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>> he might as well -- >> good lord. >> slap an ex-kgb bag on our attorney general. well, not a whole lot. he did preview how the investigation into the investigators might play out. and why. well, lets unpack each of the significant takeaways one-by-one. its important for all of you tonight to understand every bit of this. first. heres why bar initiated this investigation. >> no one has really looked at it. i think theres a misconception out there that we know a lot about what happened. the fac...

Welcome back. panel is here. pat mccrory, the foreman governor of north carolina. maria teresa kumar, president of voto latino. kasie hunt. capitol hill news correspondent. and robert costa, the moderator of "washington week" on pbs. kasie, lets unpack the hill before we get to the presidential race. the hill debate is going to animate the presidential race. let me play nancy pelosi on omar from friday. >> the incident that happened was, i dont think our colleague is anti-semitic. i think she ha...

Brain surgeon to figure out -- >> ed: jumping ahead and say, we dont have a deal perhaps the president wants to come out and explain where we are. lets unpack what you are saying. you started off by saying that the diplomatic saying is, you dont get involved in these talks of him as you sort of have the outlines of a deal. the president does not want to fly a thousand miles or so here to vietnam and walk away empty-handed. on the other hand, kevin, as we were talking with our last guest, the pre...

Peter king said he can help or hurt when he gets involved in negotiations, the president. what do congressmen, lawmakers want to hear from the president tonight when it comes to immigration? what will make their lives easier to come to a deal that will not result in another government shutdown in a couple weeks? >> well, lets unpack that a little bit. what they want to hear is that hes going to stay out of this and will sign eventually whatever this conference committee comes up with because the...

Harried situation. police can never get so narrowly focused on one piece of evidence to the exclusion of everything else, fred. >> you said it really does -- you know, you praise that there is some resolution here, but just underscoring even what kaley was saying, there were eyewitness accounts or descriptions coming from four people. and the descriptions are very different from the suspect that were seeing now. to what extent do you see a good part of this press conference is going to be to hel...

Mike pompeo in beijing this week in which top chinese officials said they would quote, take all necessary measures to safeguard your country. how far is china prepared to go in terms of standing up to the u.s.? >> i think its the legitimate right of ever country to defend its national interests. and china is no exception. but the talks that secretary mike pompeo had in beijing was a very good communication at high level between the two sides and its very timely. >>chris: lets unpack some of this...

Mike pompeo in beijing this week in which top chinese officials said they would quote, take all necessary measures to safeguard your country. how far is china prepared to go in terms of standing up to the u.s.? >> i think its the legitimate right of ever country to defend its national interests. and china is no exception. but the talks that secretary mike pompeo had in beijing was a very good communication at high level between the two sides and its very timely. >>chris: lets unpack some of this...

Mike pompeo in beijing this week in which top chinese officials said they would quote, take all necessary measures to safeguard your country. how far is china prepared to go in terms of standing up to the u.s.? >> i think its the legitimate right of ever country to defend its national interests. and china is no exception. but the talks that secretary mike pompeo had in beijing was a very good communication at high level between the two sides and its very timely. >>chris: lets unpack some of this...

Mobsters laundering money through trump-branded properties, living in trump-branded properties and theyre living in the home of the president of the united states. >> lets unpack that very learly. what is -- youre saying what donald trumps connection to the russian mafia is they used his properties as ways to launder money from the post-soviet era, to essentially take money out of russia and put it into cash buying condos? >> right. the demise of the soviet union there were enormous amounts of f...

The "wall street journal," including you, surreptitiously, this is a man who really operated like a snake in many ways including versus the president. and for us to make a big deal about his actions and to really reveal to the world what was already known, i think, again, any reasonable person -- >> well, lets unpack that real quick as a final point here. i take your point. but -- >> i think thats completely true. the reason a lot of the christian right is willing to call this a mulligan and loo...