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And said, "this is maga country." police now say that was a lie. chicago police making big revelations today. the police superintendent saying that jussie smollett did write that death threat letter to himself, which had a maga return address. if smollett did mail that letter to himself, he faces some serious federal charges. the fbi is that the skating. also, police say smollett carried out this hoax because he was not being paid enough and perhaps wanted to use the publicity for leverage for b...

President, specifically the house freedom caucus with devno he is and matt gates. >> you know, i think they have a lot less leverage now that they dont control the house. they sort of have lost control of the investigation arm, they are sort of playing second fiddle essentially to democrats now, so their role is probably less important although they have -- they have really -- you know, they helped him out essentially by diverting while they did control. >> now, we have to ask you about former a...

Influence or gain leverage over. and in this case, you know, appeal to ego. and so in that -- in that sense, in that context, is what i think of when i mean potential unwitting asset. >> okay. so then a witting asset, what would that look like? >> well, that, to me, would be -- which frankly i rather doubt, is a recruited asset who is responding to direction of a case officer. again, ill put that -- that phrase in quotes. and i really dont think thats the situation here. so i think its -- if tha...

Government, there is an intelligence operation that has been run by the russian government that has resulted in there being somebody who they have got leverage on and they have a compromise on, they have compromised working in the white house as national security advisor. like that warning comes to the white house unimaginable and the white house responded by doing nothing for 18 days. think about how extreme this news is, how unthinkable, right? this is like its coming from inside the house, ev...

These are a lot of countries that have dictatorships wheres public protests arent necessarily going to change things. but he tells us hes spoken with u.s. senators, who are very supportive of an effort to try to change the way we provide economic aide so we would use our leverage and condition some of our foreign assistants ending laws that decriminalize homosexiality. >> here at home people have looked at the trump administration lgbt policies, arguing in court that anti-discrimination laws do ...

Effective they have been to be believed. when the president of the united states is presented with a piece of intelligence and they have high confidence that what were telling you is the way of the world. again theres so many public safety and national security issues at stake. if the president rejects that because it maybe poses political challenges. and the last thing theres an over arching question that we have. that were trying to dig into what motivates the president to accept russias world...

A meeting in romania now for the latest lets cross over to washington and our correspondent helen humphrey helena donald trump says hes a terror of man is the commerce department telling the president what he wants to hear. right christopher youre right to point out the fact that president trump is a self-proclaimed tariff man but hes also a self-proclaimed deal maker and youve got to look at this and its context the united states and europe have long been locked in negotiations over a trade dea...

Leverage the russians could use over the president and if the russians are in a position to expose wrongdoing by the president or his campaign. thats compromising. >> you are talking about transparency, but i guess the question is, in terms of what the substance of his findings are, robert mueller, will you, given the fact he has had such an extensive investigation, will you accept the findings separate from the investigation that you are doing? >> you know, i will certainly accept them in this ...

To pull troops out of syria. she said that that would give iran in particular and russia greater leverage in syria. >> she has spoken about the u.s. different world order and different take on foreign affairs and what that means to incursions by russia and china. lets take a step back and talk again a little more, nic, about the message from the former vice president. of course, he spoke following the current vice president of the u.s., joe biden. maybe a presidential contender in 2020. we imagi...

Compromised, whether theres leverage and if they are there a position to expose wrong doing by the president or his campaign thats compromising. >> youre talking about transparency. i guess the question is in terms of what the substance of his findings are, robert mueller, will you, given the fact that he has had such an extensive investigation, will you accept the findings separate from the investigation youre doing? >> i will certainly accept them in this way. i have great confidence in specia...