The wall. I believe mexico will pay for the wall. I have a Good Relationship with mexico. Were negotiating nafta. In some form mexico will pay for the wall. But mexico will not pay for the wall and that is why the American Government is on the verge of a shutdown. Donald trump humiliated himself to everyone with a High School Level understanding of government when he first said mexico will pay for the wall. And then he got personally humiliated on the telephone with the president of mexico when the president of mexico told him he would not pay for the wall. To which the president of the United States said, you cannot say that to the press. If you are going to say that, mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then i do not want to meet with you guys anymore, because i cannot live with that. There was the great negotiator the trump voters put in the white house. The great tough guy the trump
country that kind of power. What if his Campaign Speech had been, we will build a wall and i will force the democrats in congress to pay for that wall with your tax dollars or i will shut down the congress. Today the president tweeted this, we need the wall for the safety and security of our country. We need the wall to help stop the massive inflow of drugs dpr mexico, now rated number one most dangerous country in the world. If there is no wall, there is no deal. And here we are tonight because the president failed to get mexico to pay for the wall. The senate began debating tonight a bill passed by the house today that would continue funding the government until february 16th. It would extend the Childrens Health Insurance Program for six years, something that democrats want. That provision was obviously attached to the bill in the hope
of Tragicing Democrat votes but only six democrats voted for the bill today. Joining us sam stien, daniel dale is also with us. Adam, how do you see this play unfolding on the senate floor tonight . One of the things youre seeing tonight is more manipulation by Mitch Mcconnell because one of the secrets of the senate is it can move very fast when it wants to. The bill that came over from the house could be voted on tonight. But theyre trying to show they can defeat it and leave another day in negotiations. And a day in negotiation terms, especially this close to a deadline is eons. So Mitch Mcconnell is preventing a vote from happening. Hes trying to hold the vote open till tomorrow because he thinks it will put more pressure on them. This is a manufactured shutdown by the republicans. Here is the most extraordinary thing i have ever heard a Senate Leader say in a situation like this. Heres Mitch Mcconnell saying tonight on the senate floor that he does not know what the president wants. Lets listen to this. The presidency, under our constitutional system is not irrelevant. Hes the person who signs things into law. And for most of us in the house and senate on the republican side, were interested in what his views are. And those have not been made fully apparent yet. Thats a moment we have never seen in a situation like this before. And weve never seen a president have an affair with a porn star either. So these are weeks and days of firsts, i suppose. But it is presenting a few interesting and difficult quandaries for lawmakers on the hill. This morning the president tweeted that he didnt want a six year c. H. I. P. Extension, which was news to everyone in washington d. C. Because thats what the republican strategy has been and is for funding the government. What we were reporting today is that it threw things momentarily into utter chaos on the hill. Where republicans are to check if the bill they were attaching the entire Government Funding Operation to would end up being vetoed by the president. Thats a peculiar thing to have to inquire about 48 hours before the government shuts down. So hes creating a lot of problems for the process and it doesnt make Mitch Mcconnells life easier or Chuck Schumers life easier. Because this started he met with nancy pelosi and President Trump and had a daca deal but that was rescinded shortly thereafter. Does the white house believe that donald trump flying to florida tomorrow, getting out of town, will somehow absolve him of any blame for the Government Shutdown. I think the white house knows donald trump wants to go to florida, and they let him do what he wants, they let him have his two scoops of ice cream and let him go to florida when he wants to do that. I think its clear regardless of whos to blame for this issue, the president will be blamed. He has unified control of the government. The president gets blamed when its not his fault. I think whats interesting here, is trump has surrendered some of his leverage in making the case himself for d. R. E. A. M. Ers so do
democrats want to shut down the government for ill leem immigration . Trump has made it that d. R. E. A. M. Ers should be treated with heart. So i dont know if the primary argument is going to work for them the way the president thinks it is. And lindsey graham, whos been trying to maintain a relationship with the president to influence the president in these matters. Hes hit a point of exasperation telling the Washington Post today we dont have a reliable partner at the white house to negotiate it. Graham said that thursday morning this has turned into an s. Show for no good reason. Hes aiming that at both the president and john kelly because he has talked specifically about kellys attempts to go up to the hill and try to negotiate something because he thinks hes a better negotiator than lindsey graham. Ive never seen a more dysfunctional set of
