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Fallout of this sexual bombshell accusations against brett kavanaugh. as one republican told us, its the ugliest situation imaginable. what theyre worried about is the timing of the vote, whether new allegations could come forward, whether this becomes sort of a national politicized issue that could move into the midterm thes, whether some republican senators like bob corker, jeff flake who arent huge fans of the president could use this as a moment of leverage. all of these things piling togeth...

Lawyers. if you talk to people who worked with him over the decades hes been involved in complex legal and financial situations in new york, a common thread is people complaining that he wasnt forthright or didnt pay his bills. part of the reason he started off with such an unorthodox legal team is that a lot of mainstream big legal firms didnt want to have anything to do with him because they didnt think he would pay them. his legal problems, some of them are self-inflicted. >> i can actually h...

>> lets see. we should hold donald trump to the same standard. he wanted to do an infrastructure man. gary cohen said lets leverage federal, state, local and private money to do infrastructure and he said no ill spend trillions of dollars and well use other peoples money which is what he did. everyone should be at the same standard. >> 4% growth. >> mary ann is being generous. i was embarrassed for her with this interview. he was being generous as he mentioned with the price tag using a lot of l...

We dont know if thats true. thats the worst case. >> aaron, you have written some about this. but -- what is at stake right now for paul manafort? why did he make this deal now? >> yeah. its a question that i keep asking myself. this was obviously a strange set of circumstances in that paul manafort was already convicted in a previous trial so you have to look at that and think what if -- why did he wait this long to cut a deal if he was willing to cut a deal in any case and seems to be lost lev...

>> let me get a quick one to you, paul butler. you described the latter. you said at the beginning of your comments there are not that many people above michael flynn and paul manafort. i mean, there is the family. >> yes circumstances there a legal strategy to leaving the family for last because of the impact it will have on donald trumps very fragile emotional state when it comes to this investigation? >> yes, but it also could be huge leverage for mueller. we saw mueller do this with michael ...

Make it, squarespace 16 minutes after the hour. "the wall street journal" reports that president trump wants to impose a new round of tariffs on $200 billion worth of chinese goods. and he wants to do it before the new trade talks scheduled for the end of this month. >> yeah, the tariffs can result in higher prices of goods because companies usually pass on the costs to consumers. and take a look at the calendar. the holidays are right around the corner. so the impact could be felt by millions...

Seasonings, televisions and make those products potentially more expensive for american consumers. these tariffs are designed to give trump leverage in his efforts to end the chinese practice of demanding american companies turn over the intellectual property in order to gain access to chinas markets. and it will be on top of the $50 billion worth of chinese imports already subject to tariffs. and that first round of tariffs have hurt key republican constituencies like farmers and manufacturers....

Least be put on hold until this accuser comes forward. this is according to the "washington post." what are the chances kavanaghs hearing doesnt happen on thursday as scheduled? is there any harm politically for republicans to delay it? >> i dont see the harm for republicans to delay it unless they look weak to their base. this is not a question of being strong versus weak. it is a question of what is right and what is wrong. on this issue of jeff flake, he is central to this because the vote in...

Here. >> let me get your assessment. he was on "meet the press" today. he told chuck, this is a bad day for the trump administration meaning the manafort deal, is that how you see it? >> oh yes. it is a significant blow for the trump administration legal case and political kacase as well. manafort was the campaigns chairman and there were various ties to russia that would give russia leverage to manafort. this is something that trump said over and over again would not break or fold and now he ha...

The investigation stands, how much power mueller has right now? >> well, muellers leverage is clearly pretty immense at this point. and hes now been able to get a key player in this whole story to cooperate with him. and manaforts internet two respects. first he was at the nexus of this effort by pro-russian interests to lobby the u.s. government. and second and the part we dont know about at this point is he was at the top of the campaign during critical months for donald trump before he was pr...