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He want him to be saying out on that white house driveway, what woe want him to be tweeting, donald trump is consistently doing basically exactly what vladimir putin would want him to do in terms of his public statements. i have no idea why that is. right? thats part of what the mueller investigation is trying to get at to get at whether there is some kind of leverage russia has over trump. we have no idea. but day after day after day trump does things that are damaging to the interests of the u...

>> yeomans work. seated to the left of the sax. >> thanks, cam. joining us again world news editor for axios. dave, good to see you again the nato summit is to u.s. allie, germany and the uk, find their nations very much in flux, excuse me. do you think trump is going to use that as leverage against them in his talks? >> he can try. i think the more he insults these leaders, though, probably the better they look among their domestic population, trumps popularity in germany is non-existent. angel...

Interesting you say that ambassador because the defense minister here in germany she has said herself that donald trump was really the catalyst for nato or for germany spending more on its defense but you bring up the reputed and where is he in all of this what were seeing in nato isnt trump doing exactly what mr putin would like to see and that is this gradual weakening of the alliance. well look there are two basic forms of u.s. leadership for nato one form the sort of the classic form is lead...

Mines its the first time theyve been to the site and theyre checking out the situation for themselves the mining official doesnt want to talk to us on camera but his colleague from the other ministry finally agreed elise and that them overseas and i mean what makes me sad to see the forest like this who for this is sacred land here for to be the government has already taken some action on the mines and the destruction of the forest but for the most of it poverty is still driving people to walk u...

Think of all those things together and we dont have to wonder that thats what they are doing. china-state media that those are connected, they will use whatever leverage they can in combination with all of that to get what they think is the best interest of chinese economic development and if they think that means maybe tweaking thicks on the denuclearization issue, they may be willing to do that and so i think its really important that we also think in those same terms of having all those thing...

I mean they dont have leverage in terms of voting on the hill on this issue. but they do have political leverage. if theyre looking, just in terms of looking out, i mean, either party has political leverage if they want to use certain material. how does the divide, if you will, among conservatives on judge kavanaugh maybe help democrats or does it? >> i dont think conservatives are going to be divided when it comes to nominating justice. they might debate it before they pick a person. >> harris:...

Know the facts as they come to light, you assemble them, you come up with a mental theory. my question is are you confident we will know the final truth? that ultimately the thing will be revealed about what is true and whats not, what the facts of the matter are. >> i think some of the facts well find out. i think things pertaining to the end of the trump campaign well probably find out because a lot of people are flipping and cooperating with mueller. but if theres leverage in moscow my guess ...

Against them. "its not us," putin has told trump. "its the subordinates fighting against our friendship. its beautiful." the precise relationship between the two leaders is at the heart of the mystery still surrounding the 2016 election. did the trump campaign, did the candidate at the heart of it conspire to subvert american democracy and/or does russia have some kind of leverage over donald trump p? in a new cover story for new york magazine jonathan chait argues "we have not allowed ourselves...

Compromised by russia either through blackmail or financial leverage or both. it might go back to the 1990s when he couldnt lend from other sources and needed money. it might go back as far as 1987, i wouldnt bet that way but thats possible because in 1987 thats when he visited moscow and came back and started talking for the first time about how americas allies are a bunch of dead weight and why are they taking our money. >> if theres hard evidence of that, how many people in the world do you t...

Vote me out. >> harris: it is an interesting argument. >> kennedy: are not only are you losing the nominee, your being republicans in a much bigger lead in the senate. >> harris: when you look at the fights that democrats say theyre willing to wait here without any leverage or majority if you will. conceivably if the three democrats do join. when you look at that whole thing, does this reflect how they are smarting over the fact that they didnt push back so far on neil gorsuch? >> andrew: of cou...