negotiations in my life. Another thing interesting about lindsey graham, he also said he would not vote for the house passed cr, which tells you something. Which is that Mitch Mcconnell may not have 50 republican votes for the partisan house passed bill. So Mitch Mcconnell has probably failed to get a majority of his republicans to vote for his bill. Theres a bipartisan that will pass easily. But he cant get the votes for the house cr. So hes leaning on democrats to cover for his own failure. Ive been wondering about that myself, and ive been wondering about whether the democrats and Chuck Schumer should drop any 60vote threshold and watch this go to a vote on the senate floor and see if it fails on the majority
vote. You need unanimous consent to do that. You need cooperation of all 100 senators. Although republicans would look silly if they tried to block democrats from letting them have Majority Threshold on a bill they claim is important to have the government open. Sam, i want to go back to the president flying out of town and if the Vice President flies out of town, then you know that they dont think theres anything that they can do here. But the president going to florida just completely leaving the scene of the shutdown, how do you expect that will play . Well, its not so much that hes at his own property probably playing golf while tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Government Workers are furloughed, which is bad optics, i would surmise. But its also a wasted opportunity. After the 2013 shutdown, one of
the thing it is Obama White House did was they had obama in settings and stuff that showed he was still working, even though the government wasnt and putting a spotlight on the government functions that werent working. And to be frank about shut downs, theyre tedious blame games. One of the great tools the president has is the bully pulpit. So i dont see this as so much a dumb pr move, although it probably is one, its really a wasted opportunity for trump to stay in d. C. And hammer the message hes still working even if the government is not. Lets listen to what paul ryan says about this as he tried to play the blame game. I ask the American People to understand this. The only people in the way of keeping the government open is
the democrats. Whether or not theres a shut down is entirely up to them. Daniel dale, paul ryan seems to have forgotten about the president of mexico who was the first person who stood in the way of paying for the wall. And hes omitting the president of the United States who rejected a bipartisan deal after saying he would sign anything braugtd brought to him. I agree with sam. Theyre going to blame each other. Some of the arguments are rational, some are not going to be. But its clear to everyone, democrats cannot be solely blamed for what were seeing tonight. Sam, thank you for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. The fbi is investigating whether russia funneled money to the National Rifle association and then to President Trumps campaign. And President Trump is reportedly livid at john kelly after john kelly called him uninformed. one is the only number that youll ever need staying ahead isnt about waiting for a chance. Its about the one bold choice you make, that moves you forward. The One And Only Cadillac Escalade. Come in now for this exceptional offer on the Cadillac Escalade. Get this lowmileage lease on this 2018 Cadillac Escalade from around 879 per month. Visit your local cadillac dealer. Until february 16th. Tonight john kelly might be Learning The Hard Way that donald trump doesnt believe in evolution. He has evolved in the way hes looked at things. Campaign to governing two Different Things and this president is very flexible in terms of what is in the realm of the possible. The New York Times reports President Trump was livid when john kelly described him as evolving in his immigration position. They fielded calls to john kellys comments as undermining the president. Before he talked about it on trump news, he had been quoted by some democrats telling them that donald trump had been uninformed about some immigration issues when campaigning and has evolved since then. The president tried to kill the Theory Of Evolution saying in
tweets the wall is the wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day icon received of it. Heres what he said when asked about john kelly today. Hes great. Hes doing a great job. I think general kelly has done a great job. Hes a special guy. He didnt say that. I dont think he didnt say it the way you would like him to say it. Hes doing a terrific job. Joining us now francesca and adam is back with us. I want to remind everyone what the president had to stay about steve bannon four days before he was fired. Lets take a look at this. Do you have confident in steve . Look, i like mr. Bannon. Hes a friend of mine. I like him. Hes a good man. Hes not a racist, i can tell you that. Hes a good person. And francesca, four days later hes fired. So where do we stand tonight on john kellys status in the white house . This is the first sort of dispute like this that youve seen between john kelly and the president. And at the point in which steve bannon was fired, we all knew that was coming. That wasnt a surprise to a lot of us who are at the white house every day, but even viewers of the show. And the same goes for Reince Priebus, john kellys predecessor. At this point he was fired, we thought for months he was on the ropes. Since day one there was talk about how long Reince Priebus would stay in the role. So the fact that this is the first dispute weve seen between these two men play out, considering Everything Else youve seen play out in the
