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The reason is nobody has been tougher on russia than me. were taking in billions of dollars in tariffs. china is subsidizing product. so the united states taxpayers are paying for very little of it. >> so, michael, again, he said no president in u.s. history has been tougher on russia and american citizens are not paying a financial penalty for the china tariffs. true or false? >> this is kind of what makes trump such an effective politician. there is true elements here and false elements here. ...

Digress and then he teased a major statement today on the u.s./mexico border and were standing by for that. michael bender is a white house reporter for the "wall street journal" and a cnn political analyst, april ryan is a correspondent for american urban network and a cnn political analyst. so april, you first, watching the president this morning, what was that? >> it was donald trump who is upset, it is donald trump who is trying to combat what robert mueller said yesterday in his statement t...

Warren. michael, i want to start with you because you just had a conversation with the presidents lawyer rudy giuliani who tweeted one version of the doctored pelosi video and the president re-tweeted a different one. rudy giuliani took his down, but hes not really saying sorry, right? >> yeah, thats right. giuliani tweeted this video last night and then says, he told cnn that he got a text from a friend who said it may not be a legitimate video. he took it down because he says that he didnt wan...

Without doing that. >> yeah. i mean, look, there are always going to be people who find that fin, and if you are a woman who is going to work in politics or anywhere near politics you have to get over that certain subset because those people are never going to change. the bigger concern that lisa and michael are talking about is people who dont know that its not real and believe that its accurate depictions of politicians and people running for president and thats the bigger concern. when you pu...

As he heads overseas. one morning tweet asserts absent any evidence that there are no crimes or misdeeds for congress to investigate, quote, except those committed by the other side and other lies finding about the mueller report saying wrongly that the special counsel found, quote, no obstruction that. morning social media messaging played out under a late night trump tweet pinned for hours to the top of the presidents twitter page, a we tweet of a fox business news fox mash-up that distorted r...

Pushed him over the edge and he decided to cancel this meeting. >> but yet, he still allows those democratic leaders to come all the way down to the white house, right? they met for half a second and then he left and rolled right out to the rose garden. so how exactly did this go down when he first walked into that meeting? >> well, pelosi and schumer and the president have laid it out pretty -- in pretty vivid detail yet again. the president walked into that room, as furious as he appeared a fe...

That rod rosenstein the former deputy attorney general actually signed off on one of the renewals used in order to monitor that former trump campaign aide carter page. but the attorney general saying he thinks something is amiss here, not exactly explaining what he thinks that does, but sympathetic to the fact that the president is calling it a witch-hunt. john? >> laura jarrett, appreciate it. thank you. margaret with bloomberg and michael bender of "wall street journal." to the point that la...

Again, that is on the chapter one, which is dealings with a foreign government. bob mueller said he could not prove a criminal case so republicans say, were done. no collusion. a lot of conduct you want to explore publicly. dont try to look backwards, look this way. should we agree in principle and then you come to the other part. heres a voicemail left for michael flynn from the presidents personal counsel on november 22nd, 2017. it wouldnt surprise me if you go on to make a deal with the gover...

What the president wanted but even those 55 miles combined with the roughly 125 miles of inadequate old fence that the administration is already replacing with new barriers are a net plus for border security. your thoughts on that? >> thats the washington examiner, i cant speak for them, i would guide people to michael benders story, reconstruct of all of this. how it all played out, what the disagreements are on border security, how the congress -- democrats in congress feel that a wall really ...

Should be. as we go into the state of the union address tomorrow, president trump has teased what hell say about the wall, but increasingly hes frustrated about whats happening on capitol hill and basically using the power of the pen to go around congress and get his wall if nancy pelosi doesnt give him what hes been asking for for weeks and months now. dana? >> abby, thank you so much for that reporting. here at the table to share with me, michael bender with the "wall street journal," sandra k...