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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. All right, shannon, why should the average person who is home right now having a cup of coffee on their way to work, why do they care about Paul Manafort and rick gates . These are just two guys who seemed to embezzle money for themselves. I would say to Pay Attention to today. They were just yesterday starting to get into these connections to ukraine. That could be really i guess enlightening to show just how deeply tied P...

President, and the senate declines to convict him, he will claim exoneration, he will claim vindication and he will claim this was a partisan witch hunt all along and that will be a pretty compelling argument going into reelection. >> that was nancy pelosis hesitance going into this during the mueller probe. but now this is being unveiled as what many say is an abuse of power, the shadow foreign policy by rudy giuliani, the rest of it, they have a better argument for at least unveiling or reveal...

We have this flare-up that well be talknt about sunday in iran. this goes back to the issue, a lot of people say if except for the kind of self-inflicted wounds, this presidents approval rating would be in the mid 50s because by the normal standards, hes got a strong record to run on for re-election. he gets into these really unforced errors like answering a question about would you take damaging opposition information from the russians that special counsel says that didnt happen. why answer whe...

Candidates and real look forward to the upcoming debates this month and next month with cnn, and -- and what the american people are going to see is that were focused on the issues. in particular were focused on the issues that improve peoples lives. making sure they can keep their healthcare and making sure we bring down the cost of prescription drugs and hes focused on finding a nickname for everyone. >> and we did heart president say its okay to get opposition information as he said from fore...

To find opposition information about don lemon. in the intelligence business, ive got to validate that. i need a second source, third source. i need to confirm my information is accurate. im going to bet a paycheck when steel gets in front of investigators and they say, how can you confirm to us that the information you acquired in that dossier is true, that he is not going to be able to answer whether he had a second or third source? >> but wasnt he just supposed to gather the information and t...

Said that initial meeting was about adoptions, we now know from his own words that was about getting opposition information from a foreign entity. so we already have that. giuliani can say all the letters he wants to mueller. at the end of the day, there is enough information here from trumps mouth of his own doing that he knew what was going on or perhaps there was evidence. >> yesterday don jr. told laura ingraham it was a bait and switch. once meeting started, they discussed adoption. none of...

Something out that i think is a really important data point as well that plays to the question of what trump knew. and it has to do with that trump tower meeting. because if you recall later the trump tower meet, trump was not in the meeting, but he was in trump tower. he was in trump tower. paul manafort was in that meeting. i know from my own reporting that it was hours later that paul manafort attended a luncheon with trump right down the street, so trump is very close to these meetings. incl...

Closed communication facilities so that we can talk without a u.s. intelligence hearing, why would he do that? >> first of all looks like were changing the subject. youre conceding that theres nothing here. >> no, there is, this is the crux of it. >> jared kushner said about this separate line of communications i dont know why he did that. theres obvious theres some trouble with setting up a separate line of communications with a government of an adversary. >> but you dont think theres a problem...

That is not the issue. and im stunned that people keep coming back to that. what matters is they got an offer from a foreign government. let alone russia. of interest in intervening in our election and giving opposition information on the opposing candidate and jumped at this opportunity, at a high level by the way, jumped at it. that should concern all of us. >> i think we could safely say nothing burgers off the menu in this story. initial defense hasnt held to do the facts. thank you all very...

Violation of law. because thats the only reason you would think you would even put this in writing. this is something that is so blunt and so obvious that you -- reading that e-mail chain, i was blown away, as im sure most of washington was, that they would actually write this is going to be for your political opponent, this is a government official, this is a prosecutor tied to russia. thats the only thing they can say, don jr. can say hey, i didnt realize that i was doing this, i didnt realize...