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>> he does seem a little obsessed with him. the odd thing is hes doing thim -- him a great favor. joe biden has not been out on the campaign trail much. because donald trump is tweeting about him, is doing these things that make trump himself -- hes giving joe biden headlines, hes making joe biden a big story, hes making joe biden look big by being so small and joe biden doesnt have to lift a finger. he just has to occasionally release a statement kind of indicating the disapproval of what trump...

Like that. but now we face a really different situation. there are multiple different investigators and mueller has to know that, so even if he writes a short report, as long as the facts come out in that report and leads are able to be pursued, youll have multiple congressional committees investigating, youll have state attorneys general investigating, perhaps even local district attorneys like manhattan, and as well, you have two different federal prosecutors offices both in the southern distr...

90-day cease-fire in trumps tariff war with china. whats moving the markets? joining me now, my colleague stephanie ruhle. who better to talk to about this? stephanie, what exactly is going on here? why all of the volatility in. >> weve got a few things but i think back to october 12th when larry kudlow said theres no end in sight for the economic boom. earlier this morning wilbur ross said the media is obsessed with the future. start thinking about the future, think of the present. thats sort o...

Decisions? it seemed like an odd thing. >> youre not the only one to observe that it was sort of an odd way to announce the reposition of banking sanctions, but, you know, i actually really liked the hbo response. this was clearly a rip-off of the "game of thrones" type face, and message and everything. winter is coming. and hbo tweeted how do you say trademark misuse? >> his voters eat this up. part wwe sometimes. how would you explain it to the layman. >> i would say for years i heard pun tigh...

Accusers involved, because if they cant corroborate it, he deserves that disclosure. i think his sworn statement is through his lawyer. if thats true, it doesnt have the same value that others to in terms of if youre lying. if hell talk to them under penalty of law and tell them what he knows and doesnt, i think that will go a long way but at the end of the day, if this comes back uncorroborated, are you okay with that and do you believe that would mean no more on this point and whatever you fee...

The president will. >> david, its interesting because this is not the first time weve heard officials talk about the 25th amendment in the anonymous "new york times" op-ed alleged bibiy a senior official. >> i think that the conversations about the 25th academy are not big and damaging story. i dont think thats the big story. the story really is was he serious about taking a wire in to wire in and listen secretly and tape the president of the united states? thats unheard of. there are those, of ...

Allegedly by a senior official. he said there were whispers about that. >> i think that the conversations about the 25th amendment are not big and damaging stories. i dont think thats the big story. the story really is, was he serious about taking a wire in to wire in and listen secretly and tape the president of the united states? thats unheard of. there are those, of course, who argued, not at "the new york times," but others who have been trying to catch up with the story, that he was being s...

Sensitive. you can either do it or you cant because you will hit a point at which they can constitutionally interfere with your ability to get the abortion. so i think the point he has made before is there has been, and this is the more complex issue i think for democrats, is you can actually significantly prevent women from being able to govern their bodies without overruling roe. >> yeah. there are cases out there that restrict where you can get an abortion and how wide the hallways need to be...

When you look at this, david, how inappropriate is this type of use of the intelligence powers, and the revoking of a classified access? >> ill be blunt. this is not america. john said that very clearly when he compared this to the acts of a foreign despot that he would have studied as an analyst at cia. this is not the way we operate. this is political speech by a former government official, political speech. and he is being funnishpunished, or at least the president is attempting to punish him...

But certainly you can see all these things are still on the presidents mind. >> shimon, they are indeed. thank you for the reporting. let us know when you get some updates. paul manafort due in court this morning on the witness tampering charges. lets discuss all of this with asha rangappa, josh campbell, david chalian is back, josh dawsey of the washington post and cnn contributor is here, cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers is here. a lot to go through. david, let me begin with you and your top ...