jeffrey: no. i won't say assad remains in power, while assad's policies remain anything like what we have seen now, we will be able an isis-stabilized area in the northeast with the policies we have now, but in the rest of the country, we see isis quite active. they have a presence in idlib and a presence in the southern desert on the other side of the euphrates. we have seen very low capability of the assad regime to defeat isis militarily and assad's policies to his own population are the main ac sell rant to recruiting for -- ac sell rent to recruiting to isis throughout the country. mr. wilson: what's the best way to hold assad and his associates accountable for their crimes against the sishia -- syrian people? what efforts are we making to document his crimes and hold members of the regime criminally responsible? mr. jeffrey: there is a report that's coming up today from the syrian justice and accountability center, there is a u.n. independent agency that is monitoring these things, of all of

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jeffrey: those are our partners.s that were the beneficiaries in the ecosystems -- we are good partners with mastercard and apple pay and all of those things. when we have competitors with other deals, it is to our favor. i know you guys of talked about growth going forward. your leverage levels will be better than some of your rivals. what are you looking at in terms of further m&a? jeffrey: this transaction makes is the biggest provider of payments in the world -- we will not stop there. it is important for us to keep investing those businesses and by way of example i would see more software and integrated markets. more geography in which we can sell e-commerce and omni and more exposure to emerging markets. this takes us from 32 countries to 38 and 60 virtual. 100 is not all of the world. neither is 38. >> this is the third megadeal in this industry. how do you see yourself positioned against your other big rivals? jeffrey: those are good companies but the point of for us as weon are focused on smaller businesses.

jeffrey: everyone dreams of the market.es to talk there is 100 million consumers, look at all of the coffee they can drink. if the numbers for china get anything like, say, hong kong, ou're not talking about 2,000, 3,000 outlets, you're talking about 30,000, 40,000 outlets. massive. so everyone dreams of the consumer opportunity, but underestimates the ferocity of the competition. 1.4 billion people create a lot of competitors. saw companies like groupon, 30 or 40 competitors in a couple months. luckin could get hit by 30 or 40 competitors very quickly. bike sharing is actually a good analogy. that's the most recent example a more traditional business, bike rentals, acting like a tech company. it's kind of like the same in that regard. yvonne: jeffrey, before you go, to talk to you about the is it arnings as well, old tech not catching up with he times, what can they do to turn things around now? jeffrey: it will be amazingly successful in any other country, 20% growth in users and revenue, story. a great 70% of the market.

our guest is miguel tinker salas along with jeffrey sachs.effrey sachs recently co-authored report for the center for economic and policy research headlined "economic sanctions as collective punishment: the case of venezuela." so much is being used against the presidency of maduro, saying he has brought the country to an economic standstill. ,ou make a different case jeffrey sachs. >> it is not an economic standstill. it is complete economic collapse, a catastrophe in venezuela. there was a crisis for sure before trump came to office, but the idea of the trump administration the start has been to overthrow maduro. that is not a hypothesis. trump was very explicit in discussions with the presidents of latin america where he asked him, why shouldn't the u.s. just invade? he said that already in 2017. so the idea of the trump administration has been n to overthrow maduro from the start will stop well, the latin leaders said, it is not a good idea. we don't want military action. so the u.s. government has been trying to strangle the venezuelan ec

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jeffrey toobin.hat the special counsel was not satisfied with the attorney general's summary, that initial four-page letter that he released of his conclusions. i want you to listen to barr's comments on this matter, both from last month and from earlier today. >> did bob mueller support your conclusion? >> i don't know whether bob mueller supported my conclusion. >> reports have emerged recen y recently, general, that members of the special counsel's team are frustrated at some level with the limited information included in your march 24th letter that it does not adequately or accurately, necessarily, portray the reports' findings. do you know what they're referencing with that? >> no, i don't. i answered a question and the question was relating to unidentified members who were expressing frustration over the accuracy relating to findings. i don't know what that refers to, at all. i talked directly to bob mueller, not members of his tea team. >> mr. barr, i feel your answer was purposefully misleadi

