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CNN’s Anderson Cooper questions whether Giuliani was getting ahead of special counsel Robert Mueller’s next move.”},{“title”:”Man reportedly hired by Cohen works for Trump ally”,”duration”:”02:11″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”http://www.cnn.com”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/01/17/cohen-trump-falwell-jr-liberty-university-foreman-dnt-ebof-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/01/17/cohen-trump-falwell-jr-liberty-university-foreman-dnt-ebof-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180125012439-jerry-falwell-jr-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/01/17/cohen-trump-falwell-jr-liberty-university-foreman-dnt-ebof-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”Liberty University, which is run by one of President’s Trump biggest defenders Jerry Falwell Jr., is defending a top official after the Wall Street Journal reported he was hired by Michael Cohen to rig online polls for Donald Trump.”,”descriptionText”:”Liberty University, which is run by one of President’s Trump biggest defenders Jerry Falwell Jr., is defending a top official after the Wall Street Journal reported he was hired by Michael Cohen to rig online polls for Donald Trump.”},{“title”:”Adviser: Trump-Pelosi fight is King Kong vs. Godzilla”,”duration”:”03:37″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”https://www.cnn.com/”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/01/17/trump-pelosi-shutdown-military-plane-acosta-pkg-tsr-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/01/17/trump-pelosi-shutdown-military-plane-acosta-pkg-tsr-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181117135520-trump-pelosi-split-1117-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/01/17/trump-pelosi-shutdown-military-plane-acosta-pkg-tsr-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”President Donald Trump said he was denying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a military plane for a trip to Afghanistan that was set to begin in the afternoon, a 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abroad.”,”descriptionText”:”House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer slams President Trump’s decision to deny House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the use of a military plane to fly abroad.”},{“title”:”Erin Burnett scorches Trump’s ‘unpresidential’ letter”,”duration”:”03:30″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”https://www.cnn.com/”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2019/01/18/erin-burnett-monologue-trump-pelosi-childish-unpresidential-sot-ebof-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2019/01/18/erin-burnett-monologue-trump-pelosi-childish-unpresidential-sot-ebof-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190117194018-erin-burnett-1-17-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2019/01/18/erin-burnett-monologue-trump-pelosi-childish-unpresidential-sot-ebof-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/”,”description”:”CNN’s \u003ca href=\”https://www.cnn.com/profiles/erin-burnett-profile\” target=\”_blank\”>Erin Burnett\u003c/a> slams President Trump’s \”unpresidential\” letter to 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