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Letter he sent to the publisher of the book as well as to michael wolff directly that says the book is -- may be defamatory and accuses wolff of malice which is a legal standard that would suggest a future potential lawsuit. the more immediate concern here is they are demanding the publisher not release the book. remember, thousands of copies have been shipped to book stores across the country. number one on amazon. there are tens of thousands of preorders. this is the president of the united st...

That third no vote. the vote that would kill this bill before talking to us. hold your fire, if you will. see what we can work on. thats in some sense, in that way, the delay would help. listen, wolf, to what senator susan collins said over the weekend. a clear no vote but what she had to say about her colleagues struck me as interesting. >> there are about eight to ten republican senators who have serious concerns about this bill, and so at the end of the day, i dont know whether it will pass. ...

Very critical of iran. it was interesting to see before some of the officials before donald trump took office. they were saying, look, maybe this is someone we can deal with. hes an unconventional politician and maybe he can make deals with iran. donald trump is someone that is going to be very, very tough, certainly after the press conference that we saw right now, wolf. >> all right. fred pleitgen in tehran, well get back to you as well. i want to get the latest on the controversy surrounding ...

Administration officials were talking to the russians, including intelligence officials, during the campaign. we dont know what was said. we need to find out. heres what really matters, wolf. the russians upping the pressure in ukraine from the separatists and deploying missiles in violation of the inf treaty. the president needs a team, he needs a coherent team and he needs it fast. in order to do that, he needs not only a new national security adviser, he needs to answer all of these questions...

Seeing a pattern emerge at all of these joint news conferences the president has with foreign leaders. >> reporter: thats right, wolf. going back several administrations, not just the obama administration but the bush administration, clinton administration and so on, typically what you have on these two plus two news conferences, two questions for the american press and two for the foreign press. what you would see take place is perhaps a wire service, associated press or reuters or major networ...

Ideological views that some on the right do not like because of more moderate views on immigration but also liabilities in his past, as well as hiring an undocumented immigrant in his household for years and not paying taxes until much later. in addition to that, there was a mess ee divorce that he went through three decades ago in which his ex-wife at the time accused him of domestic abuse. during that time, she appeared on the oprah winfrey show in disguise to discuss her allegations of domest...

All of this is causing a huge stir and, unfortunately, the president did not directly answer -- there were no questions asked of him specifically about all these conversations between his advisers during the campaign and russian intelligence officials. >> reporter: well, wolf, what we know is that these levels of conversations and contacts between trump aides, trump officials and russian officials and russian persons, russian entities, was so severe, so serious over the summer as mr. trump was t...

About the new nominee. no word back from the white house yet on whether they will listen to the top senate republican advice. possibly the first casualty of any donald trump nominee, wolf. >> yeah. there were 52 republicans, 48 democrats. so if you lose two or three, if you lose two, assuming no democrat will vote for puzders nomination. if you lose two, the vice president breaks the tie and hes confirmed. thats happened before. but if you lose three or four republicans, its over. that committee...

And others came out and said, look, the nuclear deal is a great deal for iran and you can see that because the trump administration is against it. they are talking up the nuclear agreement and they are also saying that their ballistic missile program is not something up for debate. the iranians publicly are saying that they are going to stick by all of their positions and they are also still warning the united states. but i can also feel, wolf, from having been here, that the rhetoric is somewha...

And anniversaries very important to the regime, wolf f? >> barbara, if this happens, what response is the u.s. considering, the any? >> were hearing from the state department and pentagon if there is a launch of a missile or satellite as north koreans say, if there is more movement on this material development, nuclear material development, the u.s. is talking about more sanctions for north korea but look their economy is already in a state of collapse. hard to see what more sanctions would do t...