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Trying to get back here to send a message. you can be certain if she thought she was able to do that, she would feel strongly inclined to want to be here to send that message. but she's going to recover from home. we're told by the court. it's unclear when she'll be back. they haven't told us anything further about how she's doing in terms of a recovery. just that she continues to recover. she won't be here today. missing oral argument for the first time. a significant milestone for ruth bader ginsburg. >> but she's not saying she's out sick, she is working from home. women, they're multitaske...

Special counsel. that they provided everything they need and so the president would be one piece they don't need. that's the legal argument from the president's side. alex? >> kelly o, thank you so much. straight from the phone call with rudy giuliani. joining me on the phone, "new york times" washington correspondent michael schmidt. who co-wrote this piece on the trump legal team's shifting strategy. michael, with a welcome to you. walk us through a bit more of these demands and what prompted the change in strategy? >> well, this has been going on for six months. the president's lawyers ha...

Passing bills that made demands to keep the government open. the senate would send those bills back as a clean continuing resolution to keep the government open. around 9:00 p.m. or so, the house republicans vote on their last offer. you had peter king, who's a moderate republican from the new york area, saying that this is a bad idea and they should just pass a clean continuing resolution and he has 20 to 25 moderate republicans who will vote against the rule to bring leadership's new proposal to the floor. if they'd done that, that would have left house republicans with no offer to make to t...

That show support for tougher gun restriction has dropped since the newtown massacre. >> the entire country was shocked. the entire country pledged we would do something about it and this time would be different. shame on us if we have forgotten. republican senator mike lee of utah says the proposals that president is calling on congress to pass would primarily serve to reduce the constitutional rights on citizens while having little or no effect on violent crime. you will need 60 votes to pass. ed henry on the top story at the bottom of the hour from the white house. this kind of sounds like ...