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Soviet union, putin sought to strengthen russia. under his relationship, the economy strengthened. moscows global clout expanded. national pride was restored. since then, putins popularity has rarely faltered, as he continues consolidating power, flexing russias vastimiltary might at home and abroad. russias seizure of the crimea peninsula in 2014 and incursions into syria started russia on a collision course with the west. >> mr. putin in my second term has had an increasing tendency to view th...

I feel like paul ryans little piece of paper he put out through a spokesperson is not a profile in courage. this could be a constitutional crisis. >> yeah, i think at the moment the republicans are not and youre right, ryan not even going on camera himself, this was a weak move sending it to an underling. if mueller were to be fired i suspect you would see more republicans come on board and say that was the wrong thing to do at this point it would be too late. what we have learned -- and youre r...

Heavily involved in the pushback against trumps female accusers they expressed intense bemusement or bafflement to me they paid her money. he just said to me, we denied everything so why didnt we add stormy daniels to the list of things that we -- >> maybe something more significant happened. now this pre-dated -- this is pre-dating the campaign, part of the problem. the other big issue, this is not a small story, a big story, is the potential other women or someone else have other ndas and the ...

Been able to survive this long, john, is because of the whole mueller investigation. otherwise, that mueller investigation, if it wasnt there, then jeff sessions would be gone if this was some other reason. in some ways president trump has been handcuffed up to this point. but hes freewheeling now. i could see him actually doing it. >> the mueller investigation is the reason why the president wants to get rid of jeff session, but also the reason why he cant get rid of jeff sessions. ron brownste...

However, we really dont know whats in the opr report. we dont know if there is conclusion in the opr report that, you know what, andy did something that violates the fbi rules. >> this has been put out there so far. stems from findings in this internal justice watchdog report that he misled investigators to talk to the media about investigation into the clinton foundation. >> and that probably is accurate but we dont know yet. this is something that the attorney general has to look at. however, ...

Most of members of the mainstream media side with gary cohn on tariffs on aluminum and steel? mollie: there are no good economic arguments for doing tariffs if you just view it economically. that narrow prism is the only way people in the media are looking at it. the trump administration says its a national security issue. they think the fundamental issue is whether a country should have steel and aluminum capabilities or not. so broadening out that discussion would help them not be so biased. h...

Is there a scintilla of doubt most of members of the mainstream media side with gary cohn on tariffs on aluminum and steel? mollie: there are no good economic arguments for doing tariffs if you just view it economically. that narrow prism is the only way people in the media are looking at it. the trump administration says its a national security issue. they think the fundamental issue is whether a country should have steel and aluminum capabilities or not. so broadening out that discussion would...

>> trace gallagher: more now on president trumps plan to meet with north korean dictator kim jong-un. lets bring in gordon chang, author of "nuclear showdown" and john busse, also a fox news contributor. i want to talk about this article posted by the "wall street journal" saying that during the meeting, at the dinner with the south korean diplomat and kim jong-un, one, he showed up surprisingly with his sister and wife, two, there was plenty of alcohol flowing and that he was joking a lot, in f...

Lobbied to lessen the russian sanctions when they were going through congress. so the president has always, since the advent of this russia investigation, seen this through the prism of his legitimacy as president, and people coming at him when, in fact, in large part its due -- trying to figure out how russians meddled into the election and how they could do it again going into 2018. weve had the heads of the intelligence agencies say this is going to happen again in 2018. so the fact that he i...

Conspiracyist who runs conspiracies successfully against other people, which is why its worth parsing these statements because you dont know -- you know, hes playing -- he is kind of playing three-dimensional chess sometimes. >> but whats interesting with roger, tom, is people say, oh, he buys in conspiracies. he sees it all as one. he saw the nixon watergate as this effort to oust nixon because there was a political agenda to get rid of him and they conveniently found a crime to do it. so thats...