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He tries to play down the middle. i want to get you to weigh in on the word that mueller may accept written questions on key issues. >> that was a surprise to me. i have always been of the school of thought that bob mueller will insist on sitting down with the president asking questions face-to-face. typically prosecutors love that because you dont have to accept a carefully structured written statement, you can engage back and forth and ask follow-up questions. it is important to take this with...

With him all the time. i met read many but not all 300 opinions. i want to get your input tonight on what mueller said about the key issues. >> ive always been of the school of thought that bob mueller will sit down with the president and ask the questions face-to-face. typically prosecutors love that because you dont just have to accept a carefully structured written statement, you can actually engage in back-and-forth and ask follow-up questions and that sort of thing. i think its important fo...

On policy and politics, i respect senator john mccains service to our country. the president later echoed the sentiment at the white house event. it is a move leading veterans groups say is symbolic, but important. >> a source familiar with the talk says the president was pushed by internal staff to deliver a more robust statement on john mccain. the president refused early requests from vice president pence to do so. >> according to "the wall street journal" the white house prodded the presiden...

Issued a statement addressing mccains service to the nation after only issuing condolences to mccains family. that statement authorizes the flags here at the white house to be lowered to half staff. they first resisted which many presidents have followed. lowering the flags until mccain was laid to rest. now president trump is saying that is exactly what will happen. we asked press secretary sarah sanders about the change here at the white house. the presidents second statement started the lower...

Everything that senator mccain has done for our country. >> it took two days, a flag flap and a lot of pushing, but president trump finally offering respect to senator john mccain. breaking overnight. a secret letter from north korea warns denuclearization talks cannot move forward at this time. u.s. announces a new trade deal with mexico. is it a redo or just a rebranded nafta? and louis c.k. back on stage for the first time after admitting to years of sexual misconduct. welcome back to "...

To retire vessy and mccain. they were carrying an inventory of documents and photos hidden way in the vietnamese archives. >> they provided us with a lot of photographs, kind enough to give me several that i had not seen before, which id like to show you im much better looking in those days than i am today. and i want to stress what general vessy said, just again, this is a beginning, a beginning. >> there was this theory that the vietnamese were holding thousands of americans still prisoner, wh...

In the vietnamese archives. >> they provided us with a lot of photographs, kind enough to give me several that i had not seen before, which id like to show you im much better looking in those days than i am today. and i want to stress what general vessy said, just again, this is a beginning, a beginning. >> there was this theory that the vietnamese were holding thousands of americans still prisoner, which mccain intellectually understood, informed by experience, was highly implausible. >> may i ...

Episode at the most length in a book called "worth the fighting for," actually the jordan line, is about his waffling and ill use the word senator mccain used, his lying, he said that about himself about how he truly felt about the confederate battle flag in south carolina. it was an issue then. its one of the flash points that continues to shape us in our cultural wars. but he tried to have it both ways. he in fact, what you say -- you were probably there, he had a he goes on i think it was "fa...

>> reporter: breaking tonight dramatic developments in the michael cohen case, could be the most erratic of all because it could be more damaging to donald trump, he was directly implicated unlike the paul manafort case that has nothing to do with the president or the 2016 campaign. that may explain why the presidents initial comments, he leaned in proving he said it was a witch hunt, he said nothing on cohen who will get present time between 43, and 63 month on charges of bank fraud and tax eva...

About what donald trump has to say. and i think theyre both going to disclose quite a bit. >> rudy giuliani issued a written statement tonight saying there is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the president in the governments charges against mr. cohen. it is clear that, as the prosecutor noted, mr. cohens actions reflect a part of lies and dishonesty over a sint period of time. your reaction to rudy giuliani. >> you know, lawrence, it just gets more comical by the day. i mean, the truth is...