>> welcome to inside politics. thank you for sharing your day with us. a busy and important hour ahead. president trump threatened to totally destroy north korea if they didn't halt their nuclear missile programs and he is meeting with the leaders of japan and south korea and the

white house promises a big announcement. we will see, but i think we are making a lot of progress in a lot of different ways. stay tuned. stay tuned. >> plus the special counsel's sweeping request for white house records that began with questions about the trump campaign clearly includes a sharp focus on the trump presidency. >> do you believe mr. mueller is exceeding his jurisdiction? >> i think that's for others to say. what i can assure you is that we are fully cooperating with the special counsel and will to do that. >> and remarkable rescue efforts after mexico's big earthquake while puerto rico is facing the

herculean effort of clean up. the president's big moumt from the united nations in a moumt about hurricane maria. still a category three storm ripping across the ribbian. it battered the dominican republic and expected to dump 16 inches of rain on the island is that that is saturated from hurricane irma. local officials and residents are horrified by the devastation they find. >> i swam out to my neighbors to see how far we can reach and there is a lot of power lines. the whole infrastructure is damaged. it will take long to recover, but we will be strong and we'll rise and be strong again.

>> when she said the infrastructure is damaged, she is not exaggerating. restoring power to everyone may take months. the entire system is down. no one has power. president trump said the u.s. territory is obliterated and vows to visit the island. the president said he approved the disaster declaration. let's go straight to the weather center for the latest on the storm. what can you tell us? >> 115 miles per hour, john. still a really healthy storm here. the hurricane hunter aircraft had been flying through it and not finding it any stronger today. one reason is because it is passing exactly over irma's old path and the water may be slightly colder because it's mixed up by irma.

moving northwest at 9 miles per hour. so far, so good. this is a three-day cone missing everything except the eastern turks and caicos and turning to the right finally and maybe missing the northeast part of the united states. maybe. that's five days out. further than that would be seven or days out and that's not a forecast, that's a guess. possibly out towards the right. it's making the x right now. when florida loses power and the lines go down, trucks from alabama and tennessee converge in one spot. you see thousands of them on the highway. there is not a highway in puerto rico. that's laborious. this will take a long, long

time. >> they discussed and get a better look from the devastation. streets followed by floods. debris everywhere including in the water. the entire island in the dark. give us the latest on what you are seeing. >> it is extraordinary to see how badly san juan has been affected by that storm. and even here the traffic begins to get back to life. as the car passes, you can see someone tried to put up a puerto ricoian flag. th and the absence of electricity will be four to six months. stepping aside from the immediate signs you can see hereof devastation, there is the fact that business and jobs and schools and hospitals will be affected by these power outages very substantially.

that will mess up people's daily lives. people asking us how strong was the storm yesterday. still here people coming to terms with how devastating this really has been. our journey from where it made impact on the eastern coast, landfall about 6:30 and here it went down highway three. and even a landslide in one place. a huge volume of water dumped in a short period of time. much calmer weather here. people here are taking stock of the basic necessities they came to rely on every day when they woke up. no longer being here for the first time this morning.

>> staying on top of that story. let's move on to mexico city and a grim scene. the death toll rising to 250. continuing to put their lives on the line as they locate survivors. you see it there. a woman is pulled to safety at a collapsed elementary school where more than two dozen died. all hands on deck. the volunteers are working through the night scrambling to save a 12-year-old girl they believe is still alive. they are trying to shore up the heavily damaged structure. miguel, any indication the rescue workers are getting close to freeing this trapped girl?

>> it is 48 hours now since this earthquake. we have been out here for the last 24 skmou-hours and it appe be the same. we see people with their hands and fists in the air informing everyone to be quiet. they believe they know the exact location of at least one that 12-year-old girl you talked about. whatever pocket she may be in. they are working from several different locations at the same time. trying to access her from a different location without causing collapse of the building. they did pull somebody out today and unfortunately it was an adult who had died in the earthquake. the death toll here is now at 26 with several still missing and there is still hope that they

will find her alive and possibly others alive. the work here continuing. i will say that just over the last 24-hour, there is clearly much more professional and much more serious effort going on right here at the school. >> we will respect the need for silence and move on. we will keep in touch throughout the hour and hopefully we will get positive news. it's fascinating to watch the heroes trying to save lives. president trump is all bark and no bite said north korea. hi..and i know that we have phonaccident forgiveness.gent, so the incredibly minor accident that i had tonight- four weeks without the car. okay, yup. good night. with accident forgiveness your rates won't go up

