Masterful disinformation campaign that has been waged here. you had the news cycle dominated last week by the republican memo. articles and articles written about what it might say. it will kind of send a letter to congress to allow that memo to be released tomorrow or saturday. but in the meantime the initial revelations and accusations came out in the first republican memo have been allowed to hang out there and drift. you know, this is part of a larger campaign that the president has launched. it s really interesting that george w. bush who has been nearly silent for so long did come out and say he believes in the elections.
Former trump campaign says he spoke about russia in january of 2017 raising the strong possibility that the fbi intercepted a conversation. page told congress about the call. it has been cast into a new light bannon is not accused of any wrong doing but he is under subpoena from the house intelligence committee and expected to speak next week. all of this is by way of saying we asked kimberly atkins and brian bennett to rejoin us here. why is there not as much around this one and what are expectations about what is in it according to the best reporting? you know you have to remember
He said rand paul and the neighbor that beat him up, he said i understand why the neighbor did what he did. it is not to professional thing to say. he speaks his mind. that just shows you the level of anger republicans have at rand paul right now. the thing they point out is yes, he is taking a stand. he is saying this is not what conservatives should be backing and he is objecting to the process. we just saw this 700 page bill 24 hours ago. no member has had time to go through this before they cast this vote. shu shutting down the government is irresponsible. a lot of people don t aproprovef congress. there is a lot of anger on this. through it all ths not going to change anything. the government will be closed for how many hours? ultimately there will be no change in the text you see right now on the floor. thank you. i know you wanted to report more joyful news than this but i sure appreciate your candor and your
That s the sad part. it s not at work. everybody is like okay. here we go. here we are tonight with less than an hour before the whole thing closes down. here is the thing. i like and appreciate what rand paul is saying. i m sitting here going i remember getting a lot of guys elected to congress. it would not spend a dollar more than we were talking in. you passed a tax bill increased by 1.5 trillion over the next ten years. willing to go back and you ll
Party, i mean donald trump personifies switching back and forth and positions. he gets away with it. what i think members some members care about it more than others. we have seen republican members congress, they can t all get away with the same things that he does. you can forsee a situation where some members are held accountable. let me bring in rachel. she has been standing by. it sounds like the snickers commercial, not going any where for a while. rachel, what have we missed? it is that you could add. so basically we are hearing that republicans and democrats