All important approval rating. This time trump is using his Budget Proposal to demand Congress Give him 8. 6 billion. Trumps budget for a better america claims to keep the promise he made to supporters and build the wall of the southern border and promises to put taxpayers first. In reality, it is u. S. Taxpayers wholl put the bill for a wall that trump vows that mexico would pay for. The president wants to slash domestic programs that vulnerable citizens rely on, including 1. 5 trillion medicaid which he said he would not cut. You are saying you are going to have a 5 domestic spending cut and reportedly you are going to ask another 8. 6 billion from dhs and the pentagon to build the wall, so is there going to be another budget fight on the wall . I suppose there will be. I would say the whole issue of the wall Board Security is paramount important. Hes going to stay with his wall and the broader security theme. I think it is essential. Chuck schumer on surprisingly criticized the request. President trump hurt millions of americans and caused widespread chaos when he recklessly shutdown the government trying to get an expensive effective wall which he always said that mexico would pay for. Congress was forced to reopen the government without getting his wall. The same thing will repeat itself if he tries this again. We hope he learned his lesson. What does the president stand to gain by taking up a battle that he already lost. Joining me, halie jackson and garret haake and the author of the Washington Post power up the newsletter. Halie, is the president trying to Campaign Starting with this budget . Reporter yes, some of it is about 2019 and the idea that the west wing of the white house is going for a fight with democrats. He wants to talk about the border and keep it front and center with this congress and this house controlled by democrats because he and his political advisers see it as a winning issues for him. Keeping this front and center is something that the president think it is going to be an advantage for him down the road. One of the themes you can look at in addition to this critical border wall money ask, is also the idea that the president breaking some promises he made. This budget cuts medicare significantly. He says relatively quickly and possibly within eight years. This budget would take twice as long to be able to do that. Thats one of the themes that you will see here when Sarah Sanders come out for the briefing. Lets talk about that, this is the first time in 42 days. Why today . Is it because they want to sell this budget . Are they launching a new initiative to push back . Got quiet so i was making sure nobody was walking behind me. Part of it i think is that, this is budget day, this is something that the white house had been focused on. This is a budget had been delayed because of that shutdown. The deadline have already come and gone. This is part of the white house wanting and hoping to highlight this budget. If that is, it is been all over the news, i think this morning and today and theyre getting what they want as far as it relates to this discussion border wall money and the controversy around it. Democrats are saying hey, this budget are dealing essentially. It is more of a wish thats not unusual to President Trump and president s in the past who had their budget presented over the hill and they died a death from the hill as well. Of todays briefing, i dont know if this had anything to do with it but it is the first day of bill shine of not being the communications director. I think well see more briefings. Here is what hes calling for. 8. 6 billion for wall funding, raising the defense spending to 750 billion and cutting 2. 7 trillion in nondefense spending. Garret haake, how are republicans taking this . Quietly. It is fascinating. This budget has been savaged by democrats on capitol hill. You are talking about the chairman of the Appropriation Committee have issued these statements where they say thank you for your contribution, this is something well review and well look forward to talking to you more about it in the future. The president ial budget, i call it fan fiction. It is not that it is not important, it lays out a lot of what the president s priorities are and the way he governs. It is not zboigoing to happen. It tells us what he cares about and what he wants to talk about. 8. 6 billion for the wall ace small amount of money for the federal budget. This white house does not have any other legislative priorities right now. There are not big things moving through the republican control senate. There are big white house champion pieces of legislations that are coming through these halls right now. They would love to have this fight and they are relatively alone on that right now. Congressional republicans recognize there is nowhere anywhere of close to 8. 