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Flynn. >> lets talk about the other michael, michael cohen, because we learned from him about a potential trump tower moscow deal including that trump was kept appraised -- or apprised during the presidential campaign, briefed family members. we didnt know about it. did that give the russians a form of kompromat over the future president? >> well, i think it does. i mean, the russians will enjerroder kompromat, their acronym for compromising material, whether its real or contrived. so anything t...

Has the ability to have leverage. at the end of the day, about yemen. the troubling thing is, you know, weve seen the president say out loud, cia didnt come to any conclusion. and then we heard the cia director contradict that to the american people through the senate. why? not just some geopolitical game. hes covering for a killer. >> hes covering for a killer. last thought. >> i was just going to say, we have not seen congressional republicans defy president trump in any meaningful type of act...

Of an arms race because they just have a much smaller economy they have their life ways worse ways worse off in terms of technology ok also on the agenda in brussels today is a potential flashpoint between the west and russia ukraine do you see nato stepping in as some point in guaranteeing ukraine security you know that would that would be a higher risk of a military confrontation between nato and russia which both sides want to point what we will say is maybe or what we at least will see as a ...

And hes not desperately trying to get a success out of these carmakers so mostly this is a public relations action i think there will not be much substance as a result of these talks but that it does sound like a desperate situation for the german carmakers i mean the german car market dipped last month the chinese competition is also heating up none of this really bodes well if you looking further down the road well as a matter of fact trump think hard before really imposing these terrorists be...

Between 1.6 billion, which chuck schumer said yeah, its a good number, and the 5 billion which the house has come up with. if they can get more than that, the president will conclude its a win and sign it. ainsley: remember when the president was running for office and he said people were asking how much do you need to fund the wall? and it was in the 20 billion. brian: $25 billion. ainsley: he has already gotten some money. this would be another 5 billion if he gets a win. not originally what h...

>> absolutely. brian bine do we have enough leverage yet to get them to give in on that? >> hard to verify. we have been here before. previous administrations have tried to talk to chinese leadership to turn this boat around and its hard to basically judge whether or not china is fulfilling their promises. but we had steve balmer recently of mike soft who says that in china 90% of companies operates on windows. 1% actually pay to use windows. he loses $10 billion a year. can you imagine? of reve...

Treaty. jim mattis convinced him not to go it allow but by bringing european allies on board. nato issued the following statement. nato said we support the following that russian is in material breach. russians foreign ministry spokesman said they comply with the treaty and the u.s. knows it. >> shepard: it doesnt. they know for the last five years theyve been out of compliance. why the request to pull out now? >> the u.s. feels their hands are tied by the treaty in the middle east and in asia w...

Reform. >> harris: because it cant get done by the end of the air. i think he answered for both of you. [laughter] >> i think they should -- honestly, harris, i think they should use this as leverage. they should get this funding bill done. they ought to go into the next congress was in further discussion on that. no question. >> harris: the president willing to weigh in on this, and her republicans and the house didnt get it done. can the nation now watch both sides? president trump, moving on,...

Adversaries collecting information to use for intelligence purposes, either to hold as leverage over people or wait and release at an appropriate time or to just gather the information and use it in its own propaganda campaign to sell discord among the american people. what we are seeing now is i think a more sophisticated use of hacking by phone adversaries. >> what will investigators look for in a case like this if theyre trying to identify the perpetrators? will they be able to figure it out?...

Require the approval of putin. once trump repeatedly and publicly denied having any business interests in russia, putin had leverage over trump because he knew this claim was an easily disprovable lie. cohens disclosure proves not just trump as lying about business interests in russia, it potentially also exposes his family as well. donald trump, jr. and jared kushner have both testified before congress. robert mueller wrote in the criminal information filing last week that michael cohen, quote,...