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from the ukraine/russian boarder. half an hour away from the opening of the markets. yesterday they took a massive dive after the fed's announcement of another interest rate hike. cnbc's andrew ross sorkin will join us shortly. mike barnicle back with us for the hour. we begin with the lawsuit from the state of new york against donald trump. his eldest children and the trump organization alleging years of fraud. the state is seeking $250 million in damages and wants to bar the family from serving as officers of new york-based companies. the lawsuit is more than 200 pages long and o...

Morning? >> a lot. she threw the book at them, an over 200-page book in the form of this lawsuit. it's a civil case. viewers have heard she's not one of the type of legal officials who can throw you in jail, so she sues, takes you to court. but she is in a way trying to put the trump organization in jail and put donald trump, the officers, including the indicted cfo, convicted in the d.a. case and his children on ice so they couldn't run this company or any company in new york. that is a big penalty. if you think they deserve it, that's justice. if you think a lot of companies do a lot of asse...

With the wording of what he said with kim jong-un, did not deny it despite following it up in the middle of the interview, denies it 49 hours later. is there a person here? >> there i see a pattern with a communications operation that isn't really operating on all cylinders. ordinarily, "the wall street journal" interview was published friday morning. >> right. >> and most white houses that i have covered would have immediately put out a staying saying there was a misinterpretation here. instead to put it out on a tweet 48 hours later it is a poor communication strategy. >> all right. >> peopl...

State crown, which only three people are even allowed to touch. >> it's much smaller, isn't is it? i mean, it was the same height. that is when me father wore it. it. >> was huge then. >> yes. very unwieldy. >> britain's longest reigning monarch talking about wearing such a crown with its lavish diamonds and precious stones. >> once you put it on, it stays. >> you have to keep your head very still. >> yes. and you can't look down do read the speech. you have to take the speech up. because if you did, your neck would break or it would fall off. so there are some disadvantages to crowns. but oth...

Spoke to someone at the white house who not only didn't deny it but you said i think the base will be okay with this. they are almost taking this as a victory lap. true or false? >> reporter: yeah. that's exactly right. not only was the would you say not denying it, the president spent the day these comments happened, phoning friends and allies to see how they felt the remark was playing out in the media, what they thought the reaction to this was. and someone told my colleague the president was loving all the controversy and outcry over this. the white house did not see this as a p.r. disaste...