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Skoording to the latest account by "the washington post," the president of the united states has lied more than 6,000 times since taking office. 6,000. just as stunning as the sheer number of trumps lies is the now-familiar pattern by which a lie evolves in trump world. step one, the flat-out denial. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> then why -- why did michael cohen make it if there was no truth to the allegations? >> you have to ask michael cohen. michael ...

Longtime attorney and fixer michael cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress. he specifically lied about the presidents repeated attempts to secure a real estate deal in misco, now admitting he talked to the president and his family members multiple times about this thing. in response, the president and his allies launched a multipronged attempt to push back. step one, go after michael cohen. >> hes a weak person. not a very smart person. so very simply, michael cohen is lying and hes trying to...

Nancy pelosi to perhaps again become the next speaker of the u.s. house of representatives. chris cillizza. do we think she has the votes? >> yeah, i do. theres nobody running against her, brooke. thats the easiest race shell probably ever run and win. thats step one. step two is when the democrats take over the house formally. presumably pelosi will win. the question is can she keep enough democrats, get a majority, 218 democrats do vote for her so she secures it or does it have to go to a seco...

Short of either option there. those arent the only choices. >> thats exactly right. again, step one. let mueller do his job. step two, theres a lot of really legitimate questions about how the president has been profiting from the presidency. theres a lot of questions about his business dealings today. theres been a lot of discussion about the saudis. i have big questions about whether the president is denying what happened with this killing because he has business with the saudis. theres lots f...

Going to be rigged. i have to be honest. >> step two, they create obstacles to voting. > i strongly support voter i.d. laws. >> step three they create obstacles to those obstacles. >> theyre voting like really early. and we have to discuss that early thing. >> i argue it is the number one strategy of the trump re-election campaign. >> how can you be so sure its a strategy? >> ive had plenty of republican elected officials speak with me privately and tell me theyre disgusted with what they hear i...

Going to be rigged. i have to be honest. >> step two, they create obstacles to voting. > i strongly support voter i.d. laws. >> step three they create obstacles to those obstacles. >> theyre voting like really early. and we have to discuss that early thing. >> i argue it is the number one strategy of the trump re-election campaign. >> you how can you be so sure its a strategy? >> ive had plenty of republican elected officials speak with me privately and tell me theyre disgusted with what they he...

Lah, taking a close look at the ballot access issues for us in a new cnn special report. and kyung, you talked to a person who said these moves are calculated. >> reporter: calculated as part of a tactic to get to a goal. and were seeing this in kansas, georgia. we spoke to democrat jason kanter. to be clear, he is a politician. he has run for office. but also runs a nonprofit called let america vote. and what he and other voting organizations groups across the country say they are seeing this f...

Official in. >> today she has lunch with mitch mcconnell, step two. step three the conversation the last three of them together coming together around this nomination would go out the door the same way. so the only one who is given the path to vote no is murkowski. everybody else -- >> how did she get the pass? >> because of the politics on the ground and her election is the furthest out. by 2022 its a memory. >> i like murkowski, which one do you like the most? of all the most that held out, i ...

>> shannon: i want to play something that senator lindsey graham, a republican on the committee, had to say tonight about dr. ford and her role in this. >> dr. ford is being abused as much as anybody else. she said she didnt want to come forward. somebody on the other side week her name. not us. shes been a victim of this as much as kavanaugh has. >> shannon: david, what you make of that assessment? >> i think senator graham is right on that point. what we saw today in "the new york times" was t...

I remembered your number of about 60% to leave ahead of the storm. is it safe for them to come back yet. or would you tell them to wait a little longer. >> it is not stief come back yet because the governor has not lifted the evacuation order. all of the major roads and bridges have to go through damage assessment before they can low people back on them. so that will be step one. step two will be when we allow critical support groups to come back in, such as public works crews and then phase thr...