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I don't remember it. >> laura: we don't have the video. he is a smart guy. don't smart people have a good memory? during his 5.5 hours of testimony comey said i don't remember 73 times, and i don't know 161 times, and i don't recall 8 times. here's why this matters. republicans are still struggling to find the answers about the origins of the russian collusion probe and what is happening with the biassed investigates who advanced it should donald trump win the election in 2016. which asked if he could recall who wrote this document for the russian probe comey had no recollection and claimed to...

Cooperate with bob mueller. the new reporting here is that manafort was trying to basically be an apparent double agent and that explains the news you may have heard earlier this week when bob mueller suddenly canceled the plea agreement with manafort. and it gives context to this other story tonight. donald trump telling the "new york post" that pardoning paul manafort is not off the table. those words are farther than donald trump has gone off that topic so far and it would further tie donald trump back to a convicted felon at the center of the collusion probe who stands accused of obstructi...

Is voluminous. >> in the scheme of things, does it make any difference, laura, if they drop those ten charges that the jury couldn't agree on, whether or not they decide to retry him? >> it largely won't move the needle for sentencing. you also have the charges he pled guilty to in washington, d.c. as well. he's looking at serving time in prison. what moves the needle is whether or not the prosecutors will opt to have a lesser sentence and sigh due to his cooperation we'd like an allocution that's more favorable had we had a full conviction. 18 counts is a significant number of counts. the jud...

Serve at the pleasure of the president, but he only oversees the collusion probe, so if jeff sessions is no longer the attorney general, they need to have this interim person oversees the russia probe in the stead of jeff sessions, also goes away, so in many ways you kill two birds with one stone. if you're the president saying i already have some real reluctance to keep jeff sessions on board, i'm already angry with the way he refused himself. i can make it rosenstein is obsolete. he could accomplish two things, and it wouldn't be shocking to anyone if jeff sessions what nong her the attorney...

Imports. after this latest round, china has already announced tariff increases on most u.s. imports into china. >> translator: we are willing to make concerted efforts with the u.s. but regrettably, the current u.s. actions of unilateralism and protectionism are on don mcgahn acceptable to us. >> commerce secretary wilbur ross on cnbc said that americans won't really feel the increase in prices because of these tariffs because he says they will be spread across thousands of products. though these tariffs target consumer goods and companies are already warning they will have to raise prices. br...