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have a written statement in "due course". attorneys for trump compared the documents to an overdue library book, marveling at how the records dispute that has suddenly been transformed into a criminal investigation. trump and his team tried all kinds of defenses, frump falsely saying the top secret documents were his, to then saying that he declassified them. in court today, the doj lawyers were blunt, saying he is no long for president, and because hes no longer the president, he had ...

Previously sealed documents that were unsealed yesterday from one of his accusers. virginia giuffres defamation suit. do you think he got word that what happened? >> yeah, of course, he got word of that. the documents released were pretty damming, they include the names of very powerful people. he doesnt look like -- he would have left jail anytime soon. so, the walls were crashing in on him. and this is a man that isnt used to living life like this. even when jailed here in florida, he had a cu...

The confidence of the president, she didnt give a direct answer. does the labor secretary have the presidents confidence this morning? >> what i said is that the president said he met alex acosta two 1/2 years ago when he applied for the job. i do know when he was up for senate confirmation i believe this particular matter was discussed and was -- he answered questions under oath about it. >> you know, to caseys point, theyre in a bit of a bunker mentality and they dont necessarily like caving t...

That americans elected you to confront. your promise to build the wall. >> it would be funny except that its real. donald trump really must have the support of those people because if robert mueller comes out with a report thats pretty damming, the thing that keeps him in power and keeping him in power is how he doesnt get indicted is that he has this base that never leaves him. >> you brought up the right wing media. despite this president having so many characteristics of a dictator, he does l...

Rico. chris solisa, your reaction to that? >> reporter: he has to know that everyone wrote about it, every talked about it on television. we know he reads and watches a lot of tv, that today and tomorrow he wants to show the ability he can be empathetic. he demonstrated the lack of empathy on the both sides do it ism on the white supremacy and knee neo nazinazis. the clip you played is pretty damming, brooke. theres so much in that. theres 13 minutes of video and audio there. he talks about how ...

Raised, anderson, is there a big deal here? wouldnt we expect sort of, you know, conversations like this to be going on? jeff sessions says nothing bad happened in these conversations. >> why did he lie about them then? >> he did in that march -- when he recused himself he said clearly, never met with any russians. >> sure. >> to discuss, you know, anything going on with the campaign. >> im not denying that i wish they had gotten all of the meetings right on the front end, but that doesnt mean s...

>> absolutely. at the time when were talking about cutting long-term health care costs, this is short-term thinking. were speeding towards the time when half of the country will be seniors. we need to cut the medical spending and the only way to do that is with scientific research. >> thank you both. francis collins, thank you. nih. hes heading it. we want to hear more about cuts that are affecting you. tweet us at unkindestcut or go to facebook.com/hardball. well be right back for a minute. ♪...

To the terrible alternatives. >> there certainly a campaign on the right to make it in lieu of banning abortion to make it incredibly difficult to get. this is the downside that people wind up going outside the law and i think the abortion rights movement i mean, is not defending gosnell here although, you know, somebody from the national abortion federation refused to certify his clinic and didnt call the cops which is pretty damming. >> no doubt about it, pretty damming. we dont have women on ...