trump s legal team is telling the president to refuse the special counsel s request to question him. according to four people briefed on the matter lawyers for president trump advised him against sitting down for a wide-ranging interview with the special counsel. their concern is the president who has a history of making false statements and contradicting himself could be charged with lying to investigators. however, refusing to cooperate with the special counsel s request for a voluntary interview carries the risk mueller could hit the president with a grand jury subpoena, a move that would quickly escalate the potential legal battle all the way to the supreme court. in january, nbc news reported the president s attorneys were seeking potential compromise that could avoid an encounter with mueller all together. now his lawyers is appear to risk a possible legal 0 showdown. they believe the special counsel might be willing to subpoena the president and set off a showdown
$200,000 permit just to take their case to court! now, they re taking their legal battle all the way to the supreme court. michael and shantel join us from seattle this morning. good morning to both of you. good morning. good morning. that s a beautiful little plot of land we just saw in that in the still pictures right there so you started to build the house and the e.p.a. said stop, this is wetlands. how is that possible? there are houses on both sides of you. that s correct. how is that possible? that s your argument, isn t it? exactly. we would actually, you know, like to prove our case and to show them it is not wetlands. uh-huh. but we ve been shut down. do you think somebody the only way the e.p.a. could have found out that you were building a house there is if somebody, one of the neighbors or somebody else called and sniched on you. do you think that could be the case? yes. pretty good chance. yeah. ok. so explain this to me.
in fact, the longest government shutdown ever began on this date 15 years ago and lasted 21 days all the way until january 6, 1996, and during that time, all departments that were critical to national security and public health and border patrol and emergency assistance were still available even though their employees had to be paid retroactively but during that time, during that shutdown, the feds had to cancel plans to recruit new law enforcement officers and they had to delay hiring 400 border patrol agents, the cdc also stopped the surveillance so nobody can get any info about the spread of the flu of the aids for those 21 winter days and elsewhere, workers at 609 different toxic waste sites were sent home and the effects of the shutdown were felt in more beautiful areas like the places maintained by the national park service that had to close. that affected seven million
stadium. dozens of volunteers have been working around the clock on the field. by the way, my brother installs turf and says you should never use a shovel on it. i m getting a live shot with him a little later. trying to remove snow and get it ready for game time and they ve gotten rid of 26 truckloads of the white stuff but school officials say they ll have to use electronic heating mats to thaw it out. the other thing they have is these special tractors that push the snow off. leave the people alone. that s a quick look at the world of sports. they don t need to shovel a field for the vikings. am i right? that s an outdoor game. alan page is a busy judge. after months and months of anti-business rhetoric, president obama met with 20 c.e.o. s to see if he can help create jobs. stuart varney says this is an outrage. not an outrage. you think this is so weird. he s been so anti-business and now he s going come on in here.
well, ads like these are airing all over the place and we wanted to know the story behind these moving messages. who makes these ads? the answer, a group called values.com. joining us right now is one of the many faces of the campai campai campaign, orel lee brown. how did you get involved with this? what happened with you that made you take action? it was in 1987 one morning i was on my way to the store to get me a bag of peanuts and a soda and as i stood waiting for that light, a little boy said lady, would you give me a quarter and i had a $5 bill. and so i said to the little girl, i m going to the store, you can go with me and so she and i went to the store and when we walked in, it was like she just stopped and i said, get whatever you want. the first thing she picked up was a loaf of bread and i began to watch her. and i said once again, get what you want. so she ended up getting bologna,