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Search to obstruction of justice which is what they are focussing on here. it falls under the umbrella of obstruction of justice? >> yes, but politically they can say whatever they want. this is not a criminal proceeding. they it will makeup stuff. they already made it up. listen to adam schiff is. every time he says this is lots of evidence from collusion, when he is asked, he cant name it. >> martha: he talks about the trump tower meeting. >> all perfectly legal. not a thing wrong with it. >> ...

That oil. everything that the united states government has done has been condemned. they are trying to fabricate a crisis to justify political escalation and military intervention in venezuela, to bring a war to south america. >> reporter: there is a massive humanitarian crisis of venezuelan people eating out of bins. many choose to question exactly the motivation of trump administration focussing so hard on this. >> another crew, a few western journalists got interviews with maduro yesterday an...

Avoid reading into it because we dont know exactly what the special counsel or sdny means by it. i wonder if there is a glaring topic that is avoided by members of congress, does that mean that is something that the special counsel and sdny, thats where they are actively investigating and focussing on? what do you think the big question will be? >> i think first of all there will be tough questions. obviously, you have members of congress that just want to get information on the record. now, one...

Like with the prosecutor with cooperating witness on stand at trial. the democrats will be focussing on the crimes he committed. so the first place i would go if i was on that panel is look at the campaign finance crimes, the hush money payments. who else was involved in that? cohen said he did that for and at the direction of the president. there were people inside the trump organization according to cohens plea document whose were involved in that, execute one and executive two of the trump or...

Doing our jobs. its on focussing on the things that americans care about. right now its focusing on preparing for the meetings that will take place next week. and looking forward to having a great trip. >> sarah sanders understandably trying to keep the focus on north korea. this is going to be a huge week for the president, not just because of north korea. theres a national emergency fight, three days of cohen testimony, the summit, venezuela. im already tired talking about it. david, this is a...

Says this makes it harder for future cases. i think a lot of people are looking for excuses to make these things harder. people havent paid attention to these cases in the past. regardless of whether they are celebrities, the sad thing is it took a celebrity for us to focus attention on this. the police chief said there are cases happening every day and he hopes that people start focussing on the other cases and not just on this one. >> something you and i have been talking about not on tv but w...

>> at the conclusion of my remarks, there were no objections. there were no protests. there was no -- you know, there was a clear sense in the room that people were resigned to the fact that we had taken a necessary step. that was my impression. >> reporter: trump dodging a question about that revelation, focussing instead on attacking mccabe. >> i think hes a disaster. and what he was trying to do was terrible and he was caught. im very proud to say we caught him. so well see what happens, but ...

Out a statement that they are focussing on the health and will being will colleagues. >> shannon:. president trump is declaring a national emergency to build a border wall because of what he calls an invasion from the south. tonight, the lawsuits are cueing up. kristen fisher has this story. >> the house judiciary committee launched an investigation into this emergency declaration. the aclu will sue president trump and president trump predicted that today. >> we will have a national emergency. w...

Some of them havent been allocated yet. some of the generals think that this is more important. i was speaking to a couple of them, they think this is far more important than what they were going to use it for. i wont go into it details but didnt sound too important to me. i have gotten $700 billion for the military in year one. last year $716 billion. we are rebuilding our military. we have a lot. under the previous administration our military was depleted badly and they werent spending -- they...

Participate in those debates. that is going to be something to watch. heading into those, senator kamala harris has the edge somewhere else. on social media. more than 16 million interactions on facebook and twitter. shes followed by senators warren and sanders, former congressman beto orourke and joe biden round out the top five. as axios points out, president trump showed unmatched ability to generate online attention in 2016. for this campaign, he has a potential rival in kamala harris. and t...