Fbi considered a legitimate question to be investigated and reach a conclusion on it but to be investigated based on what they knew. The other news in there is the president appearing to further dig his heels in on this shutdown eliminating one path to a resolution here which was this idea floated by senator Lindsey Graham. That seems to be the president s decision and no change from that. Yeah. Thats right. I think he actually eliminated from what i heard two paths. He backed off the National Emergency that hes been talking about for several weeks now. He says im not looking to declare a National Emergency. He says he believes he can but hes saying for the first time he doesnt really want to do it but also hes explicitly saying when Lindsey Graham came to him and said lets temporarily reopen the government while we have this discussion, allow people to get paid, the president has now rejected that offer. The problem here is that no one knows what it will take other than the president
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