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Out. sarah murray just walked out of that court. theyre in recess right now. first, sarah, whats happened so far today? >> reporter: well, brooke, the court is in recess. this is a detention hearing. butina arrived here with her lawyer, pleaded not guilty. she was wearing the custom orange jump suit upon her arrival. there is this question about whether she should be detained pending trial, whether she should remain in jail. the government laid out its case, alleging she was running an influence...

Well as anybodys ever done with russia. theres been no president ever as tough as i have been on russia. all you have to do is look at the numbers, look at what weaves done, look at sanctions, look at ambassadors not there. look, unfortunately, at what happened in syria recently. and i think president putin knows that better than anybody. certainly a lot better than the media. he understands it and hes not happy about it. and he shouldnt be happy about it, because theres nef bever ba president a...

Receives a number of briefings and has talked about this subject pretty extensively. were aware of others that have made attempts but i cant get into any of that here at this point. >> i want to clarify about something you talked about at the beginning of the briefing. despite the video of the president answering no to this question about whether russia is still targeting the u.s., and despite multiple people in the room understanding the president was responding to that question, despite the pr...

Is. >> this is the second time the president in three times that the president or white house has come out and reversed what the president has said. >> im interpreting what the president said. im not reversing. >> i didnt take it the way you did. >> but why should this president have any kr enterto americans in what he says if in fact 24 hours later or in this case three hours later the white house comes out and says just kidding? >> first of all, thats not what i said. i was interpreting what t...

>> jonathan swan from axios. mr. president, two questions if i may. the first one, now your british trip is coming to a close, could you tell us the three or four things you hope to achieve in your meeting with vladimir putin and if second question, whats the benefit to america of having tens of thousands of american troops stationed in europe? thank you. >> so ill be meeting with president putin on monday. we go into the meeting with a tremendous meeting that we had with nato. most of you have ...

Happened over the last two days. there is a great, great spirit leaving that room. yes, sir. go ahead. please. >> bbc, i think you wondered if you are going to get along with president putin. you tell us why do you think that? is there something you admire about him? second question. >> is he a competitor. he has been very nice to meet times i have met him. i have been nice to him. he is a competitor. somebody is saying is he an enemy? he is not my enemy. is he a friend? no. i dont know him well...

>> president trump said he doesnt think michael cohen is going to flip several months ago. is that still the case? >> im sorry. i didnt hear the question. >> the president stated several months ago that he doesnt think michael cohen is is going to flip. does he still think thats the case? >> i would refer you back to the presidents comment. john. >> a, thank you. first, there have been reports on almost a daily basis, and in punk tillious detail about epa head scott pruitt doing things that bord...

Has the inspector general report was author. several have called for a second special counsel. would he supportan inirery into the report or does this settle the matter? >> certainly this creates a great deal of concern. we will tune into director wrays comments this afternoon. certainly, there are a lot of things in this report that not only worry those of us in the administration but should worry a lot of americans that people played this political bias and injected that into a department that...

Government is a lutes that you return that. >> second question, unrelated as the children are being separated from their families as they come cross the border. the attorney general said somehow there is a justification for this in the bible. where does of the say in the bible that its moral to take children away from their mothers? >> im not aware of the attorney generals comments or what he would be referencing. i can say that it is biblical to enforce the law. that is actually repeated a numb...

Foundation, an independent charity whose money is meant to have served the public good. he takes money out of the foundation and uses it to save his businesses $258,000. the charity got the money to the end but thats not the question. the question is who owed the money? if its trumps business and he uses the foundation to pay the money thats against the law. >> if you give money that is in your foundation that is otherwise benefiting you -- in other words this could have an impact on campaign fi...