Your eye about passing a tax cut that benefits the wealthiest in our country. Get down to business for of every day people in our country. Isnt that heartwarming anyway. The action is going down just a block from where we are right now on capitol hill. There have been several procedural efforts to tried to find a way out of this mess, including Mitch Mcconnell urging democrats to remove their filibuster just moments ago. Though the end game seems difficult to determine with both facing hardliners that make Common Ground the hardest real estate to find night. Thats a great phrase. And while democrats seem to have taken strength from polls like this one from the Washington Post that Shows Americans are more willing to blame President Trump and the republicans for the shutdown, they might want to Pay Attention to other polls out there with some potentially ominous sounds when people are asked to choose between a Government Shutdown and protecting daca recipients. By the way, people want t
Jordan, kimberly atkins, Michael Schmidt and joyce advance. Joe and mika have the morning off. Good morning to all of you. Lets dive right in. Just days after we learned the special counsel wants to scrap Paul Manaforts plea deal, President Trump is now publicly discussing a possible pardon for his former campaign chairman. In an oval office interview, President Trump left open the possibility of a pardon telling the paper, it was never discussed, but i wouldnt take it off the table. Why would i take it off the table . In that interview, the president criticized Robert Muellers investigation claiming that manafort, roger stone, and stone associate jerome corsi were all asked to lie. If you tell the truth, you go to jail, trump said. You know this flipping stuff is terrible. But i had three people, manafort, corsi, i dont know corsi, but they refuse to say what he demanded. Its actually very brave, the president said, of the trio and im telling you, this is mccarthyism. We are in the mc
furnaces. i happen to see last night at dinner, the chairman of daimler-benz, because of the tariffs of 25% on china they may decide to build a plant in china instead of making them here. i think the president is putting lipstick on a pig to some degree. i didn t have dinner with the chairman of daimler-benz last night. i did have dinner with 9-year-old charlie geist. stormy daniels alleges that michael avenatti sued trump for defamation against her wishes. she s unsure whether she ll keep avenatti as her lawyer.
into and difficult to find your way out of. i think we re back to the rapist charge. by the way, is the president awake? is he watching tv? what s he doing right now? reporter: the lights are on in the residence. it s anyone s guess to what cable tv network he s watching. no, it s not anybody s guess. i got a good guess. we ll be monitoring the day s event. i m jouint by democratic congressman from virginia and deputy news editor alexi common and charlie geist. congressman connolly, you ve got a lot of federal employees, sort of collateral damage, if you will. tell me about what that means to their lives, a lot or a little or i think i represent the third largest number of federal employees in the country, chris. we ve been through this game before.