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an enigma, and prime minister churchill, meet vladimir putin. he is really much very much a leader, and he has done an amazing job. so smart. and he doesn t have a soul. and vladimir putin is a thug and a murderer and a killer. he is the richest man in the world. hundreds of billions of dolla
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we re talking about men s suits, andrea. men s suits at $25,000 a pop. i don t know. peter alexander, you know more about men s suits than i do. you can also tell me about donald trump s tweets, because this has been a storm of tweets today and it s been a rather creative one. he is also tweeting about al capone. he wrote, looking back on history, who is treated worse, alphonse capone, legendary mob boss, killer, and public enemy number one, or paul manafort, political operative and reagan/dole darling, now serving solitary confinement although convicted of nothing. where is the russian collusion? i m not sure who his target is there. reporter: andrea, the president has a series of targets today, one that s clear is attorney general jeff sessions in some of those earlier tweets when the president went further than he has been, more explicit than he has been at any point, basically calling on sessions to stop the russia investig
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continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. this is a threat we need to take extremely seriously and to tackle and respond to with fierce determination and focus. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders told nbc news today that president trump instructed his team to speak at today s news conference. asked when the president made the request, sanders didn t respond. and it s important to point out, just last friday the president met with his national security council on election security for less than one hour. after the meeting, the white house released a statement that said the administration would not tolerate foreign interference in elections. but it did not mention russia by name.
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love trump or whether you disdain him, i think everyone can collectively agree that his relationship with the truth there s a major disconnect. there was one report i saw said he told 2100 lies since office. another one said 3,000. another five a day. another ten a day. if you sit down with mueller, if they don t have obstruction, we don t know whether they do. he s tweeting. his state of mind is all over the place. he could say he fired comey. if they don t have obstruction and there is no collusion conspiracy, it s conspiracy, but the fact is you can get him on perjury. so why take the chance of going sitting with mueller no matter how smooth you think you are, no matter what you think you can say when you re going to get caught in a lie because you will lie because that s what this president does, period. harry, so far mueller hasn t moved on this demand that he wants trump to sit down in person. this negotiation has been going on since january that
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to bomb them. so to keep that negotiation lukewarm at best, and to continue chipping away at the international sanctions regime. this sanctions regime as we learned from the u.n. report is like swiss cheese, there are so many holes in it. north korea is violating the import ban, the export ban, they re selling conventional arms to bad actors in libya and yemen, and we know that china and russia are very supportive of lifting sanctions on north korea while all of that is happening, so north korea s best bet is let s keep talking to the united states, let s keep producing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons, and keep trying to get china and russia to pressure the united states to lift sanctions in the interim. and speaking of russia, pompeo s warning to enforce north korean sanctions, given that russia uses a lot of workers from north korea, will russia listen to that? and what s really going on with
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