committee. he said that trump s primary residence has a blocked number. democrats have raised questions about whether or not it was president trump that spoke with donald trump jr. trump junior testified that he did not recall the individual with whom he spoke with. that s one reason why they asked if thches his father. turns out it was not, according to the information given to the senate intelligence committee. manu raju on capitol hill, pam loo brown ela brown. let s talk about this with my experts and governor chris christie, who has been kind enough to join the panel. that s good news for don junior. one of the things that i love about the mueller investigation and have hated about all the political commentary around it is that bob mueller went to capitol hill, leak central. it s gotten leaked out. mueller has known this, you have to believe, for a very long time. this is why people need to just take a breath on all this stuff.
shares with the firm and in december the treasury department decided not to move forward and they tried to ensure those sanctions stayed in place and push for a vote that just occurred on the senate floor to prevent the treasury department on easing those sanctions. in a vote that was 57 to 42, meaning they fell three votes shy of the 60 that they needed to break a fill buster and move forward on this effort. 11 republicans, because of their concerns about deripaska s concerns that he may get wealthier from this deal and nevertheless, the trump administration shored up republican support to try to kill this effort and still, brianna, watch for the house de democrats democrats to move on this. manu raju on capitol hill for
and why, whether they can actually talk to the interpreter is the actual big question here on capitol hill. they expect there will be some significant resistance from the white house, to assert executive privilege and try to do other try to take other efforts to prevent democrats from getting their hands on that material. it that standoff and that fight will take shape in the coming days and weeks. wolf. these are strootruly extraordinary, extraordinary developments. manu raju on capitol hill. let s talk about all of this with democratic senator richard blumenthal, serves on the judiciary and armed services committee. senator, thanks so much for coming in. thank you. i want to get your reaction first to the new york times reporting that the fbi actually opened up an investigation after the president fired comey, whether or not the president of the united states was working on behalf of russia. then the washington post revealed that the president went to these truly unusual
have been here, several times this week, including top aides to some lawmakers, who are here at the white house, just a short time ago. as we re speaking on it, we re getting some reporting from our colleague manu raju on capitol hill, who indicates that sources say that in that meeting today, baby steps were made, but democrats are now asking for an official justification from the white house as to why they should allow $5.7 billion for border wall funding. apparently, the administration is going to produce some sort of answer for them, between today, and tomorrow. they re set to meet again tomorrow. according to an aide to vice president pence, who put out a readout of this meeting a short time ago, they said there is no in depth discussion about a specific dollar figure for border wall funding. so it appears that progress is being made, because these two sides are at least talking but not specifically on a dollar figure, as you know, ana, the president has demanded $5.6, $5.7 billio
jake? all right. manu raju on capitol hill, thank you so much. will president trump listen to those republicans now pushing to reopen the government without a deal on the border wall? we ll talk to a house republican close to president trump about what his advice is. that s next. stay with us. (baby crying) hold on, i m comin hold on, i m comin