social media maduro claims trump is orchestrating a coup to steal venezuela s oil and intervention would lead to a vietnam worse than they can imagine. comments made by virginia governor have late term abortion have drawn heat from prominent republicans across the country. during a radio interview yesterday the democratic governor and pediatric neurologist defended efforts to lift restrictions on third trimester abortions using a hypothetical situation using a severely deformed newborn. in this particular example, if a some more in labor i can tell you exactly what would happen. the infant would be delivered. the infant would be kept comfortable. the infant would be resuscitated if that s what the mother and family desired and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother. so president trump said the comments were terrible and said
with thefi daily caller the president said he ll leave decisions on how to handle mueller s report to the justice department. when asked whether he would sign off the president said they will have to make their decision within the justice department. they willwi make their decisions to whatir to do. trump said he had not spoken to matthew whitaker about the impending end of the mueller investigation declaring flatly i never spoke to him about that. i would say that after almost two yearsth it certainly should be. the president also weighed in on the recent w raid of long time ally roger stone s home.to he was asked by the daily caller about the force that was used in the raid and whether it was appropriate for the fbi to do that in a white collar case. the president said quote i q thought it was very unusual, you know, iua stayed out of that whe situation because there was no collusion. the president went on to say this. there was nothing done wrong and frankly i could have weighed in
had access to the committee s transcripts two sources familiar with the matter tells nbc news. back in december the intelligence committee agreed to release roger stone s transcript. undocumented worker who worked for president trump s golf club new jersey is going to attend next week s stein. the washington post was first to report that victoria morales who publicly disclosed her immigration status was invited by bonnie watson-coleman. her office and morales attorney confirmed her plans to attends. in december morales told the new york times she had been working for trump s golf club for more than five years illegally. this as the trump organization faces criticism, of course, for its failure to check the work
russians. joining us from washington, world news editor for axios. dave, good morning to you. hope you re staying warm this morning to say the least. as we well know the president has repeatedly said moscow is not a s threat to the u.s. but know now mueller s findings yesterday appear to prove otherwise. what is russia hoping to gain from meddling in this ongoing investigation? forg russia this is all abo muddying the waters, spreading confusion and division. i do think we have a situation here where when mueller comes back with something there will be a big chunk of the country f that says it s fake news or it was a witch00 or the democrats do worse. i think that s the kind of thing that the russians are trying to encourage here. theyo don t want this to be viewed as an impartial investigation. they want to it be viewed as something that s drummed up against president trump and against russia and spreading this kind of fear of russia and so this information kind of further that ca
status of its employees. as the president calls illegal immigration a national crisis and demands funding for a southern border wall. dave, yesterday we saw the first meeting of this conference committee on homeland security, meeting on capitol hill, 17 members gathering together from the house and senate. seemed democrats came to that unwilling to talk about wall funding. where does that leave republicans if that s the salvo from the democratic side? right. the big picture is the same. trump says i won t sign anything without funding for a physical barrier. democrats say we won t give you that funding. if this bipartisan group can t reach a deal there s three option. one is that recognizes break ranks with trump. one is trump declares a national emergency to get funding for that wall and throws it to the courts. the last one we get another government shutdown. i think mitch mcconnell is really hoping this bipartisan group comes back with something