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To be getting further and further apart by the day as the two of them are digging in on their positions. we are day 19 of this shutdown. weve had weeks of negotiations and weeks of sitdowns between the president and the democrats and the republican leaders and here they have another meeting at 3:00 at the white house, but brianna, nothing has changed. despite the presidents prime time address in the oval office last night, despite the democratic rebuttal and neither of them are offering anything...

Legal analyst sam milligram is with us and josh campbell. this is up to a high profile judge who heard a lot of high-profile cases. he heard the corruption trial of ted stevens. hes known for his colorful language. what do you expect from this judge? if he agrees with muellers team that flynn has done so much to cooperate, that he deserves no time, is this a very colorfully worded slap on the wrist for michael flynn today? >> i think the judge is going to do two things. one is hes going to decid...

It would seem like with all the sit downs that he has had, that wouldve already been unpacked right now. >> the southern district of new york was not very complimentary of him and that filing they made it. they said he had not very cooperative, special counsels filing was more generous. that brings us to the question of him as a potential witness which was something he discussed with george stephanopoulos against any proceeding that might ever be brought up against president trump in terms of th...

Sitdowns hes had that would have been unpacked by now. >> thats the really interesting point here, laura. one of the reasons he got three years in jail is because at least the southern district of new york was not very complementary of him in that filing they made with the court. they said he had not been cooperative. the special counsels filing was a little bit more generous. but you know, that brings us to the question of him as a potential witness which is something he discussed with stephano...

Presidential election. so they make very clear that this was not something that cohen was doing out of the be n goodness of his heart to protect donald trumps family at the time, but they were doing it to protect donald trump as a candidate and to try to influence the results of the election. and i think, you know, it is a good point to look at the differences between this document were seeing from the southern district and what we have seen from muellers team. you know, the one from the souther...

The case involving michael cohen has put him in a bad mood. he has a lot on the agenda. trade with china and tensions with russia over ukraine. the president is coming into the meetings not looking forward to the sit-downs with the world leaders. he is at odds with many people who should be his allies. europe and canada and others. the president has high stakes meetings scheduled with china on trade. already we are seeing some of these meetings are truncated or canceled all together. the first o...

Overshaove overshadowing the trip to the g20. the president talked to reporters about the guilty plea his former attorney michael cohen announced yesterday. the president seemed visibly agitated by that news. he is coming into g20 in a terrible mood distracted by the controversies and cancelling some meetings on the agenda. one of which would be the meeting with vladimir putin scheduled for saturday morning. that was supposed to be two hours long. now it has been scrapped. that could be because ...

Im wondering if you know that the meeting took place and if you remain confident in the white houses repeated denials that no campaign officials were involved in the discussions about plans to release john podestas e-mails? >> certainly i remain confident in the white houses assertion that the president was involved in no wrongdoing, was not part of any collusion. the things that have to do with mr. manafort i refer you to his attorneys. >> no collusion. when cnns jim acosta asked this next ques...

Of any collusion. the things that have to do with p mr. manafort i refer you to his attorneys. >> when jim acosta asked this listen to what happened. >> we can only speak to what our role is in that process and not only has the president but the entire administration has been fully cooperative with the special counsels office providing hours and hours of sit downs as well as over 4 million pages of documents. we continue to be cooperative but we know there was no collusion and we are ready for t...

Role is in in that process. not only has the president but the entire administration has been fully cooperative with the special counsels office, providing hours and hours of sit downs as well as over 4 million pages in documents. we continue to be cooperative, but we also know that there was no collusion and were ready for this to wrap up. >> reporter: if i could ask a follow up. the president doesnt believe the warnings in the climate report. the president doesnt believe the cia when it comes ...