Delusional. also it cob a great respite from the ongoing russia investigation and the continuious breaking nes on that front. but i want to say there is a bill that can get 60 votes in the senate. and it is the durbin graham men menendez and flake bill. adds a little bit of movement toward merit based immigration, which i know is a big thing. it s not what republicans want but something in that direction. we ll see. you may still have a shutdown to get that that point as talking about where we are now. april, what is the president s goal here? the president s goal is to win, always. but the question is could there be a win in this? and this doesn t look like there will be. this will definitely if there is
This sense they do want to wrap it up. what do you think, as are fa as hopefulness factor, hope hicks interestingly, her attorney by the way declining to comment when i asked about this. she is, when you talk about inner circle, reports she s the other daughter. she s been very close since day one. before day one. . that seems like it cob incredibly fruitful discussion with house intel. or not. well, i actually think hope hicks might be more interesting to house investigators. as you said she is probably the closest kftd of the president to go before this house committee. jared kushner went before the committee. but i think what we can say is hope hicks probably has more in sight. because hope hicks has played the role of intermediary. trump has personal assistants for the trump corporation, ron a graph who receives all emails and presents him with what he needs to know. hope hicks has played that role for the campaign and so far in the white house is now director of communications title which i
I mean, just months before the 2018 midterm election, what do they have to gain? reporter: well, that s a great question. look, the white house wants to be able to gain traction for this before the president state of the union at the end of the january. obviously you have president trump out there saying he thinks it can be a bipartisan push. but reality is there is not a lot in this proposal, outlined to get democrats to come to the table. the president right now has about 35% approval rating, according to the latest cnn poll, and so for democrats it cob very politically toxic to be appearing alongside him, to be agreeing with any of his policy proposals. we saw during tax reform that the white house was very bull itch about the fact that they believe they could get some democrats on board, particularly democrats up for re-election in 2018 that states that trump won in 2016. they are saying they are going after senators, but the reality is unless it s a much bigger
Hard to get into the phone. than will continue until we find an answer. i don t know how long that s going to be to be quite honest with you. it cob tomorrow. it could be a week. a month. we don t know yet. just last month, deputy attorney general rosenstein criticized technology companies over encryption software. he said, to quote him they enable criminals and terrorists. so i have with me now that served for homeland skrurt and editor at large. so thank you for being with me. lance let me turn to you first on the technology piece. how frustrating for investigators and families that they can t access this guy s phone. can you explain why? well, basically we have what s called end to end encryption and means the data you have on the phone that s sent back and forth when it s in the phone it s all enscripted. when it goes to the other party it s also. and only way to unlock is to
Them served. what they are doing is doing a time line and understanding their facts of the time line. and if they catch someone lying they ll prosecute on perjury. but it could be paul manafort. it cob any number of people. we don t know at this point. but i suspect this is not nearing the end. this is probably the beginning. this could go on for weeks, months, maybe even years. that s what makes the difference here, asterisk was saying. we didn t think it was going to happen so early. we are six months in. this started in may when we were just looking at time line moments ago. and this could be wave after wave after wave which will make it difficult for republicans as they look at 2018. but then on the flip side the question is can the democrats pull it together as well? yeah, look, i mean first of all democrats are pulling it together. resistance is united like it never has been before. we are flipping many of these state legislative seats that