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Is secrecy. and conducting your advance in a short period of time trying to meet all the criteria required to establish a safe environment, but do it with the highest level of secrecy to ultimately protect and prevent those looking to do you harm, the ability to know what your plans are. >> what you are getting at here,ed the fascinating point, i didnt think of the disaster stop analogy. ill footnote it. the disaster stop, because we dont have the full portfolio of things available to us. if you...

Influence in the trump white house? "the wall street journal" first broke the story. >> part of this is certainly looking at what these donors gave and what they expected or received. but its also partly about what happened with the inaugural committees expenditures. >> reporter: this all apparently stems from the raid on former president trump attorney michael cohens office. according to "the wall street journal," investigators seized a conversation of a conversation between cohen and a woman, ...

>> i think hes playing a losing hand, john. it all started backing with that meeting with nancy pelosi. my interpretation maggie, was that nancy pelosi outmaneuvered him in that will conversation there on national television. he basically backed himself into a corner under her pressure. and said i will proudly shut down the government and ever since then, people have been saying most recently in a major poll that came out today by 47-33, people blame the republicans in congress or blame trump fo...

Staff. we had three times as many staff and we put on four times as many events. so where that money went, i couldnt tell you. >> it has to go somewhere though. doesnt it? >> it ought to. if i were a donor, since they put on so many -- they put on fewer events than we did, the two ways you raise money in an inaugural are by ticket sales and by donors. since they did you know, four times fewer events than we did, thats proportionally a lot less money theyre raising from ticket sales than donors. ...

It because it doesnt have money for a wall it, just deepens the sense that hes just holding out you know, out of stubbornness and ego. >> maggie on the subject of things weighing on presidents mind, abby was reporting before about the stock market. he called from air force one because he was pleased when the market went up 1,000 points. however is, what i think it shows is an underlying anxiety over the huge market swings and particularly the market drop the last month or so. >> look we reported...

Resolution. symone sanders, a subtle shift to that would be this. the president left the door open it seemed yesterday to $2 billion. he was asked three times, would you sign a bill that allowed for $2 billion in spending for border security. if thats the difference between the 1.3 the democrats would accept and $2 billion, did they rick looking like theyre prolonging this just out of spite? >> no, because the president forced the shut down and he is the sole reason that the government is still ...

There was belushi, aykroyd, gilda, lorraine newman. >> i remember as a kid i had a book which was like scripts from the original "saturday night live," i dont know why they published it, but there was something, i cant remember what it was, it was some takeoff on hamburger helper. >> placenta helper. al franken. its unbelievable, ill watch an old show and i can footnote it, who wrote what, who came and threw in that joke. placenta helper is something that the first day when i met al, and he had ...

Well, this is 1977. and the censor comes out and he says, you cant do "ass," it sounds a little crazy now. he says, can you do tush? no. its got to be ass. he was a good guy, his name was bill cloutworthy, and he said, okay, why dont you say put it on every ass but instead of saying in america, say every ass who would buy them. so the word "ass" now changed from being your butt to you being stupid enough to buy them. that he led on. the audience laughed when they heard the word "ass." and they n...

Premiere, "love, gilda." anderson recently spoke with one of radradners close friends fr "saturday night live." >> you and her created some of the most iconic characters, i mean rosanna rosannadanna. >> thats one we did together. there was another one that was created by a lot of people. emily loutella. but she and i ultimately refined it and made it what it was, but there was a lot of hands in that one. >> i remember as a kid, rosanna rosannadanna did something -- you did something on my mom. >...

He would own it, the president shutting down the government, and now the president more or less not negotiating, is this part of a grand vatstrategy? >> no. people who worked for the president over a long period of time will privately say he is somebody who exists in ten-minute kr increments of tim. thats what youre seeing. he did what he had to do in that oval office meeting. i think he and nancy pelosi got something out of that meeting where he said he would own the shutdown. that did not work...