With congressional leaders about the shutdown when he didnt get his way late today and the president walking out set the tone. Both sides addressing reporters afterwards with two very different versions of what went down. It wasnt even a highstakes negotiation. It was a petulant president of the United States. We saw a temper tantrum, because he couldnt get his way. I saw schumer continue to raise his voice. I thought the president was very calm. As for the president , he saved his version of the meeting for twitter. Quote, just left a meeting with chuck and nancy, that total waste of time. I asked what is going to happen in 30 days if i quickly open things up. Are you going to approve Border Security which includes a wall or steel barrier . Nancy said no. I said, byebye. Nothing else works. The problem is is that the person at the center of a negotiation, whether the outcome is whether his government reopens cant just say byebye. Trump has to lead. Just listen to donald j. Trump on oc
up in tonight, a breakthrough in a mystery in the mueller investigation. tonight, cnn has identified one of the law firms representing the mystery company. this company is being fined $50,000 a day because it s defying a subpoena related to mueller s probe. now, this law firm has represented russian interests in the past. obviously, it could be hugely significant. evan perez is outfront. evan, what have you landeearned? erin, as you said, one of the big mysteries here has been who exactly is willing to spend $50,000 a day in order to fight off this subpoena from the mueller investigators? we now know that the law firm that s been representing this company, this foreign company, is austin and bird, and i think we have video of a couple of these lawyers leaving the courthouse. ted keng and brian boone are two of the lawyers. now, back in september, when there was a court hearing before all of this became such a big deal, i actually was just outside the courtroom where they were having