With the president and with others despite differences from time to time. How about the if the president spends his time getting the Government Back open . While they remain deadlocked over the shutdown. Even trumps base doesnt think the government should be shut down over the wall. Even people who like the wall dont think there should be a government shutdown. Mcconnell has the power to open up the government. The 5. 6 billion is such a small number. Literally. Its one month in afghanistan. Were talking about national security. This isnt just a border. Are you willing to come up and give him some money for the wall . Apparently thats the sticking point. No, were talking about Border Security. Theres no amount of persuasion you can do to say to us we want you to do something that is not effective. That costs billions of dollars. That sens the wrong message about who we are as a country. If you dont compromise, why isnt the shutdown partially your responsibility as sghel. It has nothing
House. Unapologetic, promising to push her liberal priorities and dismissing those who question her budget math. If people want to really blow up one figure here or one word there, i would argue that theyre missing the forest for the trees. I think there is a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct rather than being morally right. The president now saying he will head to the southern board. The trip scheduled for thursday, according to the White House Press secretary. That trip will be a big moment for the president on what his white house calls the front lines of a National Security crisis. Here in washington, no talks and no progress, and no sign the democrats are interested in putting furloughed federal workers back in the office. The president said he expected a sunday meeting between negotiators to produce nothing. That meeting met that lack of expectations. Right now we are where we were a week ago, with one notable exception. The wh
Disruptions effect will be long lasting remains to be seen. Russia is not sitting out on 2020 the. The absence of a strategy from the Trump Administration led u. S. Military to mount its own offensive operations to make it more difficult for russian bot and troll operations to occur. Lets start with the reporter who broke the story. Ellen, this is interesting news. We have been hearing the ongoing criticism that the president doesnt necessarily take it seriously and hasnt given instructions as to how to do it, but we are hearing about this effectively shot across the bough where americans have been able to say we know where to find you. We know what you are doing. Dont do is it. Not only that, but on the day of the election, the american cyber operators shut down Internet Access to the russian trolls, blocking them from getting on social media platforms to try to spread disinformation. What i was told was this operation was part of a strategy that was directed or signed off on by the w
Than the String Quartet you had with the cellos. I am glad you let our viewers now know you are one of the most accomplished celloists. People dont know i have a stand up base that i play and move over to play the cello. Whatever it takes to drama ties the moment, i the moment, im here. Yesterday was a fascinating day as well. These days seem to drag on and on with news. But yesterday, of course, while we were still on the air the whistleblower report came out and there were hearings, a lot of recriminations going back and forth. Interesting enough, i dont know if you know this enough, i was justry mind just reminded i was in congress once, we went for impeachment and everybody ran to their corners. I didnt quite see that happening yesterday. No. You saw it from reliable sources, people in the media, couple senators. But you see republicans either keeping their powder dry or saying yeah, this is important. You had the acting dni that the complaint is unprecedented. He believes, the dni
Of state mike pompeo said for the first time he was indeed on that phone call with ukraines president that is now at the heart of the impeachment inquiry. Also today, after the state Departments Office of Inspector General put out an urgent request, this afternoon they will brief Congressional Committee staff about documents related to state department and ukraine. So lets go right to washington where both sides are digging in their heels over the impeachment inquiry. Joining me from capitol hill is nbc correspondent Heidi Przybilla on the north lawn. White house correspondent peter alexander. Heidi, what do we know about the new subpoenas that will be issued we think on friday . Reporter that is the understanding, that if the white house does not comply by friday, chris, this subpoena cannon is loaded to go. These committees, chris, trying to show they mean business, taking no breaks and issuing rapidfire subpoenas for pompeo, giuliani and now for the white house. In terms of what we