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Happening now, breaking news. more cohen testimony. the presidents longtime lawyer wrapped up his third straight day appearing before congress, revealing he will answer more questions next week. lawmakers are set to interview a russian-born businessman connected to the president and to the kremlin. kushners clearance. new reporting tonight that president trump personally ordered a top secret security clearance for his son-in-law and senior adviser overruling concerns among officials and within...

The president siding as he did over interference in the election and with the saudis over the death of jamal khashoggi. as the president left, he could hear questions he avoided, a reminder of the potential new crisis he will face once he lands back in washington. back in alaska, as the president side stepped the summit when he addressed u.s. troops, he did work in praise for the air defense system. >> if i learn so much about norad so many years ago, studying different things. i love this world...

Answer that. that is under investigation. thats significant perhaps. it could indicate that theres an obstruction probe out of the southern district of new york. we dont know specifically. it was that and there was the other thing that they were asking questions -- members of the committee were asking questions about other parts of donald trumps business, perhaps maybe insurance fraud of some kind. these were questions he said he could not answer because of the southern district of new yorks inv...

Gives up his nukes. >> translator: kim is risking a lot. if he makes concessions, then trumps successor could say everything this clown trump signed is against our national interests. kim will end up in a gadhafi like situation. >> reporter: while the russians have publicly been backing the talks, even saying that the u.s. consulted with moscow before the summit, putin wants to lead the diplomatic effort to denuclearize north korea, his spokesman taking a swipe at president trumps negotiating st...

Cohens testimony on capitol hill -- >> i am not protecting mr. trump anymore. >> reporter: the president cherry picked from his former fixers comments, accusing him of lying, except for the part about inclucolluding with the russians. >> it was interesting because he didnt lie about one thing. he said, no collusion with the russian hoax. i said, i wonder why he didnt lie about that, too? >> reporter: during a news conference, the president was only asked one question about cohens testimony. that...

The collapse at the summit is being met with mokckery by russia. here is fred pleitgen. >> reporter: tonight the failed trump/kim summit a feeding frenzy for russian state media. mocking the lack of results and president trump walking out on kim. >> translator: it ended so badly the sides even avoided signing any joint agreement. crafty kim jung-un was ready for some concessions, but not the ones trump reportedly wanted. so the agreements that were ready to be signed had to just know back to was...

>> reporter: it certainly did. president trump could not find a deal with kim jong-un. the president did figure out a way to dodge questions about the bombshell testimony coming from his former personal attorney michael cohen. still here in vietnam, we witnessed another episode of the president showing deference to a dictator. speaking to u.s. troops on the way home from vietnam, president trump barely mentioned his second summit with kim jong-un that ended without a deal. >> as you know, im on ...