Polls in favor of the president. Not in her house. Speaker pelosi could shut down the state of the union as negotiations between the white house and democrats have hit a wall. And 800,000 federal workers are still not getting paid. I dont think they understand at all. 78 of america lives from paycheck to paycheck. They care nothing about the American People. New worries this morning about its long term impact opn the u. S. Economy and a possible recession. Were going to twin this morning well, the president likes to control the narrative with a stunning walkback by President Trumps personal attorney giuliani involving russia and the Trump Campaign. Surprising everyone with a new deb denial of collusion. Hes now saying he never said that it didnt happen. Do you get that . We have an incredible panel to help. First, these remarkable new comments by giuliani. Hes now claiming that he never said there was no collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia leading up to the 2016 president ial election. Whats more, he insists his claim of no collusion only applied to President Trump. I never said interethere was collusion between the campaign. Yes, you have. I said the president of the United States. Theres no evidence the president of the United States committed the only crime, conspired with the russians to hack the dnc. Giuliani has previously stated no collusion between President Trump and russia. He also stated theres no collusion with the Trump Campaign. You dont have to take my word for it. The president likes to say fake news as does Rudy Giuliani. You can listen for yourself. Heres the tape. Is it still the po silgs of you and your client there was no collision with the russians whatsoever on behalf of the Trump Campaign . Correct. No evidence of any collusion on the part of the president or maybe anybody else for that matter. This probe from the nature of the questions and Everything Else we know. Theres a good reason why. It never took place. Giulianis claim also contradicts the commander in chief. President trump has repeatedly said there is no collusion at all between russia and himself or anyone in his campaign and he said it again just this past saturday. Everybody knows there was no collusion. They wont find collusion. Because i had nothing to do i was a better candidate than Hillary Clinton. Lets go live to the white house and nbcs peter alexander. What happened to the trump administrations line that there was no collusion at all by anyone and the campaign . Walk me through sort of the time line and now the walkbacks. To be very clear, we pulled up tweets from the president where he says among other things the Trump Campaign did nothing wrong, no collusion. Theyve said and he said the Trump Campaign did nothing wrong. The last 12 hours, the sort of deevolution, the latest round of the deevolution of the effort to try and deny any connections with the russians. Lets take you back to the beginning. Initially, the argument for the white house dating back to the days after the president won was that there was no communication between the president and the campaign. Then it was there was no contacts planned. Then it was there were some contacts but they were not with the campaign. They went on to say there were some contacts but they were not even iffingful. Thats just the start. Youll remember the president ultimately would say collusion is not a crime. He would say he couldnt collusion because he didnt have any direction rich to va relati putin. Now the president didnt collude but its possible scope omeone s campaign colluded. A watering down of their denials as they try to separate the president from this. This is what weve heard, this idea there was no collusion. Seems like theyre backing off that claim. This thing is stunning. I got to bring my panel in. Former assistant u. S. Attorney kim whaley. Attorney midwin charles. Associate columnist for real clear politics a. B. Stoddard. And cohost of the words matter pod cast, my friend elise jordan. I got a great female cast today. My first question to mayor giuliani. If manafort was some rogue drifter part of the campaign for a very short time and during that part of the campaign was giving away data, sharing data, making deems with onliy gas olit would help him pay back personal debts, why arent you furious with him . Doesnt make sense to me. Elise. I wonder what is about to drop. Weve seen giuliani drop these media bomb shshell also right before mueller announces a big boom. Time line indictment. Does make me wonder if there is something Rudy Giuliani is trying to preempt by introducing a new narrative. Midwin, if thats the new narrative, trump didnt do it, is giuliani forgetting who was standing to the right and left of the president . It was his children and s soninlaw. Many associates have already turned on the president. Thats how this movie has been going for the past year and a half ever since Robert Mueller was sort of appointed to do this job. Giuliani is an attorney. It means his job is to represent his client zealously. And to be a spokesperson, his advocate. The problem with giuliani is he is engaging in this walkback defense and all hes done is chip away amount trumps credibility. The model rules of professional responsibility which all attorneys are is up povd s ars follow. Theres one particular rule. Its one of the shortest rules. Which is in the course of representing a client, a lawyer shall not knowingly make a false statement of material fact or law to a third person. Wahats the consequence . The counsnsequence is no one believes donald trump. We could sit here and mornck jewel yagiuliani all day. Not where it matters which is in the court of law. Theyre not in the court of law, hes on cnn. What we do know is we have Robert Mueller amassing testimony and documents. A huge drop