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Gates telling jurors he committed felonies with paul manafort. that is a fact. that is news. that is legally concerning for donald trump and politically concerning as confessions are not a great message heading into the mid-terms. but donald trump has his own plan. for midterm messaging. while he didnt know this trial of this campaign trial would be on track for a verdict heading into labor day, which is of course a key time for the midterms, he has long known he has his own plans divert attenti...

Was right before his first midterm. why do you believe trump will suffer the same fate obama do d or akin to it where the out party, the democrats, regain the majority? >> i think for a couple of reasons. one of the reasons the poll numbers are going up is the economy is very strong. worldwide, what we are seeing now is relatively low unemployment rates, japan and germany, canada has the lowest unemployment rate of 40 years. mexicos unemployment rate is very, very low so the world economy is now...

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Immigration. jim acosta is in south carolina where the president is speaking at a rally. we are now learning that the military might need to house some of these unaccompanied kids. clearly this has not been a well-executed plan. what does the white house have to say about it? >> reporter: the defense secretary jim mattis says yes, there are a couple of bases in texas to house. that is the potential if they have that need. what you saw over at the white house earlier today was another example of ...

Overview of what this means. >> justice kennedy gave us the ultimate head fake this morning. they had gaveled the term done and said we will see you back on the bench in october. we didnt get an announcement so we let our guard down just a little bit and suddenly before 2:00 p.m. eastern, there was a shock wave. kennedy is letting the president is going to step down. and, that obviously would have sent all of us into the rumor mill overdrive. kennedys letter to the president was very simple, tal...

Do. and in the rush of activity, sometimes we lose track of, you know, the ways that we connected with folks that got us here in the first place. now, im not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like i did last night. you know, im sure there are easier ways to learn these lessons. >> and thereby the president of the united states singlehandily revived the vernacular use of the word "shellacking," for all of us. but president obama was right about a real hazard of ...

Wants. he sees this as not just something important for global safety but also as a real win for him. the idea that not just account know be peace prize, but the idea of accomplishing something that no american president has been able to do, to bring peace to the korean peninsula something he thinks would bolster his poll numbers and perhaps inknock calculate him from some of these investigations surrounding him and perhaps have a trickle down effect to republicans in the midterm. the idea of ca...

Democrats in washington in virtually complete control of the workings of the u.s. government. they tell us that every day and theyre starting to seem like they believe it. thats demented. most striking example comes from former director of national intelligence jim clapper. in an interview yesterday, clapper said that russia flipped to the results of the 2016 election, got trump elected over hillary. as for evidence of that, clapper admitted he didnt have any because, of course, he doesnt have a...

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