spoke with reporters today for about 10 minutes but it didn t take nearly half that long or even half that long l to realize this border fight is far from over. the president and first lady spending christmas eve at the national cathedral. nearly 1,000 miles away from their other home. i would rather not be doing shutdowns. i love ther white house. i wasn t able to be with my family. i thought it would be wrong for me to be with my family. i didn t want to go down when other people are hurting. president trump again christmas day with calls for trips over c. a chat with reporters. he says he cannot say when the partial government so john willp end up at the road to its end
it didn t take nearly half that long or even half that long to realize this border fight is far from over. the president and first lady spending christmas eve at the national cathedral. nearly 1,000 miles away from their other home in mar-a-lago. i d rather not be doing shutdowns. i love the white house. but i wasn t able to be with my family. i thought it would be wrong for me to be with my family. i just didn t want to go down and be there when other people are hurting. president trump again christmas day with calls to troops overseas. merry christmas, happy new year. keep doing the job. we are all very proud of you. and a chat with reporters. mr. trump can t say when the government partial shutdown will
raising family incomes and taking on serious corruption in washington. we also have a response to do oversight, but i can tell you her first priority is to get more done to the american people. maria: what s your priority in the next month? starter for the big democracy health care reform bill to raise ethical standards in the washington working for the people again and not the special interests. we know this is about 2020, this border fight right now. are you considering what all this means in terms of constituents going into the next election in two years. for filling our responsibilities including our broken immigration system that they expect us to do it in a smart way, cost-effective way. maria: good to have you in the program. thank you for joining us. we ll be watching the development, david cicilline. john ratcliffe will give us his thoughts on the partial government shutdown plus the
seeking asylum, building that wall, in which he may shut down the government to get that money. seeing the images of a fence across the border, which is not a wall. sending 5,000 troops on thanksgiving. and he also on thanksgiving said that he had already closed part of the border. and many of the reporters down there said, where? but there was no answer. so he s very much invested his political capital at this point in this fight, in this border fight. he is all in. yeah. elie, let me ask you about the potential legal challenges. some say it s too early to say what these challenges might be, but there probably would be some. how do you see that shaping up? right now trump is in violation of domestic law. we have an asylum law and trump s changing the asylum law to make people have to go through the ports of entry. that s a unilateral change of law without any understanding of how he has the power to do that. he s also in violation of international human rights law, because it
everything. i love the tax cuts. everything. you wouldn t have known. pretty smart race actually. but he ran and he ran on that basis. he ran on a campaign and said very nice things about me. i kept saying is he a republican. he sounded like a republican to me. that s spin city. karine jean-pierre, national spokesperson for moveon.org, john whitbeck chairman of the virginia republican party and howard fineman contributor fob nbc news.com. howard, why is he doing this saying i lie to the prime minister of canada, probably our best friend in the world? we ve never had a border fight with them or anything. other presidents. other presidents have not have bent the truth or outright lied. this is the first guy i can recall who is not only done it but bragged about his own ignorance on something. why does he do it? because he can. because he s donald trump and he has such contempt for the whole