welcome, ambassador jeffrey. i've known you for many years and i want to thank you for your time and many years of service doing a fine job. welcome to members of the public and press, as well. i now recognize myself for an opening statement. i view the crisis in syria as one of the greatest tragedies of our time. i have dealt with the syrian issue for the entire length of time that i've been in congress, even when very few people were talking about syria. but now these past years, it's just impossible. it really makes you cry. hundreds of thousands of innocents murdered at the hands of a brutal dictator, a butcher, bashar al assad. barrel bombs and chemical weapons used against civilians who have seen the images of his cruelty on shocking display here right in this room when we hosted caesar, the military photographer, who defected to show the world the barbarity of the regime. millions upon millions more driven from their homes. a massive humanitarian crisis. and from the outside, a clek collective failure of g

we knew so little about him, we called in jeffrey wigand.any times i've been asked how did you get him to tell you the story? how did you get this story? can i tell you, i just called louisville information, such was my skill. do you have a home listing for doctor jeffrey wigand? yes, one moment please. it's like so i just eke in calling him and calling him. of course he was hanging up. he was hanging up. he begin getting death threats from the tobacco company. but more than that, and again and moment which predicts the moment we are in right now, there was an immense campaign and a couple of million of dollars paid to an investigative firm of smear artists essentially to put out a public statement all through the press that he had beaten his wife, he had done this, it than that come he had done this. it was so extraordinary because this public relations man who was really doing it with someone who is close to the editor of "vanity fair." the time i was reporting this story, so he was immediately put on leave, and i will never be able to say

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now, i want to bring in jeffrey sacks ahead of investment strategy for citi private bank thank you for joining me this morning. now, just moments ago on the show, we were discussing morgan stanley's very bearish call on the impact of a further escalation in u.s.-china trade their view is that if the u.s. imposes 25% tariffs on the remaining 300 billion, this could trigger a global recession. you are focused on -- what is an escalation in u.s.-china trade mean to you when it comes to europe? also, at times like this week we see certain sectors being hit in terms of their stock prices on technology this week >> i want to jufrm on to the sector technology now, we are seeing a big bounce back. really cyclicals trading well today. this is a data point that's early trade right now where do you stand on cyclicals versus defensives in europe right now? >> what's notable is some of the erjz down grades were largest in material sector over this reporting season we're turning more cautious on cyclicals and share prices in the sector have been strong. we started to look at some of the deep value s

i want to bring in cnn's chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. jeffrey, how big of a win is that? this one today for house democrats? >> well, it's another very important win, because the legal issue fundamentally is the same as the one yesterday regarding the accounting firm that did the president's taxes. the issue is, is this a legitimate subject for congressional oversight. does congress have the right to investigate this area? the president's lawyers have argued in both courts that this is a purely personal matter. it is not related to any sort of legislation, so congress should not be allowed to get those documents. that argument has now been convincingly rejected twice. and that, i think, is among the wa weakest of arguments that his lawyers will be raising. it's certainly a weaker argument than the don mcgahn executive privilege argument, which is upcoming but this one looks doomed in d.c., doomed today in manhattan. and we'll see if he does any better in the appeals court. >> how quickly could it make it to an appeals court? and could this potentially, eventually wind up

first time in what feels like a blue moon, active managers are doing okay >> which they should >> jeffrey brought up a great point. he's targeting volatility and he went through the example of how a lot of managers are having difficulty capturing yield and he talked about that 5% yield you could capture on a monthly basis by just shorting volatility and there has been a strategy that's been created for the better part of 18 months where it's about shorting volatility i think his views are being implemented in the right place with volatility. i think you look at a day like today, has the vicks pulled off that 19 to 20 level. >> just a little bit, not a lot but that is another opportunity and how about the opportunity before, scott, i mean, this is something i guarantee you, you go back, we talked about for the last four or five months look at volatility trading 12, 13, 14 that is very low that gives you a great opportunity in a market that's hovering near 50 all-time highs, all the rest of that, it's an opportunity to own some of that protection and now if you own some of that, now you can

economics as well as author of russia's geo economic strategy for a greater eurasia we also have jeffrey roberts he's a senior fellow at the helsinki collect for exam studies and a member of the royal irish academy and we have martin folley he is a senior lecturer in international history at yale university are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate before we get started i want to congratulate martin and jeffrey on their new book here churchill and stalin comrades in arms during the second world war. i work in television i love documentaries i love films and i love history and in one thousand nine hundred ninety three the b.b.c. came out with a documentary series the world war one hundred seventy three thousand nine hundred seventy six. documentary that conflict could that could have documentary like that be made today and put on netflix and would people watch it and what would it look like. it was a fantastic documentary series anyone is interested in history a second world war should watch should watch that series ok so you

