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Really in an adversarial relationship with him, but she certainly knows shes not strong enough to beat him. >> so david, why is it important to putin to try to engineer the appearance of a fair election, and how do folks in russia view the putin-trump relationship now? >> well, exactly. the appearance of democracy is very important to putin. he thinks hes going to lead the legacy as the man who brought russia, you know, into the stable modern democratic world. now, when you ask people in the cou...

>> yeah, and there was a funny tweet makings rounds saying i reporter offered $1,000 and that dollar sign was actual at the end of the number. >> which is the way you write russian rubles. >> correct. >> that tweet, that was crazy. im glad you brought it up because it was so frustrating to see some of moores defenders pick up on on this random tweet from a random user and say hey, look, there is some allegation now that the women were paid. in fact roy moores own wife shared that on facebook in ...

Right. and if they block this, we need to scream holy hell when they approve sinclair, if they try to get that thing through by the end of the year. sinclair acts like its a done deal bit end of the year. >> yeah. john, david, thank you so much for being here. after the break, what does press freedom really mean? and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like im not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424.

It makes us dumber, it makes us meaner, more divide as a country. >> negative partisanship is the glue that holds these things together. david, whats your view on how this is -- how this comes through in news coverage? is it fair to say, we do have a partisan media in this country, is it fair to say this is a problem on the left, but more of a problem on the right? >> i think its absolutely more of a problem on the right. in two ways. one, to give you an example of it, i think friday night with ...

As david pointed out off the top. it matters. and its a matter of do they do something now, do they wait. again, these are just allegations, if you are just tuning in, roy moore who is up for the senate seat in alabama has been accused, this is all according to "the washington post" accused of initiating sexual encounters with multiple at the time young girls, one as young as 14 years old of age, back in the 80s, he and his campaign vehemently denying these allegations. "washington post" standin...

Into sharing their story. >> absolutely. really had to get them on board. and again to point out just didnt speak to just these four women at this point but spoke to, according to the article, that this account is based on interviews with more than 30 people who knew more during that period of time in the late 70s and in the early 80s. >> stay with me. let me bring two more voices in, political director and mark preston here. so david, first to you, we are one month away from this runoff electio...

Praise on chinese, especially president xi giving him credit. sorry, very windy in beijing. >> welcome to live television. you are fine, caitlyn. >> reporter: saying they were doing whats in the best interests for china at that time. but what we are seeing here is very startling change in rhetoric from the president. we didnt quite see that from president xi. instead he spoke in measured and scripted tones when speaking about the president and this trade imbalance saying that hes only hopeful th...

And thats why there are cameras there right now. so i would argue that that is exactly the purpose of the united states senate. >> pretty incredible to say, the language isnt befitting of the nat floor, because i suppose calling people whatever, we can all go through the litany of names. >> liddle bob corker. >> now you bring up bob corker, david. let me get to something today. obviously, flake wasnt the only gop senator to take a stand against the president. corker also did, in a different way....

Hes kind of waiting to get his memoir published. he wants to have the decorum of not attacking a sitting president. but hes being goaded into action by donald trump constantly invoking him in erroneous ways. usually obamas team goes back at trump but today you saw barack obama in full campaign swing mode in new jersey and virginia. >> doing it himself. so david, president bushs remarks seemed like a point by-point takedown of president trump. lets listen. >> the american dream of upward mobility...

Whats really telling is the fact that they attempted to get approval from the kremlin and just could not. so theres a lot swirling around right here to make sure mueller will be interested in it if hes not already. >> so david, heres the thing. as pamela was just reporting, we know the proposal was under consideration from september 2015 to january 2016. it had progressed. sola in january 2016, this is all still going on, here is then candidate trump talking about putin. >> putin came out and sa...