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As a statement. i choose to believe it was not meant as a statement. but, it does speak -- it does -- >> she cares, its just a jacket. shes a model. she knows the power of clothes. >> she does. the important thing is it does speak to the layers of theater this president deploys. one thing theyre good at, this is probably conspiratorial, a split screen presidency. one screen for different audiences and one is what we saw at the rally, the other is the first lady making nice at the border. maybe t...

So certainly there will be a backlash here as well there should be. think about the surreal situation of our president making nice with north korea and then having a war of words and setting off a trade war with of all countries, canada which has done nothing hostile to us in its history except for maybe justin bieber. at the same time you have dan coats overseeing intelligence saying just on friday that russias goal is to interfere in the midterm elections and to split the western alliance that...

>> north korea dictator kim jong-un making nice ahead of the meeting with the president in singapore, one month from today. the charm offensive including the latest promise to invite journalists to see the dismantling of one nuclear site really to be trusted? presidential historian, doug wheat, and we could argue, will our approach, offering economic incentives for the north koreans do just that be trusted? we have a little bit more proof of that because weve done it with the likes of the japane...

Also he wanted to meet the president personally in a separate kind of -- >> so, look, this is evidence of an attempt a perhaps by the russians to make contact with the trump campaign. and it is now the second -- at least the second known contact between donald trump jr. and somebody corrected to tcorrecte to the kremlin. but does that say anything other than the russians were interested in making nice with putin? you know, what is the evidence that takes to that next step that makes it suspiciou...

President is at olympic village. then of course president moon wont be meeting with the north korean delegation here in seoul. >> is there any evidence, though, elise, that the presidents tough talk against north korea is working? >> reporter: well, i think what it might have done, wolf, is to kind of drown out a little bit of this north korean propaganda that this new gentler face with the sister making nice with south korea. but people were pretty excited about the prospect of her coming here....

Than solve problems. [ cheers and applause ] >> did you catch those comments from senator john mccain overnight in philly in that was him accepting the liberty medal in a thinly vailed dig at the president. in what he calls the nationalist foreign policy. a real review of donald trump when the gop needs every l lawmaker it can get to get something done. leadership is showing they can do something. just hours before that, a side-by-side shot of the president and senate majority leader. >> my rela...

Nato members to pay their fair share. >> 23 of the 28 member nations are not paying what they should be paying and what they are supposed to be paying for their defense. this is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the united states. clayton: many in the liberal media saw his speech in the a different light portraying him more as a bully than a leader. >> scolding allies, intense confrontation as president trump lecturing world leaders standing just feet a >> the theme of todays mate ghat toe...

Thats an issue. russia medaling into the election is an issue. sure, there are folks who are not supportive of course out president and anything that surrounds that, whether its travel that you played a clip there or whether its his potential russian ties or not. those things, some of the things i think, i believe are valid concerns and some are over blown and not really substantiated yet or not. but like i said, there are valid concerns but those are big issues. obamacare, russian medaliade met...

That four sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the hillary clinton campaign. what followed was a stand-off in which the democratic national committee cut the campaigns access to its own voter data and the sanders campaign responded by suing the dnc and accusing it of putting a thumb on the scale in clintons favor. by saturday morning the dust had settled, the dnc restored previously blocked access to the voter file. the sanders campa...