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>> we expect that announcement momentarily. the sanctions part of the urgent business and the world is trying to reckon with president trump's threat at the general assembly to totally destroy north korea. the words rattled many, but not north korea. the dog barks and we have a caravan. if he thinks he could scare us with the sound of a dog barking, that's really a dog dream. cnn and the atlantic. we are waiting for the announcement and it's important not only for the had the making it, but he will be making it with the leaders of japan and south korea. we will get to north korea's colorful rhetoric and that's predictable in many, many ways. what can the president do to ratchet up sanctions when his own team has said the united

nations keeps ratcheting up sanctions. you get limited if any results. >> that are remains to be seen. a lot of the backdrop to what we heard is the feeling that sanctions have failed or gone as far as they can and something new is needed. the problem has to be solved. this is the conversation that you heard from the administration a lot. we can't just keep the status quo of tension. we have to solve the problem. sanctions historically have not achieved that result. >> the deal in the room is china. how far they can go related to sanctions that would have a negative impact on china and their economy. the president was threatening drastic things. it is a dangerous game to play and a very thin line to walk as far as how far you can go. the president's team said there are limits to what you can do. you saw the past administration work a lot and try to take it

easy because they thought it was the west way to get them to work on north korea. everything they have done has not helped enough. how far is the president willing to go with the unified front with the leaders of japan and south korea? that will dictate how meaningful today is. >> it's interesting in the sense that a president of the united states is standing in the well of the united nations using words like destroy did rattle people. the pressure on the administration is wait a minute, we know you are looking at military options, but shouldn't you exhaust a few more efforts before you start talking about things like that? it seems like a smart play to say okay, here we are with the two key allies, japan and south korea. we will try again. listen to us because we are running out of patience. >> there is indication that the administration believes they need to get people's attention and force the issue more on china's plate and the plate of others like russia, for example. that accounted for the rhetoric

in his speech on tuesday. today signals that the plan is continuing as predicted. we are in a diplomatic phase and getting more sanctions and the things the state department wanted to do. we are not really in a substantive way talking to military options except to the extent that the rhetoric the president is using is designed to get people's attention at least in some measure. >> there is a contradiction at the heart of this strategy because it does go from diplomacy to harsh rhetoric. you want the world to see it as a collective problem. the un is designed to come together and see north korea's threat as not a problem to the united states, but to the world. from a proliferation problem and everyone in the range of north korea's missiles. what trump did was personalized it.

made it himself versus rocket man. a lot of officials will say that's exactly the opposite of what you want to do when you go before the un. you want to make the case that it's the world's problem and the world needs to step up and solve it. he is meeting with the allies to collectivize the problem jen. that's at the heart of this. with china, they don't see the issue the same way as we do. it's not the same threat. they see north korea and the united states as maybe not equivalent, but problems and rivals that they need to deal with. if donald trump says china, do x, they don't respond very well to that. >> they think they have done enough. they reject the notion that they are the vusolution to this problem. they don't respond well to the idea that it's on them. they are the ones responsible for hurting their own economy to

deal with north korea. there is an impasse here and it has been long standing that we want china to do more and think they can do a lot and china says i think we have done enough. >> they don't teach this way in the school of foreign service, but the president seems to do that on purpose. he likes the unpredictability and confusing people and keeping people guessing. china wants the united states to stop having so many joint military exercises with south korea and japan and perhaps get back to conversations, but the administration is clear. here's the vice president saying if not, we are ready. >> well, let me just say that we have options. there was some talk two or three weeks ago, but commentators, the most powerful military on earth doesn't have the ability to take action to defend our people. that's wrong. we have military action.

