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The justice department. we use these titles, southern district of new york, for people who dont think of new york in terms of a north or south entity, its the justice departments new yorks field office really in manhattan. is that the most consequential of whats still open or are you not willing to label any of the still open investigations by priority? >> what weve seen publicly of what weve seen, southern district of new york appears to have some of the most important cases. they have the look...

Andy, do you agree with that that we need federal action in s there could be state action, university action, alumni pressure as dinesh cedric may be parents say they will not send these kids to these lousy schools -- lousy because they dont protect free speech but because they dont protect free not because they dont have great apartments per theyll go to i dont know, liberty, hillsdale, whatever the school says we protect free speech, they could corner the mt on a a lot of conservative parents ...

Andy, do you agree with that that we need federal action in s there could be state action, university action, alumni pressure as dinesh cedric may be parents say they will not send these kids to these lousy schools -- lousy because they dont protect free speech but because they dont protect free not because they dont have great apartments per theyll go to i dont know, liberty, hillsdale, whatever the school says we protect free speech, they could corner the mt on a a lot of conservative parents ...

>> neil: youd be hard-pressed he wouldnt know something about a high profile american who is in their country and being abused in that country. he wouldnt know that. >> lets put it this way. i dont know how big their secret police apparatus is or bureaucracy. thats where the fault will lie. im happy the president is meeting with kim jong-un. we have to move them to a more open transparent state action hes negotiating. we dont know what happened in the otto warmbier -- >> neil: you dont think the...

More closely and seems like another example of that with the head and those around him are giving a thumbs up for those who stay at arms length and say that the president has behavior that he admire and he said that himself. ecuador is signalling that assange might get prosecuted and there is a debate over whether they should be prosecuted for anything and there is a narrow debate over whether at some point wikileaks did something that looked more like state action looked like that on behalf of ...

A trickledown effect. >> yeah. >> it doesnt seem to be there anymore. >> we had that story whats good for gm is good for america. its just not true. in the 70s growth to the american in the middle no longer relates to growth for the aggregate. gdp numbers do not translate. >> so thats why workers are frustrated. thats why people say i dont like these free trade deals. im glad theyre good for you and corporate profitability and gdp growth. your book aez it was the financial system imploded it was...

He was asked if russia is still targeting the united states and he said no. the truth is recorded. why he says one thing and then his white house attempts to change it, we dont know. >> is russia still targeting the u.s., mr. president? >> thank you very much. no. >> the reporter asked the questions and witnesses said there was no doubt he was answering the question. this goes directly against what his top intelligence official said repeatedly last week. >> with regards to state action, russia i...

>> i think the president has always been very feisty fighter when he doesnt have some level of influence over some investigations like this. the second part of it is that this opens up a whole new front for the president, as it relates to having to deal with another legal challenge. we see that the president has the mueller probe already undergoing, we see the southern district of new york has its own probe. and now you have a state action. this is just another burden i think on the white house ...

You to weigh in on this. look, since the president announced he was running, there were questions about his businesses, his -- the private sector, life that he ran, the trump organization, the foundation, and then the office he holds, the highest office in the land, the public office of the presidency. what do you make of what were seeing now from the new york ag who says there has been an extensive unlaw ful political coordination with the trump presidential campaign and repeated self-dealing t...

They are trying to change that law to avoid what you are talking about. if you have a federal charge, you could pardon that. in new york, it is different. you cannot bring a state action if you have the federal charge looming. the message that people are not hearing, manafort has been left out there with the most number of charges here. theres no message sent to him. the theme for everybody else seems to be lying to investigators could lead to a pardon. exposing identity, scooter libby. they are...