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Trumps dependance on twitter, you get the real time in effect. what is significant here, hes trying that you are damn right, i called the code red. the problem is not the duh lynn ration between he was a candidate and when he was president. at the heart is questions about why russia may have interfered in the election on his behalf, and also what leverage, if any, the russians may have had. remember, the only human being on earth not named trump, that trump has refused to criticize is vladimir p...

Than that, no. >> miss universe was there in 2013, so he had had no deals in russia since. we know his organization was trying to. heres what he said a few weeks before election day. >> i know nothing about russia. i know about russia, but i know nothing about the inner workings of russia. i have no businesses there. i have no loans from russia. >> i dont deal there, he said, present tense, not something along the lines of i tried to deal there. at best, you could say he was being untruthful by ...

Pressure on the president and his feelings. >> its not just this moscow deal. this opens up a whole other area and it goes to the financing, money laundering, and that goes to what sort of leverage did the russians have on the deal. >> we have a lot more to discuss including what is happening before our eyes. we will hear from him again in just a few minutes. will he answer questions. will he address this. from our reporting, one thing is clear, he has been knocked off balance here completely. t...

President trump to lift the steel and aluminum tariffs. i asked him, will you sign the trade agreement if the tariffs are still in place. some see it as leverage if you dont? he said he would and they did this morning. all right, abby, thank you. also new this morning, union leaders from the soon to be closed general motors plant in ohio attempting to make somewhat of a hail mary plea to the ceo of gm, who according to cnn affiliate, they hope to meet with mary barra in detroit to talk about f...

Confirm judges. his hate of the president succeeds his duty and its unconstitutional and i wont finish the rest because it is personally insulting. what do you say about why youre taking this stand? >> we need to protect the special counsel. weve confirmed 50 judges since the president took office. were doing that work and need to continue to dot that work, but this has to be priority now. >> number one, clearly, for you t. you. >> it is. a judge from arizona we passed over yesterday, but this h...

Contrast that with so much of what he said many the past. including this declaration days before he was sworn in office. russia has never tried to use leverage. i have nothing to do with russia. no deals, no loans, nothing. the reality is then candidate trump never talked about the moscow project on the trail even as touting the benefits of improved ties with russia. >> they say putin likes trump. he said nice things about me. he called me a genius. he said were going to win. thats good. thats n...

Dealings with russia. >> they had a lot of intent, a signed letter of intent, gloria, for any skeptics. >> i did the story on the letter of intent in september of 2017, and it was, you know, i was not told the truth about it. i was told that it ended because the deal collapsed in january, not june, so the timing, you know, the timing was off. but that was the story that mr. cohen was telling to the congressional committees. but this was -- this was michael cohen trying to protect donald trump on...

In the trump tower. we have to wait for bob mueller to fully investigate this issue. we do have the cohen plea now. it does indicate that there were efforts to construct the trump tower. it would not surprise me that mr. trump as a new york developer would offer all kinds of goodies to try to attract their approval or building that tower. im going to wait for the bob mueller investigation to determine exactly wa was invo e involved here. if there was this offer, it raises serious concerns. >> th...

I think it was a sense of weakness now. putin must being looi inlooking saying president trump is so toxic that whatever leverage i thought i had is falling away. as the mueller investigation continues, he can only be thinking this is getting worse. its not going get better. >> other dramatic development unfolding here is the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. how is he being received? now is that playing out? >> lets face it right now in a sort time it will be a big dinner behind closed do...

The president announced on twitter the putin meeting was off. it was canceled. but he gave a different reason saying it was because of the conflict in the ukraine. lets discuss, julia kayyem, bob baer, as well. juliette, they may not have their trump/putin meeting but you say the russians are very happy tonight. why is that? >> well, i think because they watch cnn, as well and know what is happening to this president. i think we have to sort of look at sort of the totality of what we have found ...