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You dont want other witnesses to know what your evidence is so they will tailor or redirect the testimony according to what they think the evidence is. the cooperation is helpful in explaining the recordings. if thats what they are trying to do, its a fools errand. >> i dont want to get too psychological, but in other cases we have seen president trump and some in his name reach out and own the worst of something. the worst in some cases of something they know is coming. kind of preemptively own...

>> its a entirely -- premise. >> all right had. -- all right. >> the evidence is what the evidence is, whether the government gets it sooner rather than later. theres some truth to the fact that its better for the prosecution that as little evidence or information about the investigation is made public as possible. because you dont want other witnesses to know what your evidence is, so that they will redirect their testimony according to what they think the evidence is. but the recordings in som...

Testimony according to what they think the evidence is. the cooperation is helpful in explaining the recordings. if thats what they are trying to do, its a fools errand. >> yoei dont want to get too psychological, but in other cases we have seen president trump and some in his name reach out and own the worst of something. the worst in some cases of something they know is coming. kind of preemptively own it so when reality pulls into town, it doesnt sound quite as bad. >> yes. we have seen that ...

Combined with a majority party with no spine, we have a very dangerous situation. you know, donald trump stood up once and said, i could shoot someone on fifth avenue and no one -- and my supporters would continue to stick with me. we now know he can engage in actually treasonous language and behavior next to the russian president and his party will basically stick with him. there is only one thing to do, to count on this party with no spine to actually do something to truly interdict trumps beh...

>> we decided on june 1 and barring satellite problems in the future, we wont be signing off until the world ends. >> there was a widespread belief there was a fools errand. how could this possibly find an audience? well, he did. >> ready, camera three. >> good evening. im david walker. >> im lois harp. >> television news before this was stuff that had already happened. for the first time, cnn brought the world to people in realtime. >> cnn, the worlds most important network. >> i didnt do cable...

>> well, on that original point, mr. turner, thank you very much, indeed. >> i wanted to see what was going on in the world. and it was no way that you could do it watching regular television stations. news only comes on at 6:00 and 10:00. but if there was news on 24 hours, people could watch it any time. >> we decided on june 1 and barring satellite problems in the future, we wont be signing off until the world ends. >> it was widely believed it was a fools errand. how could this possibly find ...

Which we havent had many dealings. is it a fool ease errand as well, just trying to make sense of what weaponshis regime has? >> i dont think its a fools errand, but its a real challenge. donald trumps meeting was long on the photo opportunity, handshake, pat on the back side, and very short on details. mike pompeo has the key intermediary. this trip after the summit i think is a cleanup tour, going to south korea, to japan, our two key allies, and trying to reestablish some framework going forw...

Friending to be someone else. >> okay. thank you very much for that report. >> you bet. >> it does seem we need to be -- dennis rodman needs to see this. >> what is a possibility, though, jeffrey that he does open up north korea? whats the possibility? >> i think speculating about the belaif your of the north korean regime is a little bit of a fools errand. >> i want to show you a short i just made. >> so good. >> im not sure, the arrow. >> this is a new one. this is the amount of speculation on...

Right now its a different debate. youre talking about a deal thats been imposed. theres reasons that i think people on both sides, republicans and democrats think its better to fill the deal than to just walk away. theres an intellectually responsible and compelling case to just walk away. you wouldnt know that -- if you look at the media coverage, its taken as an assumption by most journalists covering this debate that walking away from the deal is walking away from peace. its not the case. >> ...

Cant have those documents about an ongoing investigation. we wont be threatened at the justice department. so what is the president arguing hee? does he believe he has the power to secure those documents under the presidency? >> well he believes he has the power to compel justice department officials to play into the republicans hands on capitol hill. and basically what the president is saying is i have the right as president to interfere into investigations and even to obstruct them. and of cou...