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Would later find out that, in fact, she wrote this in combination working in coordination with the russian government and the russian general prosecutor. so it certainly now is a consistent portrait were getting of veselnitskaya that that meeting at trump tower, work on the magnitsky act, this is being done on part of her work on behalf of the russian government and that of course raises the stakes for that meeting in trump tower. >> congressman adam schiff, thank you very much for joining us to...

>> my fellow americans, we address you tonight for one reason only. the president of the united states having failed to get mexico to pay for his ineffective unnecessary border wall, and unable to convince the congress or the american people to foot the bill, has shut down the government. >> joining us now, democratic congressman adam schiff, hes the chairman of the house permanent select committee on intelligence. congressman schiff, i want to get your reaction to what the president had to say ...

Whatever you want. and for them to take that line on itr today, theyre giving a lot of republicans a very wide door to walk through to join the democratic take on this issue. which is whether or not youre persuaded by the president w saying the same thing over and over again about terrible immigrants, how about we dont shut down the government for any longer? i thinkrn a lot of republicans will accept that invitation from the president because the arent asking republicans to take any serious iss...

Government shutdown actually wants then shutdown. each side is always doing everything they can to avoid it. and so its not surprising that the man whos least equipped to do this job is sitting in the oval office apparently without any tools to get out of this. >> yes. generally, presidents win the shutdowns because presidents speak with a single voice and congress speaks with 535 voices and trump is 535 in politics. in this case, the president in that famous episode in the oval office, what, a ...

Odonnell for thehi next hour he onfo msnbc. it might help. >> rachel, if you need more time to talk about -- >> im good. >> -- the president who said nothing tonight -- >> yeah, im good. >> okay. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thank you very much, rachel. appreciate it. well, in this hour, we have important analysis and necessary fact correction and checking of thed presidents address from t oval office tonight. and even though it was empty in terms of any new comments by the president or any news m...

Address you tonight for one reason only. the president of the united states having failed to get mexico to pay for his ineffective unnecessary border wall, and unable to convince the congress or the american people to foot the bill, has shut down the government. >> joining us now, democratic congressman adam schiff, hes the chairman of the house permanent select committee on intelligence. congressman schiff, i want to get your reaction to what the president had to say today, and what you just he...

Make any offer to solve the government shutdown over the border wall that he wants. and so i saw nothing but a campaign speech or someone just lifted the first couple minutes of the state ofou the union address and tesaid, why dont w dosa that tonight? >> yes. but, you know, its interesting, i didnt know what to make of the request by pelosi and schumer to rebut the president tonight, as if tonightut was a state of theni union. i thought that was -- i didnt quite know what to - expect butt was i...

They spoke right after the president and they said that he is "manufacturing a crisis to fulfill a campaign promise." remember the campaign promise about the wall was mexico is paying for it. so its not really a promise. >> much of what we heard from president trump throughout this senseless shutdown has been full of misinformation and even malice. >> tonight and throughout this debate and throughout his presidency, president trump has appealed to fear, not facts. >> heres a real crisis. while a...

Treat this as a negotiation in good faith in a sense. its not a real -- i think the speaker is right and schumer. they need to insist the government reopen first. you cannot let yourself be taken hostage this way by a president acting in bad faith. and i think the question is do senate republicans buckle, do they separate, do they remember that they are elected by their own constituents, they dont work for the president, and i think they do buckle actually in a couple of days. >> you tweeted the...

By two democratic politicians who are against the wall, that theres a humanitarian crisis that requires the wall as a solution to have that pressure enough american voters for schumer and pelosi to collapse, i dont see that happening. >> i think they will make the case that they have indicated that over and over again that theyre willing to provide resources, resources for what they consider to be a real problem and -- >> just not $5.7 billion for a wall. >> well, but they even were going to cut...