not just his base was upset believing he had caved to nancy pelosi s demands, but also moderate lawmakers, republicans, are frustrated as well because they feel like they had the longest government shutdown in history and there s nothing to show for it. now it s not even over yet either. we ve got these three weeks where this bipartisan group of lawmakers are going to try figure out a way the hash out a deal to not only clear both chambers of congress, but also get the president s signature. something that s going to come back down to the president and nancy pelosi. as you noted, the president in the interview was expressing skepticism about the fact that in the next three weeks something is going to change and they re going to come to an agreem. now the president isn t the only person who s doubtful. essentially with these sides drawing red lines, the president saying he wouldn t accept anything less and nancy pelosi calling the wall an immorality. hard to see they re going to
welcome back. i m stephanie ruhle. president trump is boasting about slamming sanctions on iran which is creating tensions with our own allies. he tweeted earlier in part, these are the most biting sanctions ever imposed and in november, they rachet up to yet another level. anyone doing business with iran will not be doing business with the united states. i m asking for world peace. nothing less. sanctions, which had been eased under the iran 2005 excuse me. 2015 nuclear deal went back into effect this morning. as a result of the u.s. pulling out of the greem. now the european union is encouraging investors to increase business with iran arguing the nation has upheld its end of the deal. with me now former democratic congressman jane harman who is the president and ceo. woodrow wilson center. trump appears to be threatening any country that does business with iran. ,000 is that going to affect the
word verifiable didn t appear in the agreem he said,though, it wa in the, quote, minds of everybody concerned. that led to this exchange with the reporter. the reporter beginsy asking, quote, i wanted to ask you about verifiable and irreversible. you said the day before it s our only objective, it s clear, it s not in the statement. and the president says it will, and pompeo replies, hmm, it s in the statement, you re just wrong about that. reporter: how is it in the statement? and pompeo, you re just because complete encompasses verifiable and irreversible, it just it s in the documents. just so you know, you could ask me this, i find that question insulting and ridiculous and insulting. i just have to be honest with
forgot to get his client, donald trump to sign the agreem soy daniels lawyer, michael avenatti, is fighting michael cohen in court in california. but tonight he s here, and michael avenatti joins our discussion now. yo did a calculation about how much this case is costing michael cohen in new york city that you put out today. you estimated it could be a half a million dollars a week? correct. gettover 1,500 an hour.them some of them a lowould be 700 an hour? correct. under new york rates. i think you re looking at 15 lawyers, about 50 hours a week, you do the math and it s on average a hybrid rate of 700, 750 an hour, before you factor in mr. ryan who s probably billing,200 an hour. the burn rate is significant. probably about a half million dollars a week. look, this is no different than
we have a good deal. just trying to understand, he s saying before the deal, they were dishonest. that s what the prime minister said last week, but you know, you yur on colleagues, the dni chief, secretary of state now, but at the time, mike pompeo had said when it comes to the deal, iran was in compliance, not violation. here they are. is it the judgment that the intelligence community that iran has thus far adhere d to the deal s major provision sns. yes, the judgment is in no terrible breach of the agreem. do you have any evidence to dispute the assessment that iran is in full compliance with the jcpoa? senator, with the information that i ve been provided, i have no, i ve seen no evidence they are not in compliance today. so what are the grounds? what is the issue here? sfl again, they re just confirming they were in