just couldn t compete. when the government shutdown crisis finally started to end today, with the president appearing in the rose garden to announce that the government will reopen under its old funding levels with no change in policy whatsoever with no freaking wall between the united states and mexico or a down payment on it or a sample portion of it or any other thing related to a wall whatsoever, when the president announced today he will accept the exact same offer he rejected over a month ago that started this catastrophe for the government and hundreds of thousands of people who work for the government and their families, when the president made that announcement he said he would never ever make, which is that the shutdown will end for him getting nothing, when that dark cave opened and swallowed all light and made it briefly early cold and breezy for a moment, what that moved off the front page of every newspaper in the
planned for tuesday but nancy pelosi said she and the president need to work out a mutually agreeable date, not tuesday. that remains up in the air despite the uncertainty, there is some relief in sight for those federal employees who have been working all of this time without pay and for everything, that means with their families right now, the best estimate when they will get back pay is sometime next week the washington post reports it will be next thursday, friday or even saturday before employees are paid workers will then expect to see their usual paycheck as of february 8th so that does mean that things will grindingly and, you know, as best they can try to get back to normal but this isn t normal. isn t even even normal for a shutdown and will be painful gearing back up. stay with us
on the committee in subpoenaing documents and doing anything to check the documents in the witnesses that appeared to be lying. is it true stone s lies that were the basis of the felony indictment today could be evidence to the committee had you obtained those materials you are we take no pleasure in being right but the cost to our country has been grave because for two years, we ve sought to test mr. stone s story and mr. kushner s story and donald trump junior s story and they were o protected by republicans that wouldn t allow to subpoena outside documents and people inside washington, they say nobody outside washington really cares about the russia story and sure, it s not as fatal as a near as fatal as the shutdown we experienced but i find it fundamentally unamerican the trump campaignis so eagerly embraced an adversary that never
something they have later on an ma explanation about and i believe they are lying and bearing the evidence because the truth goes to the underlying crime in question, which is working with the russians and we now are in a position to find that out and the republicans can sit on their hands and not name people to the intelligence committee this will be the last gasp of republican obstruction because for two years they set to respect the president and act as counsel so we ll find out in short order. one of the things that struck me as sort of vindication is fo you and your fellow democrats, roger stone lied to your committee in his a.testimony an had there been a subpoena in the communications that followed or accompanied the testimony, the committee would have known he was lying. one of the things they laid about in your interim report in the investigation was that there was no interest by republicans
things are said publicly or in private? no, it really doesn t the law doesn t say so i mean, other than the fact that they both clearly watch too many gangster movies, there s a lot in common between the statements that roger stone is making and that president trump is making the witness tampering statute says that it s a crime to knowingly intimidate, threaten or corruptly persuade another person with intent to influence or prevent or delay their testimony in official proceedings. so seeing what they did is usually the easy part. the harder part is usually determining someone s intent but here the mere fact that this is done out loud versus quietly and privately i don t think should throw prosecutors off the scent. you know, certainly it s unprecedented that somebody s using twitter to make thee kinds of statements, but if you look at the elements of the offense, the fact that they re done in an open and notorious way doesn t make them any less fitting of those elements