the other day to show how manafort lied to the court. It comes back to a stack of paper also this thing. At the end of the day, you have mueller working in the real world and you have giuliani working in the fake world. The problem is the two things at some point are going to come head to head. What weve seep in the past two years is people fudging the truth. The reporter did a phenomenal job in showing how far weve walked back from day one. Now were, well, okay, im just saying maybe donald trump didnt have contact. What happens is you have no credibility. All right. Kim, does any of this affect Robert Muellers investigation . While Rudy Giuliani has lost all credibility with people possibly at this table, he doesnt care abouts at this table. He cares about trumps base. Where does Robert Mueller fall into this. There are two pieces. One is if there are crimes committed. The second is the lies. Usually people say its not the underlying action, its the cover up. Here, its the coverup and the underlying action. Historically all these lies by trump and his team are relevant to that particular issue. Even on merits of this question of, okay, collusion or not, theres 16plus contacts now directly within the campaign to the russianings. We know that. Thats public. We also know from filings related to cohen that he spoke to trump about the russia moscow tower deal during the election. We know the fbi opened a counterintelligence investigation to mr. Trump. We know that a federal court has taken, accepted a plea in which and the department of justice has put in writing that mr. Trump directed his lawyer to commit crimes under the federal Campaign Finance act. We also know that trump had multiple secret dealings, meetings with mr. Putin where he kicked people out of the room. He told them to, you know, tear up notes of the interpreters and then gets on air force one in one instance and dictates a false memo relating to the key, one of the key pivotal moments in this whole narrative, the trump tower meeting in which his team was went to get dirt from the russians on Hillary Clinton. I think what hes doing is play off the confusion and tsunami of information relating to a big arc of wrongdoing by this president by just saying no, no, we didnt collude. I think thats easy for people who arent as steeped as this panel is and you are in the details to just cling on to but the facts are so far from that and we only know it a little bit. The reason we know is because there was a mistake in a redaction by his lawyers. I mean, that was like a like blip and my guess is theres mountains of information that mueller has so i dont think he cares a hoot about what giuliani has to say. By manaforts own lawyers. Again, why isnt trump and giuliani turning on manafort with that news out there . A. B. , what do you make of the strategy . Well, his job is to come out and just go on tv. And jewuliany is his tv lawyer. Hes not really helping him with the mueller strategy. Hes hurting him. Yes, there are moments when i think that rudy has made it clear hes throwing his reputation into the ash heap for the history books and thats unfortunate. It is a strategy as weve all said, a political strategy in terms of impeachment. Just how to continue to convince the base that all of this is b. S. And doesnt matter anyway even if people say collusion is now cool and that way you keep senators on board. They still are afraid that once faced with the fact like the ones you point out about Paul Manafort who was in touch with the white house and possibly trump himself in may of 2018 during this is the fact that senators when this is all revealed might look at this and say, i dont care what my voters think of trump, these are real facts. This is still the strategy, to keep senators and the Republican Party on board so that he cant be convicted if hes impeached in the house. Giulianis job is to go out and barf out world salads. He nails it. Hes made it clear to us he doesnt care about getting his reputation back. Talking about this wall street journal piece. Reporting that President Trumps former fixer, form earl attorney general Michael Cohen who trumps like to say barely worked for him as it relates to politics, he paid a Technology Expert to rig online polls before the president ial election. One was about the president s popularity in terms of running. And the other, a cnbc poll aimed at showing the president to be a bigger business guy than he was. Also to create a twitter profile, women for cohen. I want to show how the bio for this profile women who love and support Michael Cohen, strong, pit bull, sex symbol, no nonsense, business oriented and ready to make a difference. I want to point out pit bull . Truly, i thought with the death of burt reynolds, sex symbol wasnt a term used anymore. Alas, it is. The white house hasnt responded to this. What do you make of it . Another example watch trumps top advisers are focused on, smoke and mirrors and their own egos. This is a tinder profile of sorts on twitter advertising Michael Cohen sex symbol, strong. Business man. And that at the time that youre working in a fairly major role as an adviser to a contender for president of the United States, you still care about women for cohen. Thats even the nonsense portion of it. Were talking about poll rigging. Michael cohen has responded and put out a tweet saying as for the wall street journal article on poll rigging, what i did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of donald trump. I truly regret my Blind Loyalty to a man who doesnt deserve it. What do you make of this . Pole rigging. Thats astonishing. Its in keeping with the narrative being built publicly about russians rigging the election. Thats established by the National Security team in the government. But two, number two, the trump team was part of