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Back. Overnight weve seen the president evolve his thinking to now advocate for the Death Penalty and, regardless, both of these statements are somewhat inappropriate and unprecedented just in terms of what a president traditionally would say, which is to restrain from offering this sort of commentary. It is in keep with the kind of public persona that donald trump has cultivated over many, many years in public life of trying to show himself to be strong and tough and have this steely resolve. B...

The White House Press corps have had for him all week about this. He also left for bedminster this afternoon, ignoring questions once again. Its just a pattern of this white house refusing to answer for why statements made both from the president and also from his senior aides at the White House Press podium have not turned out to be true, or at least they are now under question based on what we now are hearing from what Michael Cohen might have to say to special counsel mueller. It wouldnt be t...

Case of the white house making statements about what the president did and did not know. Senior Trump Officials have said the president didnt know anything about these payments. That turned out to be completely untrue based on the audiotape of the president himself talking about that payment were Michael Cohen before the election. But, again, here the white house refusing to talk about it. White house aides are now referring questions about this issue to the president s outside lawyers even thou...

They go in, meet with social media once a week to talk to them. >> thats a lot. >> guess whats coming? youre going to get hacking information, youre going to get a story. just know its hacking and it will probably involve hunter biden and probably drop in october right before the election. thats exactly what happened. the social media company said this is what the fib was telling us about. this must be the story. heres my question. why is the f.b.i. involved in politics? they need to be separate...

We are open to that. >> dana: based on your background and expertise, where do you think the u.s. should come down on this? >> i think its incredibly important. given my background as a former cia officer, i think we need to have a clear idea of what our strategy should be to combat those risks. strong relationships with the military services of the nations, we need to recognize that the company may present challenges to us. there are threats potentially of hacking information, or general compro...

Phone calls that donald trump jr. made to the blocked phone number before and after the trump tower meeting, we dont know who was on the other line. if that was in fact donald trump on the other end of the line, would that be something that muellers investigators would be able to find out? >> yes. they can subpoena those phone records and be able to see where those -- to whom those calls were being made, and that could corroborate the timing, for example, of michael cohens account. and just to c...

Collusion doesnt have to be criminal to be a national security threat. she mentioned the russians were hacking information, trying to weaponize it to promote candidates to help russia. and anyone who worked with them secretly to facilitate or encourage it is colluding, whether they meet the elements for conspiracy is a different story. but i think we have to remember that there is a national security aspect to this as well as a criminal aspect. >> but that national security aspect, i mean that d...

We dont really know. well never know. no. the justice department has been trying to nail this down and they have. >> from the "wall street journal report"ing, the justice identified more than six members of the russian government involved in hacking information that pertains to the 2016 presidential election. do you think that the president, anyone has tried to explain to him that the justice department that is prosecuting six individuals in the russian government involved in hacking the democra...

Watching this story intently. lots of attention on capitol hill. garrett, youve been hearing from key members of congress. whats the sfoer? >> reporter: well, the senate is out and ive been talking to some republican senate aides. they could not be happier that their bosses are not here in town right now. they are tired about answering questions about this controversy. i talked to chuck grassley yesterday. hes the chairman of the jish committee. he very much wants to get them in front of his com...

Trust to be directed or friendly -- a friendly port. but then again, dont have direct connections back to your country -- the country of origin. >> michael, this was congressman adam schiff last hour, the ranking democrat on the intelligence committee. this was his reaction to todays revelations. take a listen. >> so if this additional party was there, and had a background with russian intelligence, may have had a background in hacking information, as alleged in court pleadings, this has got ano...