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Often around russia and the president's legal troubles. on the campaign trail, i hear very little about that. i think it's going to be interesting as we go forward, seeing the dichotomy between those two things. look, joe biden has been someone who has been in the senate a long time. he is someone who likes to tout bipartisan credentials. it's not surprising he would give a little bit of praise to a fellow vice-president. >> finally, beto o'rourke, someone who is not declaring, he said he's made up his mind about running for president. do we know what he's made up his mind about, what he's doi...

Today to "the new york times" reporting that president trump himself ordered top secret, sorry, security clearance for son-in-law and senior advisor jared kushner, overruling the concerns of intelligence officials. now, to be clear, as head of the executive, the president has the ultimate authority to decide who gets a security clearance and who doesn't, but it is exceedingly rare for a president to overrule intelligence. president trump and those involved in this story continue to deny that he interfered. the times report -- reports that trump's decision was so troubling that the then chief o...

The room when he equated vladimir putin's view with the view of his own intelligence agencies. this is extraordinary. it seems likely that mohammed bin salman knew a lot about the killing of jamal khashoggi, but still, president trump defended him. some republicans, as i think you've been mentioning, have been clearly distancing themselves from the president, senator susan collins said that she found the president's statement extremely hard to believe. senator rob portman of ohio, actually, which is otto warmbier's home state, warned trump not to be naive about the, what he called the brutal n...

Son's death, holds north korea responsible. chairman kim, she said, did not know what happened to otto at the time when it happened. and, ali, i timed president trump's statement yesterday on otto warmbier. it was a minute and a half. it wasn't a passing comment. he went out of his way to defend kim jong-un. kim jong-un felt badly, he said, he tells me he didn't know about it. i'll take him at his word. i don't believe he would have allowed this to happen. i don't believe he knew about it. he knew about it later. it wasn't to his advantage to have allowed that. he thought about it, he thought ...

Away. those lawyers tended to come and go over the years with trump, but allen weisselberg is the one continuing central force in that organization. >> ariana, let me ask you about the house intel committee expecting to question felix saider later this month. he's a russian-born business associate of president trump's. he worked with cohen on the trump tower moscow project. his name came up a couple of times in cohen's testimony. how important is this? >> well, i would say it's very important. he's coming to testify apparently march 14th. adam schiff says he expects most of that testimony or h...