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Hes telling the truth. >> but listening to all of this with his experienced ear was prosecutor gillingham. >> you must have been rather pleased when you heard he was going to testify. >> i think thats an understatement. i was very, very pleased. >> more than that, it was a gift, said gillingham. an unexpected opportunity. why? well, the prosecutor had paul right where he wanted him, for as long as he wanted him. there were hours of questions, tough questions, baiting questions, questions designe...

Implications are. >> the "national enquirer" is the one who ostensibly made a payment to karen mcdougal. paid her in exchange for her story. she would get to become a columnist. that never panned out. she has been suing the nation"nl enquirer" for that. because the president did not pay her directly but we know there has been a murky relationship between donald trump and the "national enquirer," legally what are the challenges with that? is that good for the president? is it bad for the presiden...

After the media again this morning and this tweet. it began the fake news media going crazy, they make up stories without any backup. resources or proof, back to the power panel. shelby holliday and david burstein. david, i will start with you. when you look at the surveys, how much negativity there is among mainstream reporting for the president, that actually has fact. when you look at the relationships now between the white house and the press corps, what do you say? >> this white house has c...

Our relationship has never been worse than it is now. however, that changed as of about four hours ago. i really believe that. >> the question now is whos really benefitting from that change? joining me now from helsinki is michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia and now an nbc news international affairs annual list. also joining me is phil bump, national correspondent for "the washington post," zerlina maxwell and noah rothman, associate editor at comment dairy magazine. michael, lets ...

That surprise other people in the organization? >> this was very unusual, and they told me that. they said, you know, doesnt really do this often. >> to say that as a real estate developer, donald trump didnt often pay cash is a major understatement. he built an ohm pyre with other peoples money. and he was proud of it. >> i know debt. >> donald trump has always brought everything on credit, all of a sudden at this moment in this life, in his career as hes getting mixed up with politics, why did...

Welcome back. icebergs are famous for being hazards to ships, but now theres a big one off greenland thats threatening a whole village there. derek is there to tell us about that. >> reporter: big is an understatement. were talking about an 11 million ton, thats 11 mega ton iceberg thats floating off the west coast of greenland. and this particular iceberg was caught on camera with a piece of ice breaking away. youre watching it on your tv screen. what happened after that, the 170 residents that...

He runs a posh polo club, but starting is 2006, he was the project manager for trumps first golf investment in scotland. >> he invests a lot of money, but he didnt ask anyone, it was all his own money. >> that was all cash? >> yeah, he paid asking price, he paid for it then my first three paychecks, if you like, were not wired to my bank but were checks signed personally by donald trump. >> did that surprise you, did that surprise other people in the organization? >> this was very unusual, and t...

>> this was very unusual, and they told me that. they said, you know, he doesnt really do that often. >> to say that as a real estate developer, donald trump didnt often pay cash is a major understatement. he built an empire with other peoples money and he was proud of it. >> im the king of debt. nobody knows debt better than me. ive made a fortune by using debt. >> donald trump has always brought everything on credit, all of a sudden at this moment in this life, in his career as hes getting mix...

London. lets go to nick paton walsh standing by. thousands of people it looks like walking down regent street toward tawhere you are. >> reporter: tens of thousands here. way more than we had expected. paralyzing central londons main commercial thoroughfare here. i should apologize potentially of the profanity you may see in some of the placards behind me, but there is an outpouring of shear anger here frankly against donald trump. and it is a protest which has made it impossible for him -- excu...

Joins us now. thank you for joining us, sir. i know it has been a long day. >> thats an understatement, but its going to be with you, chris. happy to be with you. >> what was achieved today in your estimation? >> i think the republicans acted like the defense team of donald trump, and im sure the kremlin is very, very happy with their performance today. we know from our intelligence community that they intervened, right, in our electoral process in order to derail the hillary clinton campaign an...