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The wall. I believe mexico will pay for the wall. I have a Good Relationship with mexico. Were negotiating nafta. In some form mexico will pay for the wall. But mexico will not pay for the wall and that is why the American Government is on the verge of a shutdown. Donald trump humiliated himself to everyone with a High School Level understanding of government when he first said mexico will pay for the wall. And then he got personally humiliated on the telephone with the president of mexico when ...

Vote. >> you need unanimous consent to do that. you need cooperation of all 100 senators. although republicans would look silly if they tried to block democrats from letting them have majority threshold on a bill they claim is important to have the government open. >> sam, i want to go back to the president flying out of town and if the vice president flies out of town, then you know that they dont think theres anything that they can do here. but the president going to florida just completely le...

The democrats. whether or not theres a shut down is entirely up to them. >> daniel dale, paul ryan seems to have forgotten about the president of mexico who was the first person who stood in the way of paying for the wall. >> and hes omitting the president of the united states who rejected a bipartisan deal after saying he would sign anything braugtd brought to him. i agree with sam. theyre going to blame each other. some of the arguments are rational, some are not going to be. but its clear to ...

Only six democrats voted for the bill today. joining us sam stien, daniel dale is also with us. adam, how do you see this play unfolding on the senate floor tonight? >> one of the things youre seeing tonight is more manipulation by mitch mcconnell because one of the secrets of the senate is it can move very fast when it wants to. the bill that came over from the house could be voted on tonight. but theyre trying to show they can defeat it and leave another day in negotiations. and a day in negot...

Vote. >> you need unanimous consent to do that. you need cooperation of all 100 senators. although republicans would look silly if they tried to block democrats from letting them have majority threshold on a bill they claim is important to have the government open. >> sam, i want to go back to the president flying out of town and if the vice president flies out of town, then you know that they dont think theres anything that they can do here. but the president going to florida just completely le...

The democrats. whether or not theres a shut down is entirely up to them. >> daniel dale, paul ryan seems to have forgotten about the president of mexico who was the first person who stood in the way of paying for the wall. >> and hes omitting the president of the united states who rejected a bipartisan deal after saying he would sign anything braugtd brought to him. i agree with sam. theyre going to blame each other. some of the arguments are rational, some are not going to be. but its clear to ...

Of tragicing democrat votes but only six democrats voted for the bill today. joining us sam stien, daniel dale is also with us. adam, how do you see this play unfolding on the senate floor tonight? >> one of the things youre seeing tonight is more manipulation by mitch mcconnell because one of the secrets of the senate is it can move very fast when it wants to. the bill that came over from the house could be voted on tonight. but theyre trying to show they can defeat it and leave another day in ...

Having an fbi agent saying we are going to indict you as a way of trying to get someones attention, to flip them and, you know, flipping people is largely about convincing them that you have overwhelming evidence that will prove their guilt and will send them to prison for quite sometime. the other tactics that mueller and his team are engaged in, to me, strike me as aggressive tax ticks to use when people are not being cooperative or you think theyre going to destroy evidence, for example. and,...

The complete distrust and disunity within the trump white house. i mean, thats what it tell us me. if you are concerned that your colleagues are wiring a wire. if you are hiding documents from others of people on your team with a locked safe, what it tells me is you dont trugs any of the people youre working with and that is exactly what a prosecutor wants. federal prosecutors want to divide and conquer. they want to pit people against each other so theyre pointing the people against each other....

Beast" reports is preparing for a million dollar or so legal tab. lets turn on our lead-off panel on a monday night. carolyn ryan is with us, assistant editor for "the new york times." sam stien, long-time political journalist, politics he had for for "the daily beast." and ron a dough measure ratty, a former federal prosecutor who wrote this piece for politico that got our attention today, titled how to read bob muellers hand. he says currently a lawyer in private practice, we should add. good ...