>> steve bannon was quoted as saying that. >> we have options. >> steve bannon left the white house or was on the way out and that was the interview that got him fired. you presume he had access to the briefings. the united states has military force that can punish and totally destroy north korea if they want to, but what do they do? the missiles start forming. most people think they will launch an overwhelming artillery attack. >> bannon was not making that up. he was someone who knows a bit about military history. he had access to meetings after he was the principal. he was at the heart of the white house. he was watching that debate from the inside. you want to take someone like that seriously when they say the options are awful. >> it's interesting to underscore the importance of the three leaders today. those would be the two countries

most impacted. it's worth noting that despite the rhetoric of the president and jim mattis talking about military options, we can wipe anyone we want off the map. the repercussions for that for closest allies are too extreme to consider. steve bannon was not wrong. >> you see the room with the secretary of state and nikki haley and the vice president is in the room as well. we are waiting for the president of the united states to come in and make an announcement. he and the treasury secretary right there giving us a bit more than a hint saying new sanctions. the question is on whom and how how far. hr mcmaster as well. they are standing and i would assume the leaders will come in momentarily. not the first president to confront this, but from their standpoint, they are right about this. the icbms, north korea made advances much faster than

developing a missile capable of reaching the united states. they said how good they are at this, but north korea has shown evidence they are getting better if not to the finish line, miniaturizi miniaturizing a warhead. this is a problem that the george w. bush administration and the obama administration. if you listen to the people around the president, they believe this is at the cross roads. >> if you are north korea and looking at the history of the united states as attempts to denuclearize rogue regimes. you look at iraq and libya and iran. iraq we overthrew. libya gave up their nuclear weapons and we overthrew the regime. iran signed a deal and trump wants to pull out of it. that's going to greatly influence whether we want to engage in diplomacy. >> the president of the united

states is taking the table right there and is about to start speaking. >> i am announcing a new executive order to sign that significantly expands authorities to target individuals, companies, financial institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea. as i outlined in my address to the united nations general assemb assembly, north korea's missiles and weapons development is a grave threat to peace and security in our world and it is unacceptable that others financially support this criminal rogue regime. the brutal north korean regime

does not respect its own citizens or the sovereignty of other nations. a new executive order will cutoff sources of revenue that fund north korea's efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to human kind. the order enhances the treasury department's authorities to target any individual or entity that conducts trade in goods, services or technology with north korea and i'm very proud to tell you that as you may have just heard moments ago, china, their central bank has told their other banks that is a massive banking system to immediately stop doing business with north korea. this just happened. just reported. in addition everything else, what we will do is identify new

industries including textiles, fishing, information technology and manufacturing that the treasury department can target with strong sanctions. secretary mnuchin is representing the department to prevent sanctions evasion. the order also includes measures designed to disrupt critical north korean shipping and trade networks. for much too long, north korea has been allowed to abuse the financial system to facilitate funning for nuclear weapons and missile programs. the united states had representatives working on this problem for over 25 years and have done nothing. that's why we are in the problem we are in today in addition other countries not doing what they should have done. tolerance for this disgraceful practice must end now.

a new order will give the treasury department the digression to sanction any foreign bank that knowingly conducts or facilitates transactions tied to trade with north korea and again i want to say and thank president xi of china for the very bold move he made today. it was a somewhat unexpected move and we appreciate it. new authority in this area applies to any activity that occurs following my signature on the executive order which i have just signed. foreign banks will face a clear choice to do business with the united states or facilitate trade with the lawless regime in north korea. they won't have so much trade. this new order provides us with powerful new tools, but i want to be clear the order targets

only one country. that country is north korea. the regime can no longer count on others to facilitate trade and banking activities. many countries are working to increase economic and diplomatic pressure on north korea, but i continue to call on all those responsible nations to enforce and implement sanctions and impose their own measures like the ones i am announcing today. i must tell you that this is a complete denuclearization of north korea that we seek. we cannot have this as a world body any longer. in just a few minutes, prime minister abe and president moon and i will discuss what more we can do working together. we had a very, very close relationship. i think our nations have become closer because of this.

i know it's going to be a great meeting, the alliance with south korea and japan has never been stronger than it is today. we share a commitment to creating a world where strong and independent nations honor their people and respect sovereignty and respect the sovereignty of other nations and promote peace. thank you very much and i would like to ask president moon to say a few words, please. >> translator: the provocation coming from north korea and the japanese people must have gone through a big shock. i believe that the standard is a huge concern that the japanese people may have because of these provocations. i would like to express that i

have been feeling the compassion for the japanese people with this regard. the three leaders have met at the g-20 summit in july in germany and we issued a joint statement. through this joint statement we said the foundation for close coordination with the three countries. based on which we are coordinated closely with the community. and the pressure on north korea. and the leaders that have come together made speeches and we met with the leaders of the major countries with the bilateral and they were able to enhance the understanding of the sanctions and able to create about this situation. this is the out come that we welcome the three countries have

made. president trump just talked about the executive order to which the u.s. is going to be implementing sanctions on them and there is a major announcement made by china to take actions on dprk. such moves will contribute to complete denuclearization and appreciation to president trump and i would like to say korea will closely coordinate with the united states on this matter. through today's meeting, i sincerely hope that there will be a display of strong leadership in coordinating the responses on this issue and i look forward to engaging in discussions for the solution to north korea nuclear and missile problems. >> prime minister abe?