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mulroy: right, and this is something that ambassador jeffrey, jim jeffrey who is our special envoy says a lot. we're not in a bad situation. that's a strange thing to say considering everything that's gone on in syria. we have a capable partner, they have the territory that controls a lot of the oil resources, and the land for agriculture. and we are there with them. we do expect to be there for the long haul. and our presence, although military presence is only there to ensure the enduring defeat of isis, it does provide our diplomats influence. right? because we have several objectives in syria, only one of them is to defeat isis, when it comes to the pushing for the u.n. resolution 2254, prot ses -- pressing them to go forward which ambassador jeffrey is , there at the helm, having us there in the northeast does provide leverage. and when it comes to pushing back against the iranian controlled militias that are in syria that really have a threat to a lot of our allies, our presence is not there for that, but our presence does allow us a lot of influence when it comes to dealing with

jeffrey, if trump doesn't want war, what does he want?g case where he is surrounded with advisors who charmed him into positions — bolton as national security advisor and mike pompeo as secretary of state — who are much more hawkish than him. he is a bully who does not actually want to fight and this brinkmanship is the way he has done his so—called "art of the deal" through his life. this trade war with china is really a tea party compared to what we see with iran because we are talking about a potential real war and the danger of brinkmanship, as we have seen in the 20th century, sometimes what you start you can't stop, and that is a real danger in this case. trump seems now to be somewhat aware of it, the irony is in all of that anti—obama ripping up the nuclear accord, what does he want? he essentially wants to replicate that. this isjust pathetic. he ran on this "obama sold us and he should not have done it." now he would love to have a deal like that. yes. isabel, what about the question of whether they can, assuming one of the thin

i agree wholeheartedly with jeffrey's point.at minimum given inconsistent statements, and obviously at maximum lied under oath to congress. this all invites the question or the fact that he needs to get up there and clarify it with congress. you know, and work out some accommodation to his testimony there has been this bickering over staff questioning which is actually a quite minor point in congressional oversight matters. get up there and testify, clarify the statements and then we can all move on. we could avoid a lot of this if the justice department -- but again, this gets back to what we were talking about in the last segment. it's all part of an attempt to frustrate congress and not comply with these congressional oversight requests, and we're seeing it playing out here. >> kirsten, do you think speaker pelosi and congressional democrats are actually going to act on this? >> you know, i don't know what they're going to end up doing, but i think they have a very solid case here, and i think that, you know, any way you slic

jeffrey toobin, to me, it seems as if this puts a lot of pressure on william barr.oing to learn a lot about barr in the next 24 hours if he responds to this. he has said he's okay with mueller testifying in the past. now the president says no, so is barr the principled attorney general or is he just carrying water for the president? >> well, that is the question. and we'll need an answer very soon. another development over the weekend was david cicilline, the member of the house judiciary committee, saying it looked like there was a tentative deal for mueller to testify on may 15th. cicilline walked that back a little bit, but obviously, this is a very live issue about mueller's testimony. the judiciary committee wants him sooner rather than later. you know, i don't know what's going to happen. the president is the boss of the attorney general. he has now spoken out. i, you know, we'll see. ask abby phillips. ask her. >> but he's not the boss of robert mueller. >> that's exactly the question that i have. but it's not clear to me that president trump has the ability

what does this sound like to you, jeffrey? here is what it says, this is what john dowd says to michael flynn. "it wouldn't surprise me if you'd gone on to make a deal with the government. if there's information that implicates the president, well, then, we've got a national security issue, so, you know, we need some kind of heads up, um, you know, just for the sake of protecting all of our interests, if we can. remember what we've always said about the president and his feelings towards flynn and that still remains." i find that just fascinating, the psychology of this voice mail to michael flynn. >> well, it raises questions, as the lawyers like to say. the issue is, is john dowd simply saying, look, because you were the national security adviser, anything you say to prosecutors does have national security implications, separate and apart from an investigation. i mean, that's a benign explanation of that message. a less-benign explanation is the president likes you, don't leave the reservation, tell -- tell a story that is h