that. People talk about collusion. It would matter for purposes of impeachment. Weve got manafort was feeding data to the russians. Very specific data. Its very sad, think about this, focus on these people and put stuff in their comb its poohers and their feed so they dont vote, right . In addition, the president s lawyer coming out and saying he was rigging, also taking steps to rig poll data. If this were a tv afterschool special, wed turn it off because it would seem so insane it could never happen. I think february 7 when Michael Cohen comes out and tells his story and weaves all of this stuff together in a way that makes sense to people, this is what i did and this is why, i think the public consciousness or unconsciousness about whether this matters could shift. Because its going to make sense on a human level what this mans story was. We do have to put the circus nature and the humor of it aside. And the seriousness of poll rigging. I want to take you back to what the president remember, he was the one who was constantly haranguing as louis ruehl would say about poll rigging, poll rigging, poll rigging. Take a look. When the people who control the political power in our society can rig investigations like her investigations was rigged, can rig polls. You see these phony polls. And rig the media. They can wield absolute power over your life, your economy and your country. And benefit big time by it. Donald trump is a master at projecting. Just about everything he complains about from the time he decided to run till now is something he himself or someoneness administration has done. To find out, we dont know if this is true, he directed cohen to do this poll rigging, bingo, hes done that. To claiming that Hillary Clinton was somehow in cahoots with goldman sachs. Remember the hoopla about the speeches and, you know, publish the speeches . Why . Because what did he do . He came in and instead of saying hes going to drain the swamp, he filled the swam with all kinds of shady griftertype characters. We have seen this, you know, time and time again with donald trump. And, again, i cant even understand and it boggles the mind we are hear in this country, that in the United States of america, we have a president saying and doing these things, zero credibility. 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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is threatening to take away one of the things trump loves the most, a televised audience. She sent a letter telling him he should postpone the state of the union due to security concerns made worse by the Government Shutdown. She wrote, quote, unless government reopens this week, i suggest we Work Together to determine another suitable date after government has reopened for this address or for you to consider delivering your state of the Union Address in writing to congress on january 29. Dhs secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said security would not be a problem. But pelosi said it would make more sense for the president to just deliver the state of the union from somewhere else. Do you hope he sees this as a consequence of the Government Shutdown . This is a housekeeping matter in the congress of the United States so we can honor responsibility for the invitation we extended to the president. He can make it from the oval office if he wants. According to the washington post, President Trump was, quote, indifferent to pelosis letter. The white house has decided not to respond because theyre not sure if shes actually trying to cancel the event or just making a political statement but if she is trying to hit the president where it hurts, this could be the way to do it. Last year, 45 Million People watched state of the union, more than any event outside the super bowl. But the bottom line is trump cannot deliver the state of the union in the House Chamber without pelosis blessing. Senator schumer said if the state of the union doesnt happen as planned, the president has nobody to blame but himself. Well what is the state of the uni union . The government is closed because of President Trump. If it continues to be closed on the 29th, i think its a good idea to delay it until the government is open. Of course, republicans see it differently. The Top Republican in the house Kevin Mccarthy slammed the speaker for this move. Saying she is putting politics ahead of the country. Speaker pelosi should act like a speaker and have the president and keep her word like she invited him. Theres no security issue. Its pure politics and its wrong. Its unbecoming of a speaker to do this. Have we heard back from pelosis office . Kevin mccarthy is almost mocking her saying theres no security issue here. Has she responded and said theres no emergency at the border and thats what started this whole thing . Not yet, shes got a press conference this morning. Ill be there. If somebody else doesnt ask about it, ill be sure to ask her about it. Mccarthy shocked that politics would be practiced here in this body. Heres where we stand. Nancy pelosi knows the soft power of the speakership better than anybody else. Its not just about counting votes and what can pass through the house. There are ways to use this power. Although she talks entirely about the scurt s ecurity aspec political aspects are legitimate. The president cant just walk into the house of representatives and give a speech without being invited. He cant give the state of Union Address without being invited. He could show up on the senate side and be invited to speak in front of the 100 desks there, but its just not the same. It might take something more creative or more exexistential to get us out of the stalemate. The person ive been watching for the last couple of weeks on this has been Lindsey Graham who tries to put himself in the middle of any deal