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Afghanistan, as well as dealing with the terrorism organizations around the nation. our national defense. the issues of missile defense. the issues of nuclear armaments. all of those things are in there and presumably, at least from the russians, all these things were discussed. do we need to modify in any way the national defense authorization act to pull back or increase our presence in any one of these areas? we do not know. and yet the republicans want to wrap all of this up. it is not right. it is not the way congress should act. and we must and we should have information. the president a...

The closer it gets to the election, that raises a bigger question about whether it was some type of loan to the campaign to help effect his chances in the election. >> reporter: the secret recordings may provide an answer to one of the biggest questions facing the president. just what does cohen have on him? trump's former fixer -- >> i protect mr. trump. >> reporter: -- has sent signals in recent weeks he's willing to cooperate with special counsel mueller's russia investigation, although it is not clear what kind of evidence cohen will be able to provide in that probe. according to giuliani,...

Deals with karen mcdougal and they also denied he had an affair with karen mcdougal. so it's not clear why they would do this. but i have to say, sometimes i think they're playing 12 dimensional chess. so it's really hard to tell exactly what they're doing. >> may not show he did anything wrong but it does show there was knowledge when he said there wasn't knowledge, which then raises the -- and also said, you know, use a check and not cash. i mean, it shows that there was some kind of cooperation about this payment. >> right. i don't mean to say that it doesn't -- that it shows he didn't do a...

Information. maggie harborman reported yesterday this is, as far as she snows, one that has concrete information or information that can be used against them. a lot of the other ones are probably mundane. >> so matt, is that the issue, that it really just doesn't matter especially among the base or at least among republicans, where his approval rating remains high? >> yes, i think that's exactly the issue. to larry's question about why do this now, i think the answer's pretty clear. this is the worst week of the trump presidency. the summit was on monday. they're calling it the treason summit....

Kind of action items were outlined. and i hope that more of our intel community is read in on that. i do see some progress, some verifiable accomplishments from that first meeting before we move into the second one. i'm not 100% convinced the second meeting will happen. if we can show there has been a tough line on pushing back on russian interference in our election and being firm on the sanctions and talk about crimea and these other issues that are important for them to have this conversation on and show we are moving the ball down the field, i think it will be important and it will be hope...