that in three was reelected to the position yet again just last month mr muhammad pledged as a candidate to reassess china's investment in malaysia and the overall relationship from a more nationalistic perspective the previous prime minister of iraq who was implicated in a massive corruption scandal was seen to be pleased with receiving any and all investment from china on preferred terms including an estimated ninety billion dollars or more from various for various ports and railways and then take political credit for the economic expansion mr muhammad's new government will be reviewing a number of chinese projects that were approved by the previous administration with a critical eye after an audit found that the country debt to be two hundred fifty billion dollars that debt figure is much larger than previously estimated an equal to eighty percent of the gross domestic product on tuesday the finance minister revealed that the previous government had paid two billion dollars ninety percent of the cost to a chinese firm for a project that was only fifteen percent complete more embarrass

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muhammad ali. at the very least, do your homework, mr. president. we do have to point out the president was critical that when we played that clip of him talking about being prepared for the north korea summit, we didn't add what he said at the end, and he was critical, he said, i've been preparing all my life. i'd love to know, mr. president, when was that, when you appeared in playboy soft core porn movie? or when it was when you were leaking information, talking to tabloids about what a great lover you were? my panel, eddie gloud, princeton university professor. where i regularally call and leak information about how special i am. and john allen, national political reporter for nbc news in canada for the g-7, not the g-8, summit. president trump says fixing this deal, talking nafta, will be, quote, easy. >> well, we know that's not true. he said that on the campaign trail. and as you mentioned earlier, we have paris climate agreement. we have ttp. we have the iran deal. now we have this. >> right. he said iran's a whole new country. a whole new w

muhammad you know. just. the thing to do it of a person despite the tone of that interview mr putin did manage to touch on important topics like the north korea crisis and he gave a detailed reply to accusations of russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election in twenty sixteen. pushes. and you just said that mr proposing is referred to as putin's chef and indeed that is his job he is a restaurant owner in st petersburg because but do you really think that a person who is in the restaurant business even if this person has some hacking opportunities and owns a private firm in this field could use it to sway elections in the united states or european country could it be that the media and political standards in western countries have reached such a low level that a russian restaurant owner can sway voters in the european country or the united states isn't that ridiculous thing that if you spoke with a ship wouldn't there is such a person in the united states mr soros who interferes in affairs all over the world and i often hear from my american friends that america as a state has nothing to do with his activitie

mr. mayor, stop saying things that nobody believes that this thing didn't happen. trump told reporters he's considering granting an posthumous pardon to muhammadli convicted of draft evision in '67. here's the president on this topic. >> i'm thinking about muhammad ali. i'm thinking about that very seriously. and some others and some folks that having sentences that aren't there. but i am thinking about muhammad ali. >> what will it take for you to fire -- >> we're doing recommendations right now on frankly we're doing recommendations on muhammad ali. >> here's the thing, the supreme court overturned that conviction against ali in '71. the family lawyer said as much in a statement released to the president "we appreciate president trump's sentiment but a pardon is unnecessary. the u.s. supreme court overturned the conviction of ali in a unanimous decision in 1971. there is no conviction for which a pardon is needed." >> what i would like to understand about this is not just why he's thinking about muhammad ali. >> you know why, he's popular. >> but here's the thing. he has a problem with current nfl players who are protesting violence against

muhammad ali. but a short time later, the boxing great's lawyer nnid that it'sessary because the u.s. supreme court unanimouslys vacated alnviction for draft evasion in 11. mr. trump also said that athletes who protest racial injustice during the national anem should instead offer names for pardons. >> and i'm going to ask them to recommend to me people who were unfairly treated, friends of theirs, or people that they know about. and i'm going to take a look at those applications, and if i find, and my committee, that they're unfairly treated, then we will pardon them, or at least let them out. >> woodruff: the president said his team is looking at "thousands of names" for possible pardons. the special counsel in the russia investigation added more charges today against paul manafort, the former trump campaign manager. he was already accused of money-laundering and illegally lobbying for ukrainian interests. now, manafort and a russian- ukrainian associate face charges involving alleged witnessta ering. separately, the former security director for the u.s. senate intelligence committee is caught rr in a leak investigation. james wolfe wasted and charged thu