time for up with david gura, steve kornacki is in for david. have a good one. and welcome to up. i m steve kornacki in for david gura and you are waking up to breaking news as we enter hour eight of a government shutdown. we re going to have a shutdown. there s nothing we can do about that. both parties at an impasse over the president s border wall and the blame game in full force. the democrats don t want to support something that will actually secure the border. plain and simple. what we ve seen is the total trump takeover of the republican party and including a brain meld. hundreds of thousands of government employees fur. lowed just days before the holidays. president trump could care less. he is in meltdown mode. it s saturday, december 22nd and the shutdown is on, but nobody wants to claim ownership.
it s worth recalling here that general flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi and the president himself fired him from his job as national security adviser. clearly the president here is not over the book tour despite what sources tell us is people in the white house believe he s weathered this one fairly well despite the numerous interviews and all of these memos coming out the last several days. it s all relative. usually the head of state ignoresm completely. the bar has been lowed. the rules have been changed. abby, thank you very much. put that tweet back up. a little window into the mind. shady james comey. shady spelled incorrectly, unless referring to slim shady, the alternate persona of eminem. there s that. misspelled word. not a big deal. something we have come to expect
process? i think it very much clarifies the process. how many of the american people do you think had any understanding of the process before this? they have a keen understanding i don t know if anyone has a clearer understanding as a result of the memo released because it only has a few elements of the entire investigation, the process. but there are accusations that it really just cherry picks. here s a couple things. in this entire process. one, let s be clear. how we went about this, we developed this memo on the information we were allowed to see, and not all of us were lowed to see, but we were allowed to see. keep in mind, we have been stoneple walled for over a year. the trust from the american people is getting diminished it s an investigation. is that being stonewalled? there is an investigation under way. until there are findings, should the public really know, right, about where the investigation is going? once it s complete, but if you re going to, you know, if
cnn has been reporting from north korea for more than 25 years. the aircraft we re boarding today has been flying for 50. this an 24 is part of an aging fleet of soviet planes, operated by air corio, north korea s only airline. still flying despite sanctions with regular international flights to china and russia. our flight takes us 400 miles north of pyongyang to a place cnn has never been alowed before. as a western journalist, even setting foot here is extraordinary.
women are still fighting for the right to drive, still fighting for the right to vote in saudi arabia, and you notice ivanka trump is not wearing a head scarf, which is something that a lot of foreign dignitaries and their spouses don t necessarily have to abide by but in saudi arabia women are legally required not only to have a male guardian for simple things a lowed to travel or seek medical attention but they also have to be covered from head to toe so interesting note neither melania or ivanka are have chosen not to wear the head scarf. alex we know that the king and the rest of the royal family are now in meetings with the president and those members of his administration on this trip. we re going to be talking about security, but our two countries may look at security differently. president trump will want to talk about the battle against isis and yet of course saudi arabia is more concerned about