Along with his favorite tv shows. Negotiations between congress and the white house all but off as the two proposals that could have reopened the government failed in the senate just in the last hour. The president s slow motion catastrophe so grave and so potentially dangerous that his former chief of staff john kelly is piling on. These joining other former Homeland Security chiefs to put out a letter warning that the shutdown now poses a serious security threat. They write, quote, dhs employees who protect the traveling public investigate and Counter Terrorism and protect Critical Infrastructure should not have to rely on the charitable generosity of others for assistance feeding families and paying their bills as they sit fastly focused on the information at hand. This is unconscionable. Were awed by the sacrifices the men and will of dhs and their families make every day in their Extraordinary Service to our nation. We call on our elected leaders to restore the funding necessary t
cuz its a funny name. Named after a rock formation and a computer game. [laughter] but its amazing what a tellall will do for name recognition. Cliff simms joins us now, welcome. My main goal is to have as much fun as the mooch. Hes got a beautiful wife, martial, bathroom marble bathroom. I just saw sean spicer toting a refrigerator out of here. Got a new chandelier in there. The whole atmospheres kind of, like, can you believe it . Here we are. Greg well, would you look at that. Suddenly, this guy gets more air aume than a frisbee at a fish concert. [laughter] hes just giving the lockstep lemmings what they want, and it doesnt matter what they gobble up. Its the same crap they inhaled a month before. Cliff simms is now superstar for a week. And why . cuz hes a fink. His tellall has all the shocking details, get this. For example, the president uses tresme extra hold hair spray. [laughter] i know. Fancy, 5. Its for average joes with orange hair. [laughter] trump would often point out t
Just now, just now. I said i have to take care of my people from texas. I got to go. I dont even want to hear about it. I dont want to hear about it. So i dont know what they mean. I dont even want to hear about it even though it is what i have been demanding for more than two months. Is he on board, on the fence or on the rampage against this deal . So far crickets from his twitter feed and the white house. The president meets with his cabinet later this hour so please stay tuned for more on that. Lets get to where things stand at this very moment. Dana bash, abby philip, Phil Mattingly standing by. Can some 800,000 federal employees breathe a sigh of relief . I think there has been a lesson probably wait until the president puts pen to paper before breathing signs of relief or grasping the possibility. I would say this. There is a reality on capitol hill. They will lose democrats for issues on the bill. It was said that not everybody got everything they wanted. That is the art of how
Man explain to me, will you . Im joking. All right. Guess what, that does it for us. Yasmine will pick up the coverage right now. Im sorry, the 52 extra seconds is on me. Come on. Thanks, joe. Hi there, and yasmine vossoughian. What is the big idea, the ideological battle for 2020 is already under way. Call it the billionaires versus the progressives candidates. Clashing over ideas that could reshape the electorate and the country. Ive been criticized for being a billionaire. Elizabeth warren wants to criticize me for being successful. Any minute now, high level trade negotiations will resume amid reports the president will meet with chinas lead negotiator tomorrow. After the u. S. File charges against huawei which the Chinese Government called unfair and immoral, are the talks already over before theyve begun . And shared intelligence. The heads of the cia, the fbi and director of National Intelligence testify in unison against almost everything the president has said about foreign th
Southern border. I accept that. Ive always accepted it. Well, keeping em honest, although it did not last long, he did, at first, offer to accept responsibility for the shutdown. I am proud to shut down the government for Border Security, chuck. Because the people in this country dont want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. So, i will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. Im not going to blame you for it. Ill be the one, he said, im proud to shut down the government. Thats where he started, as harry truman once said, the buck stops here. As the weeks went by, that changed. On one occasion, he literally said, the buck stops with everybody. At one point, he wouldnt even call a shutdown a shutdown. I dont call it a shutdown. I call it doing what you have to do for the benefit and for the safety of our country. So you can call it whatever you want. You can call it the schumer or the pelosi or the trump shutdown. Doesnt make any