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Saudi arabia situation. why? >> because he knows it's a risk for him personally and the administration. one of the things we learned erlt in the process is there was a phone call between jared kushner and mbs early in the process, and mbs called him to pry and prespin the situation. also on the phone call was john bolton, the national security adviser. that's in part because the administration was aware as not being able to be seen as having back channels in the case, and they needed to signal to mbs this would be a problem that needed to be figured out, and kushner is stepping back, a perhaps...

Claimed falsely the sandy hook school shooting is a hoax. so, does the president have a point? and what about his tweets? twitter's ceo jack dorsey sat down with my colleague brian stelter to set the record straight. listen. >> reporter: you've been public about the policy about world leaders, keeping accounts up that otherwise might guess suspended suspend suspended or blocked. what would president trump have to say on twitter to get blocked? >> stepping back, we think it's really important for the world to see how global leaders think and they act and they treat the people around them. we th...

Cadre within every administration who is making that argument for more disclosure, you know, rip the band aid off, let's get whatever the troubles are get them out as fast as possible. it's going to be better for us in the long run politically and legally, almost always they lose for a variety of reasons. we've heard a lot about this period. we've not heard everything that we're going to hear about that period to this point. but i think the president -- it's an extraordinary thing. and i think it's just worth stepping back for a second and acknowledging what just happened here. the president l...

>> well, i think the attack on the two women angela merkel and teresa may show his misogynist side, i wish they had done a little crook in his nose, but i will say, fareed, step back, there's no question trump has an affinity for strong men. he doesn't say anything bad about netanyahu, the murderous dictator of the philippines der ter today, erdogan, so there are a whole set of strong men that donald trump doesn't say a bad word about. i know that's a meme, but there's no question trump has an affinity for these strong men. but i will say stepping back, opposition to trump and the nation is at...

This is what confounds me about everything. in total objectivity. i believe they have manafort dead to right. if you look at the indictment, which is an allegation of a defense attorney, an indictment means 23 members of a grand jury found reasonable cause to believe a crime was committed and he committed it. i get it. only a majority. nothing about reasonable doubt. stepping back, here is what confounds me. the indictments are detailed. these are cases where they are largely documentary in nature. they are talk about financial transactions. the feds have them. they have gates now cooperating....