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Menendez wants everybody to back off on the dui issues. he wants everyone to back off on dui convictions for the illegal immigrants as grounds for deportation. and you say? >> 10,000 people per year die from duis. i would rather put it -- id rather put an immigrant in jail for dui than white color bank fraud. its a public safety threat and its threatening the american citizens. dui, over 10,000 deaths per year, thats a public safety issue. >> laura: as always, clarity, we really appreciate it, a...

After all of this, that his supporters will look at this and say, you didnt get very much. you havent achieved your signature campaign promise. thats why i think you see the rhetorical shift from build the wall to finish the wall. hes trying to convince those supporters, to reassure those supporters that maybe were not all the way at the end of this, but were making progress, and i will continue to fight. >> its also implying hes already built parts of the wall, which he has not. when he says fi...

For joining us. >> thank you. >> and i do believe mitch mcconnell is speaking right now. he just said that he hopes the president will actually end up signing this compromise bill. is mitch mcconnell still speaking? hes not still speaking, but thats what he said. he hopes the president will sign this bill. lets move on to the other big story today. breaking news from a federal court in brooklyn. guilty verdicts on all ten criminal charges in the trial of mexican drug kingpin el chapo. this could...

Asking today is the only question that really matters. will donald trump sign the deal? joining me, politicos senior writer and msnbc political contributor, jake sherman. l.a. times white house reporter, eli. and axios national political reporter, jonathan swan. gentlemen, welcome. the president is a wild card because hes always been the wild card. they had a deal before this shutdown. then he said, no. now were hearing a lot of those same voices who convinced him to say no last time around tryi...

Just listen. >> this conviction is a victory for every family who has lost a loved one to the black hole of addiction. this trial has pulled back the curtain on international drug dealing in a way that no other trial has. this is a day of reckoning, but there are more days of reckoning to come. >> reporter: he was found guilty on all ten counts, including international cocaine distribution and conspiracy to commit murder. this was a complex case that went on for three months, as we mentioned. 56...

Barrier. i think a lot of these conservatives in the house will probably hold their nose and give him a pass. maybe theyll vote against it, but they probably wont be on tv, you know, talking about how terrible the president is because most of them are still pretty scared of him. he probably squeaks through. its donald trump. he could change his mind. he certainly theft that open. >> eli, why would he be more apt to sign this bill today or friday potentially than he was the first time around? >> ...

They held back on a huge wall. 1.375 is not a huge amount of money, but they did have to give on detention beds and other elements of immigration policy. frankly, republicans have agreed to this. the president is really in a box here. >> the president has also suggested he might add to the bill. any idea what that could be? >> i interpreted those comments as not necessarily adding to the bill, which of course theyre not going to reopen negotiations. i interpreted that as trump saying hes going t...

Promoting the candidate and savaging his opponents. for more, im joined now by glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor, mclaughlin mar kay, and eli struggles. and katie fang, msnbc legal contributor. thank you, all. this is like l.a. confidential but in the middle off a huge political fight. give this basis of the blackmail story. >> so we reported last week that jeff bezos had opened and personally funding the investigation into how these text messages ended up in "the national enquirer" >> ...

Thats potentially beneficial and lucrative person to have on your side and to have distance between him and the president in very many years, i would imagine you would want to are repair that relationship. >> we have to have somebody challenge him in the next year, so here we go again. its too bad we need you so often. eli, our buddy here. katy, thank you for your site on this. coming up another possible motivation for the "enquirer"s wore, this battle. why the owner of "the washington post" b...

That he wants to leave troops in iraq to spy on iran. is there concern some of the things hes keeping secret really are not good for americas national security? >> thats certainly come up in the conversations i have seen amongst folks today after the story was published yesterday. in theory the white house could make these phone calls and meetings available to the public to be more transparent about what the president is doing instead of after the fact, after the story was reported saying no, no...