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Boris sanchez joins us from the white house right now. The president has been tweeting an awful lot today, a little about the democrats, a little bit about the snow, a little bit about syria. Does the president have cabin fever on this wintry day there in washington . Reporter he certainly is taking to twitter, claiming that democrats are having fun while he is back here in washington, waiting for them to discuss a potential reopening of the federal government. President trump did not specifical...

We start this day with a Massive Development in the fight against americas Opioid Crisis. Yeah. Late sunday night oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy protection in new york. The company is facing more than 2,000 lawsuits that allege it helped fuel americas deadly Opioid Epidemic thats claimed nearly 400,000 lives in the past decade. In a statement Purdue Pharma says the settlement is estimated to provide more than 10 billion of value to address the crisis. But the companys legal b...

Where a highly sensitive intelligence document that is reserved only to be shared with some of the u.s. closest allies is spilled out on the floor of a storage room. really prosecutors making their case, laying out their narrative as to why they believe these historic charges should be brought against the former president. >> all right. zach cohen, thank you so much. lets talk further on this, with me now senior political analyst and former adviser to four presidents david gergin. great to see...

Kavanaughs service. cnn senior political analyst david gergin predicts the american public wont back an impeachment of brett kavanaugh. >> the excerpts are very disturbing. there seem to be credible allegations in this. but we just litigated this a short time ago. and i think the move to jump from a time when he was approved by the senate all the way over to say he now must be impeached is i think a real stretch for most americans. i think they will be surprised that the word impeachment is be...

Alignments of president trump and vladimir putin again and again and again. its a really arresting piece. >> david, what typically happens with the notes that are part of these meetings, that document what happens taken place? >> sure. well, first and foremost, they are shared with the principles committee, which is essentially the secretary of state, secretary of defense, cia director, the white house chief of staff, the national security adviser, the head of the joint chiefs. all those people ...

Keeping confidential, high-level diplomatic conversations. the nixon decision from 1974 when the court said yes, executive privilege exists but no, it doesnt apply to this position. what they did say in 1974, its intended to protect military secrets, national security secrets. there may be a creative argument that trump could make that we need to expand executive privilege to cover this kind of conversation. >> as we bring in david gergin who many of you know at home has worked in four white hou...

Him. he just said that with the justice department. its all about loyalty, its all about him, its all about protecting him. thats what you heard from senator rounds. thats what you heard from people on the hill this week, saying that he is the president. what do you want us to do? you could launch investigations. you could do this. you could do that. we are ahead of a midterm. they want to talk about the economy. they want to talk about taxes. right now, all theyre doing is spending their time t...

Yet again, the president of the united states is ripping into his own attorney general jeff sessions, saying he gave sessions the job based on loyalty, solely loyalty. apparently, instead of qualification. listen to the president. >> he took the job and then he said, im going to recuse myself. i said, what kind of a man is this? by the way, he was on the campaign. you know, the only reason i gave him the job because i felt loyalty. he was an original supporter. he was on the campaign. >> all rig...

Of all of these scandals unfolding. now we bring us to the midterms. if they lose the house, if they lose seats, sure, the president will blame it on other things. he will be a very large presence of that. that will be a real live consequence. we will have to see if that happens. if not, you will see a very emboldened president, if the republicans keep control. >> david? >> i think thats absolutely right. i come back to this, republicans, by tieing themselves as tightly as they have to donald tr...

Cohen was honest. now that he seems to have incriminating information about donald trump, he is willing to share with the special counsel, donald trumps camp is saying that he lacks all credibility. >> mj lee, thank you for walking us through that. lets talk about it. with me now is shan wu. also david gergin and david drucker. mj laid out the reporting. sources tell cnn that michael cohen doesnt have tape recordings of this, doesnt have audio to back it up. we know from jim sciuttos reporting...