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We need six months. Go get them. They said give us another six months. I said go get them. Then they said can we have one more like period of six months . I said no, no. I said i gave you a lot of six months and now we are doing it a different way. America shouldnt be doing the fighting for every nation on earth, not being reimbursed in many cases at all. If they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price. Sometimes thats also a monetary price. So we are not the suckers of the wor...

Happy anniversary . Everybody is allowed to. You are absolutely allowed. Happy anniversary. I have to ask you we cover this stuff a lot daily, you might say. But am i look at this week it does seem like much more of an Inflection Point in that its the first time mueller has identified trump Family Members as relevant to filing. Its the first time hes charged on an american lying in a way that helps russia. Does it feel like were getting to an Inflection Point for you or are you just taking it on...

Detailed accounting of how former Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort lied to them and how he breached his Cooperation Agreement with them. Plus were watching this. Mueller is believed to be zeroing in on long time trump supporter roger stone for his alleged role in wikileaks 2016 release of hacked democratic emails. Today stone again denied being a conduit between wikileaks and the Trump Campaign and pledged his complete loyalty to the president. Take a listen. Youre saying you have never spok...

You heard theres a tweet for everything. In this case theres an actual recording, and we are going to play it for you. Also today, bob mueller undercutting trumps arguments about Michael Flynn. In a new court filing. But we begin with Nick Mulvaney coming in as the new chief of staff for the white house. This as Michael Cohen gives his very first nrlt view since being sentenced to three years in prison that trump told cohen to make hush money payments to women even though trump knew it was wrong...

President trumps former attorney general, Michael Cohen, has, quote, gone to significant lengths to assist the special counsels investigation. Mueller goes on to say cohen helped in multiple, quote, significant respects. Okay, so multiple significant respects and in this filing, we learned that there are multiple russia related issues that are core to the investigation. So, let me read to you muellers words here to that effect. This is from page 6 of the sevenpage filing. Cohen provided the sco,...

Pretty major they can do about it. Thats later. But we begin with the growing heat on donald trump in this russia probe culminating in pressure now hitting trumps family. Also Paul Manaforts lawyers today facing off with the mueller team in court. This was a new and separate proceeding. This all comingut of th way mueller yanked and blew up the plea deal because he says as you may have heard by now, that Paul Manafort kept online. So one of muellers top lieutenants Andrew Weissman says he could ...

Yesterday. Well, obviously, over the last 24, 48 hours, things have not progressed. At this point, it looks like we could be in for a very longterm shutdown. As for the president , hes now upping the ante and leveling a new threat. Either he gets his wall funding or he closes the southern border. Thats the new one. Lets get over to the white house now. Boris sanchez is there. Boris, it is starting to sound like theyre getting further apart than closer together. What are you hearing there right n...

The fabric of American Society in 2018, specifically the year in hate crimes, the fight over immigration, washington gridlock, and looming over it all, president donald trump. We have a great panel today. Joe madison is a radio talk show host at serious xm. Theresa kumar is an msnbc contributor. Adrian elrod is the former director of Strategic Communications for Hillary Clinton, and shermichael sing singleton is a republican strategist. We start with the rise of haterelated crimes in the u. S. I...

Patch. He announced it less than an hour ago, two days short of the deadline. The minority leader Chuck Schumer says democrats will support this path. The continuing resolution or cr should avoid a partial shutdown, at least through february 8th. There are a number of unknowns including the exact timing on a vote for the shortterm fix. One thing is clear, though, there is not going to be that money for President Trumps border wall. No word either on whether the president plans on signing this sh...

Racist photo from his medical School Yearbook in 1984. The photo shows one person in black face and the other in a ku klux klan robe. Northam is taking responsibility for the photo but didnt specify whether hes the guy in black face or wearing kkk garb. So far northam has apologized but said he will remain in office. Calls for his resignation are coming from all corners, not just republicans but longtime allies like his predecessor terry mcauliffe, state house and Senate Democrats and the legisl...