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With our crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz who is with us and our politics reporter and editor at large chris cillizza. whats your reaction? >> two things. first, donald trump saying he didnt know at the time runs directly counter to what michael cohen said in the plea agreement. mr. cohen said it was directed and coordinated with the president of the united states. >> this is what he told the federal judge in new york. he made these two payments to these two women, quote, in coordinat...

Below trend, there again the trend rate for private credit about 16% and the current rate of growth is about 9. so the big engine is slowing down in china. paul: i have to -- you followed turkey for a long time and you know that a lot of the problem here is that the turkish political authority has monitored and a lot of the blame lies with turkey even though president trump is, you know, probably exacerbated it with the sanctions, turkey is to blame for turkey, dont you agree? >> oh, i completel...

Below trend, there again the trend rate for private credit about 16% and the current rate of growth is about 9. so the big engine is slowing down in china. paul: i have to -- you followed turkey for a long time and you know that a lot of the problem here is that the turkish political authority has monitored and a lot of the blame lies with turkey even though president trump is, you know, probably exacerbated it with the sanctions, turkey is to blame for turkey, dont you agree? >> oh, i completel...

Reporter and national political reporter and cnn military and diplomatic spokesman. thank you so much for being here. chris, president trump had a lot to say this morning, specifically, lets start with the very big issue with real life consequences, talking about revoking, stripping john brennan of his security clearance, talking about doing it to other people. the presidents response to questions about it today was, if anything, im giving him a bigger voice, when it comes to brennan, which i fo...

The country at the end of the day. >> and you mentioned the president, cornell. >> yes. >> i want to read you what he wrote this weekend in relationship no the rallies. he writes that the rye yats in charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. we must come together. i condemn all acts of violence and peace to the all americans. and what does that mean when the president says all types of racism. >> this is the president engaging in a false pseudo moral equivalence, and w...

One. donald trump either didnt tell the whole truth or didnt tell any of the truth to his staff, because two months prior, he had clearly had knowledge of this payment. so thats point one. now people say, well, who cares? everyone knows donald trump doesnt tell the truth. okay, but hes still president of the united states and when he doesnt tell the truth, in the past presidents have at least been put up there as moral paragons. they certainly havent delivered on this and its worth noting when t...

Donald trump, through a campaign surrogate, hope hicks, said they knew nothing about any sort of deal. weve heard this before. donald trump didnt know where michael cohen got the money to pay $130,000 to stormy daniels, the porn star who also alleged an affair with donald trump. this is not new, and it is not new that michael cohen, by the way, would set up a company to kind of mask that payoff, which is what they are talking about, which no one disputes they are talking about in the mcdougle ta...

Testimony from intelligence officials it was a meeting between george papadopoulos and a professor who had tied to russia that initially piqued the fbis interest. that point one. point two, this is related to devin nunez, the chairman of the house intelligence committee said the fbi never let the court know some of this information was gleaned from a document, dossier that was being paid for by someone who might be supportive of one of the candidates. not accurate. the fbi speculates the identif...

Point two, brian, i think that justice kennedys concurrence really was a clarion call that he said government officials need to be reminded at all times -- and of course there i think hes referring to the president -- that our actions with respect to our constitution, our freedoms, need to extend outward, as he said, and need to last, and that we must maintain them and preserve them because if we dont, our commitment to democracy itself will be undermined. >> of course critics pounced on that an...

Categorical national origin bans, theyre pinning their hopes on the wrong branch of government. and separation of powers 101, people should know that its really congress that has the power here, that if people want to change, they should be looking to change congress. point two, brian, i think that justice kennedys concurrence really was a clarion call that he said government officials need to be reminded at all times -- and of course there i think hes referring to the president -- that our acti...