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Spending bill. u.s. mission to the u.n., and max booth, senior fellow on the council of foreign relations and author of "the road not taken." gentlemen, good evening to both of you. thank you for joining us. one year in, jonathan, of the trump administration and a government shutdown looms. what happened to the winner? what happened to the deal maker? >> there have been other threats of shutdown, so here we are again. we remember them from the newt gingrich era and the debates and that kind of t...

Had, but then he had to be school ld ed by the speaker of house to what was actually happening with the legislation they want. >> a shutdown of the government is a very complicated thing. whats happening now, the worry over this thing. there is a lot of negotiations. max, that was quite a litany you just laid out there. lets see what happens over the course -- >> its pretty accurate of the trump presidency, im afraid, after a year. >> your opinion. very good. >> do you want to finish your though...

>> mr. mcconnell said he didnt know what the president wanted. please respond. >> first of all, the president is not alone in this impasse that were in. theyre advisers, theyre perfectly capable people working within the administration who are working on this type of thing. the president can have his opinion. our president happens to be a person who has reversed decisions in the past. how he decides to finalize this situation, lets see where it all plays out. you know, i hear your attacks. you k...

Committee than the chairman of the foreign relations committee, bob corker. joining us, max booth at the council of foreign relations and adviser for mccain, romney and rubio presidential campaigns and josh earnest, former white house press secretary for president obama and also a msnbc political analyst. and, josh, i always look for ambition in explanations of otherwise hard to explain behavior and im looking at rex tillerson still somehow sitting there beside the president. how long can that l...

>> and, of course, that was steve bannons reaction the night roy moore lost the alabama special election last week. joining us, a political commentator and recently left the republican party and joined the democratic party. max boot is also back with us. and, max, bannonism, trumpism, its been a very bad year. >> yes, it has. and the only thing that i would dissent from, i have no love lost for steve bannon, believe me. i think hes a loathsome, figure in american politics and too much of a tende...

Replacements for rex tillerson. there is no one president trump could nominate to that position who would have an easier time being confirmed by his own committee than the chairman of the foreign relations committee, bob corker. joining us, max booth at the council of foreign relations and adviser for mccain, romney and rubio presidential campaigns and josh earnest, former white house press secretary for president obama and also a msnbc political analyst. and, josh, i always look for ambition in...

Mr. bannon, this is a huge defeat for you. >> and, of course, that was steve bannons reaction the night roy moore lost the alabama special election last week. joining us, a political commentator and recently left the republican party and joined the democratic party. max boot is also back with us. and, max, bannonism, trumpism, its been a very bad year. >> yes, it has. and the only thing that i would dissent from, i have no love lost for steve bannon, believe me. i think hes a loathsome, figure i...

Raised. the people of alabama deserve to have a voice and a vote from a senator they elected. not from a gubernatorial appointed one. and thats why we have called on mitch mcconnell to delay the tax vote. and to enable doug jones the also push for the childrens health insurance program. a major issue in that campaign of concern for people of alabama. and he should be given the opportunity to vote. >> thats something well keep track of. it is the big economic debate in town. thanks for making tim...

E-mails. he forwarded that to his client, a russian pop star and also one of the russians who attended the meeting. and in the e-mail he described the news of the dnc hacks as quote, eerily weird given what they had discussed at the trump tower meeting five days earlier. one of the sources familiar with the e-mail down-played the interaction saying that news of the dnc hack was only surprising because in the run up to the trump tower meeting, don, the russian participants had promised informatio...

Lawrence. heres why. the judge was quite clear. folks cant try this case in the press. at least the parties cant try the case in the press so her expectation is no one was going to comment pursuant to the order. and then this happened. turns out mr. manafort having an article ghost written to appear in the press and to potentially influence folks about what he did or didnt do. so the government did absolutely the thing that it ought to do. you bring it to the courts attention, number one. and yo...