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Its only one appropriations bill and one issue holding things up. thats homeland security and the border wall. the president made clear, he wants $5 billion. democrats made clear they wont go near that. theres a bipartisan proposal that will give him $1.6 billion. nancy pelosi said shes willing to sign off on continuing the funding from the current level, $1.3 billion, through the end of september. you need to bridge about a $3.4 billion gap right now, and thats a pretty big gap to bridge. heres...

Remains to be seen, but thats a persuasive case. >> ken for us, thank you. we have assembled quite the roster of experts here on a monday morning. sometimes i say it and i dont mean it, but this morning i mean it. mimi roka, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney, senior fbi official, jennifer reuben here in person, an opinion writer at "the washington post." all of them, msnbc analysts. chuck, ill start with you. do prosecutors appear to have a smoking gun here as it relates to campaign financ...

>> did flynn know when he was giving information to the special counsel that jail time would not be recommended? at what point did that reveal itself to flynn? >> the first document filed yesterday indicates the sentencing guideline range was already the lowest possible change you can get. zero to 6 months. it is always an open question whether or not the government is going to agree to a sentence as low as no incarceration. its rare but it really demonstrates that even within the zero to six-mo...

Mission. >> joining us from washington, d.c. a white house reporter for the examiner steve nelson. lets talk about president trump not holding back on the special counsel probe. are white house aides numb to this by this point? or do these cause real concerns inside the west wing when the president goes on these twitter tirades and rants? >> i think everyone is a bit numb to president trump just obliteratining norms of presidential behavior with these tweets about the mueller investigation, the ...

Multiple people involved in negotiations, they have fallen apart in the course of the last 72 hours. where things stand at the moment is there will be a brief respite. prael probably a one, two week extension, but many people say at this point, expect a shutdown if theres no shift in the dynamic in the next couple days. >> the question is who gets blamed for the shutdown. betting on both sides. phil, thanks very much, staying on top of that. >> in moments, president george h.w. bush taking his f...

Statements to congress. its basically perjury. thats a substantive crime, not just a mere process crime. and as you were saying, jim, its a pr campaign here. the trump people want to spin that as oh, theres no real substantive crimes going on here. all these process crimes. but you know, when you look at this investigation, the amount of false statement convictions is just unbelievable. i mean, it permeates the entire situation here. and that says a lot about whats going on and also raises the q...

Series of solemn moments this week. the late presidents body just escorted, his casket carried my members of the secret service and his family there boarding a bus. theyll go in a motorcade to the airport in houston where the president, the late presidents body will be flown back to washington, d.c. on a special mission of air force one dubbed air mission 41. present there, we saw neil bush, the presidents son. we saw one of his grandchildren, pearce bush, a number of other family members. we ha...

Who has been in charge of president bushs medical care, all of the medical aides who have taken care of him. and evan said, i think it might be good to get president bush a service dog after barbara had passed. and so sully h.w. bush came into his life. he became a star on instagram. he has his own instagram account. and he was on duty last night in front of the casket. he will be on the plane back to washington today. >> you wonder if he knew that his master was gone. jamie, thanks so much. and...

As we did witness with my mom, that when the body goes limp and theres an empty shell, you know that that spirit and that soul of a great man flew straight up to heaven. so were grateful for the offering of condolences, and im not grieving. im the biggest crybaby in the bush family, but -- and ill probably cry in this interview, but im not going to cry in talking about, this is a moment of celebration of a life so well lived. >> my grandfather lived an incredible life. he lived really a life tha...

Bottom lines. the border wall key here. where does the spending fight stand? the president drew a $5 billion line in the sand. not going to go there. where are the votes? >> it looks like theyll get an extension. it could push it off another week or two. discussions ongoing on that front. you hit at the key front. right now, republicans and democrats are about $3.6 billion apart on wall funding. a lot of mistrust and some degree of animosity between the multiple players in terms of how to find a...