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President-elect donald trump. george nadir a businessman, who has been at this meeting does have reported connections to the united arab memerates. he is someone we have known has caught the eye of special counsel robert mueller. and it undermines the trump allies argument that the investigation is looking at a witch-hunt. >> explain, though, why this meeting mattered. what was the purpose? >> well, allegedly these were representatives of foreigners who were offering the trump campaign a leg up ...

Whos down at the german this time hes managed to listen to all of chancellor merkels speech and i want to put it to you thomas youve managed to listen to what the chance was saying she spent a lot of time talking about foreign policy issues not just defense but also development issues what sort of message do you sense that the chancellor was trying to give to her. abroad. well theres one particular element that i want to stress when it comes to defense and thats a fact that weve had two importan...

Case? >> yeah. i think he wants an attack dog out there advocating for him. obviously, president trump has become more and more frustrating with the direction of the special counsel probe. hes voiced concerns about michael cohen possibly turning on him and theyre trying to avoid that happening. so sending giuliani out there to, in his words, get ahead of what the southern district of new york would eventually discover was his way of, you know, benefiting himself and im not really sure that that ...

He has a lot of positions, as you said, to be filled. he has a budget session coming up. well have to see what comes. already people are starting to think things are getting back to normal as he was obviously not very popular here. >> i think the mood music in the lobe of the state department. elise, very quickly, any change on how the secretary will interact with the members of the security team or the national security adviser. i think it will be more seamless. obviously, secretary mattis was ...

The behavior of james comey on the book tour, getting personal about the president, if you look at brennans twitter account, you see a highly partisan, vitriolic person on there,ar it is hard to believe that when he was running the cia, that he actually was able to separate all of those feelings and do his job without that sort of partisan thinking. obviously, clapper, now a cnn contributor, same thing. i think this is very disturbing that you have all of these toptu officials engaging in partis...

The behavior of james comey on the book to her, getting personal by the president, if you look at kellyanne brennansu see a vitriolic person on there, it is hard to believe that when he was running the cia, that he actually was able to separate all of those feelings and do his job without that sort of partisan thinking. obviously, clapper, now i see contributor, same thing. i think this is very disturbing that you have all of these top officials engaging in partisan behavior and as further leaks...

Data point about what the effects are of these kind of constant anti media messages. a few days ago, reporters without borders released its world press freedom index. its getting darker all around the world. there are author taritarian reg all around the world. in the u.s., a drop of two spots from 43 to 45. obviously, the press much more free in the u.s. than in most of the world. but you see the world getting darker there. thats the organization saying the press freedoms are being restricted i...

Excellent. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle raised concerns about his lack of experience running a large bureaucracy. right now the timing for a rescheduled confirmation hearing remains unclear. but joe, that display about the presidents health, i thought was quite incredible. back when it happened. >> incredible is a very nice word for it, mika. thought it was embarrassing. i thought -- it was shameful. you have a guy that first of all obviously, for anybody thats ever -- you dont have to...

Account. its fine by me. >> you dont care? >> i dont care. i dont have any views on it. ill totally fine with transparency. i have tried to be transparent throughout this and i think what folks will see if they get to see the memos is i have been consistent since the very beginning right after my encounters with president trump and im consistent but i dont know how many of that group. >> one of them is of the classified one obviously from when you told president trump in trump tower about what w...

Is that right? >> i dont know because i dont have the memos. i dont know how many there are. some e-mails or memos. maybe seven or eight. i dont remember. and i think some of them -- i know when i created some they were classified and i dont know how many of the group. >> one is of the classified one obviously from when you told president trump in trump tower about what was in that two-page annex about the steele dossier, the summary of the steele dossier. what were the other classified ones be ...