any activity. the third is to be able to put an end to any ballistic activities of iran in the region. and the fourth one is to generate the conditions for a political solution to contain iran in the region and yemen and syria and iraq and lebanon. on these topics, ...

Is beyond the current activities, the ballistic activities and the regional influence. so this is constant. but over the past few weeks, and in particular today, weve been able to go and talk very much in detail about this topic concerning the situation in the region. i believe that. we convert to a common reading on what is happening in syria, iran and in iraq particularly, and on the fact that the nuclear issue is not the only one. that, indeed, there is a problem with a ballistical position i...