Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Emmen asked that i schedule a meeting with you. I believe youre aware of the meeting, wondered if 3 00 p. M. Or later on thursday works for you. In case you missed it that is a russian government attorney flying over from moscow. It was all about a promise of dirt on hillary clinton. Heres don jr. , how about 3 00 at our office. Thanks for your help setting it up. Those arent Alternative Facts those are just facts, those were the detroits they were looking for. More now on the Breaking News, the president s interview with reuters. There certainly seems to be a dramatic ramping up of the rhetoric of the president when it comes to mueller, his team and the probe overall. We seem to be through the Looking Glass here tonight. One thing can you say about their view of the truth here, it seems to be pretty important to the president when he said to
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a place for free speech and will rally around that. whatever he does is going to get picked up and put out on other outlets, so he ll see that broad reach. twitter is very narrow, as jim points out. what s his pitch going to be for that more broad appeal? well, i think he s made a preview to the pitch for the last several months which is this florida blueprint. this ability to not, as he likes to say, not just be a talker but be a doer. he has a supermajority in the florida legislature and has use the last many months to piece by piece enact a conservative agenda he can take out onto the campaign trail and try to sell to the republican primary electorate first. this is a two-step process. ron desantis is looking to win the republican primary first and then on to the general election. for instance, if you look at the abortion ban in florida, that is a position that even
case hinges on an argument tha the hosts who were skeptical they weren t making th decisions. so, i think that they re prett confident they can go out there, after people testify honestly, and they can say we were not the ones, we did not reall make the calls here. we were just doing our jobs. and that s certainly going t go all the way up to murdaug to was he controlling so, i think they feel like the can other people testify, an they can escape the key thing, actual malice. was there reckless disregard for the truth, and was there knowing disregard for the truth? joyce, your illegal min here what do you think? well, the problem that fo has in this lawsuit is that th judge has already ruled that many of these statements are false. that s one of the elements of defamation case. so, as jim points out, wha
the psychological state of the few residents left in bakhmut is paralyze. could only imagine, ben, really appreciate it. thank you. another story we ve been following, a chinese invasion of taiwan, if it were to happen, would fail and leave the chinese navy in a shambles and cost thousands of lives, that is the conclusion of a war game simulation completed for the center for strategic and international studies. those war games are done to get a sense of how these conflicts would be. oren liebermann joining us now. so this is a simulation. but just yesterday taiwan said 28 chinese aircraft actually crossed into their air defense zone underscoring of course, as jim points out, why these exercises are necessary. what else did it find?