jeffrey toobin, let me begin with you. the fact, mueller is a registered republican, sw ununanimously confirmed by the senate in 2001, 2011, the president may think he is a never trumper, he never went to the white house looking to be fbi director. those are all important facts. >> i thought those 17 minutes were an excellent case study in the difficulty of covering donald trump because there were so many lies, so many lies, one on top of the other, that if we're doing our job, which is, i think, to try to tell people what the truth is, you know, we would spend the entire hour just going through them. you know, the fact that he's not -- he's not a never trumper, he never asked for the fbi job, he did not have a conflict of interest about business, he did not exonerate the president of obstruction of justice. i mean, all -- and that's just part of -- >> but, jeffrey, you're right. what's interesting, though, is that the president wouldn't spend his time attacking mueller in that way with those lies if he didn't still see hi

jeffrey, we've already heard it. since the mueller report came out, since the various committees want to do these investigations, we have lawmakers on all the time. they seem -- fluk mocksed is not the right word, but at a lost of what they're going to do when these subpoenas and requestion for documents are requested? >> inherent contempt sounds like a robert ludlam novel. the idea that congress is going to throw the attorney general in prison for not cooperating, it's not plausible, not likely. i certainly don't think the democrats want to do that. you can see the reason they are even talking about this is that there has never been this kind of complete blockade before. there have been disputes all the time between the legislative branch and the executive branch. eric holder was held in contempt. harriet miers had a big fight with congress under the george w. bush administration. but a complete blockade, no subpoenas answered, no documents produced, no witnesses produced. it's just never happened before. i don't th

jeffrey, let me start with you. one of the lines i quoted, quote, not a matter of close professional judgment. why do you believe this is so black and white when you read the mueller report, and there is more than enough to indict on multiple felony charges? >> well, when you read the mueller report it's not just one instance of what is conduct that would be obstruction of justice. for example, if you tell a witness to lie, that's enough. that's obstruction right there. if the witness is in a federal criminal case, if you read the statute, it's pretty clear. and what the mueller report describes is multiple instances over a long period of time, any one of which would probably be enough to indict a person who wasn't the president. >> all right, so jack, i want to play what the attorney general said to congress last week when he was asked whether, you know, there was enough there. >> the government has to prove things beyond a reasonable doubt, and as the report shows there's ample evidence on the other side of the le

to your point when jeffrey is talking about what barr's intent was, it's hard to come away from that press conference thinking of what was he trying to do? >> maggie's exactly right. remember at that press conference he said the president was sincere in his upset about being thought guilty. i mean, how does he know? i mean, that wasn't part of the report. that just -- it was entirely distorted. now at least the press conference was followed immediately by the release of the actual report, you know, by a matter of hours so we could see how misleading it was but the problem with the letter was it was only a mag of whatever we could see. >> i want to push back on david's point a little bit. it's not just a question of deciding or not deciding on the obstruction question. it was literally misrepresenting the findings of the report. again, you cannot reduce -- you can't reduce a legal finding to one sentence or a sound bite. that's why the whole thing is 400 pages long. it's not 400 pages of fluff. it's legal analysis that lays out the arguments and defenses. the arguments of here's where

you are on with jeffrey rosen.: i would like to and i believe that this fool that is in the white house has committed more obstruction charges than anyone i have ever seen. he has violated every rule of law under the sun. i don't trust him. i despise him. i think if you want to know the truth, he is the president of white america. if you want to look into up thetion, go and look that were killed in south carolina when obama was president. people came and we kicked their butts. i hate this man. is one thing i heard you say, a very passionate statement about the importance of voting. the importance of african-americans and all people voting. had --ar we professor gates has done a great segment on reconstruction, check out my conversation with him because he gave the most inspiring account about how all -- the 14th which extended equal protection to all persons and citizens in the 15th amendment which gave african-american men the right to vote, the most important was the right to vote and professor gates said frederi

joining us, jeffrey toobin, bianna gol dreeg ga. what we were talking about with jeffrey last hour, some people are saying this is a tipping point to hear a republican, a conservative republican or libertarian republican come out and say that what he sees in the mueller report is an impeachable offense. i think it's hard so spot while you're living it, only in retrospect. what do you think the significance of this is? >> i don't anticipate this as a tipping point. if you look at the response that immediately came from the president, he's making it clear from other republicans that he will damage them politically if he's taken on by them. he has a track record. he has people who were in congress who are no longer in congress because the tweet done was pointed at them. so i don't expect there to be an outbreak of courage or moral character from republicans that's been missing for the last two years, but it is a messaging problem for the president. he can no longer say this is just about democrats and a witch hunt. you now have a repub

