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Hold. threshold. see what they can pass and send it over. >> dana: and what about the meeting with the cia regarding the saudis. >> theyre being tight lipped due to the sensitivity about the information. we saw the senior director on the hill earlier today. this comes as law makers are considering a variety of actions in reaction to the saudi behavior. the next chairman of the senate foreign affairs committee says they will take a close look at this complex relationship. >> many, many questions,...

Words in the oval office today. they did not force him to say, mexico is not going to pay for the wall, and so i need ten democrats in the senate. instead, the president lied and said he could easily pass a bill through the republican house of representatives and get a majority of the senate to vote for that, the republican senate. thats not true. they probably could not get a bill through the republicans in the house and the senate. and instead, the discussion today seemed to be a discussion ab...

After the cameras left between schumer, pelosi, and the president. this is a president who wants to signal to his base hes fighting, even if the ultimate deal is to do some kind of border security that doesnt reach the $5 billion threshold. so if he doesnt get the $5 billion he wants, he wants to be able to say, i fought. >> okay. shannon, you know this better than i do. shutdowns are real. somewhere theres a cdc researcher who has to put down his experiment and go home. somewhere theres a fores...

Reach the $5 billion threshold. so if he doesnt get the $5 billion he wants, he wants to be able to say, i fought. >> okay. shannon, you know this better than i do. shutdowns are real. somewhere theres a cdc researcher who has to put down his experiment and go home. somewhere theres a forest ranger in the high sierras and shes on overnight fire watch and she goes home. trying to support three kids before christmas. theyre real when youre a federal employee. is there any support that you can meas...

Place simply because of this troublesome parliamentary threshold of 60 votes in the united states senate. but thats not why this meeting was taking place. this meeting was taking place for the same reason that donald trump is an unindicted coconspirator tonight in the michael cohen case in federal court in new york city. because donald trump lied to american voters. donald trump directed the illegal payments that michael cohen made during the presidential campaign, and then lied to the american ...

This discussion play out in front of the cameras, when he uses that sort of language in a reuters interview, it underscores the presidents political strategy which is always to rouse his political base to keep them with him. he wanted to have the democratic leaders captive, talking to white house officials today, he wanted to be seen as combative on behalf of immigration policy. its important to note the feeder here is this fight, this clash among the three of them. remember, hours later pelosi ...

Man who is the president of the united states. and so they did not force donald trump to wrestle with his own words in the oval office today. they did not force him to say, mexico is not going to pay for the wall, and so i need ten democrats in the senate. instead, the president lied and said he could easily pass a bill through the republican house of representatives and get a majority of the senate to vote for that, the republican senate. thats not true. they probably could not get a bill throu...

Russians were offering the trump campaign, cooperation, synergy, they said, politically. offers of business cooperation. we know that there was interest expressed from the trump campaign side. they took all these meetings. they never said no, never reported it to the fbi. and then repeatedly lied about it. you have that. what do you need from there to meet the threshold of a conspiracy? >> well, a conspiracy under the laws of the united states means that two or more people agree to violate the l...

Invest in border security. lets do immigration reform. but lets get to the business of the american people and stop the nonsense about the wall. >> two things. yes, they are in control. but they do need, especially in the senate, its got to beat the 60-vote threshold. just by the math, they need democrats. but does that mean, then, that if -- would you come to the table and would you be okay with $1.3 billion or $1.6 billion in border wall funding? >> no, were for zero dollars in border wall fun...

Base may demand of them or punish them for? >> first of all, now that you have a democratic majority in the house and they have the gavel, they should have additional hearings and get to the bottom of these issues. it may be that the court up in new york, the federal court in new york as well as the other independent mueller investigation will be proceeding and bringing new facts to light, but that can be augment and strengthened by the house democratic majority holding hearings on the things an...