>> translator: in the last three weeks, two times north korea launched ballistic missiles two times going-over japan and they conducted six nuclear tests and the scale of the test was beyond the scale of the hiroshima bombs. more than 10 times the scale of the nuclear test. 10 times more. this is intolerable and outrageous. thanks to donald's leadership, we have a summit meeting between japan, u.s., and korea. our unity and solidarity and the strength that could be presented to north korea. this meeting is quite significant. i would like to thank donald's leadership. recently the sanction was ado

adopted with very strict sanctions and would like to thank the efforts of the un ambassadors from the united states. and further efforts are needed. in this context, donald referred to signing of the executive order u t order, the new executive order. we are going into the viewpoint of exercising stronger pressures. i welcome the new sanction measures of the united states and i would like to offer my heart felt support for that. bearing in mind the measures between the three countries, we will have collaboration so that we will move towards the abandoning of nuclear weapons and nuclear program by north korea and we would like to lead into the next action. thank you. >> thank you very much, everybody. we are also going to be

discussing trade transactions and deals with japan and south korea and that will be very important, but this is something that will obviously take precedence. thank you all very much for being here. >> is dialogue still possible with north korea? or not? >> arms crossed at the end of a big announcement. the president of south korea and prime minister of japan announcing the sanctions by the treasury department. the power for the treasury department to impose sanctions on any financial institutions and individuals that do business with north korea. he said he was surprised with the announcement that chinese

financial institutions should cease and desist financial activities with north korea. that has been a significant concern with this administration as well as previous administrations. let's go to our white house corresponde correspondent. the president was on the floor saying if north korea doesn't change behavior, he will destroy them. now he is trying what you call a financial diplomatic tool. >> yes, indeed. those words are still hanging here at the united nations and throughout manhattan as other world leaders are having their final day. totally destroyed. this is what the white house is described as operating on multiple fronts and economic sanctions putting the squeeze on the regime and convinced kim jong un to drop his nuclear program. we than is not likely at all, but the involvement of china is significant. one leader missing has been the

chinese president. the involvement of china agreeing in the words of this president. we have not heard from beijing on this specifically, but the chinese central bank escalates this certainly. we are going to hear more specifics and details from the treasury secretary here in a couple of hours. a briefing about these economic sanctions. certainly this is something to fill in some of the blanks. put more actions with some of the rhetoric we heard earlier this week. it underscores one point. diplomacy and sanctions are the preferred route over military options. even though the president has seen those and has those, that is not the first choice. john? >> in new york where the president made a big conversation. let's bring the conversation back in the room. it's quite significant when this is targeting only one country, but if you talk about the

individuals that do business with north korea, that means chinese companies and financial institutions and to a lesser degree some russian institutions and smaller players in the asian neighborhood. primarily china. number two, president xi was not there, but the president spoke to him while he was in new york. if the chinese follow-through, that could be the most significant piece of this, not minimizing the new united states, but the chinese piece seems to me from a financial standpoint and if you are trying to continue your regime, that's the bigger one. >> if this is accurate what trump and said they sent out a command from the central bank of china that all the banks need to stop banking with north korea taking no new loans to north korean customers and implementing the sanctions. that's what they were talking about. that may flow from actions that

the treasury department and trump administration took when they started going after china. the strategy of okay, we tried to do things the nice way and we will go after chinese banks that a lot of hard liners encouraged the trump administration to do. this could be the result of this and would be a measure of success. >> what the president's team will say is all you foreign policy establishment people say this is wrong. the president should not have said i will totally destroy you. you shouldn't use lock and loaded and use all of this belligerent rhetoric. they would argue we got china to do something president obama or president clinton couldn't do. >> it's not clear that there is a direct correlation between the rhetoric and what china decided to do. that being said, the risk is that you could lose meaning overtime. when you say something, you want it to have an actual impact.

