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A border wall as the president had demanded. louisiana republican congressman steve scalise joins me now, and it is a pleasure to see you. thanks so much for joining us. >> good morning, maria, always great to be back with you. maria: do you expect to have border wall funding in the next the three weeks before the next deadline? >> i sure hope its going to be part of a final agreement and, you know, while president trump said were going to give you another three weeks, kind of calling the democr...

The other by the republicans. and its been a thorny issue for a generation what to do about border security. its been very, very tough figuring out how to do it. the notion that the president was going to bowl his way through in one house of congress is always a little fanciful. >> sarah sanders tweeted out in 21 days president trump is moving forward building the wall with or without the democrats. the only outstanding question is whether the democrats want something or nothing. any indication ...

Government germanys evoque business confidence index has fallen for the fifth month in a row analysts predicted it would decline but its been falling faster than expected also germanys economic growth this year will be considerably lower than originally forecast according to fresh government predictions in its annual report out next wednesday the government says it expects germanys economy to expand by only one percent this year the divers link to join the lng exports which are pegged to the coo...

Indictment depicts stone moving communations to seek channels, and repeatedly threatening a witness preparing to come clean. whether or not he made contact remains a mystery. did stone manage to get real information on the information stolen or was it all just a bluff as he now maintains? either way theres reason to suspect he hasnt finished with roger stone. this morning they spent hours seizing files and other items here in new york im joined by independent journalist who writes about national...

Well as to other parts of south america. the administration took the rare step this week of declaring that they believe that guaido is the actual legitimate president of that country. was that a good move >> well, there were elements of what the administration did that i thought were well executed. they worked in concert with other latin american countries. i think theyre right to indicate that maduros re-election last year was a shammed marred by voter fraud. i have concerns with skipping ahead...

Emails missing. i think youll be rewarded mightily by our press. >> when they released the first batch of podesta leaks -- they sent a text message to stone that read well done. indictment depicts stone moving communations to seek channels, and repeatedly threatening a witness preparing to come clean. whether or not he made contact remains a mystery. did stone manage to get real information on the information stolen or was it all just a bluff as he now maintains? either way theres reason to susp...

Government until there is border wall money. nancy pelosi will not give a dollar towards that border wall. do you see that glimmer of hope and what would an off-ramp look like? >> i think it really depends right how who puts forward a proposal that calls the other sides bluff successfully. what we saw yesterday in the senate was the two proposals, the democrat and republican one, trotted out and now we know where everybody in the senate stands and it will really be senate republicans that will h...

Pushback. cnn learned that the presidents team believed that the speaker was only suggesting the address be postponed. so they decided to call her bluff. pelosi then pressing her advantage late last night tweeting i hope by saying near future you mean that you will support the house passed package to end the shutdown. >> lets bring in sarah westwood live in washington this morning. good morning. we are still stunned about this late night tweet from the president saying it is her prerogative. and...

So for that opportunity to be taken away from him at a time when he wants to press the advantage what he seesoped that pelosi was indeed bluffing. that is why yesterday we saw the president call her bluff. they had believed that the state of the union all along had not formally been called off, that she was simply suggesting that he delay it in order to perhaps put some pressure on him. that is why he then stripped her use of government planes to fly. but at the end of the day pelosi does have t...

Pelosi. i mean i think this president thought that maybe he could just run over nancy pelosi, that he was so sure of himself, that no one thought the possibility he shut the government down, that she would just shut him down like shes doing. how do you think hes taking that? >> well, i sort of think about the time that my kids complained to my wife about being sent to bed early at 7:00. and the next night they went to bed at 6:00. so they were really surprised when that happened. i think the pre...