for. the president heard that loud and clear. he actually rolled out a different type of barrier on the steel barrier, we call it ssb, but yet, you ve got nancy pelosi, senator schumer and others who voted for 700 miles of fencing. if they want to go had an appropriate the money for the other 350 miles that they didn t build on the 2006 legislation that they pass, will help them without. this is not about what we call it. this is about what it is. we need border security. the democrats don t want it and most americans do. maria: why would they not want it, congressman? it sounds crazy to hear you say they don t want border security. they say they do want border security. why would they not want border security? i think it s all about one campaign promise. they know this was a central theme for this president and
accountable. quite frankly there is so much there that the american people need transparency and i think when that happens it ll be good medicine for everybody. maria: you ve got the president s ear. would you incur the president said the american people understand what took place. i have and i will. the president s typical default is on transparency. he believes we have to let the american people see it because he knows what he s done and and what he hasn t done. he lied declassified documents in the months and weeks to come. maria: we ll talk about that with john ratcliffe coming up is on the judiciary committee. we ll be watching the developments. congressman mark meadows joining us there. our portion of the government shutdown continues this morning with actions from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. georgia republican senator david purdy with the senate budget committee joins us on an exclusive interview now in the
breaking news. just in, a top contender for a chief of staff job at the white house now out. white house press secretary sarah sanders saying, quote, congressman mark meadows is a great friend of president trump and doing an incredible job in congress. the president told him we need him in congress so he can continue the great work he is doing there. also in the politics lead, you might call them the big three. michael cohen sentenced to three years in prison just hours ago. paul manafort, who ran the trump campaign staring at ten years in the slammer. and president trump s fired national security adviser, michael flynn, pleading with a judge right now for no prison time, citing his long history of military service and his full cooperation with the special counsel, robert mueller. in a sentencing memo, flynn s defense team also suggested that the fbi may have duped him into lying when two agents failed to
released from north korean custody last year. denuclearization and that rogue regime remains stalled at this point. it has been a week of shakeups at the white house, presidential advisor jared kushner says everything is running smoothly. a new white house counsel will be fabulous. a lot of stories making a lot of attention in the news but a lot of phenomenal people in the white house and administration show up to work every day, ignoring the noise and focusing on how to accomplish the objectives of the president which is to make the country more prosperous and create more jobs and keep people safe. rob: congressman mark meadows is on the shortlist to replace chief of staff john kelly. last night on hannity he said he would be honored. several southeast states hit hard by winter storm, waking up
conducted it, we tried to conducted, and i think we did, with integrity. i would make a lot fewer mistakes. laura: rosenstein work for your team of prosecutors we back when. andy, i want to get your thoughts on the new text messages released today by congressman mark meadows. they show more communications between the former fbi agents peter strzok and lisa page. and to some come with pointed to a coordinated media leak campaign intended to harm president trump. the correspondent ends with stzrok congratulating page on an article being planted on carter page. are there any other was to read this? there are a couple of ways to read it, laura, although i must say, when you have a situation like we have year, when you have had a lot of evidence of high ranking fbi officials leaking, you have to take that into account. i have been in investigations where people i don t know that they used this phrase as