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His fifth amendment rights in the stormy daniels's case. rudy giuliani has met with mueller. the attorney general, jeff sessions, talking about executive privilege and the president's pardon abilities. so there is a lot to cover. let's bring in former federal prors micha prosecutors michael zeldin and laura coates. this is actually kind of complex as a legal tactic. you can say it is is a no-brainer. you have an open criminal investigation. plead the fifth in the civil case, it will keep it in abeyance and keep it quiet. pleading the fifth can have a negative inference with the jury. that is a...

Normally come together as a country, and you have the president who stokes the wars and turns this into political division. >> in a situation like that, that is what the president does. the ceremonial function of president is to explain to the nation what are values are in this moment. the problem that george w. bush had was as an optical problem. he seemed indifferent. donald trump to your point is a malice. he's saying what we did see in katrina, the idea of the people who were suffering in new orleans were at fault. that they were people who were undeserving and unworthy. that had a racial ...

they bear the name of his predecessor. president obama is seizing the bush tax cutted and calling for them to be extend, but not for everyone. the president wants to let them expire for the wealthiest americans. that puts him at odds with congressional republicans, as well as his rival mitt romney and sets the stage for a very heated battle with less than four months to go before the election. our white house correspondent brianna keilar is covering this for us. first of all, why is the president doing this today? >> reporter: well, wolf, this is certainly part of his narrative that ...

His big doaners. when barack obama has campaign on more campaign events than any other president by far at this time in the presidency that's all he does is campaign. the president spent more time governing and less time campaigning and schmoozing with his donors, he might be in much better shape. >> we do hear that every campaign there is an incumbent, if he spent more time governing and less time campaigning. steve, do you think there is an optical problem on either side? >> actually, i don't. john and i are agreeing a lot today i think this election is not going to be about the money, not g...

It with this and unemployment benefits will be extended. it's the holiday season, it's going to be bad if they don't do it. so we're going to get something to work out here it looks like. but there is a little bit of an optical problem here. >> yeah, optical problem is one way to put it. >> i think the optical problem is -- >> go ahead, goldie. >> i can't hear. i think the optical problem is the last several years have been the most profitable in history for american business. they have more cash on hand that they've ever had in history but still not investing back in the economy. extending th...