we ve got the cohen situation. we ve got michael flynn about to head back to court. we ve got manafort in trouble once again. we ve got the russian maria butina in court today. it s like robert mueller and the southern district of new york prosecutors are suddenly freed up from whatever, you know, restraints they had been under to wait until after the election and wait until after thanksgiving, and they re suddenly going to court day after day after day, and this drum beat of bad news, the deal with the national enquirer s parent company, all this stuff, i think, is just coming at him left and right. at the same time he s about to democratic house with subpoena power, which is going to look into a lot of these things in a very public way and a whole lot less discreet way. and he s got a big budget fight looming and no chief of staff. that s a big, big set of issues confronting this president at this time. he s very, very nervous about it. two lawyers and a reporter, our big three
white house? now, i don t think it s calm inside this white house. this is a white house having multiple problems all at once. look what happened in the last few days. we ve got the cohen situation. we ve got michael flynn about to head back to court. we ve got manafort in trouble once again. we ve got the russian maria butina in court today. it s like robert mueller and the southern district of new york prosecutors are suddenly freed up from whatever, you know, restraints they had been under to wait until after the election and wait until after thanksgiving, and they re suddenly going to court day after day after day, and this drum beat of bad news, the deal with the national enquirer s parent company, all this stuff, i think, is just coming at him left and right. at the same time he s about to democratic house with subpoena power, which is going to look into a lot of these things in a very public way and a whole lot less discrete way. and he s got a big budget fight looming and
they say the ig report completely exonerates the present. rudy giuliani says it dramatically supports donald trump position. and that people in the clinton program for clinton and against trump. ellison barber, thank you. the next chapter in the justice department watchdog report is the ig set to testify on tuesday. what can we expect on the rhetoric? will take the substrate ahead. the holiday cease-fire in afghanistan took a deadly turn over the weekend. two separate suicide bombings have happened in the past two days. dozens were killed, isis now claiming one of the attacks. we are live in the middle east puree with connor.
u.s.t.r. light highser. and they are fighting for trump s attention and control over this policy. each represents pay big set of interests. when you talk about something as consequential in this general racially important as the overall protection of the u.s. and international economies and chinese economic aggression, big money interests are involved. and the finance community is risk averse. wall street doesn t want to see a trade war. they don t want to see chinese technology. both sides can t win. trump will have to decide whether or not he has the stomach for this fight. we have no choice but to fight it. he will get them to change their behavior. if they won t, messaging to them clearly we are going to defend