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Illusionist and magician Scott Silven on his show ‘The Journey’ that will take you on a trip like no other Co-commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Silven’s interactive performance takes audiences on a virtual tour of his Scotland – and their own memories He started learning magic when he was five, took a hypnosis course when he was 15 and was performing in New York in his mid-twenties

>> do you think that some of this trial relates to people bluffing and aggrandizing themselveses into a story and now the story has turned dark? >> i think, you know, in roger's defense, i think that you have to understand that he's a showman. he's an illusionist. and sometimes when you buy a ticket for the show, you don't necessarily think that the illusionist sawed a woman in half. you are happy with the show and the performance. and in the beginning, he said he had spoken to assange. and then he quickly realized that that was an embellishment. and he needed to correct it. and his story sinc...

Was no collusion after two years they found out and wasted $45 billion. this is a disgrace this could happen in our country. >> with me now, michael deantonio, a donald trump biographer and author of "the truth about trump" and a cnn contributor and always a pleasure. good to have you on. >> great to be with you. >> you wrote another piece for cnn.com this week. this one is called "expect trump to fight as if his life depends on it." in this piece, michael, you talk about trump's history of being an illusionist as a businessman. so how do you mean, and do you think that it translates as presid...

Scripted television. it is not real. that's where donald trump has an illusion at that moment. >> you can call him an illusionist. this is a guy who the longer his presidency goes on, the harder it is to maintain some of these illusions. we saw it with the shutdown of the wall. there isn't a wall yet. he hasn't built a mile of new wall. maybe they're starting on a small stretch of it, but convincing his voters that it's been happening or is almost finished, that gets harder and hard harder. look at all these things he's achieved. but if there is nothing toward denuclearization which is the ult...

As a progressive, when you wrap yourself in a progressive blanket, we're largely stereotyped as nice but weak. it's the perfect illusionist cover. >> nick, last point. this is your piece. it wasn't that many years ago that people said sheryl sandberg could one day be president. >> it's probably not going to happen now, i think. but i can't prognosticate. i will say, i do think we are entering an upton sinclair moment for new economy and big tech. these companies have grown extremely fast, extremely powerful, in extremely short amounts of time. and we are only now just catch can go up as report...