president s demand for a border wall. but there s no clear indication that is going to happen. the president doesn t have any events on his schedule today, yesterday he did hold meetings. he met with conservative leaders. not democrats. so it doesn t appear as though there s an end in sight in the near future. but the pressure is certainly mounting for all of those reasons that you just knocked out. kelly o donnell is over on the hill. our friend kristen welker teed you up well. dueling votes on capitol hill. neither of them are expected to pass. what s your sense being in the building this morning? well, it is sort of the dueling banjos of lejs legislati legislation. we have to go through it. because it is a way to test the waters. what we have seen here is a slice of bipartisanship for the fact that they re even holding two separate votes. the republican plan which is the president s offer which gives him all the mope he wants for a
memo? probably. the whole thing is so political. in the end it is getting lost here. i love the idea of the dueling memos. someone should set up a band dueling memos, a country band reminding me of dueling banjos. sandra: we ll see where it all goes. the deadline is approaching. bill: a great cable show. dueling memos. jon scott is coming up now. we have a great cable show, too. the clock is ticking on the deadline for a spending deal. the senate has an agreement. will the house go along? we ll hear the white house take plus we ll have house speaker paul ryan s weekly briefing and newly revealed text messages raise questions about a past statement by former president obama on f.b.i. investigations. winter olympics getting underway today in south korea but amid rising tensions with the north will the fans be there as well?
sorts of things. every week it s another excuse. translator: our ambassador has met someone, and what is his ambassador supposed to do? that s what he gets money for. he has to hold meetings, have discussions about the current state of affairs. mike was doing his job. he was calling countries and his counterparts. so it certainly would have been okay with me if he did it. i would have directed him to do it if i thought he wasn t doing it. that s a case of dueling banjos. the trump administration, from the moment it took office, wanted to find a way to lift sanctions on russia. we ve got the guy who broke the story. this is hardball where the action is. the future isn t silver suits and houses on mars,
sorts of things. every week it s another excuse. translator: our ambassador has met someone, and what is his ambassador supposed to do? that s what he gets money. he has to hold meetings, have discussions about the current state of affairs. mike was doing his job. he was calling countries and his counterparts. so it certainly would have been okay with me if he did it. i would have directed him to do it if i thought he wasn t doing it. that s a case of dueling banjos. the trump administration wanted to find a way to lift sanctions on russia from the moment they took office. we ve got the guy who broke the story. this is hardball, where the action is. we gotta go. [ tires screech ] any airline. any hotel. any time. go where you want, when you want with no blackout dates. [ muffled music coming from club. blue monday by new order. cheers. ] [ music and cheers get louder ]
ready? of course, i was born ready. [ dueling banjos ] that wasn t exactly the glenn campbell that we had known, but he still was. okay. so he wanted to sing wichita lineman twice, and who gives a rat s ass. and he walked out there and played his ass off, and the crowd loved it. i sat there and i laughed and