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force base once air force one to come over, the wall street journal published that story saying president trump was not only aware of the payments made to women to get their silence during his presidential campaign, that he was involved in every step of the way. now that is not what his legal team says. they are denying that. that is what the wall street journal, who has been reporting on this largely ever since earlier this year, has said. the president is dealing with both of those issues, but also some issues he s creating of his own. as the votes are still being counted after tuesday s midterm elections, president trump accusing election officials in arizona and florida of rigging the vote. now the president said exactly what he believes is hasn t said he what believes has happened but suggests recalls, re-elections in states that he doesn t think votes are being counted accurately. a federal official getting involved in the state elections. so the president has all of this
m.j. lee, cnn, new york. all right. joining me now, reporter and co-author of politico playbook daniel leadershipman, and former attorney for district of georgia, michael moore. welcome. i want to to talk about the hush-money reporting in a moment, but i ve got a u.s. attorney in front of me. i want to start with the new acting attorney general. let s put up the op-ed co-written by george conway, husband of kellyanne conway, in which the title is trump s appointment of the acting attorney general is unconstitutional. on the question of constitutionality, where do you stand? you know, that s it s a great question. i think there s a general debate about it. the bottom line is there has to be a determination of the law, whether or not the attorney general is a principal officer. and if so, then that requires senate confirmation. that s essentially what the op-ed said. so there s a reason for that. it s so people can look at somebody s background, determine if they have the cha
through overnight, that aggressive, belligerent tone from the american president. and so macron as the meeting began chose to craaddress it immediately in a way he said it shouldn t be a threat but it s about burden sharing. have a listen. i do share president trump s views that we need a much better burden sharing within nato. and that s why i believe that my proposals for european defense are consistent with that because it means more europe in nato, more capacity, in order to take our part of the burden. i think it s fair and important. i appreciate what you are saying about burden sharing. you know what my attitude s been, and we want a strong europe. it s very important to us to have a strong europe. whichever way we can do it the best and most efficient would be something that we both want.