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Good morning, it is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, and 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Former president Donald Trumps new york Hush Money Trial is off today, as the former president attends his youngest sons High School Graduation in florida. The day off comes after former trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen spent another day on the stand being crossexamined by trump attorney todd blanche. Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness, during questioning about a phone call from october 2016. More now from nbc news senior Legal Correspondent laura jarrett. Laura . ...

We don't know. >> you mentioned october of 2016. october 7th, the access hollywood tape and everybody talking about trump dropping out. you have to be really careful. a month in politics in the fall is a lifetime. every week is the equivalent of a month, several months back. that is how quickly things can change. what i'm looking for is charlie cook's numbers, toss-up states, versus leec leasuccess lean dem lean republican. you have 15 races that lean democrats. so sthey need eight are more an they don't have them. the democrats need to get those races moved from toss-up to lean democrat befor...

>> and all of this related of course to what happened allegedly in 2016 october, mccabe allegedly authorizing information to be leaked to a reporter at the "wall street journal." mccabe is speaking out. he says here is the reality, i'm being singled out and treated this way because of the role i played, the actions i took and the events i witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of james comey. but we see mccabe again speaking freely here. what difference will that make, peter first to you, what difference will it make with the overall investigation? >> it will make a difference in the public ...

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Is right in all of this but the democrats memo is ten pages long and rebuttal to the four-page memo the republican colleagues on the committee released a few weeks over it unlike the republican memo this has reductions on every page and the democrats claim their information shows that fbi and doj officials did not abuse their surveillance authority when they saw fisa warrant on this plan quarter page. >> carter page was of interest for his connection to the russians years for 2016. october the 16th he had all sorts of contacts and been with the russians and interviewed by the fbi. reporter: th...