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he has a pattern. what the pattern we have from donald trump is a lot of times he ll lie about something that happens and he ll do what he wants to do. all of this i m convinced symone i ve convinced her. i think you made a lot of progress with symone. all that matters, what will this mean if the president does meet with special counsel and asked about this? if he gives answers he s been giving to the media and others, it may not go well. our coverage continues right now, cnn tonight with don lemon. this is cnn breaking news. it is bombshell breaking news on the russia investigation, really. this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. this is hugely significant. the president, president trump ordered robert mueller, the special counsel heading up the russia investigation fired this past june. and the only thing that stopped him was when his own white house counsel don mcgahn threatened to quit rather than carry out the order. this story was first reported by th ....
champagne down pennsylvania avenue. there are only two places where america s popping champagne; the white house and the corporate boardrooms including trump tower. the gop tax scam is about bleeding the middle class dry to pad the pockets of corporate america and the wealthiest 1%. paul: joining the panel, wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and mary anastasia o grady and editorial page writer kate odell. why did they succeed on taxes when they failed on health care? right. that is one question, because you would expect a failure to make it harder to succeed. but i think here the health care failure really focused the minds for the gop that, for them, it was do or die for their majority in 2018 to get a tax bill passed. and it wasn t always clear they would choose do. [laughter] but also i think there was a rougher consensus on what a tax something to behold from both directions. [laughter] paul: some of it s phony, i mu ....
floor. the real problem here is in the senate. democrats seem to have reached their breaking point after supporting cr after cr. there have been four since october. and each time that happens the democrats have to go home to explain why it doesn t include any of the their protesters, most notably the daca issue. i think some of them have just gotten to the point where they can no longer explain. the fact that president trump used that kind of language we heard from him last weekend in a private meeting, that s inflamed things as well. you have mark warren and tim kaine of virginia who voted for the last continuing resolution. you have patrick lay hee of vermont who the opposed to the funding bill. we are looking at a scenario where the house is probably going to trying to get this wrapped up by 7:00 or 8:00 tonight. the senate might move quickly, but, again, very difficult to count to 60 votes in the senate. we re closer to a government shutdown than at any point since decembe ....
the pet did not survive the flight. and what the airline is now saying tonight. good evening. and it s great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. that massive storm hitting at this hour, but first tonight, the storm swirling inside president trump s cabinet. president trump firing secretary of state rex tillerson, and doing so in a tweet. the president firing tillerson, then calling him several hours later from air force one. the president naming cia director mike pompeo as the new secretary of state. and look at the wall tonight. at the top there, tillerson fired. he was not the only one fired at the state department today. the undersecretary of state, steve goldstein, who tweeted that tillerson did not know the firing was coming, he was then fired, too. in addition to all of the vacancies that already exist at the top of the state department. and so, we begin tonight with abc s chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. reporter: president trump is in c ....
to deal with immigration. but first the senior senator from arizona has endured insult after insult this week. at one point labelled songbird john, a reference to his time as a p.o.w. and while discussing votes for cia director gina haspel who mccain opposes, white house special assistant kelly sadler said, quote, it doesn t matter, he s dying anyway. here s the white house s apology for those comments. does the white house not think you need to condemn these remarks or comments again, i m not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. are you saying she didn t say this? again, i m not going to validate a leak out of an internal staff meeting one way or the other. no, no, sorry, here s the white house apology. i think the remarks are awful, but let s look at this in context. that was said in a private meeting inside the white house. that s not like you might say something really nasty about me off the air, it doesn t have Songbird-john , Insult , Senator , Pow , Votes , Reference , Arizona , One , White-house , Meghan-mccain , Doesnt-matter , Comments