taken in that kind of environment. jose barro and nick, thank you all. still to cop, the first midterm season in the trump era begins tonight. democrats are eyeing texas perennially as a state to flip. will it happen this time. i ll talk to the man preparing to take on ted cruz ahead. plus confusion on a nuclear level in tonight s thing 1, thing 2 next. that don t have a lot of time. finally, it was like the sun rose again and i was going to start fighting back now. when those patients come to me and say, you saved my life.. my life was saved by a two week old targeted therapy drug. that s what really drives me to- to save lives.
response to reporting about the existence of an agreement between himself and adult film actress to pay hush money to stop her from speaking about the affair she had with the president of the united states? correct. she calls it intimidation and coercive tactics, i may have misspoken. forced her into signing a false statement. there s an interesting legal question here. and i guess the most relevant precedent is bill clinton when he was sued by paula jones, in which the supreme court unanimously if i m not mistaken to the regretlarity of some of the justices on the opinion allowed that suit to go forward because it was for actions prior to the president becoming the president. presumably the same would pertain here. i m not a lawyer and can t speak to that. it definitely raises interesting questions. sarah fitzgerald, great reporting. many thanks. thanks so much. jose barro writes often
so try explaining what the hatch act problem is to a voter. that someone in the white house did something political. right. while the hatch act is a law, it s a norm. what the penalty is that the head of your agency decides how to punish you. they can fire you, reprimand you. the head of the agency is the president. the law own means what the president cares. it s toothless and this isn t one of the key outrains in the white house. as you say, it s a fine line. for me what it is is symbolic and you understand, you understand why you re going to have larger and larger license taken in that kind of environment. jose barro and nick, thank you all. still to cop, the first midterm season in the trump era begins tonight. democrats are eyeing texas perennially as a state to flip. will it happen this time. from the very beginning . it was always our singular focus,
and i guess the most relevant precedent is bill clinton when he was sued by paula jones, in which the supreme court unanimously if i m not mistaken to the regretlarity of some of the justices on the opinion allowed that suit to go forward because it was for actions prior to the president becoming the president. presumably the same would pertain here. i m not a lawyer and can t speak to that. it definitely raises interesting questions. sarah fitzgerald, great reporting. many thanks. thanks so much. jose barro writes often about the administration. nick confessore is an investigative reporter at the new york times. so the bit about arbitration because the question would be, wa what s she suing for? she has the money. what does she want to get. if they ve initiated a proceeding, this happened with sam nunberg during the campaign. you may remember nunberg was in
but for the rest of the government agencies, the majority of government agencies are only funded about another five weeks through march 23rd. they ll have to revisit a budget bill by march 23rd and that is where the red line will be on dacaen an frankly most of tonight s controversies will be behind us. this isolates the degreer issue for both the democrats but also for the republicans to figure out how to finally settle it or to walk away from a deal. and jose barro, is the legal dynamics on daca change add bit when a federal judge prevented the trump administration from going ahead with their basically stopping daca on march 5th. but that doesn t make recipients any more comfortable with this. what nancy pelosi said in her letter tonight to paul ryan was a request that he do the same thing that mitch mcconnell is doing which is to basically schedule votes on daca and make it kind of an open situation where the proposal with the most