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Politics ahead of the country. clearly you are -- are you surprised by his relative radio silence during the shutdown? >> mitch mcconnell is basically a person who will -- whose very fajile in getting what he wants. he has used his powers time and again to get votes such as the $5 trillion tax break for the richest in our country, screwing the middle class, bringing to the floor a bill that would undo the affordable care act and just throwing millions of people off of health care. he had no problems bringing those bills, not to mention changing the rules so that it would take only a bare major...

Great basin national park is located, the entire county's population is about 8,000 people, so in the town baker next to the park, about 75% of the residents are park employees, so the restaurants, there are no people eating at the restaurants now. i talked to a friend and she said, we are not going out, we are not buying anything because we don't know how long this is going to last. so that -- those communities up there are just now starting to realize that this is a huge inconvenience for their businesses. it's like a seventh of the whole county's population. >> and the ripple affect is what...

Even his harshish critics on the democratic side said it was a win. it has been very hard to do under any circumstances in the last several years prior to the president, and it got done and he can't just talk about that because instead he is having phone conversations with rush limbaugh to reassure him that he will defund the government if he doesn't get money for a border wall. that's what he is focused on. >> i want to follow-up on two things you said. number one, you referred to james mattis as a binkie for many republicans in the senate. >> i enjoyed that. >> i enjoyed that a lot. >> i nev...

Responding to what jim was saying. did you see during the campaign -- >> what i responded to was that donald trump having a potential business deal would somehow have been a damaging blow to donald trump. given all the damaging blows that donald trump withered through on the campaign with no ripple affect on his publicity, in some way, increasing that, i don't think it would have had impact whatsoever. it does raise the question why would somebody lie about it. >> as a republican were you uncomfortable that donald trump was always complimenting vladimir putin? did you scratch your head and say...

It. >> it's a terrible thing and certainly would not be a positive, i would not be happy at all. >> joining me now is cnn senior political reporter, nia-malika henderson, and chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. this is as chilling as it gets, the details of what happened after khashoggi went into the consulate. it's complicated, the geopolitics and the ripple affect with iran and yemen and the inner personal complications of the crown prince and the trump family, and jared kushner has been close to the crowned prince who ordered the hit, if that's in fact what happened. this is according to t...