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Foreign power unwittingly. because what the fbi fundamentally wants to know is what leverage does a foreign policy have over you? what is a foreign policy doing to affect the national security of the united states? but criminal investigations have a beginning, middle and end. the threshold, do we open the case? the middle, have the egs, the end, chargers or no charges. the national security terrorism allegations, there a threshold, open the case, middle, and the end -- there is no end. the end i...

North macedonia. its subtle, right? the name change is macedonias way of settling a decades long dispute with greece that should pave the way for them to join nato and the european union. turns out none of this is sitting well with russia whose state media accused the u.s. of interference and anti-russian rhetoric. in a september new york times report detailed a full-fledged disinformation campaign attributed to moscow. facebook posts urged voters to burn their ballots and hundreds of new websit...

Border wall question? >> i think our democrat friends have painted themselves into a corner. they voted for border walls in the past, some 600-plus miles of border walls but the president is willing to work with them as long as they recognize, hey, we need border security. i theys something most americans agree to. i hope we will see nancy pelosi and chuck schumer final politic progress looking for common ground. >> later on in the interview, he also said he doesnt support a national emergency. ...

The president is enough to implicate him. we think he possibly got a head of the trump tower meeting but how much he directed it, we dont know yet. >> the other thing im thinking about is how much irrational, seemingly rational decisions paul manafort made during this entire scheme. first of all, even with being in pretty bad financial straits went to work as a volunteer for the trump campaign. then he would have handed this over. why would he do that without talking to the campaign. that would ...

The numbers will be incredible if we get it done, and we will get it done. one way or another, we will get it done. >> joining me now is former republican congressman ryan costello of pennsylvania. the panel is still here as well. congressman, former congressman, excuse me, its good to see you. i am back to the question that i feel like weve been all asking ourselves for the last week at least, if not longer, but considering the round and round weve gone the last week, how the hell do we get out...

Bending either. julia, this past week it seemed to be trying to change the way theyre making this argument, right? and say this is a humanitarian and security crisis, which was kind of news to us because we had not really heard that before. >> they dropped the t word. we heard terrorist a lot the week before, started to fact-check that a little bit, chris wallace fact-checked sarah sanders huckabee a week ago saying it wasnt 4,000 terrorists crossing the border but actually 6. but all of that me...

From countries that we have a trade deficit from like mexico, we have a few taxed at 50%, $50 billion of 20% of imports, by doing it that way we can do $10 billion a year and easily pay for the wall through that mechanism alone. >> those comments sparked a bipartisan republic yore and hours later sean spicer said that idea was just one that the president was considering, which brings us to plan c, having congress flip the bill. >> we need border security. thats what were going to be talking abou...

Defeated last time. theres a credible state senator in the race. youll see a lot of money and organization come his way. i wouldnt be surprised if this is the year. >> jon meacham, can you talk for a second about -- this is -- what steve king has come to represent has been a strain throughout our politics, sorry strain in our politics since really the beginning of the country. but he is remarkably brazen in embodying all of it. >> he is. and there are manifestations of these worst impulses that ...

Tougher on russia. in a way hes right, he has stepped up sanctions and they are starting to bite around president putin. but its the way this president is so very luck tant to criticize vladimir putin and the conjunction of these to stories theres a president hiding effectively some of the things he said with president putin, asking translator not even to disclose them to his own aides in the white house, in conjunction with bob mueller is investigating. >> while often undermining nato in other ...

Put up that statement for our viewers before you touch on it. this is from elijah cummings, adam schiff and jerry nad ler. they write the integrity of our process to serve as an independent check on the executive branch must be respected by everyone, including the president. our nations laws prohibit efforts to discourage, intimidate or otherwise pressure a witness not to provide testimony to congress. so, in effect it looks like these three are saying that the presidents comments here amount to...