could pressure nancy pelosi into caving in earlier than we have seen. there would have been a relatively quick shutdown and once the speaker new speaker came in and took power, they d come to a deal. neither side is moving and doesandoe doesn t seem any imperative to move. government has a lot of responsibilities over safety, security, over food, all kinds of things, airplane travel. we have air traffic controllers, federal employees, all those people under stress now financially, in addition to the stress that comes with being a air traffic controller or any position where they re on furlough and the house has voted nine times to get government open. one person we have not discuss second degree the person hiding nad blanket and that s senator mitch mcconnell that has not
i remember a phrase both of you from reading about the alamo and how davy crocket and the others how in the end when they re overwhelmed by thousands on the santa an aa they retreated to what was it was like one little room they could defend. that s all they could defend. i think that s where this case has gone. it s good to have you on. still ahead did donald trump tell micha michael cohen to manipulate polls to look like he was a winner? that s a dirty trick, don t you think? fooled a lot of conservatives. cohen said he did. he s admitting this stuff. this is hardball where the action is. this is hardball where the action is. tryin to hold back this feeling for so long
us any closer to a deal. ben, you know the facts here. lot of these facts must be jumping out at you like the nature of this, the fact it was going to afghanistan. hardly a pleasure trip for the paris air show. they weren t bringing their spouses with them. you know a real one, verses a junket. this was not a junket. this is actually an insult to the american taxpayer. because congress has to fund to the tune of billions of dollars our efforts in afghanistan and nancy pelosi as speaker, it s part of her job to go there on front lines and get briefings from generals as she makes decisions because she holds the power of the purse in congress. and so what president trump is doing is canceling a really critical part of her responsibilities as speaker of the house to check in with our men and women on the front lines too, show our support and try to understand the nature of the war in afghanistan and to pull the
let s talk politics. claire mckaskel is in the fight of her political life. so how is he doing it? let s turn to my halloween doppelgänger, dana bash. i m actually going as you tonight. that s amazing. you will have a lot of explaining to do. forgive my choice. a lot of airplane travel. you know who else is going to missouri? president trump. that s how tight this race is. also a reminder that it s trump country. not easy for a two-term incumbent democrat. democrat rolling keep in
time. but, yes, eventually you get tv specials, you get people with better technologies and you get all kinds of speculation of, you know, a beam came down and took it out into space and whatever happened on lost happened in real life. we re already getting those kinds of theories now. and the longer a plane like this is gone, the more and more outrageous the invitations are to speculate as to what happened. when science doesn t give you answers, you have to go outside of rash nallty to look for them. robert thompson is a popular culture expert at syracuse university, looking at this sort of obsession with this mystery. thanks so much for joining us. i wonder if, you know, airplane travel is something most of us use, it s hard for us to imagine most of this would simply disappear. the way this developed is unprecedented. there were kws, was it