just added 17 new lawyers to the white house counsel s office within the past couple of weeks, and none of them are people who are also planning on continuing their talk radio shows while they do this gig. it is awkward, though, that that hiring of 17 new lawyers for the president, that maps neatly on to this government shutdown, which is now in its 19th day. you may have seen today the coast guard just published a handy guide for its personnel during the shutdown, a new guard for personnel titled managing your finances during a furlough. the five-page tip sheet advises coast guard personnel that they should, quote, be creative to find supplemental income during the furlough period. quote, here are a few ideas for adding income. quote, have a garage sale, offer to watch children, walk pets, or house sit. turn your hobby into income. wouldn t that depend on your hobby? quote, become a mystery shopper.
approve border security that includes a wall or steel barrier. nancy said no. i said bye-bye. nothing else works. as it stretch under to its 19th day, vice president mike pence disputed schumer s characterization and argus democrats weren t in good faith. he walked in and passed out candy. he left the room today because speaker nancy pelosi said even if he gave her what she wanted, she would never agree to the border security priorities that we have on the table and that was unacceptable. i think you heard him right, in fact i know you did. he was talking about the president handing out candy, we re told it was m and, ms. we ve been having conversations with him but you cannot come to a conclusion that
representation has not been like a-list folks, or even b-list. it s been like a grab bag. they re the white elephant lawyers who were otherwise available. it s been a strange mismatch between the presidential legal jeopardy here and the presidential legal defense. up until now. now that would seem to be changing, if in fact the new white house counsel really has just added 17 new lawyers to the white house counsel s office within the past couple of weeks, and none of them are people who are also planning on continuing their talk radio shows while they do this gig. it is awkward, though, that that hiring of 17 new lawyers for the president, that maps neatly on to this government shutdown, which is now in its 19th day. you may have seen today the coast guard just published a handy guide for its personnel during the shutdown, a new guard
politicians. but what we re looking at right now is the 19th day of a government shutdown over the border wall and funding for it. there are federal workers who are off the job or working unpaid because of it. the president says this is all worth it in order for him to get more money for the border wall. do you see it that way? as the shutdown is worth it? no. i think the president s negotiation style, if you read his book too, is to force the issue and to force in this case the democrats to sit down and negotiate. i think compromise is important. i think there s fault on both sides. i think the republicans and democrats, they ve been dealing with this problem for five years. if it s as monumental as they claim politically, then they should solve it. that s involving compromise and i don t see compromise from either side. i would hope washington gets it together. if local government couldn t solve a problem of that magnitude in five years, you d
with rosenstein gone, the investigation will be overseen by people who have kpresd open hostility to at least some of the probe. and that news come at the same time as a major development. a direct link between the most senior levels the trump campaign and russian intelligence. lawyers for former trump campaign chair paul manafort inadvertently revealed that manafort shared internal polling data with an associate tied to russian intelligence. so does this constitute collusion? and about last night. the president he s oval office address making a case for the border wall. new york times called it a nine-minute speech that made no new arguments but included misleading asertions. the times report the that the president didn t want to give the speech in the first place because it wasn t change any minds. was he right? this as the shutdown enters its 19th day. let s get right to this. john avilan and former federal