To try to force you, the american taxpayer, to pay for the trump wall. To be clear, a wall that was supposed to be paid for by mexico has resulted in a part s ial Government Shutdown. 420,000 employees work without pay over the holidays and additional 380,000 will be sent home, according to a fact sheet created by democratic staffers. This is now the third Government Shutdown this year, with total republican control of the white house, the house and the senate. And despite donald trump now trying to pass the blame off on democrats, here is what he said. Just last week, during a meeting with Democratic Leaders that he decided to conduct live on the tv. And i am proud and ill tell you, im proud to shut down the government for Border Security, chuck, because the people of this country dont want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. So i will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. Im not going to blame you for it. The last time you
Down for us, but first, lets set the stage for the discussion. If the government remains partially shutdown, the president spent the morning as he often does tweeting in a fourpart message that he threat enned to close the southern border and scrap nafta and cut off aid to guatemala and el salvador and that is by 8 00 a. M. , and he is preaching to the the choir, because the congress has gone home with no plan to end the shutdown in view. Hans nichols at the white house, and Garrett Haake at capitol hill. And now, hans, it seems that i are trying to give up on the 5 billion demand. What are you hearing . They rare not going to get te 5 billion, and they are going back and forth with the negotiations. They have not indicated what the number is, but they have come down. So while there is softening there, but at is same time they are hardening the decision of entire entirely shutting down the border. It is new, and a new element into the discussion about tying the open of the border to th
Democrats, what did he and donald trump know . What was happening in the campaign . And what sort of evidence of crimes does mike ld have. We were just talking about that moment at the july 27th press conference there had is corroborating evidence that he was able to offer. But Donald Trumps long Time Assistant may be able to say okay, she may have even heard the call. To r so both of these men have been liars in the past. Roger stone didnt stay under oath. I think what the president said was referring to missing clinton private emails, but it potentially makes the president party to a conspiracy. Is there hard evidence of it . That is a harder thing to hear in court. I think what was most striking overall in this hearing was that the gop tactic of disrupting it it was pretty successful. If youre not a member of congress and you have to watch all of that testimony it was hard to follow the through line and lots of questions were dropped. Was he there in dwun or not. You do need to be a
The president of the United States publicly denying that hes ever worked for russia. The president of the United States. That comes as the transcripts of closeddoor congressional interviews reveal details of how a half dozen senior fbi officials opened an investigation into whether President Trump was following the directions of russia in the aftermath of the firing of fbi director james comey. Trump called fbi officials scoundrels and dirty cops. And theres more. Weve learned President Trump actually took away his interpreters notes after a july 2017 meeting with Vladimir Putin in hamburg. And warned the interpreter not to discuss the meeting with anybody in the administration. Thats according to a former state Department Official. The president says meetings with foreign leaders are routine and not a big deal. In fact, it is a very big deal when there are more and more questions being raised about why this president seems to be putting russias interests ahead of our own. It can be ha