whenever you want. it turns out the polls were rigged. this is cnn tonight, i m don lemon and here we are, another day of government chaos. another day when the institutions we thought that we could depend on look like they re coming apart at the seams. this is day 27 now of this shutdown. day 27, thousands of government workers who have bills to pay, families to feed just like the rest of us, they re forced to go out and work for free, not get paid. the president and speaker of the house doing hand to hand combat, i mean going back and forth. i m going to tell you about how the day unfolded. the president s former attorney admitting that he paid thousands to rig polls in favor of president trump. the president s current attorney conceding the trump campaign may have colluded with russia while insisting the president did not. is anybody feeling good about
in the private sector, you re loyal to the company. in the military, you are loyal to the constitution. we take that, the first day of any new military member joining the service and take an oath to defend the constitution of the united states and that s it. you don t care what political party is in charge. you have to be careful about how you relate to politics. you know you can cheer for a president or certainly applaud the president as part of your chair of command, what you can t do is go in that fine line of being part of his/her inner circle because you defend the nation as a whole. not as a political party or something the president is trying to do. colonel lieghton, the president was in iraq, does that
that s not true to say the only way this is going to happen is if the democrats start negotiating, there s another way that s probably actually a better way. and if he wants to bring in some people and gain more confidence with the democrats he could say i m going to open it back up, but i really want you to negotiate with me, and if you don t, then you re going to look bad. look, i agree 100% that we should open up the government first and then negotiate the wall. there s a great way to bargain here. the president wants $5 billion, nancy pelosi wants zero, let s agree to 2.5 and move on. in the meantime let s open up the government and then have those conversations because these people have gone without a paycheck and we need to rectify that. david, sorry, what do you think about all this back and forth? that s okay. i think splitting it down the middle is the deal that pence and mulvaney offered early on and then the president repudiated it.
so he was not willing to accept that deal. and democrats have an upper hand here because they have voted to reopen the government. republicans and democrats notice senate have voted to reopen the government and leave the issue of homeland security and the border wall for further negotiation and the president has refused. so when he sends letters to pelosi saying you shouldn t leave while we have 800,000 people out of work, he has the ability to put them back to work, the congress has agreed to put them back to work at various times here and he won t do it. but i do think the other point, don, look she played hard brawl. she doesn t want to give him the platform of the state of the union to litigate this issue. he then responded and kind of threw a spitball back. the thing i thought that was astonishing about it, though, was referring to a trip to afghanistan to visit the troops
took a trip to a war zone during the shutdown. and the fact is the speaker of the house is third in line in our government after the president and the vice president. so exposing her trip to a war zone is pretty questionable even these days. and because, of course, the trump campaign is fund-raising off the clash with pelosi. did you know that? white house official tells cnn the president has been watching the tv coverage and is pleased. so we can probably expect more of these bare knuckle tactics on both sides. on both sides. and speaking of the president watching tv, here s something he apparently wasn t pleased about. sources telling cnn he was startled when his nominee for attorney general william barr said this on live tv during his confirmation hearing. i told him how well i knew bob mueller and how the barrs and muellers were good friends