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Of defense, and over the weekend acting defense secretary said he will start looking for military projects that could be delayed or cancelled to free up the funds. now all eyes are on the presidents republican allies, and many spoke out against the emergency declaration before he signed it and now they have to turn around and defend it in order to stop it. >> good morning. i think that diverting money, guys, just to start here, diverting money could be a public relations problem. if you are talk...

Of the financial efforts by the russian oligarchs to put money in the united states as a form of money laundering, this is well documented. so the fact this is somehow unimportant to the trump organization or to donald trump himself i dont think carries any merit at all. >> again, i can see the public relations problem with that statement. but the legal problem seems to be, we didnt want to do it. he just said cohen isnt a deal guy. what does robert mueller hear? >> i think it sounds like they a...

The ability to extend the brand to a new market, an emerging market, in this case russia, this is a market that trump himself cultivated going back to the ms. universe pageant and all of the financial efforts by the russian oligarchs to put money in the united states as a form of money laundering, this is well documented. so the fact this is somehow unimportant to the trump organization or to donald trump himself i dont think carries any merit at all. >> again, i can see the public relations pro...

Himself had cultivated going back to the miss universe pageant and all of his financial ties with the coterie of russian oligarchs. and all of the financial efforts by the russian oligarchs to park money in the united states as a former money laundering, this is well documented. so the fact that this was somehow unimportant to the trump organization or to donald trump himself i dont think carries any merit at all. >> i can see the public relations problem with that statement. but the legal probl...

Gronted this investigation. and their calculus was we dont think the president will be indicted. the only exposure we have is on capitol hill where we could face impeachment. and the only way to push back on that and deal with it is to treat it like a public relations problem. and that is what they brought on rudy giuliani to muddy the waters and attack the investigation and hopefully give republicans on the hill a way to not vote to impeach the president. >> mike schmidt, i cant imagine that ru...

Its all about this individual who has connections or is believed to have connections to russian intelligence. what were seeing is a link between manafort and this russian and manafort and the campaign and cohen and russia and cohen and the campaign and all of these individuals with the trump organization. so if its not becoming abundantly clear that at a minimum they have a public relations problem, then everyone -- everyone should get on board with this notion right now, but this connection is ...

The question -- and he continues to have conversations not just authorizing his attorneys, he himself has direct, in addition -- >> hes going around his attorneys back to do stuff. >> that actually exposes him even more. >> right. >> because even to the extent they argue the joint defense agreement hes gone around that process and even that was a little bit of a suspicious argument, so why? >> elliott, im going to give that question to you, if you have any idea, why would manafort go around his ...

Leaderships in both countries in the years ahead, how are they going to deal with this history? before we let you go, i wanted to ask you about your recent reporting on the chinese internment camps. you reported one million muslims mostly uighurs have vanished into these camps. what more can you tell us? >> in terms of the chinese perspective, despite the rest of the world and the mounting fury over these camps, calling the largest internment of civilians in the world today, some people calling ...

Proud of, but something that needs to get done in a bipartisan fashion. our bill was not dissimilar to what the gang of eight bill was that came out of the senate that had every democrat on board. regardless of who is in charge, i think the other party is going to use this as an issue that is very divisive. >> congressman, picking up on what nick said, the republican party in california in particular seems to have a public relations problem, they are getting -- this predates trump, theyve been g...

Squelch another story. >> absolutely, im about to swear off flying on airplanes because i learned about the first renouncement, flying and tracking my twitter account, and this one sitting in the lounge at the denver airport, and it is just oh my god, why are they doing it and it became very obviously tactical tools in a broader public relations problem. >> we learned overnight that the pentagon will delay the military para parade. the price tag could exceed $90 million, but theyre still pushing...