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all the way to the very end. he did one at midnight in michigan or wisconsin, i can t remember which state, pushing all the way through. he says he s going to campaign for the gop six or seven days a week ahead of the midterms all the way to the finish line. listen to the president. i am going to work very hard. i ll go six or seven days a week when we re 60 days out and i ll be campaigning for all of these great people that do have a difficult race. and we think we re going to bring them over the line. and you ve seen a series of tweets recently in contested primaries where they re putting their finger on the sail saying this sour guy or gal who can win in november. putting more than a finger. look at the two significant races we talked about one was martha robie in alabama, she was kricritical of president trump n 2016. and now the president weighing in, game changer in alabama.
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going on here. the president tweeted over the weekend he s willing to shut down the government if he doesn t get the money for the wall and some big-time immigration reforms. in the process, he may force republican leaders, that s his own party, and candidates into a fight they don t want to have, particularly with these midterm looming. but we know it is an issue that has been at the top of the president s agenda since he launched his campaign. something he made clear again during his weekly address. we must enforce the rules against visa fraud, illegal overstay, illegal entry and other immigration violations and crimes, and crimes they are, believe me, crimes they are. the president is calling for several things. he wants at least billions more in funding for a border wall. he wants to end the policy of catch and release, which lets asylum seekers live in the united states until their cases are heard. and
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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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levelling at robert mueller. it s much more personal than it has been in the past. the president used to sort of question the genesis of the mueller investigation, suggested there were a lot of conflicts of interest among his team. now he s really going after mueller. this is of a piece with a decision that we re told will be coming very soon in which the president and his legal team are likely to say and there s always a chance it could be different but we re told they are likely to say that there will be no interview with robert mueller. the president has got the final say, but there s pretty much unaminomt. there was question that i was going to ask at the press conference had i been called on. the two people that were called on did not bring it up. there s reasons why, a multitude of reasons why the president s attorneys believe that he should not sit down with him. first and foremost, they believe
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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