6 billion is going to be spent on this wall now or the next fiscal year. Is there anything of infrastructure here, is that a priority . I think it is in the 200 billion range if i am old enough to remember when the president was talking about a trillion dollars. This is a running joke on kplil. A capitol hill. We start to talk about whats the infraStructure Plan will be. It is always this unicorn of a possible something that perhaps democrats could work with this president on. So far there has not been a realistic Structure Plan presented by the white house. The white house would rather not find some deals that he could work with democrats on because maybe it does not sell as well in 2020 and he wants to put himself against the democrats as this fighter to continue with this image and i am always fighting for you which he has been trying to sell for his supporters now in 2016. There are parts of this budget that he promised he would not do. One of them is slashing medicare. Yeah, there are some Campaign Promises that the president is breaking here. You would know that better than anyone. Garret is exactly right. This is not just a budget that where trump is looking for a fight with democrats. It sets him up to be fighting with his own party again and explicitly sets up a fight comes september when the resolution to fund the government expires. We may have a Government Shutdown all over again. Depending on who you talk to, the timing for the president is procare yo p precarious. It could be a good thing for him going into 2020 election and send a message to voters that hes still dedicated to obtaining 8. 6 billion. At the same time come september, the Mueller Report could be out and house investigations could be far in advance and the president could be in serious legal trouble. What happens next . What happens now that they released it . Thats a great question. This white house does not have a ton of legislative priorities. Thats why it is important that Sarah Sanders come out today because the president wants someone out there fighting for legislative priorities which is the border wall. More immediately we have a big vote on thursday, which is the senate is going to be voting on the Termination Resolution for the Emergency Declaration that the president had called for to secure more immediate funding for this wall. Thats going to go down and the president is going to veto it and they wont have enough votes to over turn the veto. Exactly. It could set potentially a bigger Supreme Court battle. This month, we are talking about solely this wall. Good to see you, everyone, thank you very much. Joining me now the chairman of the budget committee. Congressman, thank you for being here. What message do you think the president is sending with this budget . Well, i think katy, it is interesting they call this a budget for better america. Theyre given up on great and now just better. The message that the president is trying to send is that he does not believe that the federal government has an Important Role to play in areas such as healthcare and education and even in medical research because these budgets making cuts in all of those areas. I was listening to your commentato commentators, i think they are right on. He knows hes on solid ground with his base and he knows the other cuts are recommended are things his base would not like. If he wants to make it all about the wall, are democrats are going to work with him and all when it come to the wall . Hes singularly focused on it. Do you have a democratic wish list of things you would trade for portions of the wall to get done . Well, of course one of the deal that was discussed way back was solution to the dreamers and comprehensive immigration reform, i dont think thats going to happen. I think we had this battle once and we won that battle and i dont think we want to have it again. Well proceed with the priorities that we have which is the Affordable Care act and make that system much more stable and work on infrastructure. We already worked on a program to revitalize democracy. We are prosoceeding with the agenda. In the budget sense, there is little support on either end of the capitol or either party for the kind of spending level on nondefense discretionary, that the president is proposing. The t presidepresident is be that hes focused on his wall. If the president is so focused on the wall and if hes not going work with you without a wall on healthcare or on infrastructure, is there a way to negotiate with him in order to get healthcare and obamacare backup top fix those problems in exchange for parts of the wall . It is a good question, senator mcconnell has not been successful in trying to negotiate with the president on this. I am not sure if there is any opportunity to do that. It is really kind of a shame because one of the things that the president s budget talks about which we are interested in is getting a handle on Prescription Drug prices. There is an area that we can Work Together on. Infrastructure is another area. We think his proposal is inadequate but at least we have the same goal. We ought to be working on things like that rather than just arguing over something again. The signs have been clearly drawn and we are not going to get anywhere on this. Is this the 2020 battle beginning now . That battle started long time ago. Is the president trying to say here is what i am focused on, defense spending and here are what democrats are focused on, bigger government and more money for taxpayers. The president is looking out for all challenges, the Mueller Report and southern new york, all of those investigations in congress right now and hes saying whats my goto strategy and thats to go to my base and talk about the things that i know my base would be happy to hear and try to divert attention from issues going on around it. Congressman, john yarmuth. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has taken the podium. Still ahead, are those voters they think they need most in the midwest. First, what this weeks court action could reveal of Robert Muellers end game. Your brain changes as you get older. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. It is a busy week for the Mueller Investigation, that can give us some clues of where it is headed. Roger stone will provide a report of details of how he cooperated with a gag order preventing him to speak publicly about this case. Manafort will be sentenced for the second time in washington, d. C. On conspiracy charges. And well get a sentencing updated on Michael Flynns case and roger stone goes back to court on thursday for a tightening on his gag order and on friday, well get an update on gates on when his sentence will go down. G joining me, doug burns and darren sanderson. To you, darren, everything thats seen in court could be clues about the Mueller Investigation and where it stands, what can you tell us . Oh no, we dont have audio. What could they tell us . Everybody has been talking about concurrent verses consecutive. Hes going to end up doing 94 months. When the previous sentence come out, it is very hard to say what shes going to do. She has a slightly harsher tone towards the case. This is conspiracy to defraud the united states. Yes, i think she will lock on some of it. We have manafort and rick gates and flynn in court. Those are very important because of the way you teased it up. Well learn from that. Are they at the end of their cooperation, are they ready to go forward. Well find out both with flynn and gates and you have roger stone thing. There is two issues, one is some kind of potential trial date for him which is helpful to know and two, his gag order thing, he went in there and the judge reeled him out, dont do it again because we are back for another rodeo. Darren, i think your mic works now. We have been following and talk about february being the month and Robert Mueller going to come out with his report but there are questions about whether or not hes done. If it turns out that gates gets a sentencing date and flynn does as well, will we know more about where the investigation stands . I think if we did get sentencing dates for rick gates and Michael Flynn for the end of this week, thatll move the ball considerably, the biggest cooperators that Robert Mueller have been able to notch are no longer cooperating and ready to move forward with sentencing. We know Michael Flynn will be testifying in a case involving his business partner. It is possible that at least for Michael Flynns case, hes going to continue to provide information at least in court. That suggests to me that one place where they may want to hold off a little longer with respect to Michael Flynn. With rick gates, it is hard to tell as well. In the inauguration case, he was the key figure that helped tom barrett to organize the inauguration. It is a little unclear whether rick gates have been tapped out as well. Well get a little bit more of a sense. He could hang onto both of those. Do you think we are done with seeing indictments . Hard to say but that raises an interesting question. Wait a minute, for the sake of argument the Mueller Probe ends, whats going to happen . You will have cases of individual u. S. Attorney offices. Theyre going to disperse. Number two, you will have skeletons there. After all, they have the finish the cases that are not finished. What about the dojs budget darren . We saw last year there was a mark in there to tell us that mueller were expecting to spend roughly the same amount he spent in the first year. One of my colleagues is in the doj reading, it happened the last hour. Well be watching closely so see closely and see how much is being spent by Robert Mueller. Thatll be a separate report thatll be coming up. Well get a guide whether theyre anticipating spending a lot more money here the next year. Darren, i know you have been following the other story, chelsea manning, refused to testify in front of the jury. What does it have to do with all the case we have been watching, filing that has bealluded us al. We got a tease of it in the mistake in filing a couple of months back. It is unclear whether the wikileaks that was charged under seal and going back further to the Chelsea Mannings leak or Edward Snowden and rather than something directly dealing with Julian Assange and the Hillary Clint clintons and john podesta. Until we see the indictment, we wont know whether it is the same. It would indicate to us this is an investigation that stretches back much further. One other thing, this is adam schiff on meet the press this weekend talking about Robert Mueller. If indeed mr. Mueller decides not to issue that subpoena or figure out how to get the president in front of that grand jury, is that going to be a mistake considering we have so many questions about whose testimonies should you believe, Michael Cohen or donald trump . Yes, it is a mistake. I have said along that i dont think mueller should rely on w n written answers. Here you need to be able to ask questions in realtime. So chuck was asking him if mueller needed to see the president in person. Right. And Adam Shichiff says yes, did. I do agree as a lawyer of 33 years, it is a huge difference of getting written answers verses in person. It is not going to happen. What does it say the strength or weakness of this case then . It tells you a lot. I dont think hes going to be able get the president to do an inperson interview and etcetera because of swirling emotions on the executives and things like that. They can try. That means muellers investigation is going to have a hole in it . Not necessarily. You dont hear from the target of the investigation. It depends whether i have the evidence to convict so it does not matter. With Hillary Clinton, they did interview her at the end. And if donald trump is a target, we dont know that. Dug burns. Thank you so much. Plus, you may want to learn how to pronounce his name because you may be hearing it a lot more. 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