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Protestations is putting out he is modifying his position on the wall, possibly in interests of bringing into this partial shutdown. along this is been about posture on both sides, towards those parts of the party-based want to see a struggle over this, possibly in between the lines of that statement you see the beginning of the end of this crisis but it could go into next year. >> your thoughts on where things stand with this battle over the border and the shutdown? >> i dont think anything cha...

Thats a lot of jobs. but i agree with you, shes got her finger on the pulse of new york better than governor cuomo or mayor de blasio. shes absolutely articulating the issue perfectly well, why are we doing all these giveaways for billionaires? thats the very easy pr spin to it, its a little more complicated than that, obviously, but its going to dog amazon, especially when theres other attacks on antitrust issues and marketing power and retail. its not a great story to add to others that are gr...

Papacy so far. >> greatest challenge, think about the challenge for the thousands of children who are abused by their priests. the priests who are supposed to be their moral and spiritual leaders. it is truly devastating. this story is not going to go away. were not going to stop covering it. so the church can spend all the time and money they want on a pr spin. were going to stay on it. now back to my partner ali velshi who is live in myrtle beach, south carolina, which is just 200 miles away f...

>> doug, what do you think is better, to sit down with mueller or have him subpoenaed? >> from the standpoint of the defense, you mean? no, at this point, its clear he shouldnt voluntarily sit down. that forces the hand with the subpoena. as you have heard people say, and they are right, it sets up a legal showdown and tracks back to your question a minute ago into the midterm elections. mueller may walk away from that. the better course is to simply, ultimately not agree, use the pr spin, i wan...

Somewhat of a predictable response from the president. but is it accurate, given all we have learned today? >> well, its something that trump can use to go on offense, certainly. and both sides are using the release of these documents to their political advantages. and both are making the case, as senator graham did. but also splitting the republican party. rubio defending department of justice. they have supported the mueller investigation and department of justice. so it was a very tough week ...

Institutions and the people who got us here. thats number one. number two, the kinds of words and phrases were hearing from mr. giuliani are not the words of a substantive serious lawyer. theyre some kind of desperate pr spin hes hoping people will latch on to. throwing out something like they cant indict because theres policy against it, he wants people to actually believe that. and actually believe that mueller wont challenge policy if he believes he can prosecute the president. >> mike barnic...

Much squashes it. and then to say that trump should be notified, thats absolutely contrary to all law. in fact -- i think michael avenatti said this earlier. it is a law itself to -- it is a violation of law itself to disclose the existence of a wiretap. so this is pr spin from someone who i admire greatly as the u.s. attorney from the office i served in. but is just off on this one. >> let me go over to you, kelly odonnell at the white house. again, if theyre on schedule this afternoon, were ab...

Well start there. what do you think of this? >> its pr spin but its that. i think folks need to understand that this was business as usual as far as facebook developers went. im a facebook friendly. i have a long relationship with them. so when i did this project, we didnt think we were doing anything wrong. we didnt think facebook was going to be upset. and i was doing it for money. there are companies collecting vastly more data that dont care about their relationship with facebook and faceboo...

Petersburg state university, kind of a link to the russian government. basically, he does research, and it was provided to cambridge analytica. hes basically saying that, you know, i actually am not the person who is in trouble here. this has to do with facebook policy. heres what he had to say to savannah guthrie earlier this morning. >> at the time, we didnt think we were doing anything wrong. it was the normal business as usual practice. i think right now, absolutely, it is viewed as wrong. n...

Testimony before lawmakers on capitol hill just a couple weeks ago. the developer hes referring to is alexander cogen. he developed an app that harvested data of tens of millions of facebook users. this hes referring tos is alex kogan. he dependent an app that harvested tens of millions of facebook users, but this morning kogan is firing back saying hes not the only twoun blame in this fight. >> pretty powerful pr spin but its exactly that. i think our folks need to understand that this was busi...