jeffrey, thanks. >> pleasure. >>> u.s. president president trump says they have dismissed the investigation. earlier in a tweet, the president referred to it as the russian hoax. and according to cnn, he didn't tell his counterpart not to meddle in the u.s. election. >> i had a very good talk with president putin. probably over an hour. >> reporter: president trump was in high spirits after his first phone call with vladimir putin since the release of the mueller report. >> we discussed it. he sort of smiled when he said something to the effect of, it started off as being a mountain and ended up as a mouse. he knew that. he knew there was no collusion. >> reporter: but his good mood was dashed after a reporter asked if he told putin to stay out of american elections. >> excuse me. i'm talking. i'm answering this question. you are very rude. >> reporter: asked again if he warned putin not to attack or interfere in the next election, the president said it didn't come up. >> we didn't discuss it. we discussed five or six thin

jeffrey: in the short-term yields can go lower.are in a short-term environment where growth forecast are being downgraded. we are also in an environment where there is a flight to safety and german bunds are perceived as safe havens. ,f you take a longer-term view the valuation is unattractive and the ecb has finished their buying program and they've been the main buyer. taking the medium-term view, we are cautious on german bunds, cautious on european sovereign bonds, and we also anticipate negative impacts on corporate bonds, particularly investment-grade bonds in europe looking forward. just to put numbers on that, at the moment, 75% of all european fixed income is trading with the yield under 1%. if you look at the number of bonds that are giving up negative yields, it is close to half of the sovereign bond market. there is no valuation argument for continuing to buy european bonds, and clarity -- including german bunds. sacks. thanks to jeffrey more on that breaking headlines we saw moments ago. deutsche bank and ubs exploring

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jeffrey, the attorney general, bill barr, he's giving some interviews. journal, fox news. i want the play for you an exchange he had with fox news earlier in the day talking about all of this. listen to this. >> the president calls this a witch hunt. he calls it a hoax. would you agree with that? >> as i've said, if you were the president, i think you would view it as a witch hunt and a hoax because at the time he was saying he was innocent and he was being falsely accused. >> are you comfortable using those words? witch hunt, hoax. >> i use what words i use. it was an investigation. i think if i had been falsely accused, i'd be comfortable saying it was a witch hunt. >> jeffrey, what do you think? >> i was amazing by that interview and the one in the wall street journal. it turns out the attorney general is sean hannity and sean hannity is the attorney general. i mean every talking point from fox news gets repeated. he has no problem with calling the fbi, which works for him, a hoax and a witch hunt and donald trump cooperated fully even though he didn'

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jeffrey: he says capitalism needs to be fixed. he says some trick will do it.s another evasion in a way. i don't want to attribute motives. that's another distraction from a the structural things we should be looking at. how workers are represented by unions or whether we are bashing unions, what kind of regulation against monopoly power, those are structural. monetary policy cannot solve that. as a monetary economist for 40 years now, i've been trying to explain there is no magic trick with money that will solve problems that normal policy needs to address. david: we have to talk about venezuela. it seems to be a tragic situation. there isthe problem is a winner take all approach by the u.s. and others right now that says we have to make that regime change and we are going to cross the economy until they agree with this. we put up sanctions that mean they can't breathe. the can't eat because export earnings have been stopped by the united states. you can't starve a population. negotiationncourage of the political forces there so they can start to recover from

jeffrey, thank you. >> certainly. possible your viewing and hearing what you just saw and heard, was the attorney general acting appropriately in his capacity as the chief law enforcement officer for the people or as a spin meister and lawyer for the president? >> >> i think you would have to say it's more of the latter. he was certainly mimicking some of the white house's talking points using loaded phrases. he went to spying again. and he mentioned no collusion. you know, those are the talking points. and it's unfortunate. because, as chris wallace just indicated, the facts are the facts. and mueller's report did itemize 10 instances that could lead to object destructioto --obstruction. for the attorney general to spin it is unfortunate. > >> shepard: you mentioned instances. there were 10 instances mentioned in the mueller report of possible evidence of interfering with the mueller investigation or obstruction of justice by the president. we reported on all 10 of them the day the redacted report came out. and just

