colonel bill smullen, congressman jane harman, thank you. >>> donald trump is giving a deposition today in a lawsuit over an incident that happened during a protest outside of trump tower in new york city. joining me is nbc's tom winter and former manhattan assistant d.a. rebecca roy fee. tom, take us inside this civil case. talk us through what it's really back, what it stems from and what the implications are here. >> you remember the president's statements about immigration, about people from mexico coming to new york city, the wall, very contentious time period. and so a number of protesters had been outside of trump tower on several occasions protesting his statements and his positions. and then september 3 comes along, maybe a day you and i don't remember but an important day in trump's candidacy because that was the day he said i'm not going to run as a third party candidate, i pledge to the gop, i'm with you, period, end of story. so there was a ton of cameras there, a lot of media. he gave a speech on the first floor of the trump tower which is of course where he announced his

delp us put this loss and perspective we welcome jane harman, who served in congress including his ranking house intelligence committee and went on to head the wilson center it is the author of "insanity defense." thank you for being with us. : did face hard national security issues. jane: yes he did.

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