ensure! nutrition in charge! bill: breaking news in the battle over our nation s ballooning debt. days before a major weekend meeting, on our nation s borrowing limit, the house speaker, john boehner, moments ago, weighing in with these blunt words. there is no agreement in private or in public and as the president said yesterday, we are this far apart. and it s not like there is some imminent deal about to happen. there are serious disagreements about how to deal with this very serious problem. bill: virginia democratic senator mark warner is on the senate budget committee and is
america. that s the message that wisconsin is sending to the rest of the country. all right. now, let me bring in our first guest. he is wisconsin state senator john urpenbulk. these events might have heartened you? thank for having me on. i think you might be right. i m trying to put in my mind the timeline. over the weekend there was a weekend meeting in south beloy, illinois, lovely this time of year, and then last night the governor has a press conference with the majority leader just slamming us for whatever reason, we don t understand it. now today the governor releases the e-mails, so i know the governor has had basically about three press conferences for every meeting he sent staff to, so we re trying to figure out if
time for a cnn equals politics update. we are keeping an eye on all the latest headlines on the cnn politics desk. here is what is crossing now. european leaders banding together to urge egyptian president hosni mubarak to make major reforms. the heads of england, france and germany issuing joint statement sake the reforms should be made quickly and include open elections. turning to u.s. politics now, a weekend meeting near palm springs, california is fuelling a heat deed bait over the role of corporate money in politics. at the meeting, billionaire brothers david and charles coke and powerful republicans, including house majority leader eric cantor. liberal groups say the meeting shows how wealth unfairly influences politics. a spokesman from the coke brothers company denies the charge. and early voting for chicago s february mayoral election starts tomorrow.
staff in russia by 755 people. and on the day that trump signed the legislation, dmitry medvedev went on a tweet storm saying the trump administration has shown its total weakness handing over executive power to congress in the most humiliating way. that was five days ago. and we have been looking to see how the transportation would react to this latest move from russia and until today the response had been space basically silence not even a twitter clapback. there has been no response from the administration until today when following a weekend meeting with sergey lavrov, secretary of state rex tillerson announced the next u.s. steps. i told the foreign minister that we had not made a decision regarding how we will respond to russia s request to remove u.s.
administration. a newly minted supreme court justice neil gorsuch was sworn in as the 113th person to join the highest court in the land. amid the bright skies, building clouds of division hovered over the trump administration with numerous reports of senior-level staff inviting, notably involving steve bannon and jared kushner, a simmering rivalry that spilled out into public view but cooled following a weekend meeting. a lot of this is overblown. number two, the reason the president brought this team together is to offer a diverse set of opinions but he doesn t want a monolithic thought process. sensational or not, it s not just kushner and bannon. white house s national security counsel has also been in flux. first with bannon leaving the principal s 20 and now with advisor k.t. mcfarland set to depart to become ambassador to singapore. we are not going to get into personnel announcements. for president trump, who campaigned on a vow to fill the