there is a risk that trump put himself into a box that he can't get out of. he said something that he has to either follow-through on or risk seeming like someone who doesn't mean what he says. you can argue about that all day, but today is about diplomacy. today is about the levers of american power and financial and diplomatic working the way they are supposed to be working. china doing something that is going to be a complement to what trump announced on the american side, we will see how it works. that's normal. this is business as usual and that is separate and apart from the rhetoric and whatever impact that might have. >> to what end is the question. you heard shinzo abe talking about what he called intolerable north korean behavior. a week or so ago, north korea

delivered the response by launching a missile. the next one, you will see how pyongyang responds. the president said the goal here was complete denuclearization. we can focus on today's actions and watch closely to see if china follows through on a significant commitment. if you are the president and the goal is complete denuclearization of north korea, you know the regime's answer to that is no way, no how, never. >> they said they will not tolerate anything short of that. they want the elimination of the entire program. as we heard with a lot of trump's rhetoric, you never know what is threats and what is the line that they will not accept crossing. we know that the regime won't accept that, but if you look at what's happening and you have everything that trump said is true, it's what he promised to do. all we have to do is put the squeeze on china and they will help us get north korea.

that's sort of an example of the america first philosophy saying this is transactional and countries act in their own interest. you can't expect them to do nice things for us. you hit them where it hurts and people and countries and leaders respond to that. the other thing you heard at the end of that was he mumbled a sentence about trade. there had been talk in the administration about ending or amending the trade deals that we have with south korea and that had caused friction. that appears to be getting the exchange, returning to the previous deals that is something the steve bannon access was against. they wanted to pull out of those things. >> if you are a student of history, it's hard to get them in the same room. they had their own tensions and dealing with north korea which is a threat to everybody. the fact that you are having a north korea and japan summit is

a victory of sorts for the president. to focus on priority one here. >> significant. i remember in 2014, i was on a trip with president obama where they were in the same room and it was a huge issue. particularly back to the issues of world war ii. this is a significant issue between the two countries and making sure everyone shows up as a unified front with the pathway forward and given the history there. if what the president said the bank has done, sending a message to the banks has teeth not that they get the message and continue to do business, but they get the message and act on it, that's note worthy and tangible results. they are not in a place where they have said they need to take actions on this. going along with it is a big deal. relating to financial institutions if there is real.

this is a step forward and a tangible victory depending on how much teeth it has for the trump administration. >> we will watch how it plays out and the big question is how they reacted to the speech. they sound like a barking dog to the new sanctions and now to the united states and chinese move as well. up next on the russia investigation zeros in on the oval office and the actions of the president himself. polo! marco...! polo! marco...! polo! marco...! sì? polo! marco...! polo! scusa? ma io sono marco polo, ma... marco...! playing "marco polo" with marco polo? surprising. ragazzini, io sono marco polo. sì, sono qui... what's not surprising? how much money amanda and keith saved by switching to geico. ahhh... polo. marco...! polo! fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. polo!

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welcome back. new details in the rush why investigation. special counsel robert mueller requested information due to the actions relating to the president's actions. related to the firing of michael flynn and the firing of fbi director james comey. the team also wants information about president trump's meeting with russian diplomated where the president reportedly dragged

about firing nut job comey. the special counsel also wants records detailing what happened on air force 1 when they were crafting an explanation for donald trump jr.'s meeting with the russian lawyer in 2016 that promised dirt on hillary clinton. when asked about the scope of the investigation on cbs. listen to this answer. >> do you believe mr. mueller is exceeding his jurisdiction? >> i think that's for others to say. what i can assure you is that we are fully cooperating with the special counsel and we will continue to do that. i made clear that during my time on the campaign i was not aware of any contacts or collusion with russian officials. i stand by that. as i said, we will provide informationed the special

counsel requires, but this is not what the american people are focused on. >> if you spend time covering cops and robbers, this is not surprising per se in the sense that we know about questions about obstruction and why the president fired james comey in his own word when is michael explain went out. the fact that you have sources confirming that the special counsel, he is looking at issues in 2016 and did they have improper meetings with the russians. this is about the president of the united states. actions taken in the oval office that escalates the severity off the charts. >> this is like learning that star wanted the blue dress and going directly at the president for obstruction of justice. everything that you laid out is a piece of a potential case against the president of the united states and couldn't be more serious. his lawyers are taking the tone that pence is taking. they believe that obstruction of

