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Economic policy, and goes off message again, not citing the reasons that sarah sanders cited, as spurious as they may have been, because as john mclaughlin pointed out, they are not on-the-book reasons to revoke a security clearance, he goes off and says its because of the russia probe. >> its off message but in a way its on message, because this is a white house in bunker mode right now. the president is fighting multiple battles, lashing out at his critics, whether its omarosa manigault newman...

Mueller was -- i mean, comey was in trouble for that. that is something they are considering. >> for sure in their minds. dana bash got the scoop from rudy giuliani and he told her that republicans could benefit from this dragging on past the midterms. even though hes saying wrap it up, he says if it goes longer it would benefit. let me read it to you. now i am thinking the contin iif the investigation would help. what do you think. >> well, the presidents non-stop assault, rudy giulianis freque...

Lot of tweets, sometimes we love the presidents tweets, sometimes we cringe on the presidents tweets but theyre trying to make a political -- >> hes saying you have to keep republicans in control of congress because well see an impeachment. its not that different than what he said publicly but what is the significance here? >> i think the idea that any of this is politically motivated by mueller is probe ridiculous. the obstruction issue is very real and something the presidents lawyers are conc...

Paul asked the white house for that letter from the president hoping it would generate a meeting that he would have with putin. clearly that didnt necessarily work and those various ideas in the letter, those were ideas the white house says was put forward by rand paul, not necessarily from the president. so theres a little bit of confusion in these areas. well stay on top of the story. fred, thank you very much. coming up, president trumps lawyers counter the latest interview offer of the spe...

Supporters and also others that, look, this is going on too long, and sweeping over everything that we want to do. >> theres also one other thing when it comes to donald trump. when he starts tweeting about something thats had controversy or theres been a drip, drip, drip, he kind of likes to get ahead of it, so this recent tweet about don jr., i think was kind of a little bit of a bread crumb. he knows the story is going to come out, so lets put it out there. theres also another strategy. we ha...

Legal strategy. this is a political strategy. it seems to me its designed not to help the president when it comes to his legal troubles with robert mueller. in fact, its likely to make them worse. its designed to set a different kind of landscape for anything that mr. mueller finds out to be received, to convince at least his own supporters that nothing -- it wasnt illegal or anybody does that, and by the way, i didnt know anything about it. these are -- this is an attempt to set a context where...

Has a very strong case against paul manafort because this is a case about foreign bank accounts, and we had testimony from manaforts bookkeepers and accountants they had no idea he had control of all these foreign bank accounts. they prepared his tax returns and said there were no foreign bank accounts. thats a felony. he was paying for these luxuries with money wired from cyprus, and the only defense we have seen to that is manafort didnt realize it was a crime, he didnt realize he filled out t...

All this, how will he hold up under a cross-examination? theres probably a lot there that the manafort side could hit him with. >> thats right. its going to be bruising. and additionally, its going to be personal. there was significant friction several months back when rick gates was going through the process of deciding whether or not he was going to flip on paul manafort. whether he was going to essentially turn on a man who had been his business partner and boss for upwards of a decade. at th...

Cohen was honest. now that he seems to have incriminating information about donald trump, he is willing to share with the special counsel, donald trumps camp is saying that he lacks all credibility. >> mj lee, thank you for walking us through that. lets talk about it. with me now is shan wu. also david gergin and david drucker. mj laid out the reporting. sources tell cnn that michael cohen doesnt have tape recordings of this, doesnt have audio to back it up. we know from jim sciuttos reporting...

The congress, look, this is a political problem. you to solve this? and we dont know the answer to both of those. i think there is lots of people that are guessing and lots of speculation what might happen. but i think those are the two big looming questions. will he sit for an interview and will mueller indict him? those are the questions we should all be looking for over the next six months. >> and we watch every twist and turn on this. thank you so much, mark geragos and michael shear. apprec...