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A lowprofile trump employee entangled in trumps highprofile criminal case. This morning former President Trumps newest codefendant a maralago property manager will be arraigned in the criminal classified documents case. Cnn is live in miami with details. We are ready to go, georgia officials wrapping up an investigation into Donald Trumps efforts to overturn the Election Results there, charges could come any day. And at least four people are dead and dozens more injured after russia launched a p...

carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger. so helms called in the political consultants who in turn helped the helms campaign to fight back. this is what theygn came up wit this ad. >> you needed that job because you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gains says it is. your vote on this issue, for racial quota, harvey gain, against racial quotas, jesse helms. >> you ...

people as the central players -- >> shush, dont tell them. >> well, cats out of the bag. >> its happening. >> i think it happened today. >> thank you for the book plug, as well. thank you my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the year was 1990. republican incumbent north carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election. so helms cold in the political consultants, wh...

the year was 1990, republican incumbent of north carolina senator jesse helms was polling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election, so home called in the political consultants who, in turn, helped the helms campaign figure out a way to fight back, and this is what they came up with, this ad. >> you needed that job, -- but they had to give it to a minority because of the racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gantt s...

Big reason why some of these members lost because they have to go back and say the voters will say what have you done for me lately? you work for me? you wasted my time and money. what have you done for me. theyll have to say, i impeached the president and theyll be impeached themselves. unelected. >> youve been very generous with your time. >> thank you. im a very jgenerous, kind persn and you have people at cnn who live on twitter. i choose to live offline. its a much -- just a much better lif...

>> just the facts kind of guy. i think thats what the american people need to see. this is not late night -- no offense to our great cable station. this is not late night kind of opinion making. hes going to say this is what i saw. i witnessed our foreign policy was set by the president, frankly speaking, and yet this president took -- undertook a shadow campaign to subvert his own foreign policy. so its the beginning of what i like to call -- although probably someone else thought of it first, ...

Keep some democratic >> so the president is reportedly rattled about the potential of an economic downturn ahead of the election. we see him lashing out at fox news. he tweeted this yesterday. the new fox news is letting millions of great people down. we have to start looking for a new news outlet. fox isnt working for us anymore. the "working for us," what did you make of that when you heard it? >> he sees everyone around him, including fox news, as part of his team. and if theyre not part of h...

Figures. obama was embraced more warmly by democrats than trump was by republicans as a candidate. they have operated really in their own world. they are not of the political parties. we saw the downside to that for obama and how trump grapples with that could define his presidency as well. >> theres one other aspect to measuring the obama presidency that people like michael beschloss will be looking at 10, 15, 20 years down the road and it is this. his administration, his presidency, was the fi...