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>> last night heated debates across the country the economy, crime, voting rights, now remember here, the senate is split 50-50 so every competitive race is crucial. cnns political correspondent abby phillips joins us now. the senate and the big picture here. >> yeah, victor and erica, look, this is going to be a very close midterm cycle and every single race counts, heres why, take a look at where the balance of power stands here in the senate in terms of these are the races that are ...

No longer acceptable and that beijing was determined to pursue reunification on a much faster time line. >> cnn global affairs analyst kimberly dozier joins us now. good to see you this afternoon. when it comes to this faster time line, what does that say to you and i wonder, too, how the reaction to russias invasion by ukraine by the u.s., by the west, could be figuring in. >> well the fact that the secretary of state decided to go public with this is a message to xi and china writ large, we se...

Lets obstruct justice for the president. this is a great off-ramp. republicans and conservatives in good conscious need to say this guy says he believes vladimir putin over the entire american intelligence apparatus. this guy doesnt just behave like maybe hes compromised. right now in the eyes of mccabe and comey, who are serious people -- >> who are republicans! >> serious guys, you know, theyre looking at all of trumps behavior thats public and the things they know in private that we dont even...

Evidence, they take intelligence intercepts. they take clues and create an assessment, make a judgment on what theyre confident happened. and by all descriptions, this is a confident assessment by the cia this happened either with the crown princes knowledge or direction. the trump administration seeming to hold out the possibility that there would be some -- some clear, single clue that would make it incon tree veritable. what we saw today was even republican senators and senators who have supp...

Found evidence that the saudis were complicit, he could be required by law to impose sanctions. this could be a 70-year relationship. that persevered through a dismal human rights record among the worst in the world because of economic cooperation. they have a lot of oil and the united states wants a basin in the region after 9/11. that was one of the bases used to carry out the attacks and the shared rivalry with iran. there is a high bar to confront saudi arabia. does this meet the bar? this s...

Kushner recently lost his secret, excuse me, his top secret security clearance amid worries from u.s. officials that foreign governments might try to gain influence with the white house by doing business with mr. kushner. now according to the "washington post" last night, those worries have been informed to the white house in part by intelligence intercepts. intelligence intercepts that have captured foreign officials discussing their dealings with jared kushner in the white house. beyond that, ...

Specifically by intelligence intercepts. by surveillance information, collected by intelligence agencies while surveilling foreign government officials. the intelligence intercepts keep getting them. how do you fix that problem? if you see that as a problem, how do you fix that? well, republicans and congress are dramatically stepping up their efforts to attack and undermine the fbi and now very specifically going at the fbi to try to make a scandal out of their collection of intelligence interc...

The attorney general, he isnt the only high-ranking person in this president ees orbit that been caught in a bad spot specifically because the intelligence community heard it because of intelligence intercepts. right? because of surveillance. jeff sessions tried to deny he met with russian officials. later when he had to admit he did meet with russian officials, he trieded ied to say he didnt discuss the russian campaign. they captured a russian official describing contacts in a call home to the...

They were holding meetings to prepare for the chinese presidents visits to mar-a-lago last spring. its the surveillance, right, its the interseptembers. they make public denials or they make denials to the fbi and then though december niles get blown out of the water by evidence, specifically by intelligence intercepts, by surveillance information, right? collected by intelligence agencies while they are surveilling government pb. >> how do you fix that problem? if you see that as a problem, how...

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