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Speaker and so that's holding it back. >> the white house budget director, mick mulvaney, says the administration offered democrats a deal that would spend lesson a wall than the $5 billion the president is demanding. he said democrats have shut down discussions. democrats say they had a deal to fund the government until the president demanded more money for a wall. new york congressman and democratic caucus chairman, hakim jeffries, tweeted, day seven of the republican shutdown. republicans continue to hold the american people hostage. we refuse to pay a $5 billion ransom note. they will give...

President obama in july, 2008, went to kuwait and visited an american base there and signed memorabilia. i don't have any problem with any president doing that for the troops if that makes them happy. this was omitted from cnn's report that previous presidents have done this before. the bias of omission, greg. >> congressman, you have a former assistant white house counsel under barack obama going on a tweet storm saying the president's violating the hatch act. no, the hatch act doesn't apply to the president or the vice-president. besides, these are people giving him hats. what is he supposed...

The media didn't lash out at those presidents. what's the deal? >> of course not, greg. because it is christmas-time. a president is visiting troops overseas in these horrible conditions. any president, whether that be republican, democrat, they have been afforded very positive coverage in those situations, rallying around the flag and the troops. here, i see three themes. i'll go through them quickly. the first are mistakes. nbc says that president trump is going to be the first president since 2002, not to visit the troops at christmastime. they post it before christmastime is over and end u...

The house and all those powerful committees, including the house intelligence committee, which in addition to having extensive subpoena powers has vowed to be as determined when it comes to reopening their investigation into the trump campaign and administration as the previous republican majority on the committee was to provide trump cover. joining us now is congressman mike quigley, who sits on the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thank you, joy. >> so let's talk. we just spoke with a reporter from mcclatchy whose story tonight is providi...

Investigative reporter for mcclatchy news who broke the story tonight as well as the first reporting on the topic in april. mr. gordon, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> it's a pleasure to be here, joy. >> you saw michael cohen today who hasn't talked a lot since his sentencing again denied ever having been not just in prague, but this the czech republic as well. what is your response to that, having reported on this? >> well, bob mueller is in a pinch because he has an acting attorney general who now oversees his investigation and has harshly criticized it. he has the nominee to ...