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. >> should devin nunes recuse himself from the russia vf investigation and do you know the source of his investigation? >> no and no. >> it isn't just democrats raising question s about how hes conducting things. he went to the white house complex one day last week to review classified intelligence reports and then returned to the oval office the next day to brief the president without looping anyone else on the committee. >> this was done because the white house wanted it to be done. this is what a cover up to a crime looks like. we are watching it play outright now. >> nunes says that's not true. he says he had no choice. he says he was tipped off members of the trump transition team were mentioned in intelligence reports and he wanted to review those documents to see if privacy guidelines were violated. >> i've been working this for a long time with many different sources and needed a place that i could actually finally go because i knew what i was looking for and i could actually get access to what i needed to see. i'm quite sure that people in the west wing had no idea that i wa

the question becomes at some point if there's nothing to further vfs, whinvestigate, wha you asking peopleinvestigate. >> how many times do i have to answer this question? russia is a ruse. i have nothing to do with russia. >> so what about that growing list of private meetings with the russian ambassador? trump campaign nsational securiy advisor has disclosed that he too met with kislyak at the republican national convention in july. he emphasized there wasn't any inappropriate chatter to help the trump campaign. he said two other national security advisors were also part of that meeting. fair r more meetings and more denials only needs to more questions. >> if putin likes donald trump, i consider that an asset, not a liability. >>. >> ron brownstein, rebecca burk back with us. ron, we heard donald trump say two weeks ago i have nothing to do with russia. where do we go from here? >> well, you know, obviously there have been business and connections over the years. the beauty pageant. so the categorical nature of the denial has always been extreme. look, the answer is we just don't know.

vf corp. down by 3%. anthem gaining 1.3%. obamacare survives, some trouble still on the horizon. let's look at the government bond market starting with the u.s. two-year and 10 year yield higher on the day, seesawing in this range. green across the board. still kind of a predictable response there with the yield. a sharp pullback with a yields in 10 year south african debt. they have been getting slammed minister the finance looking to be fired. it has not happened yet. lots of stuff going on. today, people buying south african bonds. scarlet: in currency, the dollar is mainly higher there. it shrugged off an earlier debt. the u.s. looking how to penalize countries whose currencies are undervalued. overall, data driving the currency higher. south african turmoil going on politically. the rand recovering some of its three-day plunge recalling the finance minister. what you are referring to is uma faces oft z walkout if he fires the finance minister. mexico raise interest rates. the pesto, the best performing currency so far th

meantime, vf corp. lower, distributor of brands like northface and timberland had a five-year growth plan ahead of a meeting with investors today. they plan to increase earnings between 10-12% a year. it also expects to return $8 billion to shareholders in that time. that stock, though, down 3.7%. >> president trump plans to get tough on countries that gain currencies without calling them manipulators. there's more from washington. >> the administration is looking at ways to penalize countries that undervalue their currencies. this is a way for them to fulfill the president's promise on the campaign trail to talk about manipulation. the terms around this is restricted. they are looking for other ways to pile on the pressure by using existing powers. the agencies involved are the treasury and the commerce departments, also includes the national economic counsel, national trade counsel, and office the u.s. trades representatives. now the review comes as the white house begins speaking about how it wants t

vf is a timing play and apple has not been a timing play. >> chip wilson, by the way, uses that to indictnt management. he says look back at five years and the stock is basically flattened down a little bit. >> he would say the patriots are a bunch of losers because they once lost to the eagles on a sunday night. >> you take a look at the space, jim, you see nike and lulu almost the same. do you pay up for under armour? >> i think under armour is bottoming. i see -- i know that some of the department stores lately have been telling me that there's been a pit cop. i think you did have easier compares. but then i come back and say, you know what, in the end, if you sell into a mall, they're not going to the mall. i feel very lonely at the mall. i really do. not like i need a security guard or anything, wow, where is everybody? >> they're in the apple store. >> or cruise ship, hotel, plane, taking trips. >> it's true. >> it's no fun to take -- >> you're right. the rest of the mall is a pretty more abundant place right now. >> that's the problem. the strip mall is doing better obviously and s

pvh is dragging everyone higher, vf corp., nike, ralph. >> wow, taking up a lot of ones it shouldn't.ears ago, manny made a move to buy tommy hilfiger and calvin klein and wanted to veer away from a mall se naer olympic that could really hurt pvh. what happened? got trapped in a department store mall scenario he saw coming doesn't get credit for. why not? a self-effacing gentleman, i had to drag it out of him about what a bull move it was to go to china and europe especially when europe is in a recession. he's like, i did well. manny, own it! own how right you were. he saw it coming. who else did? name me someone else who saw this coming? >> that's a tough one. it is a top gainer on the s&p. >> as it should be. >> this is what he told jim last night. take a listen. >> i don't know why the value of a manufacturing job that pays $60,000 is more valuable than an assistant store manager making $75,000 at one of these key retailers. i think it's really -- i couldn't be more passionate about how i think this is bad for the consumer, the american tax base. i think this is just ill founded. >