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Conditions are worse and tourism has dropped a bit. in fact tourism has not dropped twenty seventeen was a record year for cuba with four point seven million visitors spending more than three billion dollars there the number of american travelers also rose to six hundred nine hundred thousand more than six times the pre obama level but under new regulations put in place by the trump administration all u.s. travel to cuba has to take place an organized tour groups thats bad news for many private ...

>> does it appear to you that the inconsistencies in the testimony points to -- what does it point to? do people want to protect the president? are they protecting themselves? >> so i think it points to -- first of all, i obviously was not in the room for any of the testimonies in question. look, people like to talk about what people are obliged to do in front of congressional committees in terms of law. the reality is that it is about power. its about whether somebody can stare down the committ...

Hearings to provide information we didnt have before, going all the way back to my fifth grade class and watching watergate unfold, it was one of the congressional testimonies somebody said in passing theres this whole taping system in the oval office. oh, oh, really? it wasnt the congressional committee that really sort of took it and ran with it. its the interplay of the media, of the special prosecutor and the congressional committees and public opinion that sort of puts all of the pieces tog...

Is beginning to give us an understanding of why. >> carrie, from legal standpoint, if don mcgahn has talked to bob mueller or been asked to interview, is executive privilege something he could cite to not answer questions? >> i think he probably would because the white house seems to be -- although not really clear about doing it in the public testimonies weve seen, seem to be asserting variations of executive privilege. but i would just add even before this report tonight there is reason to thi...

Book was asked this morning, you know, if he has recordings and he said he does have some recordings of the interviews and also has notes as any journalist would. well see if some of that comes out. >> poppy, can i add something -- >> i want to get jackie in here, hold that thought. >> of course. >> another excerpt from the book that ties in no ainto this comed the justice department, is this, according to michael wolff, comey was a rat, repeated trump. there were rats everywhere and you had to ...

Decision or trying to interfere with that decision through his white house counsel, don mcgahn, that suggests that the president didnt want an independent investigation of the trump campaign. he wanted to control that investigation. and that could be seen as part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice. >> anderson, just as clear as it can be now that president feels there are things to be hidden. doesnt want out in the public. now the publication of this book is beginning to give us an understandin...

In two different testimonies at two different times. that could have saved them last night. also that night the ac 1:30 overhead asking to engage multiple times enemy combatants on the ground was not allowed to engage those enemy combatants with weapons and its very likely that one of those enemy combatants took the chopper down that night. president trump in august said that he was going to give more authority to the war fighters on the ground, to those people and under president obama, a lot o...

It looks like every democrat is voting no. i think they are making a mistake. well see more in the paychecks and the economy continue to grow they will regret that at this moment in time, 31 years since the last time they had taxes. i think it is it a mistake. >> you are you show someone who you to do someplace & the haft is you. >> i tell you most montanians will not tell me there is a spot know e. and nochlt a new well cut testimonies it is a merry christmas to the america people. >> harris: n...

African-american staffer in the white house. what does her departure signal about the trump white house? so, paris, omarosas departure has really shined a light on the lack of diversity in the administration, especially lack of african-americans. do you see that as a problem? >> no, i dont see a problem as shining a light on the lack of diversity. i think it shows the opportunity. the administration is acutely aware of the need to have more african-americans who agree with the presidents agenda ...

The top of we are going to lower the amount in your 401(k)? can you imagine how much money people are making in their 401(k)s now, and how much of that argument that one around? how important it was to have that argument. to get that off the table, and the president weighed in on that. democrats want to know why anti-trump texts were ahead of testimonies by rod rosenstein. before the investigation is complete. they suggest those text messages were released to help the president. is that possible...