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Take credit for a strengthened nato and for european partners and spending more on defense. what else do we know about his trip? >> reporter: successes is how the white house is framing it. nato has increased its spending by $130 billion since 2016. and that, only three nato nations back in 2016, made that 2% of gdp spend on defense spending. thats a nato thraeshold was three countries and now is nine countries. the white house will say, we can expect president trump to claim success there, his ...

From the time bill taylor expressed concern about the quid pro quo and when gordon sondland got back to him. >> there are real questions about whether that call happened. he was specific. it happened in between those two tects. one after midnight and one at 5:00 a.m. which is strange to think about it. hes calling the president at 1:00 a.m.? 2:00 a.m.? the testimony of two other witnesses was different about that call. they say it happened three days earlier. he told us about it. we have contemp...

Say, no, wait a second here. these regulations are perfectly reasonable. we went too far in 2008. >> john roberts is the person who will answer that question personally. because i dont think theres any doubt that four justices will say this gun regulation is perfectly appropriate. the four more liberal will say this is appropriate. and the four more conservative, thomas, alito, kavanaugh, gorsuch will say this is impermissible. i think this will be decided by john roberts. john roberts voted wit...

Merits a enthe facts. better to boycott it and claim to be victims than engage. >> is sondland in danger of having misled the committee? this phone call he claims to have with the president, whether it happened here. >> he was in danger in his first deposition which is why he had to file an addendum and correct it kbagain. but democrats treated him with kid gloves because they needed his testimony. i think now hes in serious jeopardy. that he may have made this call up. to say the president i wa...

>> today the u.s. supreme court will take up the first gun rights case in nearly a decade. handgun owners are challenging a new york law that limits the transportation of guns. that law has since been amended but the case is moving forward with some gun rights advocates framing it as a test of the second amendment. joining me now jeffrey toobin. the circumstance of this, new york has amended this law, take it out of the legal pipeline here. will the supreme court likely declare it moot or take i...

Despite what you just saw, cnn is going all in on impeachment. no surprise. i believe it or not, they are framing it in patriotic terms. take a look. >> we have nearly two and a half centuries of examples where the checks and balances of constitutional system have worked. the framers designed to the constitution for a moment like this. we werent supposed to just give a pass to somebody whos team we decided to be on. we were supposed to actually think for ourselves. that is why we fought the revo...

Despite what you just saw, cnn is going all in on impeachment. no surprise. i believe it or not, they are framing it in patriotic terms. take a look. >> we have nearly two and a half centuries of examples where the checks and balances of constitutional system have worked. the framers designed to the constitution for a moment like this. we werent supposed to just give a pass to somebody whos team we decided to be on. we were supposed to actually think for ourselves. that is why we fought the revo...

No surprise. and believe it or not, they are framing it in patriotic terms. take a look. >> we have nearly two and a half centuries of examples where the checks and balances of the constitutional system have worked. the framers designed to the government for a moment like this. we werent supposed to just give a pass to somebody whos team we decided to be on. we were supposed to actually think for ourselves. that is why we fought the revolution, that is why weve struggled again and again to make ...

Given accurate and complete information. but it sounds like this probe or review or investigation they are conducting is much broader than that, is tracing back all kinds of irks related to russia that happened in the 2016 campaign. and if we believe the way the white house is framing it, maybe covering issues about who hacked the dnc emails. so im not even clear on what the possible outer boundaries are of what this review could be looking into. >> this comes after attorney general barr reporte...

Welcome back to "hardball." while democrats will use tomorrows hearings with former special counsel robert mueller to illuminate the findings of his russia report to televise it that. >> only control half the discussion, five minutes on, five minutes off. you can expect this to be an adversarial hearing with republicans on the house and judiciary committee first trying to hijack the conversation ever chance they get. its going to be like a basketball game. each side gets the ball, back and forth...