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Leverage in a crucial situation with us. >> lets shift to the reason i will probably see you in washington in the coming days. that is the death of your former boss at the cia and on that subject, while this is going to differ a bit in tone from our current president, here is 41 about half a dozen years ago talking about his time at the cia. >> a very happy thing in my life. because i loved the short time i spent there and i have great respect for cia and the intelligence community. when i was v...

Done to weaken an opponent. when the russians collect information like that, knowing that someone is lying when the american public doesnt know about it, they think of that as levera leverage. leverage. in that period of time had this never come to light now that its out in the open, perhaps that leverage is weakened or gone, but had this never come to light that would be important leverage under the american president, as would be the exchanges that took place between donald jr. and russia prio...

Ingredient, motive. for those who long wondered why throughout the presidential campaign trump could not bring himself to say a critical word about russian president vladimir putin, we now know the answer. trump was hoping to do business in russia and doing so would 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 ju...

It is classic russian behavior to take that kind of thing and use it against someone. you know the term comp ro mot. isnt that like opposition research? no. opposition research is done to weaken an opponent. when the russians collect information knowing that someone is lying when the american public doesnt know about it, they think of that as leverage. so in that period of time, had this never come to light now that its out in the open, perhaps that leverage is weakened or gone. had this never c...

Perhaps that leverage is weakened or gone. had this never come to light, that would be important leverage on an american president as would be the exchanges that took place between donald junior and russia prior to the famous trump tower meeting. had that never come to light, that would be something in the russianss pocket to use as leverage in a crucial situation with us. >> lets shift to the reason i will probably see you in washington in the coming days. that is the death of your former

Deputy director who happened to serve as acting director in 2004. john, lets start on the news. on russia, i wanted to ask you this a few days back and then we will get to 41. what we learned about russia in the past several days means among other things, especially in your line of work, they have known for two years that the president had someone around him who was telling a lie about russia. >> thats right, brian. it is classic russian behavior to take that kind of thing and use it against som...

For lunch yesterday and mitch mcconnell, while i do not hang out with him on weekends, i tend to not bet against him. >> you dont get everything you wont. theres no leverage in a shutdown. especially for republicans. first, republicans, aim agreeing with elizabeth warren, theyre in charge, right. so the dleverage of a shutdown used to be who got the blame. shutdowns are meaningless. nobody notices them. >> local businesses in washington, they suffer. >> true, but i mean politically like as a poi...

Its an issue of leverage and influence from russia. if russia were aware that cohen or trump were lying and that was not public information, that could be used as compromise iin information but it also gets to what the president was up to here, seeking allies midst a campaign, that russia was trying to influence, from a legal perspective -- this is something that jerry nadler, incoming chair of the house committee wants to investigate. but from a legal perspective, are there laws potentially bro...

Beneficiary of our deal of china. if they intend start purchasing agricultural products immediately. farmers, i love you. china also pledged to address the big issues that are of contention between the two countries. ip theft, force technology transfers, cyber hacking. and in exchange, the president agreed to hold off raising punitive tariffs in china. that has been delayed now for 90 days while talks proceed to. the president has appointed the u.s. trade representative at robert lighthizer to l...

Smaller. he said to president jane, what keeps you up at night? and he said, feeding 2 billion people. but the china then was very different china. >> whats interesting is he asked the same in 2008, and he said, trying to create 25 million net new jobs per year because of unrest. so you go from starvation to the jobs, and that is economic leverage. >> china has been successful and the higher rises above that are hard. if they are economy is weak because of tariffs, trump has leverage. >> did you...