white house between President Trump and officials, this is remarkable. We saw him go up to the hill and try to legislate a package to save the day. This is the least experienced Chief Of Staff in history that has had such meetings ever. Least experienced and the least interesting in learning some of the critical parts of the job about how congress works, the different bodies work. There are stories about him refusing to talk to former Chief Of Staffs who have talked to him, to help him learn the ropes, both democrats and republicans. So i think this is a man who believes he knows everything he needs to know, doesnt have a lot to learn, but nothing can be further from the truth. He has very little idea how the process works. Its a shame hes not go doing more to learn what he doesnt know. The president is always looking to assign blame. Is he at this Point Assigning Blame inside the white house that we are at the Government Shutdown threshold. So far President Trump is blaming democrats for the fact that there might be a Government Shutdown and specifically the fact that they want to see the pathway for citizenship for d. R. E. A. M. Ers in a bill pass here, however if you look at what the president said this morning, it was the president who undermined his own strategy by sending out the tweet about the Childrens Health Insurance Program, which muddied the waters on whether or not he supported the short term resolution. And then you had paul ryan come out and say before the house vote, of course, he supports it, i talked to him on the phone, he tells me hes behind it the way it is currently. By the white house statement that came out said he supports the short term resolution, but it wasnt clear as Mitch Mcconnell brought up on the
floor what he wanted to happen here. If youre looking tomorrow to assign blame, theres going to be a lot of talk about what the president could have done differently in the situation as well. Adam, we have an update on the president s plans in florida this weekend. On saturday, they have scheduled an Anniversary Event for the president s inauguration. Which tickets start at 100,000 a couple. 250,000 a couple will get you a seat at the dinner and a photograph with the president. And so, with the government possibly shutdown on saturday, the president plans to be in florida, raising money and having pictures taken for 250,000 a shot. I think that shows the fundamental lack of seriousness about his approach to this shutdown. Hes tried, you know, very little to actually make it to prevent it from happening. He has undermined republican strategy, and this weekend hes going to be cavorting with very rich people in florida, miles away from where negotiations are happening. I think the significance of mike pence not being there is also significant because thats one vote that republicans might need in a pinch. But he seems to also not think its serious enough to stick around town and present the shutdown from happening. Its a fundamental lack of seriousness. Thank you both. Coming up the fbi is investigating whether Russia Fundaled Illegal Campaign money to the National Rifle association which then used that money to support the trump president ial campaign. That would be a crime. Its absolute confidence in 30,000 precision parts. Or it isnt. Its inspected by mercedesbenz factorytrained technicians. Or it isnt. Its backed by an unlimited mileage warranty, or it isnt. For those who never settle, its either mercedesbenz certified preowned, or it isnt. The mercedesbenz certified preowned sales event. Now through february 28th. Only at your authorized mercedesbenz dealer. Nausea, heartburn, when indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea heres pepto bismol ah. Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea. Money to influence federal elections. The nra spent 30 million in support of the trump for president campaign. That is triple what the nra spent in the last president ial election in sport of mitt romneys election in 2012. It notes in the nra meeting in kentucky, Aleksandr Torshin spoke to donald trump jr. During a gala event at the groups National Gathering in kentucky in may 2016 when his father won an earlier than usual nra president ial endorsement. In december the New York Times reported on an email sent from an operative named rick clay in may 2016, to Jeff Sessions and Campaign Adviser Rick Dearborn who is now a White House Deputy Chief Of Staff. Russia was quietly but actively seeking a dialogue with the u. S. And would attempt to use the
nras annual convention in kentucky to make contact. He testified before the Kmet Committee Yesterday and members said he answered all the questions and never claimed Executive Privilege. Today they released the testimony of the founder of fusion gps. His testimony was consistent with what he told the judiciary committee. We know that only because Diane Feinstein took it upon herself to release the transcript of the Senate Judiciary committees testimony, and she did it without the Committee Chairmans approval, chuck grassley. One point he discussed was the russian connection to the National Rifle association. Glen simpson told the committee, it appeared the russians
penetrated the nra, it was designed to infiltrate conservative organizations and they targeted conservative organizations, religious and otherwise, and seem to have made a very concerted effort to get in with the nra. In simpsons testimony, he identifies Aleksandr Torshin as, quote, A Russian Banker duma member mafia leader, who is a life member of the nra. Joining us now, Natasha Bertrand and barbara mcquad. And natasha, this russia connection to the nra, what was it that the russians believed they could accomplish, other than just funding for the Trump Campaign . Well, its interesting. This is just another example of how the russians were really trying to exploit the divisions that existed in American Society in order to ingratiate themselves in the political culture. It happened with facebook, when they were trying to sow division based on race. They were infiltrating these organizations, such as the nra to cozy up to the political leaders during the campaign. And one of the assist tenants to Aleksandr Torshin, she wrote back in 2015 what we need now, the United States needs in order to have better ties with russia is a republican president. She then went on to pursue him and, you know, she went to a few of his rallies, asked him questions. This was a long term effort that lasted on behalf of the russians to use the nra to get to the Trump Campaign. Whether or not that panned out,
