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Camera for money, basically is what it is. in late january of 2018, i received a copy of a complaint filed by the federal election commission, fec, about common cause. it goes on about what the complaint alleges, that it violates campaign finance -- and then he says, i am mr. trumps longtime special counsel. i have proudly served in the role for more than a decade and a private transaction in 2016, i used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to miss stephanie clifford. neith...

>> michael bender was right? >> yeah. >> shepard: from the "wall street journal." just that it happened is -- you cant even talk -- i can talk about it happened. it happened. four reporters called in for an explanation was what was going on. the white house was working to construct a narrative even then. >> well, yeah. this has been something that the white house -- its a huge embarrassment for the white house. they want to explain it the best they could. there was a period that it looked like t...

Committee all saw and agreed that was the memo they were voting on. what schiff says tonight is this vote was not correct because we voted on a document that is not actually now been sent over to the white house. now we dont know if the differences between the two memos are substantive or not. but he suggests in in letter that they are. and i guess the ball is in the white house court to say wait a second send us the right memo before we decide whether to release this or not. and schiff is tryin...

Longer stand by the representation it made to house members there. i reached out to congressman schiff to plain that. but cara it sounds like it indicates nunes made changes taking out some of the more spurious allegations. >> thats the suggestion. but all of in is -- were all in the dark on this. we dont know what was in the first memo. we dont know the controversial elements are. now we dont know what has been removed. we dont know at this point which version of it the fbi got so upset about a...

Little bit away from -- >> we cant connect the dots, karen, but if you look at the politics of that, for all the democrats now screaming at the republicans, why are you discrediting the investigator, why are you attacking the fbi? clinton did that during the investigation. they always try to get to the motive of it, so are you trying to discredit, raise questions about the integrity, impartiality, fairness of the investigators, and as far as you know, is this investigation reaching an important ...

In addition to being a discouraging 24 hours in washington, it has been flat-out chaotic 24 hours. the presidents racist remarks about immigrants overshadowing a flat-out bizarre interview he gave to the wall street journal. in it the president touts a very good relationship with the north korean dictator, a man he has repeatedly attacked. mike bender and david sanger, reporterer for the "new york times". michael bender, first to you. this was out of nowhere. all of a sudden the president says h...

And the more you ignore it, the worse its going to get. lets take a quick break. >> but you cant ignore meritorious immigration either. >> one thing has nothing to do with the other. i want you guys both to stay. i want to talk about some more things with you after the next segment. we have a really good get this morning. we have breaking news. president trump says he probably has a very good relationship with north koreas dictator. up next, i want to talk to one of the reporters that were in th...

Pretty calm. he was willing to sort of talk about anything we wanted to bring up. >> right. you know, hes good one on one. he likes to be tested. thats why i keep saying, come back to us, mr. president. nobody makes the case for you as well as you do yourself, and you got plenty to make the case for these days. michael bender, thank you so much. its great to get the insight of the person who was actually asking the questions. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> so lets unpack a little bit...

Some things. we have breaking news, president trump says he probably has a very good relationship with north koreas dictator. i want to talk to one of the reporters that were in the room for that. michael bender, one of the reporters behind todays bombshell interview with the president. we are the tv doctors of america, and we may not know much about medicine, but we know a lot about drama. we also know that you can avoid drama by getting an annual check-up. so go, know, and take control of your...

Hes called him little rock et man, threatened to bring down fire and fury on kims country. mr. trump tells the wall street journal, i probably have a very good relationship with kim jong un. i have relationships with people. i think you people are surprised. and thats just one eye mopping headline from the interview. theres lots to talk about, we have political commentator simone sanders and jack kingston with us. theyll chew on the things that were said, i want to get the facts first. we have o...