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You mention ed abramoff. i would go back to the democratic national convention scandal of 1996, when the democratic national convention had an extensive effort to solicit and kind of ignore foreign money coming into dnc coffers. foreign money in elections is not a minor issue. and it's not kind of the disgusting business of lobbying, as usual, which was abramoff plus. it is a very big problem. it's a problem that has plagued this president for quite a long time. so to have another tentacle of that is quite serious. >> and yet another tentacle is the new subpoena of energy secretary rick perry....

Had at the white house since the 28th of january. that's when they came out to talk ab venezuela. these briefings have become special events. so we're all looking forward to this. the acting omb director will come up to talk about the budget, which democrats said even before it was released is dead in the water. the reason for that is because the president is asking for 8.6 tkdz billion to bill a border wall, $5 billion will come under the dhs, 4.6 will come from military defense. total of 722 miles of barrier along our southern border. customs and border protection comes up with some projecti...

Federal workers not digging in as all. we begin with john at the white house. >> reporter: i should point out vice president, secretary homeland security, acting omb director just completed one hour pen and pad briefing with reports on where we are in terms of the government shutdown and fight over border security. vice president saying day after christmas, the white house made what he called a good faith offer to democrats to say listen, we'll take $2.5 billion for the wall as part of border security package. vice president saying democrats wouldn't entertain the idea and in talks over the we...