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that damage. >> reporter: the newly declassified footage appears to directly concept rah dictate russias claim that the aircraft did not make physical contact. >> there was no collision. the problem is that we didnt contact to this drone. >> the russians have been just flat out lying. flat out lying about their account. >> reporter: the u.s. has not yet determined whether the pilots intended to directly hit the drone, forcing the u.s. military to crash the drone into the black sea some...

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The wall and give them another platform to go at that. hes already had one and is saying i dont think you deserve a second crack at it and that is the state of the union does have a hallowed background and it would be unbecoming of the president to give that kind of speech. nonetheless, i think thats her concern. >> if you call the president out on saying things arent true, what she is saying doesnt seem to be true. >> we have a phrase for this. the press gets accused of being bellicose and mach...

Nonetheless, i think thats her concern. >> if you call the president out on saying things that arent true, what she is saying doesnt seem to be true. >> we have a phrase for this. bollocks. think about what the president gets accused of. stepping on norms. just flat-out lying to make a case. she was petty. shes lying. shes flat-out lying. well see if that gets reported. nancy pelosi falsely claims, which is how the president gets reported when hes fact checked, theres no security problem here, n...

By the way, that was the fbi and the department of justice that -- >> you mean in the democratic memo? >> yeah. >> but they asked for the entire republican memo not to be released, either. >> im sorry? >> they asked for the nunes memo not to be released in its entirety either. >> you read that memo. how in the world could someone justify saying dont release that memo? it clearly doesnt include anything justified. that was important information for the american people to know. i hope and i would ...

Democrats on the house intelligence committee standing firm tonight, saying they will not make revisions to their document, which rebuts the gop memo claiming the fbi reviews its surveillance authority. president trump holding up the release of the memo. i want to talk about this now with chris stewart, a utah republican who is a member of the intel committee. congressman, thank you so much for joining me. >> its good to be with you. thank you. >> first, i want your reaction to the white house, ...

Questions for us. its only now that he sees some legal issues to do so. and i think that there will be more to this story before its over. >> why now, though? why would michael come out? he dnt really have to say anything. did they -- because they gave it to "the new york times," was somebody hot on his tail? was he afraid it was going to come out in testimony? >> he had to give it to the federal election committee. his lawyer had to respond on his behalf to the complaint filed by common clause....

Michael, i want you to talk to me about this off the record west wing meeting. you were there after the "daily mail" published a picture of rob porters ex-wife. sarah sanders set that up and rob porter took questions to, what, deny the allegations? >> i dont want to interrupt your texting with michael cohen, but im not going to talk about the content of an off the record meeting. you know, i will say that this is a common occurrence at the who is and at capitol hill. you know, government officia...

We have some breaking news to tell you about right now. president trumps longtime personal lawyer michael cohen says he paid porn star stormy daniels $130,000 off his own pocket. cohen says he was never reimbursed and the trump campaign was not involved. stormy daniels once claimed that she had an affair with trump. here to discuss, senior political analyst mark preston, senior political analyst michael bender and a white house reporter for "the wall street journal." okay, guys, thank you for jo...