i want to start with garrett haake, you are in the center of the action. we ve been hearing from lawmakers. to my ears, i don t hear any break in this gridlock. what s your take at this hour? . reporter: yeah, you with choose your own news here at this point, depending on who you re talking to. i m outside a meeting that s been going on susan collins office and the democrats coming out have said no comment, on made vague comments like there s been progress. lindsey gram just left. he s been probably the sagele-most key negotiator. he sees some of the dynamics as potential something to be optimistic about, specifically this idea that the senate would be able to move forward sometime
optimism their close to turning a corner. the work will continue at least until tomorrow. just to drill down on the point you make, they are considering essentially the deal that seems to be gaining the most team is this short-term three-week deal. so the question is why would democrats go for thi
hillary s lawyer. i wonder if they made him help the choice. t the president steered clear of this topic during his event at the white house today designed to highlight economic numbers. as trump wrapped up kristen welker asked him about michael cohen. is michael cohen telling the truth? is michael cohen telling the truth? is michael cohen telling the truth? as we say it s been ten times now the president has ignored reporters questions since the cohen audio first aired tuesday evening. there s only been three white house press briefings in the entire month of july. on the cohen front politico reports the president advisors have been taken aback by cohen s no holds barred approach and his willingness to publicly reveal potentially devastating details of his private conversations
with the president. asked to describe the mood among trump s close confidants, one person close to the president replied simply not good. trump is enranged over the cohen revelations. emily jane fox who
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a source says michael cohen is prepared to tell robert mueller that donald trump knew about that meeting before it happened. he did not participate in any meeting about the russia transaction. the president? the president did not. i m happy to tell him, he wasn t there. he wasn t at the meeting. the meeting with the russians. how can you be sure that the president didn t know beforehand? you re saying it s just a he said, he said. nobody can be sure of anything. earlier this evening, a long time former trump organization employee said this about the possibility of such a meeting occurring without trump s knowledge. based on my experience working with trump and everybody that worked for trump, something major, something newsworthy, something press worthy, would always go before trump. always. i think that he would have told donald about the meeting and then if it didn t amount t
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at low containment. bill: it s a big job. probably something we deal with all week. thank you live in redding, california. sandra: president trump raising the stakes in the battle over the border wall threatening to shut down the government if he doesn t get the funding he has been demanding. the president firing off this warning a short time ago tweeting quote, i would be willing to shut down government if the democrats do not give us the votes for border security. which includes the wall. must get rid of lottery, catch and release, etc. and go to system of immigration based on merit. we need great people coming into our country. doug mcelway live at the white house this morning. doug, an interesting tactic to see a republican president embracing the prospects of a government shutdown. it sure is. history has shown that whenever there has been a government shutdown in the past it is the republican party that takes the blame for it and i
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i had an aide next to my ear nearly screaming within the last several minutes when the president was with the italian president in the oval office but it s an example of just how hard they are trying to keep reporters from asking the president questions. obviously they can t be do that in the news conference coming p up. you may see the president with the investigation, the president may be tempted to call on somebody in the friendly conservative media to lob a softball at him. we ve seen him try to do that before, wolf. it s one of these q&a questions. two questions from american questions, two questions from italian journalists, is that right? that s right. obviously the president at some of these two plus twos, one thing that we ve noticed is at the very end of it, this happened at checkers with
mueller and the special counsel calling him out by name. there are some glaring factual errors in his tweet