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On a tuesday evening. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 698 of the trump administration. Just hours ago, federal judge Emmett Sullivan ordered former National Security adviser Michael Flynn to surrender his passport 17 days from now. And he must further tell the court if he wishes at any time to travel outside of a 50mile radius of washington. This was supposed to a sentencing day for Michael Flynn stemming from his guilty plea and his cooperation with ...

Last, whatever it takes he said to get the wall. As he heads to the southern border to continue to make his case, whatever it takes may include declaring a National Emergency to go around congress and get money for the wall. We will talk to a constitutional law expert who declares the president does in fact have that power but there are hints the president may not need to take that step because he signaling hes trying to put together bigger immigration deal that could get the government open and...

A real crisis. A warning from five former Homeland Security chiefs including john kelly all tell ing the president and congress the nation cannot be kept safe if the shutdown continues. The warning gets worse. He cant even calculate the level of risk for travelers right now. And then instead of making a deal today, the president issued a dare to the speaker of the house saying cancel the state of the union address. She did. Now what . Were going to talk to the cham of the caucus. And Michael Coh...

Was watered down to condemn all forms of hate. Bill so the resolution originally spurred, of course, by congresswoman omar series of controversial comments about israel. And there is a ton of reaction on this today. She continues to make these kind of statements and not apologize for them. The question really is posed to Speaker Pelosi. Is she going to continue to keep her on this committee, the committee on Foreign Affairs which ultimately determines the policy of our nation especially as it re...

Our southern border is a pipeline for a vast quantities of illegal drugs. Over the years, thousands of americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country and thousands more lives will be lost if we dont act right now. This is a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul. The federal government remains shutdown for one reason and one reason only. Because democrats will not fund border security. Jesse today he had lunch on capitol hill with repu...

Investigation first. He thinks its important its allowed to finish and the report is credible and he wants the findings to be transparent and available to the public. He took some questions from democrats over what it would take for him to shut down this investigation and he said it would take an overreach by the Current Special counsel, Robert Mueller. Lets listen. Are there any circumstances that would cause you to terminate the investigation or any component of it . Or significantly restrict ...

To his senses and end this shutdown now. Speaker pelosi andry ready to pass legislation already approved by Senate Republicans. Dana peter doocy is live on capitol hill a lot of activity behind you. And, dana, we heard loud applause in the room where republican senators are having lunch, the president and the Vice President walked in a little while ago, about half an hour. I had a chance to ask the president what he thinks about new accusations leveled against him by the democratic leaders, Chuc...

America. Also, new and spectacular example of democrat hypocrisy with a surprise guest to break it down. Of course, 2020 roundup with Elizabeth Warren yesterday and Amy Klobuchar are today jumping in the race. With me tonight, former Bernie Sanders national staffer figaro, townhall columnist kira davis and turning vote usa founder charlie kirk. Charlie, i want to set this up by plane something in the president s state of the union speech because i was optimistic when i heard this clip youre abou...

Attitude that hes being drafted into this job but for the fact he distributed widely his unsolicited 19page memorandum. Right. Theres one thing that i want to say about this mem mo, which wa totally improper in my mind. It is consistent with his legal views for 25 years. He is famous for having or infamous, i might say, for having this propresident ial power attitude. He wrote memos when he was in the olc that lots of people have read. So its not like he has twisted himself into a pretzel to wri...

William barr has been getting grilled since 9 30 this morning eastern time on what he would do if he were confirmed as attorney general, the cabinet overseeing the russia investigation. Hes replacing Jeff Sessions who was fired in midnovember. The former attorney general was basically shown the door for recusing himself from the special counsel investigation and his firing obviously has been a huge, huge issue at todays hearing with barr saying sessions was right in choosing to recuse himself, b...