Alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 president ial election. The twice impeached former president already hit with two other criminal indictments, pleading not guilty. When it comes to the second federal indictment, trump refuses to remain silent. In a social media post yesterday trump threatened, in all caps, if you go after me, im coming after you. Which got a response from the Special Counsels office. Overnight, attorneys asked the federal judge overseeing the case to issue a protective order on trump and his legal team to limit the information they can share publicly about the case. All of this comes as trump faces a trial on four Felony Counts laid out in Special Counsel jack, smith, damning 45page indictment. Those counts include conspiracy to defraud the United States government. Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. Obstruction of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding. Conspiracy against the right to bow and to have one vote counted. That fourth charge falls un
president trump are talking now for the first time since the shutdown ended. agreeing on february 5th, a week from today for the state of the union address. the next countdown is on already ahead of that deadline for a longer term deal to keep the government open, february 15. the sticking point remains money for border wall but some democrats sound more willing to be open to fencing. the nonpartisan budget office today estimated this most recent partial shutdown cost the economy $11 billion, 3 billion of which will never be recovered. back to you. thank you for that report. the fallout over the government s historic shutdown hasn t hurt president trump s re-election chances according to his 2020 campaign manager. politico reports it s bolstered his stance.
commentary editor and writer for the washington examiner. thank you both for being here on a saturday night on a holiday. kelly jane, let s start with you. lawmakers are at home. some are on vacation. president trump keeps blaming democrats for the shutdown, saying essentially it s too bad but necessary to keep our country safe. you know, at the end of the day, it s easy to forget that there are actual human beings that are hurt by this on many different levels. do you think that is lost a little bit in what the president is saying? yeah, the optics here in washington, ryan, don t look that great. i mean, you do have president trump, who publicly in that meeting with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi a couple weeks ago said he would be proud to shut down the government for the border wall. i think since then, maybe some of his advisers have told him that a shutdown is not necessarily popular. but at the same time, you do have nancy pelosi right now vacationing in hawaii. i m not sure
tough financial challenges they face on twitter, using #shutdownstories. in wyoming, ernie johnson says thankfully his auto loan deferred his truck payment in january but if he doesn t receive back pay, he ll likely be evicted february 1st. lauren in pennsylvania tweets that she depended on child support from a federal corrections officer paycheck. without it, she says she won t have the funds for afterschool care or school lunch. and sarah waterson, who describes herself as a marine core veteran on twitter, puts her family s struggle into perspective saying, my children don t care about walls. they do care about having a warm house to live in, a car to ride in, clothes to wear and food in their bellies, none of which is possible if their mom can t go to work. candid thoughts from americans about the toll of policymakers bickering and the longer the shutdown drags on, the more widely the effects will be felt. let s discuss this now with u.s. spectator contributor and
it to him even in the slightest. you know, kelly, there s been a lot made about the president s kind of shifting position on all of this. you know, right now he is putting all the blame on the democrats but we have to remember that he originally said that he would take responsibility for the shutdown. we also know that the senate passed the continuing resolution. the vice president went to capitol hill and told senate republicans that the president would sign it. he then went back on that deal that caused the shutdown. now he s demanding all this money for a wall on the border with mexico and he said repeatedly during the campaign that mexico was going to pay for this, it wouldn t require taxpayer money. how can he credibly blame this on democrats? that s a great question, ryan, and it reminds me of some of the supporters of donald trump when he was a candidate saying that you have to take him seriously but not literally. but you know, he said it almost every campaign event. we re