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Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Manafort is turned his direction. One can only imagine what is going through manaforts mind, because if you believe the prosecution version of the case, gates knows all his secrets and is about to expose them to the jury. If you believe the defense version, gates is setting manafort up and framing him. Well have to see which version the jury believes. Ken, how long can we expect gates to be on stand and, number two, what is ...

Foreign official in don jr.s case, a russian lawyer offered dirt, presumably stolen information about an american candidate, this is apples and orange and the president is the trying to suggest to us that an apple is like an orange. it is not. they are different. >> julie, the president also turning his sights as he so often does on speaker of the house nancy pelosi. he called her comments fascist and disgraceful which seems farther than hes gone in the past. pelosi, of course, saying that trump...

It seems its near the time that the meeting between shinzo abe, the prisms japan and the people leader and one entity thats very much respected here is the supreme court leader so its difficult to see how a rogue operation would take place at that time. whether they completely overlap sun clear. its interesting, alex, because thats exactly what the iranian foreign ministry said today. they said, look, what would we have to cane from conducting an operation like that exactly at the time that thes...

I was with the head of france and was with the head of all of these nations and im constantly talking to hem, and, you know, that puts us in a -- we have many, many conversations. im just thinking, gee, if they say we dont like your opponent and i supposed to put the president of france, am i supposed to report him to the fbi? >> queen elizabeth slipping opposition research across the table and the other example he used with emmanuel macron of france. can you engage in anyone engaging in that ki...

There is an impeachment inquiry, and would i hope more members would get behind that. >> reporter: behind the scenes, democratic leaders are seeking to tamp down calls for impeachment. just this week holding a private meeting with the house general counsel to lay out their litigation strategy and passing a resolution expediting lawsuits to enforce their subpoena. house speaker nancy pelosi insists her strategy is working. >> what were doing is winning in court. >> reporter: the democrats indeed ...

Sure they will save it. every candidate that ive spoken, to thats as no-brainer. this is not simple gathering of opposition research. this is committing a crime. this is going after the heart of our democracy and shame on all those republicans like mitch mcconnell who have a sock in their mouth. their appalling silence on this issue is another absolute indicator that they are just off the rails and have lost their understanding of what democracy is and what you must do to have a fair election. t...

Express concern, and, by the way, one thing in his interview he said that congressmen do this all the time. i have not met a congressman, democrat or republican, who said that theyve ever done this. i think this is really unusual. >> some of your colleagues have said that you all need to pass a law prohibiting this. arent there already laws prohibiting this? >> there is a campaign finance law which basically says you cannot accept something of value from a foreign power and special counsel muell...

Year which said that the trump tower meeting was totally not about getting dirt on hillary clinton. that statement from july of last year, again, as dictated by the president, said that his campaign, quote, primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children and it was not a campaign issue at the time. compare that to the president now saying that it was actually a meeting about getting information on his political opponent. guys, this is no ordinary meeting were talking about. ...

Set up our next block. thank you very much. ken dilanian, thank you. if theres more breaking news on this trial this hour, please let us know. beth, joel and john, stick with us. president trump now says the trump tower meeting was about getting dirt on hillary clinton, as joel just laid out. but is that admission serious political strategy or a serious gaffe? dear great-great grandfather, you made moonshine in a backwoods still. smuggled booze and dodged the law. even when they brought you in...

My heart -- >> i know, weve spoken about it. >> did that come up? >> when? >> in the meeting with -- >> that was the primary thing that we had spoken about in the meeting. that was -- thats not the premise that got them in the room and then they started -- it was essentially a bait and switch to talk about that. everyone has basically said that in testimony already. >> it was a bait and switch. so its again don junior saying i took the meeting because this was political dirt and then they wanted...