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This couldnt be an attempt or conspiracy because in the end he says pay by check. but the whole context of the conversations would seem to undercut the cash analysis. the context of the conversation is lets create a legal form, lets create a corporation. lets not leave it up to one person. when you create a corporation, you create records. corporations dont pay by cash. corporations almost always paid by check or by wire and leave a paper trail. so if, in fact, the president did say, and its har...

>> yeah, there is no crime. the whole context of the conversation would seem to undercut the cash analysis. the context of the conversation is lets create a legal form, lets create a corporation. when you create a corporation, you create records. corporations dont pay by cash. corporations almost always paid by check or by wire and leave a paper trail. so if, in fact, the president did say, and its hard to hear, pay cash, that seems very much out of context to the conversation. the other thing i...

Europe. so im watching this week as a truly important week. will he start pivoting to the positive this week? or will he double down with auto tariffs? if hes doubling down, we have some ways to go. but i do agree that you could get more. part of the reason that trump is very popular with his constituency is hes saying things that are true. we have bad trade deals with china. we could have better trade deals with europe. now is the time he has to pivot to the positive with the allies and use the...

History, and were on the sidelines. so what he has to do right now is he talks about getting leverage by being tough on trade. in many respects, that could be true. but now is the time to cash in that leverage, to close nafta, to get a deal on nafta, to get a deal to reverse what weve been doing with the eu, and then get a better trade deal to show he can get a better trade deal by being tough in the outset. but he hasnt yet shown that he can turn these trade threats into better deals. now is th...

So the president is going to use every angle, every piece of leverage that he can to try to undercut the mueller investigation and this whole process. and unfortunately hes attacking a process, this fisa process, that helps keep the united states safe from foreign powers. >> give me a yes/no on this if you can. do you think the president believes that the russians attacked us during the election? >> well, he wont say that he does. so, you know, its hard to say. he goes back and forth on it. so i...

The bluster and the brinkmanship. i dont expect to it result in anything. its unsettling. >> shepard: were alone outside the iran agreement now. can sanctions from the united states not supported by others in the agreement, can they have an effect? >> yes, they can. were trying to force countries to choose between doing business with us and doing business with iran. so the extent of these sanctions on the u.s. side has a far broader scope than you would anticipate by looking at the trade statist...

Theyll just find other ones. they dont have any leverage. but at some point, is there -- and im not calling for regulation, but is the regulatory action we need? is there a moral obligation? if your company is that rich, why wouldnt you pay your employees more? >> weve let minimum wage underpace inflation for 30 years. union membership has been cut in half. uber is worth $80 billion. approaching the value of air bus. they have 12,000 employees. they have 2.5 million driver partners. people not p...

Of this investigation? >> its almost inevitable. this is a big, sprawling case. in fact, its all over the world in a sense. and so its not unusual to find that this pond has many ripples. i also agree with paul. i think hes exactly right. ive had the same experience, nicolle. a lot of times folks get up to the precipice and plead guilty. they file what we call depositive motions, a motion to suppress evidence. if they win that, the governments case could be in a lot of trouble and the government...

You see this as that. and compared -- >> i see it as part of that, yes. its also a response to a speech by president rouhani of iran which warned the united states in very fluorid language which is kind of typical of the entire region that a war with iran would be the mother of all wars. now, if you remember, saddam hussein used the same words about iraq, it would be the mother of all battles. everythings the mother of something. so i i think trump has used that heightened rhetoric because rouha...

Compromising information question first. you know, theres been a lot of discussion of that. there are a couple of things i would say about it. one, i think that people have to understand how the russian mindset works when it comes to compromising information. russians identify individuals of influence, individuals of some notability, and they collect compromising information on them all the time. they do it constantly, consistently. and its not always the case that they know at the time theyre c...