country could use a good shutdown. this is one of those deals where the president doesn t want to shut down, republicans don t want to shut down. the house passed a bill to prevent a shutdown, and it s solely up to senate democrats led by senator schumer who used to call this governmental chaos. i think if i had to say what the main hold up in all of this is the lack of willingness on the part of republicans in congress to support a domestic agenda increase as they support a military increase. and the president himself piling on this morning with an attack on democrats, tweeting, quote, government funding bill passed last night in the house of representatives now democrats are needed if it is to pass in the senate. but they want illegal immigration and weak borders. shutdown coming? we need more republicans in 2018. joining us for the latest on where things stand, jeff bennett is with us from the white house, and eric is with us from capitol hill. at the table the new
turning 50. let s go outfront. outfront out of control, secret society exists in congress is there. spread publicly a story about two fbi officials who were having an affair texting about a secret society. here s the text between fbi lawyer lisa page and fbi agent peter strzok. are you even going to give tout your calendars? seems kind of depressing. maybe it should be the first meeting of the secret society. well, if you are not sure exactly what the two officials are talking about, you are not alone. because that lacked so much context. it did not, however, stop many republicans from going hog wild about what they thought or hoped the text meant. there is a text exchange between these two fbi agents, these two supposed to be objective fact centric fbi ates saying perhaps this is the first meeting hft secret society. so of course i m going to want to know what secret society are you talking about. the text messages between strzok and page which you just mentioned in th
new evidence is likely to come out over the next few weeks and months, evidence that he claims will help prove trump knew about the $130,000 hush money payment to daniels just before the election, that and his silence so far is very deliberate. trump maybe for the first time ever following the advice of confidants and avoiding saying or maybe more importantly tweeting anything directly about stormy daniels. the source goes on to say trump knows the stakes. it s no surprise that the white house is sticking to its denials that trump had an affair with daniels. a majority of americans aren t buying it. here s our brand-new cnn poll. 63% believe stormy daniels and ex-playmate karen mcdougal both say they had affairs with trump. only 21% believe the president. tonight one of stormy daniels friends said she can corroborate the story. alana evans says she heard trump on the phone the night she was invited to a party with stormy daniels. she said she would take the lie detector test
about it, had me bullied, broke laws to cover it, et cetera. and ps, i m not going anywhere, xoxoxo. is this really happening? the president may really have met his match in stormy daniels. tonight, i m going to talk to one of her friends, who said she and daniels have both been threatened in an effort to keep them quiet. but there is more. in addition to stormy daniels, there s the former playboy model who says that she had a ten-month affair with trump. karen mcdougal says she had an affair with trump at about the same time as stormy daniels. she sold her story to the parent company of the national enquirer, which killed that story. now mcdougal wants out of the $150,000 agreement, so she can speak freely. there s also former apprentice contestant, summer zervos. she says trump groped her in 2006 and she says he defamed her by calling her a liar. now a judge is refusing to dismiss her lawsuit against him. even for a president who s no stranger to depositions and lawsuit