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When he saw the dow go off the cliff as much as 478 points. on the upside, he got a rate cut and the fed chairman said they would end the policy of quantitative tightening in the next couple months, which is something that the president wanted to have happen. and you heard it mention a second ago, was the fed giving in to pressure from president to do what the president wanted powell to do. heres what powell said about that. >> we never take into account political situations. theres no place in ...

Of legco. a short time ago some 15, 20 minutes ago, protesters managed to penetrate those glass doors, those reinforced glass doors with a metal cage on a trolley. they had been ramming those doors for almost an hour and a half before they finally penetrated. our nic robertson is down there in the thick of it. nic, describe the scene to us. >> reporter: well, actually, theyre trying to ram through that glass. its tearing. its re-enforced glass. its tearing. they pushing it back. opening it up at...

The courts right now. the president is out numbered with the subpoena power and court rulings that are on our side. >> its interesting, because its a delicate balance, right? hes also contending in a democratic primary within a party where youve got about two-thirds of the voters and a democratic party who want to see the impeachment process move forward. >> absolutely. weve seen more and more of these democratic candidates for president over the past few weeks moving in the direction of support...

Fact is, kind of playing off what monica said a second ago, only nixon could go to china in 1972, i think only trump could go to vietnam right now and have the opportunity for a pretty substantial move towards peace, something that none of the previous 11 presidents have been open come close to peered at the fact that trump is willing to take that risks really know where they peered into contradict what was just said, if you dont take some risks, if you are not willing to get something that you ...

Moral imperative. he said i will get it built as we heard a second ago. this is a moral issue and while the democrats are not going to give him $5.7 billion, he didnt issue an ultimatum. essentially he said im going to give the committee a chance. lets see what happens. if then who knows what happens. nonetheless, this is one of the reasons he ran and won on the presidency. and this is one of the big issues talked about last night. >> this is a moral issue the lawless state of our southern borde...

Knowledge and business ties to russia. he was working to cover-up his involvement. >> its really shaping up in a way that it is kind of analogous to the watergate burglary. nixon didnt go down because of one count of trying to suborn perjury, there were a whole bunch of things that he did to try to cover-up the watergate burglary and that eventually forced him to resign. what youre seeing here with the russia probe, this perjury relates directly to the trump organizations relationship to the rus...

How effective is the president without a foil, dana? >> i think thats a very important point, craig, and that is it is all about donald trump now. its not donald trump or an alternative. you know, part of its because hes so visible in the interviews and on the campaign trail, but even if he werent out there at all, you know, theyve looked at polling going back to the great depression, and there has never been a stronger correlation between your view of the president and your intention of voting ...

And that is -- and you brought this up a second ago, harry, and that is the president is elevating director brennon and this is this is commentary on what hes done so far from eli lake and this is on cnn by the way. >> john brennan is such an imperfect messenger trump has an instinct for that and he approaches politics like professional wrestling and loog for the foil because he only cares about the base and what he could do to troll his opposition and this is the perfect way to do it. >> he doe...

Coming to race relations in this country and his answer to me is that theres one clear problem. why? >> we have never really honestly dealt with slavery. once we start to have an honest discussion on slavery then we can move forward. we have never really had honest discussions about the foundation of this country. i know people might not like this but this is the truth. united states of america, the foundation of this country built upon genocide of native people and slave ri. thats a fact. the f...

The problem is that putin saw trump as endorsing his view or claim that he had nothing to do with the hacking of the democratic national committee and the interference of the u.s. election. that is wrong. most americans are going to think that that is wrong and thats a problem for the president. >> shepard: he just tweeted, the president second ago, as i said today in many times before, i have great confidence in my intelligence people. however, i also recognize that in order to build a bright f...