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But done without any interagency process. catching his closest advisers, off-guard and coming just a few days after this branding deal apparently was cut in indonesia with the chinese government, funneling potentially $500 million into this project that will directly benefit trump. do you see a connection? does congress have any plans to look into whether there is a connection? >> i think its awfully suspicious and its happening time and time again, where president trump is trying to represent o...

Basically playing hard to get in the typical north korean way of doing this. theyve done this before. many, many times. the previous agreements that weve had with them have been broken. previous meetings that have been scheduled with them have been, not taken place. this looked different and weve gotten very far this this set of things. but theres another possibility. and that is that theres a different set of people orchestrated things in the background in pyongyang and maybe theyre saying this...

Off-guard by the political backlash from this. but with some democrats in congress saying we are now in a constitutional crisis. >> that was a small sample of the conversation we were having here on this network exactly one year ago today. while comey was on the west coast, his firing was delivered via a letter in a manila envelope delivered by long-time trump body man and former cop keith schiller. television news helicopters followed comey to the airport and on to his chartered gulf stream jet...

Cousin, giving an inordinate amount of money to the presidents transition committee, or rather, the inauguration committee, again, it doesnt suggest yet anything illegal. we need to know more facts. but it does suggest that were not just talking about a series of -- that this investigation isnt on to anything. >> this money was put into this account, michael cohens account after the election. hundreds of thousands of dollars. and you cover the white house. the president says, every few hours, no...

White house officials caught off-guard by rudy giulianis bombshells about everything from the stormy daniels hush money payment to the firing of james comey. i want to talk about all of this here. the executive producer of the show times "the circus" and a former advisor to president bush and george mccain. ive been wanting to talk to you about this since last night when this happened. the white house was blind-sided by giuliani that interview. youre a communications expert. how would you rate t...

This, lets bring back white house correspondent for the washington examiner, gaby. we have giulianis admission that president trump reimbursed michael cohen for the payment to stormy daniels, catching the white house off-guard to say the least. what more are you learning about the reaction within the west wing to rudy giulianis revelation? >> not only were aides really confused about where president trump and rudy giuliani thought this would help the president, they were also just totally and co...

Chinese have installed new missile platforms on the islands in the south china sea. they also appear to now be placing fighter jets there. meanwhile, pilots are being warned that chinese military personnel are pointing lasers at u.s. military aircraft in jabuti in africa injuring american pilots. does any of this cross a red line for the president and how does the administration intend to respond? >> sarah: we are well aware of chinese militarization of the south china sea. we have raised concer...

To do that knowingly, thats a felony. a violation. other people have been, charged for failing to disclose adequately loans made to them by others, we have to look carefully about that theres already an existing lawsuit on that finally my big question, is there bank or wire fraud implicated here? because if the president and michael cohen conspired in advance to move money to hide this from regulators or to deceive the bank from the true nature that michael cohen was taking to front this cash, t...

>> so what are we to make of giuliani saying that people, even his son-in-law, are, quote, disposable to donald trump? phil? >> yeah, that was a pretty interesting statement. and i can tell you it caught a lot of officials at the white house off guard. they were surprised that giuliani would characterize the presidents son-in-law and a senior adviser at the white house as disposable. but its the phrase he used. perhaps he meant it in gest, but he said it nonetheless. its interesting, kushner has...

Have a wide agreement to talk about things like foreign policy? >> not that im aware of. >> i want to ask you about these reports citing u.s. intelligence that the chinese have installed in missile platforms on islands in the south china sea. and they also appear to now be basing fighter jets there. meanwhile, pilots are being warned that chinese military personnel are pointing lasers at u.s. military aircraft in africa injuring american pilots. does any of this cross a red line for the presiden...