being done in the senate and even hes not sounding particularly optimistic. How does this end . It ends with compromise. The house is not going to be the center of gravity. Its going to be the center. I told the president based on doing this for a while that the best play, sit down with a Bipartisan Group in the senate. I think we get a big group in the senate and the house follows. These gangs, these bipartisan deals in the senate, keep getting their ideas shot down. So trying something different, putting pressure on the president in different ways, may be a way to break this. Ive heard from numerous democrats and each some republicans over last few days that they dont think the president sees this the same way the American People do, sees it beyond the politics, sees the folks who have been hurt by the shutdown in the same way they do and this may be a way to make him realize washington will not just go on as usual during this shutdown, steph. This shutdown now in its 27th day. If it is still going on by january 29th, it will be almost twice as long as any other Government Shutdown in u. S. History. At that point, those 800,000 federal workers will have already missed at least two paychecks and be on the verge of missing a third. Nbcs ron allen has been speaking to some of those workers. I always want to remind our audience it is not just those 800,000 workers, it is their community communities. A lot of ancillary businesses. And a lot they owe money to. What are they telling you . Its one thing to talk about 800,000 government workers. Really another thing to talk about individual people. Mothers and fathers, workers. Working hard all over the country. Here at the airport, weve been talking to some of the tsa workers. Everything looks normal and fine. People going to their flights. Because the workers are here, showing up, theyre on time. Doing their jobs. Theyre stopping terrorist attacks perhaps. And theyre of course not getting paid. We want to introduce you to a young couple. Tyrone, his wyche ebony and their little boy, 7 months old, josiah. They just bought a house. They missed one paycheck. Theyll miss another one next week. The way he told it, i cant tell the mortgage brokers, the folks at the grocery store, ill pay you in a couple weeks. They need cash now. Heres some of our conversation about how theyre feeling. How tough a situation is it for you . Takes on many forms. Physical frustration. Mental frustration. Mainly mental. Because you dont know when its going to end. Exactly. Sometimes mental can lead to physical exhaustion. Some say that tsa is important or that National Security is important and then not to pay the people who are actually performing service as tsa agents, i think thats not right. Many of america, 78 of america live paycheck to paycheck. They care nothing about the American People, as they say they do. When we ended that, he went to bed because he had to get up at 2 30 in the morning to be here at the airport at 4 00 a. M. In the morning. Imagine doing Something Like that. Knowing youre not going to get paid. He talked about the sense of duty. They took an oath for this job. One other thing, this, is the third time in five year hes been furloughed. Theyre doing the best they can but just feeling caught in an unbelievable situation they really have no control over and nothing they can do about it. Its just really amazing when you come out here and talk to real people about whats going on with this Government Shutdown. Guys. Ron, thank you so much. I want to talk to workers going to work every single day keeping us safe, thank you. Now a tragic development in syria. The images youre about to see are disturbing. Central command confirming four americans including two Service Members were among the 19 killed in a Suicide Attack at a syrian market yesterday. An attack that isis quickly claimed responsibility for. Hours after the explosion rocked the city, Vice President pence echoed the president s earlier claim that isis is no longer a threat. Thanks for the leadership and the courage of our armed forces, were now actually able to hand off the fight to our Coalition Partners and were bringing our troops home. The caliphate has crumbled. Isis has been defeated. I invite Vice President pence to say to the four americans who lost their lives. Here is our guest, courtney cuby. What else do we know about the attack and the victims and when the administration was informed . Because my minds blown by Vice President s comments. So information theyll always be the early reports that will come in and they go to the white house. So they would have been informed of this before we in the media knew much of anything. This happened in syria, which has actually been a Success Story for the feight against iss over the last several months. Where the u. S. And the turks have been engaged in joint patrols for the past several months. Theres been very little isis presence here. What this attack illustrates is what will be the longterm problem in the fight against isis. And that is while they may not be holding territory, theyll have sleeper cells. They will have lone wolves who can pop up and they can inflict damage and death, you know, throughout the country and really as theyve shown they can these lone wolf attacks can be in europe, in the United States. Mambage has been a place that hasnt seen much of an isis presence in the past several months. These americans were at a restaurant at the time of the attack. A suicide bomber. Right now, we still believe to be a lone suicide bomber approached them at this restaurant and detonated himself, killing a number of syrians in addition to killing the four americans and wounding three more u. S. Service members, steph. All right, courtney, thank you. I want to bring a. B. And elise back in. You advised on policy. From