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Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. There. Its just bad weather, stay there, my friend. Rain, rain, rain. Thank you so much. Joining me now political reporter for the guardian and steph knight, reporter for axios. Ladies, thanks. Sabrina, is there any indication that were getting to the end, the final stretch of whether or not the president will submit to an interview with Robert Mueller . Weve been having the same conversation for months as t...

Is look, you cant expect us to give up all of our weapons when we dont have any real assurances that our security will be guaranteed as a result of it. thats why weve had nuclear weapons to begin with. for us to have that guarantee, we need to have trust with you. and we cant establish trust with you overnight. this is going to take some time. thats what the policy -- i suspect the north korea policymakers are telling our folks but also we have to be aware of this, jon, there is a thin line betw...

Sanctions. one of the centerpieces of the presidents foreign policy. so, you know, pompeo is trying to defend that, i think effectively out there. but its going to be up to the president to say to the north korea leader, hey, youre playing us. youre gaming us. youre not delivering. and to putin, stop messing in our elections. stop getting into crimea. get out of syria. unless the president does that, these leaders are not going to listen to bureaucracy. >> any idea what was in that letter that t...

Extremists, according to senator schumer and youre causing this shutdown. >> first of all, i think it is ironic that statement is made. what is extreme is 15 trillion dollar debt that we are adding to it at the rate of 1.7 trillion a year. what is extreme is government take over of everything from our banks to our hospitals, to automakers. we cant continue down the current path because that is an extreme path. we must be doing something right for these comments to be made. i think it is interest...

But, whos gaming us the senate, house, democrats, senate democrats, senate republicans, whos gaming the american people? >> i think the people who are gaming the american people are the same people in both houses of congress, unfortunately, sometimes in both political parties. who have been content to spend indefinitely, in perpetuity more than we take in. it has to stop. there has to be a plan to bring it to a stop. thats why i think the answer has to turn back on a balanced budget amendment. c...