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Along with several european countries as well i should point out opposes this project because they say that it essentially hands power and leverage to russia because of the issue of the way the gas flows through europe a lot of it currently comes through the crane that would be so that means that this project essentially bad the ukraine is back to some other countries like poland where gasoline. and so thats thats one solely debate the other thing is people point out that america may well be kee...

The u.s. want to slap sanctions on firms involved in this pipeline what the united states along with several european countries as well i should point out opposes this project because they say that it essentially hands and leverage to russia because of the issue of the way the gas flows through europe a lot of it currently comes through the crane that would be so that means that this project essentially bad for ukraine is bad for some other countries like poland where gasoline flows and so thats...

To transfer gas via ukraine as it is doing now this is important because ukraine and russia have been in the conflict for the last couple of years largely over the eastern part of ukraine and despite the animosity until now russian gas still goes through ukraine serves as a gateway for russian gas and ukraine relies on transit for some transit fees from russia and also has some political leverage by them so its interesting though to hear those comments from the u.s. ambassador to germany how ser...

Comes at a crucial time, harris. bag secretary sonny purdue knows they need the folks in washington to come together and resolve their differences. >> the impact first farmers typically has been the farm service agencies running out of funding, and they are closed. we are working to see if we can get some relief in that area. the shutdown needs to end, thats the real answer. >> meanwhile, the democrats remain recalcitrant. chuck schumer saying this on twitter -- "why wont president trump open th...

Foreign power unwittingly. because what the fbi fundamentally wants to know is what leverage does a foreign policy have over you? what is a foreign policy doing to affect the national security of the united states? but criminal investigations have a beginning, middle and end. the threshold, do we open the case? the middle, have the egs, the end, chargers or no charges. the national security terrorism allegations, there a threshold, open the case, middle, and the end -- there is no end. the end i...

Julia ainsley and former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense, also msnbc national security analyst, jeremy bash. and in birmingham, alabama, former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor joyce vance. its great to have you to talk about a very momentous weekend in news. jeremy, i want to start with you and just from kind of a broad perspective, did this headline and news about the counterintelligence investigation, should it change how we view the mueller investigation overall? >> no...

>> and out for himself. >> and hes been out for himself and he was in debt millions of dollars to some of those people. i think the question here is one of motivation, was manafort trying to show these people he was close to trump and therefore could give them access? that would suggest manafort was, as you say, out for himself, or was he doing it in order to try to give the gru information they could use in a social immediate ka campaign with a little intention? that might suggest there was a b...

>> absolutely. theres no place for that in the republican party. theres no place for that in the u.s. congress. we were a country that was founded on different races, different nationalities, different religions. we, the republican party, led a civil war to free slaves ultimately and preserve a union. this is not the party that should accept that. i think the leaders will step up. tomorrow i guess theyre having a conversation with steve king. you know, this obviously reflects badly on anybody. b...

On this and his often past of looking out for himself and trying to look out for himself, not perhaps very well, i dont think we can assume from this trump knew and there was some coordinated effort to give the gru information. >> and perhaps the republicans had leverage over paul manafort as well. congressman costello, can we talk briefly about the political implications here? at what point do republicans decide this is all too much? weve seen obviously the ones that are left in the house are m...

You know, this obviously reflects badly on anybody. but anybody can call themselves a republican but it doesnt make that the values of the party. >> frankly, sir, before i let you go, the government you have has broken with your party and said, okay, we should try and reopen the government. do you see any path forward right now in the congress to reopen this government? >> yeah. the path will start when we all start acting like adults and we talk to each other and we quit using shutdowns as leve...