whether or not that russian money went to the nra, we dont know. And whether or not that money came from the russians and was then used by the nra to give to the Trump Campaign is something that will need further investigating. What does the special prosecutor have by way of tools to find out what the nra was up to . Does he start subpoenaing the records . I think he does. The first thing he can get is their Campaign Finance filings. Were they blatant to list Aleksandr Torshin as the person who made donations, probably not. Perhaps there are intermediaries there. The first step is to look at the filings and see who made contributions to the nra. The next step is to use a subpoena to get the records to see who made the contributions. It can take several steps to identify who the true donors are, but the first step is
getting records through grand jury subpoenas. Its fascinating to see a putininspired Operation Funding the concept of the right to bear arms. That every person in america has a right to a gun. That is something Vladimir Putin would never allow in russia. Hes opposed to that idea. You have Fringe Groups in russia who are pushing this right to bear Arms Movement that isnt popular in russian society. The average russian says they dont want looser gun controls. So this is something very unusual would have gotten russian government funding. And if it did it, if it gave money to give to the nra, that would be extremely telling. Were the negotiations continue between the committee and steve bannon about testimony, theyve decided to
delay his testimony to figure out exactly what they can agree hes willing to talk about. But we have a report indicating that donald trump, the president of the United States, personally made the decision to curtail the testimony of former chief white house political strategist steve bannon before the house intelligence committee. Barbara, theres the president of the United States in the white house making the legal calls, the lawyer calls, on what steve bannon should or should not say in that committee. Yeah, its really astonishing because especially in light of how complicated the idea of Executive Privilege can be. It applies only to deliberative processes, during the duration of the administration, for example. Its difficult for lawyers to figure out how it applies. The idea that donald trump is back there calling the shots is problematic. I think it also feeds into the notion of Obstruction Of Justice. Is he asserting it for proper reasons . To preserve the power of the presidency or for some improper purpose to prevent disclosure of facts that could embarrassing to him. They did not assert Executive Privilege for Rick Dearborn. So sarah sanderss statements seem disingenuous. You have to imagine that some of the Trump Lawyers were horrified by this. They have a client who is under investigation for Obstruction Of Justice, they would not want him near this kind of maneuvering and trying to control what someone says in a committee hearing. This is another thing for bob mueller to look at, frankly. Hes building a case of Obstruction Of Justice against the president , and what weve seen from the public behavior and his twitter account, he basically incriminated himself when he said he fired Michael Flynn because he spoke to the
fib. This is getting trump in bigger trouble than he needs to be in. The reports specify that trump talked to the Deputy White House council not the white house counsel, because don mcgahn is a client of the same lawyer that represents steve bannon. So we imagine steve bannon on the phone with his other client at the white house. Apparently thats not how it works. It is complicated when you have one lawyer representing people involved in different capacities. There is a potential Conflict Of Interest there. Clients are allowed to waive those conflicts. Im not sure why the president relied on the deputy for that legal advice. Its a cast of characters that share the lawyers. Hope hicks testimony has been delayed. Hope hicks is one of the people who Michael Wolff in his book describes will crack like an egg under this questioning. Its her, donald trump jr. , steve bannon. These are players that have deep knowledge in the white houses inner workings. No matter what President Trump likes to say about steve bannons, he came out and said he had nothing to do with my presidency. If thats the case, why are they trying so hard to prevent him from testifying. Why did they say to him after the letter was written on Air Force One why was bannon looped into that. And now the trump administration, as they do, they try to distance themselves from him when anything comes out. Thank you both. Coming up, its time to get
a Second Opinion about Donald Trumps health and his mental health. In fact, were going to get a bunch of Second Opinions. Including one from a former air force physician, whose job it was to certify personnel to work in the Nuclear Weapon program. We will ask him if donald trump would qualify to work in the Nuclear Weapons program. My dentist said something interesting. My teeth are like
