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Knowledge and business ties to russia. he was working to cover-up his involvement. >> it's really shaping up in a way that it is kind of analogous to the watergate burglary. nixon didn't go down because of one count of trying to suborn perjury, there were a whole bunch of things that he did to try to cover-up the watergate burglary and that eventually forced him to resign. what you're seeing here with the russia probe, this perjury relates directly to the trump organization's relationship to the russians. how much the president knew about that relationship, whether he was pursuing that relatio...

How effective is the president without a foil, dana? >> i think that's a very important point, craig, and that is it is all about donald trump now. it's not donald trump or an alternative. you know, part of it's because he's so visible in the interviews and on the campaign trail, but even if he weren't out there at all, you know, they've looked at polling going back to the great depression, and there has never been a stronger correlation between your view of the president and your intention of voting for or against democrats or republicans in the midterm elections. it's almost a one for one co...

And that is -- and you brought this up a second ago, harry, and that is the president is elevating director brennon and this is this is commentary on what he's done so far from eli lake and this is on cnn by the way. >> john brennan is such an imperfect messenger trump has an instinct for that and he approaches politics like professional wrestling and loog for the foil because he only cares about the base and what he could do to troll his opposition and this is the perfect way to do it. >> he does have an obligation to put up or shut up. >> so basically what he's saying here, eli lake from blo...

Coming to race relations in this country and his answer to me is that there's one clear problem. why? >> we have never really honestly dealt with slavery. once we start to have an honest discussion on slavery then we can move forward. we have never really had honest discussions about the foundation of this country. i know people might not like this but this is the truth. united states of america, the foundation of this country built upon genocide of native people and slave ri. that's a fact. the founding fathers owned slaves. unless we deal with those truths, it's not going to matter. >> wow. ...

The problem is that putin saw trump as endorsing his view or claim that he had nothing to do with the hacking of the democratic national committee and the interference of the u.s. election. that is wrong. most americans are going to think that that is wrong and that's a problem for the president. >> shepard: he just tweeted, the president second ago, as i said today in many times before, i have great confidence in my intelligence people. however, i also recognize that in order to build a bright future, we cannot exclusively focus on the past. as the world's two largest nuclear powers, we must ...