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Master fwhat front of h masturbate in front of her at his house and tell her her story has been a distraction. if thats his final act as a public serve vapt, he should be asamed with himself. >> its not more clear whether the president was moreup set about handling that case in florida or the way acosta handle his news conference which was meant for a audience of one. >> it was that he dont enough to defend himself or to give a reason for his actions when he was in charge of the acosta case. and...

A bad beginning makes a bad ending for mr. acosta, giving mr. epstein the sweetheart deal of the century. at the end it catches up with him like karma. at least now we have some justice with him going forward with the charges in the southern district of new york. i would say theres three things in life that are certain, death, taxes and karma. maybe thats what has caught up with him now. >> as you heard from him on this date, i asked him the question in the course of the news conference. one of ...

Brett kavanaugh came out and forcefully defend himself. that inning whatted the tide and caused the white house to fully back him. >> right. >> so in this case it seems like it wasnt enough. in this case pete is right. we will see in the hours ahead exactly what led up to this decision. but its also worth remembering that there are republicans in the white house and on the hill who just werent happy with acostas performance in his position, too. i think all of these factors just built up and mad...

So the wall is being built. we had one setback, one tremendous victory. and i had a tremendous victory rarely covered by the press. two days ago i won the emoluments case. that was the biggest case of them all. i won the emoluments case. people dont know that my being president i lose billions of dollars -- and especially in money i cant make because i dont do deals. but i lose billions of dollars. but another thing, i get a salary of 400 or $450,000 a year. i dont think any other president has ...

Roots. is he going to start catching flak for the amount of money that he has made? >> i actually dont think voters care, craig. i dont think voters care how much joe biden made after he left the white house. i think they care about whats -- about their own pocketbook and how these candidat candidates are going to make their economic future better for them. i dont think it will move the needle all that move. bernie sanders dealt with something like this, making a million dollars after his book r...

General of maryland and d.c. say they will appeal. >> what do they appeal? >> this is a three-judge panel, they can go to the full-court of appeals. >> theyre stuck with the fourth. why arent they in the d.c. circuit? >> because the suit was filed in maryland. i dont know why. whether they thought they would do better there or not. there are other emoluments cases pending. theres one filed by members of congress. they say the constitution says the president cant fake an emolument without permiss...

For whatever reason, deutsche bank was willing to give him money repeatedly despite, by the way, him suing deutsche bank and acting as if an act of god had occurred for his chicago tower and not wanting to pay that money back. >> what might they find out with these subpoenas at deutsche bank? >> i think youll see all sorts of e-mails and documentary evidence of why they gave him this money when they probably shouldnt. i think whats so interesting about the article today is there are people insid...

Understand but at their core a lot of them have this question of corruption. whether its the foundation you covered, whether its the emoluments case at the hotel. theyre difficult in the moment and your reporting is painstakingly detailed but the theme is the same, isnt it? >> in all of these things you see trump recognizing, looking for weakness. looking for people who can be fooled or are willing to go along with somebody they believe, they know in their heart of hearts is not true. thats what...

Foundation has actually been planning to dissolve since trumps election in 2016. the lawyer also said the lawsuit was politically motivated. wolf. >> mj, thanks very much. lets go back to our analysts. michael zeldin, how significant is this? >> well, it is significant inasmuch as it says there is a pattern of illegal activity that the trump organization has engaged in. that pattern of illegal activity we see again in the lawsuits that involve the inauguration, domestic and foreign contributio...

So the fact is even that $110 billion figure is off the mark. the saudis have only followed through on that about $114 billion -- $114.5 billion so far. this is as the president also insisting that he has no financial interest in saudi arabia. he says he has none. but we know his hotels have made hundreds of thousands of dollars from the saudis just since he took the oath of office. and we might know more if this president had released his tax returns as ever president since richard nixon has do...