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Guard. there might be something coming up, but not in time for the election. >> interesting stuff. great to have you on set with me for the hour. thank you. that does it for us this hour. ill see you at the white house later on today. more news with my colleague craig melvin in new york. good to see you, craig melvin here msnbc headquarters in new york city. here falsehoods and fact checks. we are officially two weeks from the midterms, and as president trump campaigns for republicans, he talk...

There is real energy here in the state of georgia, energy around registering to vote, energy around actually going out to vote. and these are like worn, tired intimidation tactics that are frankly not working. >> what do you mean by not working? >> theyre not working because it -- you would think that it would have a depressing impact. but its having an animating impact, that people are more committed now than ever to make sure that they get out and vote. and that their friends and their familie...

This is a pattern across the globe where donald trump and his children, don jr., ivanka and in some cases eric made these claims. when the projects failed, which they often did, people lost money, the projects went bankrupt, individual investors lost out, the trumps were like, no, no, no, we were licensors. this wasnt our project, we werent the developers. its this -- >> these are material misrepresentations. you have lawyers in the piece say i have seen people face charges for similar activity....

Least imply that into the project, or they say its selling like hot cakes, late literally, when its not. but what we found, these are not individual misrepresentations, this is a pattern across the globe where donald trump and his children, don jr., ivanka and in some cases eric made these claims. when the projects failed, which they often did, people lost money, the projects went bankrupt, individual investors lost out, the trumps were like, no, no, no, we were licensors. this wasnt our project...

Locations, making up laws that -- making up laws that dont exist, that they are all sort of feeble attempts to try to make it more difficult for black people to vote, to make it more difficult for young people to participate in our elections. and, again, its having the opposite of the intended effect. >> leah, this is part of a broader context, its been extremely pitch battle particularly intensifying, i would say, in the post-obama era. why has this become such a flash point politically? >> abs...

Independence issue is much bigger than this tiny party home. what does it tell us though about the condition of the government in hong kong particularly it being able to act somewhat of a bore work against the need of the communist party in beijing and is it basically is it just caving in over time and fan is there still is one country two systems a lot of liberties that they have in hong kong that dont exist in china but when they came up with this concept one country two systems in the eightys...

Taiwan and that is starting to be a big play in beijing there. are all these war games that theyre playing about taiwan and people think by the taiwan is something that is within xi jinping calculations of what he might be doing but in his reign so this hong kong issue this independence issue is much bigger than this tiny party in hong kong what does it tell us about the condition of the government in hong kong particularly it being able to act somewhat of a bore work against the need of the com...

We are now -- we have trump regurgitating misinformation he hears from fox back to fox news. >> yeah. >> for decades, years, fox news created the misinformation. and then the republicans would work with them. now we have trump just regurgitating it back to them. we hit a new dimension in this closed loop echo chamber. >> what does it say to you that hes adopted his legal strategy from fox news? >> yeah. well, hes grasping to anything that sounds good, right? and particularly fox in the primetime...

Just throw out everything else that they said. so that goes to his credibility. we did ask donald trump jr. a number of times about this conversation with his father and he refused over and over to answer. and again, cooperating witnesses, they just come forward and they tell you the truth. witnesses who want to obstruct or invoke privileges that dont exist, those are typically people that have something to hide. theres ever reason to believe up and down the trump organization, the campaign and ...

Just throw out everything else that they said. so that goes to his credibility. we did ask donald trump jr. a number of times about this conversation with his father and he refused over and over to answer. and again, cooperating witnesses, they just come forward and they tell you the truth. witnesses who want to obstruct or invoke privileges that dont exist, those are typically people that have something to hide. theres ever reason to believe up and down the trump organization, the campaign and ...