a policy perspective, how does this affect the president s plans in the regen . Well, donald trump has not been operating from a standard policy playbook where there is a process driving his announcements. He makes a ad Hoc Announcement were withdrawing troops from syria. Then his advisers go into the region, just as pompeo did. And they are speaking from a different playbook. I think that in theory, wi withdraws 1700 troops from syria and prosecuting the war against isis from iraq, i think its feasible. Am i confident this administration is going to take the practical steps necessary to implement a policy like that . No. What do you make of vice President Trumps comments . My parents watch conservative media. When they watch Vice President pence make a Statement Like that on conservative media, theyll believe it and its not the zblu truth. Its shocking on so many levels. But its not an accident. Lets start with the fact he has a son in the marine corps and knows better. He p he knows this is the worst message to our men and women in uniform. He knows its the worst message to the american voters. We all know that Mission Accomplish statements in the war on terror are dangerous. He still got up there and just said something that wasnt true. If you look back at that video the president made calling on the approval and the wishes of the war dead for his withdrawal from syria in late december and the boomerang reaction to that, its amazing Vice President pence would be willing to make those remarks. The pushback came after he said that tweet and made that video. From pompeo, mattis and bolton. They worked all weekend to convince him. And they managed to raise, you know, the panic level but not stop the withdrawal. As a result, maltettis left in middle of the week and the withdrawal has began. Trying to slowroll this, but its too late. And the idea that pence would come out after all thats happened. Again, with the son in the military. Its stunning to me that he would get up and say those things without acknowledging the war dead. They did later in the day with a strong statement but the ince e insensitivity to the losses of life, but disastrous to declare victory when there is none. I would argue whats most insensitive to the loss of life is staying in syria when its not in our clear national interest. And having not having a Clear Strategy for the men and women that we choose to deploy on foreign soil in the name of our national interests. So i think that this longterm war thats going on, thats not authorized by congress, i think thats the fundamental problem and how we address terror and talk about terror and the cries that, oh, were leaving syria to be a safe haven when that just isnt true necessarily. Safe havens have not been what has caused the majority of terrorist attacks over the last decades. So we need to look at as a whole our terrorism strategy and how we go to war with the seriousness that our troops deserve. We need to leave it there. We also need to figure out what our messaging and mission is. Think about what the last few weeks, last two years are like for our allies. President says one thing. His advisers say another. Not just our adversaries but our allies. Can they believe in what the United States says . Think about that. Coming up, the very real effects of the Government Shutdown. More signs this morning that it could do long term damage to the economy. Before we get to that, ive got to share this story. It is very good news. Microsoft, it is taking a huge step when it comes to the homelessness crisis, specifically in its hometown of seattle. The tech giant is putting up 500 million bucks to fight the inequality that has spread in areas that has housed some big tech companies. The money will pay for construction of Affordable Homes for middle and low income residents. Thank you, microsoft. Thats good business. D business take your razor, yup. Alright, up and down, never side to side, shaquem. You got it . Come on, get back. Quem, you a second behind your brother, stay focused. Cant nobody beat you, cant nobody beat you. Hard work baby, it gonna pay off. You got this. 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With the partial Government Shutdown nearing the end of its fourth week, it is looking less like a blip on the political radar and more like a potentially serious economic crisis. According to s p, the economy has already lost nearly 5 billion bucks in lost productivity and decreasing demand for contractors. And even if those 800,000 workers eventually get paid, analysts are warning the damage has been done. Politicos chief economic correspondent ben white wrote about all of this. He joins me now. B ben, it is not just about those workers getting back pay. Every day, we talk to restaurant owners, newspaper vendors, who are saying my business is down 80 prl 80 . Talk to me about the broader longterm impacts. The ceo of jpmorgan has us pretty scared. He talked about the First Quarter growth could wind up being close to zero because of this. Its not just the 800,000 workers getting paid, its all the Government Contractor whose business isnt getting done. Its the communities surrounding those contractors who dont have business. Everybody else. That goes on down the line. The Bigger Picture not just the shutdown, it is the fundamental view setting in to consumers and businesses that the American Government simply doesnt work. They cant find any agreement on this over some ridiculous border wall situation. Then you have the march 1 deadline to get a deal with china on trade. Then you have the debt limit coming up in the summer. If people start to think this government is broken, cab not serve the American People in any significant way, that impacts consumer confidence. The economy was already softening heading into this shutdown. The