if not years. bob litt, is there risk in the white house strategy that there is a fast track? are we going to a nixon tape showdown, is it going to be three years, what julian was saying, one to two to three years, or is there a way it is fast tracked? julian is right. if it goes to the courts, it will take a long time before it gets resolved. i think the risk for the white house is either that the information leaks out or that the whistleblower decides to come forward, and at that point they lose control, lose the ability to stall things interminably. that s when we may find out what this is all about. thank you both for sharing your expertise with us. thanks for having us. joining me, kimberly atkinson, washington correspondent and michael steele, doug parnell.
made, it doesn t matter if he discussed a political rival with a foreign leader. this is ahead of trump s one-on-one meeting scheduled with the ukraine president next week at the united nations general assembly. it is september. it is what we affectionately refer to at unga week next week. you know general assembly in case you hear that. to put it in context, michael mcfall, served as ambassador to russia, kimberly, michael, doug are also back. mike, let me start straightforward here with, want to see if you can clear up something kelly o donnell was mentioning, foreign leader phone call transcripts and recordings, controlled by the white house. are they recordings? are these notes? are these full transcripts? or could it be any of the three? well, i don t know how the trump administration operates, i want to underscore that. of course. maybe they do things
department we so rarely talk about in terms of anything beyond an annual physical for a president or vice president. so it is a, another shake-up here when we re trying to get more details about what was really behind it. chris? kelly o donnell, thank you for that breaking news. michael steele, doug parnell, thank you as well. president trump, as we said, just arriving, and bringing the stairs over to air force one. getting ready to address that friendly audience at the nra annual convention. we ll squeeze in a brief break and be right back after this. but i m relentless too. mbc doesn t take a day off, and neither will i. and i treat my mbc with new everyday verzenio- the only one of its kind that can be taken every day. in fact, verzenio is a cdk4 & 6 inhibitor for postmenopausal women with hr+, her2- mbc, approved, with hormonal therapy, as an everyday treatment
that all 46 republicans are united against obama care. that s senator ted cruz telling his party to come on home. but exactly where does he live? because if it s in the country, obama care is the law of the land and no matter what he says, it s not going anywhere. but forget the real world. cruz lives in a world where he can give a fake filibuster as the clock ticks down to a government shutdown. something even rand paul doesn t think is worth doing over defunding obama care. so we ve come to this. joining me now is the national reviews washington editor robert costa and democratic strategist doug parnell. hello, gentlemen. we are potentially on the verge of a vote that we know will lead to a shutdown. we said, let s take a step back here on how we got here, the
0 people would figure out a different way between now and midnight on monday night. and i think it s important to remember that what s standing in the way here is a decision by speaker boehner that he has to only pass a continuing resolution with republican votes. right. that s not how the congress is supposed to work. there s a majority of people in the house that would pass a clean continuing resolution. it s also important to remember we re not talking about putting together a big complicated budget deal. right. this is a continuing resolution that is funding the government at its current levels for two months. so in terms of interaction from the administration, we don t feel there s a lot to really talk about here. we re always happy to talk and negotiate a larger package, we ve expressed willingness to do that, but this is a pretty small action that the congress should be taking that shouldn t be this complicated. essentially we re at this point where we re looking at a