vice president pence slams european allies. does that mean regime change? does that mean war? i think what it means is nations across the middle east and here in europe need to be willing to follow the lead of the united states of america. coming up, more on the threat from iran in another andrea mitchell exclusive with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and stuck in the middle. while the president looks for land mines inside the budget bill, the senate plans to vote on it later today. but federal contractors get stiffed, with no chance of back pay, all as lawmakers hold their breath, waiting to see what the president will do. let s all pray that the president will have wisdom to sign the bill so government doesn t shut down. and good day to you, i m kristen welker in washington where president trump is pushing back on another bombshell book,
perspective for us. how stunning are these revelations, that you would have these high level officials having a conversation built 25th amendment at all? kristen, that s right, this is a stunning revelation. rod rosenstein and i served together as u.s. attorneys, he in maryland, i in arizona. i know rod to be a truthful individual. we should be cautious, however, about andrew mccabe s statements. the inspector general has found he was untruthful on a number of occasions and it was significant enough that the inspector general referred it for prosecution. that doesn t mean that these writings, this narrative is untruthful. it just means we need to be cautious. now, if it was discussed, if these discussions took place at a high level within the department of justice seeking to invoke the 25th amendment and remove the president, that is an extraordinary moment in our nation s history. during your time of service, would you have ever imagined being a part of any discussions like these,
this is going to look bad, right? and so that s a public fight, a public negotiation, and a public communications effort more than anything. they re pretty far apart today. you had the democrats go to the white house today, they couldn t even listen to a briefing by secretary nielsen without interrupting or stating their talking points, the white house that has hair talking points. this is a talking points public fight. congressman dent, how do you see it? if the president doesn t shut down, is it republicans in congress who will end up looking like the foolish ones? well, right now, i think the president ought to take the deal that nancy pelosi is offering. i would actually take that deal. separate out these six bills. they should fund the department of interior, agriculture, the irs, that has nothing to do with border security. take care of that and confine the fight to the homeland security appropriations bill, and then once the government has reopened, i would just have a serio
communications effort more than anything. they re pretty far apart today. you had the democrats go to the white house today, they couldn t even listen to a briefing by secretary nielsen without interrupting or stating their talking points, the white house that has hair talking points. this is a talking points public fight. congressman dent, how do you see it? if the president doesn t shut down, is it republicans in congress who will end up looking like the foolish ones? well, right now, i think the president ought to take the deal that nancy pelosi is offering. i would actually take that deal. separate out these six bills. they should fund the department of interior, agriculture, the irs, that has nothing to do with border security. take care of that and confine the fight to the homeland security appropriations bill, and then once the government has reopened, i would just have a serious negotiation between the house and the senate and the president on this $5 billion for border sec
that happen. probably myself included. they will stifle it as long as they can including after the election. the wall i m telling you, we will play it later on in the program. i talked to some regular trump supporters in montana. building the wall remains a-number one for a lot of his supporters. have you got to stay laser focused on making that happen. ed: republican leaders on the hill talk a good game on it but they haven t backed it up so far. they are telling the president don t force this shut down, show down before the election. pete: everything else seems to be priority to fund except the president s priority. jedediah: this is one his chief campaign promises this is a guy set out to do. congressional republicans give the president a hard time. always don t shutt down the government. they don t want to shut down the government because politically the media will paint that badly for them. what i say sometimes first of all when you shut down the government the whole government