accumulative effect is could we get tipped into recession later this year . Yes, partly because washington is so fundamentally dysfunctional. Even though theres 800,000 people and a lot of others affected there are still millions of americans saying what does it have to do with me . I still have a job. So what, im still getting paid, why should those people care . They should care because if the confidence erodes in this way, businesses are not going to want to hire more people. Theyre not going to want to give raises. Theyre not going to be that confident in making new investments in the future. So right now, you might look at this and say this isnt affecting me other than maybe im waiting in line a little bit longer at the airport. If Economic Growth grinds to a halt, that means businesses start firing people. We lose jobs in recessionings. Thats what recessionings are. Theyre contraction in Economic Growth. You may not be concerned about this Government Shutdown now. You will be concerned if we go into recession and markets start to slighde. I see lawmakers kind of acting like all we have to do is make sure these furloughed workers get back pay and everything will be back to normal. Thats not entirely true. It is true that if the shutdown were to end tomorrow or even before the next round of federal paychecks get missed next week, back pay gets back into the economy. It limits the damage from the shutdown. That is absolutely possible. This could wind up being a small bore event. A lot of the stuff, if youre a federal worker who didnt get paid and took out a payday loan or put money on your credit card to pay for expenses, that damage continues past the shutdown, even after you get paid. You still have to pay that money back. Maybe your Credit Rating went down. That stuff stays in the economy. If youre a Government Contractor who didnt get your Business Done and you cant get new business, you go out of business that doesnt come back. There is damage, no matter what happens with back pay. It is possible that we get the shutdown over with and things are not that bad. 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Its not a surprise november by 3. 5 percentage points. So ultimately what do these latest comments do those ultimately turn off a lot of those Republican Voters that stood by steve king. This is what a few of us told us. He doesnt represent me. Well, he does but not my views. I think he gets in there because of negative feelings. Should he resign . Yes, he should. I hope he does. He was very instrumental in getting highway 20 all the way over to dubuque, a fourlane highway. But right now so you feel you had reason to vote for him in the past . Yes, a very good reason. He did a good job but must have bumped his head or something because i wouldnt give him the time of day now. Steve king, your congressman. Should he resign . No. Why . Because everybody slips. Everybody slips a little bit. I dont think he meant what he meant. Hes trying to tell the them pop. I hope thats the way it is. Stephanie, among Republican Voters that we talk torksd we heard as many yesterday like those last couple you heard from that said steve king should not resign. But i want to make the point of laverne, that gentlemen in the iowa hawkeyes jacket. He vote forward steve king in 2018 and also vote forward donald trump and he was very articulate in speak with us that he has no intention of voting for steve king again. He said that voters should go and fire steve king now. But also he said he has no intention of voting for donald trump again. He said hes a lifelong republican. And i want to pay specific attention to that point because donald trump and mike pence, they stood alongside steve king, along with the likes of the senators here. Chuck grassley, joanie ernst and kim reynolds. The Republican Party in the state has long stood by steve king. Ive spent more time here than anywhere else and steve king has long been a staple in the state because the Republican Party has known he brings in specific Republican Voters. And yet who has not spoken out against steve kings latest comments . Mike pence and donald trump. Mike pence called him just this last fall a man of icntegrity, man of principle. There is silence. Thats something the Republican Party should Pay Attention to because of voters like laverne. I sincerely appreciate it. I love getting out of this newsroom and for you talking to the American People. Still to come more oufr top stories. The president s attorney general Rudy Giuliani shifting the goal post. These things are in like a parking lot. Saying he never said there was no collusion and Michael Cohen, the president s former fixer now admitting he helped rig online polls in favor of the president and at the president s direction. The only fdaapproved 3in1 copd treatment. Trelegy. 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And to everyone throughoout the tweeting and emailing me that you may not have a ton to give but want to help some of these furloughed workers. I have a list for you of ways that you can help out and i sincerely appreciate you even wanting to. That is what makes this country great. That wraps us up this hour. Im stephanie ruhle. Coming up, my friend Hallie Jackson. I am Hallie Jackson in washington. Where, hey, its throwback thursday. And as we walk memory lane, it takes us down the path of all those times the president said there was no collusion between his campaign and russia, like a million times. Except now his own lawyer is opening the door to exactly that. What Rudy Giuliani is telling nbc news just moments ago about those stunning new comments that moved the goal posts. Our new interview coming up. Plus, across the country, the situation going from bad to worse for federal workers. 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