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About the prospect of losing all private coverage. >> thats where things get sticky for senator war when talking about medicare for all. and especially because bernie sanders is the leader on this issue until shes found it in her lap. and this is now her defining issue. there is a way i think she can tie it into the corruption that she talks about or at least the institution thats are not serving all america in the way that she thinks they should be serving them. it is a tricky thing. this will ...

Lets play it, and then well talk. >> yeah. here we go. >> hive never said im a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that im not. ive said and done things i regret and the words we leased on this decades old video are one of them. anyone who knows me knows these words dont reflect who i am. i said it. i was wrong and i apologize. >> that apology may have been put out for the voters, but trump wasnt worried about them. actually it may surprise you who trump was focused on just after the tape...

Strikes the way i see them, and, you know, my wife julie and i, weve got a 15-year-old daughter. do you think i can look her in the eye and tell her that i endorse donald trump for president when he acts like this and his apology? that was no apology. that an apology for getting caught to. say that bill clinton did it and did it worse. that should have been wrong behavior. im not going to put my good name and reputation and family behind donald trump for president when he acts like this. >> back...

Capitol hill in august of 2017. so, no, it was not a very public deal and it certainly was not public while donald trump was running for president, and that is because trump never mentioned it. despite question after question about any involvement with russia, on july 26th, 2016, he tweeted this, "for the record, i have zero investments in russia." and the next day he said this -- >> i have nothing to do with russia. i have -- john, john, how many times do i have to say it? are you a smart man? ...

Miss universe there. he was enamored with putin. he wanted to get in there. >> chris, you can do that any time. there is no timeline on when you can build a building in moscow. if your priorities are -- if your priority is to win the presidency, to do the business of the people of the united states, basically become an employee of you and me, the people of the united states, then why not do that? thats where your priorities should be. his, according to him, his daughters, his sons are perfectly ...

In fact, we now learn none of that was true. the day after cohen sent that e-mail, peskovs office responds. theres somebody identified as a special assistant who wants to know more, takes notes, asks how the kremlin, putins office, can be helpful in this project, and then it goes on for six more months, all during the primaries while donald trump is running for president and saying kind things about vladimir putin. we now learn that he -- his business was in contact with putin trying to secure t...

About the mueller investigation. quoting alan dershowitz, criticizing the investigation and falsely claiming its what he calls an illegal hoax that should be ended immediately. going on to quote greg jarrett and calling it, wait for it, a witch hunt. less discuss now with laura coates and harry litman. good evening. laura, to you first. >> hey, don. >> the president has been reluctant to condemn russia and it seems we may be learning why. >> well, youre very generous about the word reluctant. it...

Weve got to play it one more time. lets play it, please. >> so, to be clear, mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs? >> thats what he said -- thats what i -- thats obviously what our position is. >> oh, that was really, really awkward. i still have no idea what he said there, but doesnt that just sum all of this up, the whole day, just all of it? thats what he said, if thats what, thats what -- i mean, if thats what he said, thats what happened. but as we always say ...

There obviously is another level of the story that basically will reveal, why was it so important to trump and cohen who was then lock add the hip with him to keep it quiet and under wraps? >> laura, there is no other way to put it, the president lied today. the president claimed that his proposed moscow tower was well-known during the campaign. thats simply not true. we only learned about the deal after he was elected. weve seen, you know, this song and dance before. what does it say that trump...

First, deny. >> hes trying to get a much lesser prison sentence by making up a story. so very simply, michael cohen is lying and hes trying to get a reduced sentence for things that have nothing to do with me. >> then backpedal. >> we were thinking about building a building. i guess we had in a form it was an option. i dont know what youd call it. we decided -- i decided ultimately not to do it. >> and then there is a formula here, and then make excuses. >> now heres the thing, even if he was ri...