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to name these three animals. There they are. Luckily for the president , the Cognitive Assessment did not ask him to identify three countries in africa. Any three countries. Take your time, mr. President. In yesterday New York Times another doctor said we need to know much more about the president s mental state than his ability to tell the difference between a lion and a camel. Dr. Steven boozer was a physician in the air force for 12 years and is a trained clinical psychologist. One of his responsibilities was e evaluating the mental ability of those involved in the nuclear program. Yesterday he said, personnel who handle Nuclear Weapons are held to Higher Standards than other
personnel. The Department Of Defense specifies, quote, only those personnel who have demonstrated the highest degree of individual reliability for allegiance, trustworthiness, conduct behavior shall be allowed to perform duties associated with Nuclear Weapons and they shall be continuously evaluated for adherence to p. R. P. Standards. He wrote, the commander in chief, is the only individual in the chain who is not subject to the ongoing certification under the program. In his oped piece yesterday he asked this question, what if President Trump were instead airman trump and was to be assessed under the programs guide lines, would i certify him as p. R. P. Ready to work in the vicinity of Nuclear Weapons . Dr. Stephen boozer will answer that question after the break. With adt,
psychologist. He is the coauthor of a clear and president danger, narcissim of the era of President Trump. Would donald trump pass the Air Force Test for personnel working with weapons . Thats the real question. Somebody in that level of power with not only access to Nuclear Weapons or the ability to launch them within minutes, would he be certified around Nuclear Weapons . I have to start by saying absolutely not without further evaluation. Looking at somebody were he to be in the air force or the military, we would look at past behaviors, sexually abusive behavior to women and Cyber Bullying through twitter. We look at paranoia of being persecuted by others or surveilled and untruthful comments or at least highly distorted comments and someone like that we would be suspect of giving authorization to be around Nuclear Weapons unless we
did a thorough psychiatric evaluation to determine what was going on in the case. There is concern about this for many years. It hasnt ever been as prominent as it is now. You actually quote something jimmy carter said. He wrote about this in the mid 1990s, and he was writing about the 25th Amendment and how it needs clarification. He said consider the medical histories of the 18 president s who have sat in the oval office during the 20th century. One half of the 18 had cardiac disease, five had serious hypertension and four suffered strokes while in office. Given that the 25th Amendment at the moment is the only thing we have that in any way concerns It Self Concerns with the president s fitness, what else do you think we need to have in place . Thats a wonderful question. We need safeguards. When you talk about nuclear war, Global Nuclear war that could eliminate the species from the planet, there needs to be safeguards in place, one that is in congress right now, house bill 669 for bids any president , not just the current president but any president from launching a First Strike Nuclear attack against any country without the okay from congress, which is a common sense bill. Why would anybody not Want Congress to at least approve an attack of that nature . Thats one thing. The missiles are currently on a Hair Trigger Wire and we need to somehow make a safer system with that. There is house bill 1987 which allows congress to insist that the president get an evaluation, psychological or physical if there is ever any concern hes incapacitated. Both these pieces of legislation are common sense ones that in this day in age with older president s that could be suffering from either medical or cognitive impairment, why would we not want the safeguards in place to keep the American People safe . Thank you for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. Thank you. Tonights last word is next. Recognized for her compassion and care. He spent decades fighting to give families a second chance. But to help others, they first had to protect themselves. I have afib. Even for a nurse, its complicated. And it puts me at higher risk of stroke. That would be devastating. I had to learn all i could to help protect myself. Once i got the facts, my doctor and i chose xarelto®. Xarelto®. To help keep me protected. Oncedaily xarelto®, a latestgeneration blood thinner. Significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. It has similar effectiveness to warfarin. Xarelto® works differently. Warfarin interferes with at least 6 bloodclotting factors. Xarelto® is selective,
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tomorrow. He wants to put as much pressure on the democrats that plan on voting against the bill, he wants to put as much pressure as possible on the democrats in an effort to make them flip and in effort to make them look responsible for what could and looks like could be a potentially inevitable shut down if they dont get anything done tomorrow. Is there any indication Chuck Schumer is considering allowing this to go to a vote, in other words, shopping the 60vote threshold, letting it go to a Majority Vote and then on the bet that possibly the republicans cant even have those votes for the majority . There is no indication that would happen. Seems to bed a vat kat advocaing idea. He doesnt want to extend this another month. He wants to have these
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