justice will not hold water. that's a tough case as they pointed out and they do seem despite debate they seem to be in an expansive -- we will give mueller everything he wants because we don't think he can prove obstruction, but this is the clearest evidence he is going 90 miles an hour at an obstruction case. >> it's interesting that the vice president is cautious anyway. he was cautious in the house and as a governor. he was asked in your view, exceeding his authority meaning by investigating actions taken by the president. what memos are there that discuss any of this? he goes back to collusion. he doesn't want to touch the issue that the conduct of the acting president of the united states is now central to this investigation. >> i heard so much caution in mike pence, including what he said. i am not aware. that is a errored answer and reflects the fact that he got

caught up in situations early in the administration where he was involved in the back and forth over the firing of michael flynn. he is not entirely in the clear here. that's one of the reasons why some of the comments that he is making now are in an effort to protect himself from further entangling himself in this mess. i think that pence also may or may not -- when flynn was fired and pence was giving answers about what flynn was and was not doing, it's not entirely clear how in the loop he was. pence has brought people on to his team to help him better navigate the situations. i think you saw that this morning in the way he answered the questions and the fact that he is trying to stay as far away as possible. he is not out of the woods when it comes to this investigation. >> the flip episode is an interesting irony. he was fired for not keeping the

vice president in the loop. you can tell mike pence learned how not to go out on a limb for his boss and you can't say something is or is not the case in the administration. you don't know what you don't know and there are secrets and lies everywhere. ironically he seems to want to be out of the loop and distance himself and keep himself clean. his team is working hard to protect him and keep him clean from any other dust. . >> the comey firing to the hill. to be the guy to clean up the answer on why james comey was fired and he said maybe 10 or 15 time, the deputy attorney general was why we were acting and 24 hours later, they came out and said that's not the case. it has been the case ever since. those were not factual answers at the time. ever since then, you don't see him get that far out. >> he is not cleaning up

anything. >> someone fired the white house guy to explain it. >> he ran as fast as he could and kept his distance. when you are talking about something, they are looking at what happened. of course he will ask for these documents. if you think about it including the president, the russian foreign minster is there after he fires jim comey. the reporting for may, he said i just fired the head of the fbi. i face great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. the question is mind set. why did the president fire comey. was he firing him thinking and the greatest mistake in modern american history, was he thinking he was going to slow down or push aside the investigation. you are looking for the do you means. who was in that room?

anyone who transcribed what the president said. what are we talking about? >> the cover up may be worse than the crime. it seems like mueller is zeroing in on what was anything on in the first six or eight months of this administration that might tell us what was going on before. that's dangerous territory. there was not a sense of caution about how things were done early in the administration. this is a reflection of the fact that there were people in the white house advising the president to do something that touched off a series of events where we have a special counsel and who knows who else went on that mueller will dig and dig and dig until he finds anything that will lead him where he wants to go. >> let's go from the air force one meeting.

his son is trying to explain about this 2016 meeting. they promised dirt on hillary clinton and he released the chain and said i know they promised me dirt, but at the time he was trying to issue a public statement to respond and that was not accurate. the president was involved in helping him. he was flying on air force one and now the communications director and the aide and an intermediary in the room. was there a first or a second or fourth draft? what was said? all those records go to special counsel. >> what matters is not what the roars are, but what's in them. the point of an investigation is to collect the evidence and determine what it says. what's going to matter is the contents of whatever the do you means are and whether the investigators determine based on the law. whether the contents prove the

case one way or another. they don't know that yet. that's the point of getting it. >> the move, the impact on people in the white house that were at the meetings and around the meetings who might have notes and e-mails. you mentioned the clinton experience and i remember the tension it causes when the special counsel is saying i want everything. >> there has been a sense of caution for a while in the white house about documents and sensitive information being distributed. i will say that i don't know that that sense of caution was there early enough. i think there are probably a lot of documents that detail what happened and mueller will find things he didn't know were there. it's not until reinedly that fo that they needed to be more cautious about how and where they said it. >> paying hundreds of thousands of dollars and the president's legal fees.

a lot less resources. >> pressure on the financial degree. >> fascinating to watch as we go forward. >> they take us there after a quick break. (vo) do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light. do not go gentle into that good night. ♪ ♪ ♪

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