of buzzfeed said to my colleague, chris hayes last night. obviously the spousen prefers to control the timeline and for reernl reasons wants to operate on his own timeline. without revealing a lot of details. but i think you know he s made these sort of statements and we would like to know what he s talking about. the washington post put it, that the buzzfeed news story landed like a mortar in washington. if this report is true, if the president directed michael cohen to lie to congress, then that s a clear case of participating in perjury and obstruction of justice. and he should resign. but if he doesn t resign, he should be impeached. all this happening, the reporting that statement just weeks before michael cohen is scheduled to testify before the house oversight committee. that s scheduled to take place on february 7th. beth, let me start with you. kind of back into the criticism of the piece by the special counsel.
contribute. michael cohen is lying. he s a weak person. later today, president trump plans to make an announcement on the shutdown. now in its 29th day. on border security as well. will he declare a national emergency? when it comes to keeping the american people safe, i will never, ever back down. the president announces he plans to visit dover air force base to be with the families of four americans who lost their lives in syria. and the president s feud with speaker nancy pelosi continues to heat up. i don t think the president would be that petty, do you? saturday, january 19th and nancy pelosi is explaining the house rules to the president. you don t get to come into my house and do the state of the union in the usual televised way. no tv until you do your homework. that s what she told him. that would be this morning. beth fooly is the senior politics editor here at msnbc. don calloway is the democratic