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>> i think the southern district of new york would beg to different with trumps interpretation of campaign finance laws. the big distinction is michael cohen has pled guilty and donald trump has been identified as an unindicted co-conspirator. so donald trump as an unindicted co-conspirator has been accused of committing a felony under the campaign finance law. so donald trump once again likes to do his side step, two step interpretation of the law but it wrong. its wrong on its face and again i...

Shutdown. private citizen trump had this to say. >> if indeed there is a shutdown of our government. >> well, if you say who gets fired, it always has to be the top. i mean, problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. and the presidents the leader. and hes got to get everybody in a room and hes got to lead. >> it just comes down to these things that were stated by the u.s. president back then in 2013 and then most recently in the oval office. can the president sidestep ...

Amazing oval office meeting with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. but the real answer is we dont know. we have to wait and see how he reacts. >> what about the way republicans in congress have been reacting to the revelation in a sentencing memo that for the first time does tie president trump to these crimes by saying that prosecutors believe that michael cohen did these hush money payments at the direction of candidate donald trump. and, you know, as we have been playing all week thus far, repu...

>> she got paid a lot of money. ill give you controversy back. ill never forgive what he did by not funding the military. it was depleted. everything was old and tired and i had to fix it. >> bill: he asked about michelle obama and side-step the answer and went after her husband. the former first lady blafsting the president. and shelby holiday and mark hen henry. what if that person went after our girls and president trump is putting my familys safety at risk and for this ill never forgive him....

I think im the best person to go forward to unify, to negotiate -- im a good negotiator as anyone can see in terms of how we have won every negotiation. >> martha: house minority leader nancy pelosi feeling confident after last nights win of the house, she thinks once again she should get the speakers gavel. not everybody in her party agrees with that, almost one-third of nonincumbent democratic house candidates either refused to endorse her as a speaker or sidestep the question when asked about...

Their poverty stricken conditions? >> only if you are thinking about consequences. but the president clearly thinks in terms of bluster and opening bits. these are all negotiations tactics. im sure mark short would say that facts matter and words matter. but there is a sidestep that says not so much to this president. thats a slippery slope. what jewelrys article points out is the administration is thrown into chaos because at the end of the day they know they dont have a plan. they arent stats ...

Of family that are fans of the show. thanks, ari. >> youre a funny guy. >> thank you. >> a lot of your stuff is not political. why go political here? what are you trying to say? >> i think everything is political now. think in years p especially when it came to the holiday table, you can kind of sidestep politics and pivot into other things like football. cant do that anymore. tv? you cant really get into that too much. so, you know, i just feel like its permeated kind of every layer that we hav...

They draft off the cover. and they get the man through. you played that clip from the judge. really fascinating thing going on is judge kavanaugh made his case with his wife sitting next to him on fox news, put an op-ed in "the wall street journal" explaining his case. the president goes on that show on fox news explaining. you just have this siloing of opinion that is a side-step and end-around the actual discourse in america. i do think -- >> part and parcel of the trump administration -- >> a...

Backlash if you dont take a stand and then you fear the backlash from the people that you do want to take a stand. >> first of all as a business owner you cant avoid this topic. its not one that youll be able to side step. and in some ways its getting much more pronounced because through social media my ability to influence isnt based on a capital campaign. i dont have to pay folks to get out and protest. i can do it very effectively just online. so my advice to most business owners is prepare f...

Do with russian collusion. >> very interesting and significant indeed. good reporting as usual. jeff sessions resisting a lot of pressure to appoint a new special counsel to investigate allegations of misconduct within the fbi and the justice department. sessions opting instead to name a federal prosecutor to look into conservative claims of anti-trump bias. lets go to our justice reporter working this story for us. laura, tell us about sessions announcement a little while ago. >> reporter: se...