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Lawyer donald trump would hire to handle his personal matters. michael cohen. what does it say about the president? do you really think the president was unaware that cohen from time to time taped conversations? it makes me wonder, did the president -- what was the extent of the president's knowledge in this area? the whole thing just wreaks of sleaziness on both sides. think in the end it helps neither man. >> of course there is this argument over what was actually said. we played the tape. we don't put up a transcript because we want you to decide for yourself. there are parts of the tape, c...

I think chris makes an important point which is that there is a segment of the electorate in this mid-term election, those soft republican voters who might look at this in the aggregate of everything else and be disaffected by it further. but you also have a dynamic going on in the mid-terms where the more these kinds of reports come out, the more republicans who are on trump's side feel more endeared to him and feel like they're part of this battle. so i'm interested to see kind of how that plays out. we don't quite know the answer but i think there are different political dynamics at play wh...

Held their first public appearance. here's what one boy said about that moment when rescuers popped up from the water. >> translator: when they got out from the water, i was a little surprised so i just greeted them. i thought, this is really a miracle, and i didn't know how to respond to them. >> reporter jonathan miller is joining me. you were there throughout the ordeal, throughout the search and rescue, and you are there for the news conference today. just amazing moments. >> it has been really amazing story to cover, kate. to have been here, you know, just ten days ago when the whole worl...

Abby, thank you so much. joining me now, cnn military analyst, retired general mark hertling. former commanding general in europe. general, thanks for coming in. >> thank you for having me. >> to the sound bite that ably phillip brought to us, what's your reaction to what the president said about nato and montenegro? >> i switched from the all-star game last night to listen to the carlson interview with the president and was just -- there's no more words to describe the kinds of things that we're seeing. when you're talking -- i heard your previous interview with sam and chris. when you're t...

Agreement may be. cnn white house correspondent abby phillip joins me now. >> reporter: this is going to be the difficult part of this post-summit period where the united states is trying to figure out what exactly happened in that one-on-one meeting between president trump and vladimir putin. remember, there was only the president and a translator on the american side, putin and a translator on the russian side in that meeting for over two hours, as far as we know. now it seems that the russian military is saying they're ready to implement some kind of agreement on a range of issues, includin...