jeffrey toobin, chief legal analyst is here as well. you heard the president make the legal arguments why he's doing what he's doing. what did you think? >> reporter: well, i think there are two very separate issues here. the issue of the accountant, the white house has really bad arguments here. i mean the idea that this is outside congress' purview, no court has held an investigation outside of congress' purview in many decades. it's just a losing argument and why that's especially important in this case is that the accounting firm is not under the white house's control. the congress may actually get the tax returns. the president unless he gets a stay from the court of appeals which is by no means a sure thing, he is -- the congress is really likely to get those documents. the mcgahn issue is a very different one. the white house has some good arguments there. that is a very unsettled issue which is the scope of testimony by top white house advisers. there was a case that involving harriet miers, the white house counsel under preside

we have a big guest speaker from the sohn conference visiting with us double it's doubleline's ceo jeffrey gundlach he speaks tonight and will join us tomorrow. we'll get his thoughts our thanks to ron insana here's what's coming up on the "halftime report" from the sohn report in new york city. >> the men and women presenting this morning could be the next wave of investment stars their picks, next on "the halftime report. >>> plus, pete najarian watching the options market on this volatile day he's following several big-name stocks and popular etfs. e "halftime report" with scott wapner and the traders is back in two minutes >>> welcome back several big name speakers at the ira sohn conference. this morning it was all about the next wave of investors and portfolio protection leslie picker is with us live with the highlights thus far les? >> hey, scott. that's right the next wave presenters are seen as the up and coming hedge fund managers. a lot of them talking about the potential for their picks as it relates to china and a slowdown there, as well as how their picks might perform if the

jeffrey toobin is with us. so on this decision by this federal district court judge, you've got a 41-page document. i don't know if you've had a chance to go through it all. but basically sided with house democrats, rejecting the argument of the president and his lawyers that the president's former accounting firm has to hand over all of this information to congress. how big of a deal is this? >> this one's a big deal, because unlike don mcgahn, unlike the white house itself, the president doesn't control this accounting firm. i mean, this accounting firm has the documents itself. and they are going to have to make this decision about whether they are going to comply with this season. that's a very different scenario than employees or former employees of the white house and whether they comply. so, this accounting firm is going to have a tough choice of what to do. presumably, the president will go to the court of appeals and try to get a stay, but if he doesn't get a stay, i don't know if this accounting firm

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for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in amste >> woodruff: finally, something old is new again and still n levant to these times. it has been more tlf a century since harper lee penned "to kill a mockingbird." our well-traveled and multi- tasking jeffrey brown is back again, reporting on the re-worked "to kill a mockingbird" staged on broadway and up for a handful of tony awards next month. it's part of our ongoing arts and culture series, "canvas." ui>> the defendant isn't glty, but someone in this building is! >> brown: it's a new take on one of the most beloved and well-known stories in american literature: "to kill a mockingbird," in aaron sorkin'sy broadw adaptation of the harper lee classic. sorkin is creator of the hit tv show "the west wing," and writer of films including "a few good men" and "the social network," which won him an oscar. when we met recently at the famed sardi's restaurant, he said he'd had two distinctti res when the opportunityin came to "mockingbird" to broadway. >> my heart sank, because is thought, "thissuicide mission-- i'm never going to get out of t

for perspective jeffrey gergen and jeffrey toobin who is back with us.amazing, david, to see him tweet out that russia helped him get elected. it lasted for 43 minutes and 3 seconds. >> it took about ten minutes for white house aides to go racing across the lawn to get to the president sand say you got to take that back, because i'm not sure he knew what he was writing. but nonetheless, i think he did acknowledge something. it was important. but that's the only thing he has acknowledged in a string of lies today. and the big lie here, anderson, they're all lies, but the big lie is he keeps arguing basically he has been cleared, especially on obstruction. and that simply is not true. despite the gloss that attorney general barr has put on it. what we know from the mueller report is that they just simply did not reach a conclusion on whether he had committed a crime or not. and very, very importantly, they couldn't clear him. that the evidence was such that they couldn't clear him. >> and it wasn't that they couldn't reach a conclusion. it's just that they