for the special counsel was apparently lucrative.pe tucker. tucker: thanks for keeping track.k. james hansen is a historian. he f is a senior fellow at the cooper institution. thank you very much for coming on. so calculate if you would in nonmonetary terms what you think the cost of these various russian investigations have been to the country. well, i think there are sins of commission and omission because while this is all going on, we have cracked 3% gdp. we haven t done that in ten years. that is not an abstract number. that means millions of people who were not working now have an opportunity. i really see it where i live in southwestern fresno county, it s a human story. the unemployment is 3.7. two years ago larry summers said, this was the stuff of fairy stories and barack obama said you need a magic wand. we are increasing oil production
. this is a very difficult question to answer it has almost become an ideological question in nigeria a lot of migrants and activists say it s the terrible conditions that people have to live in poverty human rights abuses. post specter in general the government on the other side argues that it s the lies of the traffic. you know fairy stories about life in europe that make so many young people leave the country i think there s some truth to both versions definitely a lot of misconceptions about life in europe but the main motivation is. the terrible situation the terrible conditions that a lot of people have to live in nigeria and parts of africa young full of shelves joining us this morning from nigeria young philip thanks so much for your report and for the interview today. we re turning now to the middle east
redefined the rules of the race he s owned hyperbole, he s own excessive statements about himself. which everybody know are hyperbo hyperbole, shameless, keeps on doing it, doesn t feel deterred. he always has to redefine the game so everybody is now in a world where you can say what you want and you keep on saying it s true. the media will attack you but then you can say the media are biased. this is a cycle of fairy stories being perpetrated on the stump. it s really very dangerous. that creates a different question for me. are we reaping what we ve sewn here with trump because we let him say what he says, because it s so entertaining, now when we apply typical scrutiny, it gives another candidate an opportunity to say, what s this about? people are challenging trump. he doesn t flinch from it. he might say it s unfair, not a good question but he comes back for more. it sounds weird in a way that