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President said it is a hoax, that he directed his national security feel go fight the hoax. they want a talking point. >> phil, always great for your perspective. rick gates may take the stand as early as today. it comes after the bookkeeper for manafort revealed he was broke in 2016 when he was president trump's campaign ch n chairman. how he lied to get bank loans. joe johns has more. good morning, david, the prosecution filling in for the jury. the paul manafort time line, laying out through this bookkeeper how he went from the boom years when he was flush with cash from his overseas ac...

People. >> isn't he asherting that he could be the outside, that which he argue every day and say this is what all of the people in the government say, i'm still skeptical. >> i mean, yes, the difficult thing here is if -- someone who is an expert at something offered an opinion. if they offer an opinion, they should not be given equal weight and they are. >> so, phil, when the intel chiefs come out and sound aalarm, what should we do about that. should no one trust their facebook page any more? what should they day away. they feel so strongly about what is about to happen in the midterm elect...

Assume he probably is. if we can get along with russia that's a good thing. i don't know him, i met him a few times. i think we could probably get along pretty well. it's too early to say if we're friends or enemieenemies. but getting along with russia and china and all of these other places. that's good, not bad. >> so you see there the president trying to justify his meeting with vladimir putin saying it's a good thing he will sit down with him but the doubts are very high right now other whether or not the president will seriously confront him about the election meddling. >> phil mud is joi...

Indeed interfere in the u.s. presidential election and that putin is a foe of the united states and simply can't be trusted. we have a team of experts with us to talk about all of this, the breaking news is continuing. phil mud, i want to play a clip, this is putin, he granted an interview with chris wallace of fox. i want to play a clip to underscore how putin is reacting to all of this. >> translator: my request was filly e ld no one sent us a sin request. >> let me move on to other subjects. why do you think robert mueller issued this indictment three days before you and president trump met...

In the short-term, the it could be just a public relations headache if lanny davis is planning to go on tv and tell them michael cohen's side of the story. that might not be the best thing for trump and the white house. but the long-term question of michael cohen flipping on president trump, he has a wealth of knowledge that could potentially be complicated for the president, potentially damaging. he knows about the stormy daniels deal. he knows about some of these meetings with russian nationals that happened during the course of the campaign. and of course he has intimate knowledge of the pr...