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About the recent hack of the democratic party. following that private meeting obama ended the g-20 with a public warning reminding reporters at a press conference when it comes to cyber capability, quote, we've got more capacity than anybody both offensively and defensively. it was a message obama would return to after the november election when he was asked why his administration had not done more to deter russian meddling. >> whatever they do to us we can potentially do to them. we obviously have offensive capabilities as well as defensive capabilities. our goal continues to be to send a cle...

To play into this whole story. >> palm beach post senior editor jan tuckwood said dalia's defense was weirdly appropriate. >> it seems to make sense because the whole story doesn't make sense. you just throw in that angle, i want to be famous. so let's do this stunt, if it was a stunt. it just adds to the weirdness. >> the story didn't fly with the new judge, and the motion to dismiss was thrown out. and so in december 2016, dalia showed up at the palm beach county courthouse once again. new trial, new jury. >> we're going to have the opening statements by the attorneys. >> prosecutor craig wi...

Conservatives have taken up that ukraine is really the architect of the election interference. ukraine is hiding the servers, go down the list. you know the whole rubric. is it possible, do you think, that there will be evidence that makes clear that trump and other republicans got caught in what amounts to a russian deception campaign? >> i think it's very possible. and that is because the russians have been pushing this as early as -- began pushing this as early as december 2016, if not earlier. russian's foreign ministry came out and said in a statement that it was ukraine that was interfer...

Donald trump began -- >> decision day for donald trump, the president-elect makes his first major national security pitch delighted conservatives and enraging democrats. >> early december 2016 one of those choices, new national security adviser michael flynn, met with trump's son-in-law jared kushner at trump tower. they later exchange texts and phone calls amid the obama administration decisions to impose sanction and russia in retaliation for hacking the dnc. donald trump raised vladimir putin's decision to not retaliate tweeting i always knew he was very smart. at the beginning of 2017 in i...

>> our real unemployment rate is probably 30%. >> i actually think it could be as high as 32%, 35%. >> as high as 35%. in fact i even heard recently 42%. >> it's a phony set of numbers. they cooked the books. you ever hear the expression? they cooked the books. >> sure, 42%. worse than the great depression. half the country's unemployed. yeah. i mean it's funny but it's not because the result of hearing things like that over and over and over is that people actually started to believe that the unemployment rate went up under president barack obama. okay? it did not. it did not. but according t...