room. if they have good facts to share, share them. if they knew a lot of things and didn t, mr. sondland thought he knew more than the committee and tried to outsmart them, then he learned the process knew more than him. we re getting to that very high stakes place of what cards do you hold? what do you think they know about what you know because if you know enough and did the wrong thing, you may rise to the level of criminal intent and that s why this thing b about bribery is so important. it s one of the only specif specifically defined impeachable offenses in the constitution so it may carry you farther. but number two, in new york, the prosecution office that mr. giuliani used to run is investigating these thing including him and a potential bribery conspiracy. if there s a bribe bry conspiracy and involves instruments of the federal government, other people could fis liability for that. and you have today vindman saying i go back to the word i read to you. requirement. that s th
make that deck laration that wod be constitutional law on title 50. so i don t even think it would be allow today move forward. i think that it s time for the adults to step up and bipartisan ship to prevail here. bottom line, if the president tomorrow night, if he does declare a national emergency you think it would be from her per specif perspective a major blunder? the question is can he do it legally? it is a question of constitutional law. i ll leave that to the experts. i don t think it s a wise thing to do. i think the way forward is not to have that end around. by the way, a lot of my colleagues criticized the administration when they took action on the other immigration debate. i think it needs to be in a bipartisan manner. i think they would like to work to resolve all of these
stocks often rally in december but this isn t a typical december. wall street wants certainty and there are still a ton of questions about global growth, trade tensions, and political uncertainty. still the fundamentals of the economy are strong. there is one more trading day left in 2018 and as investors get ready to close the books on 2018, volatility is expected to continue in the new year as investors stay on edge about economic and political uncertainty. back to you. allison, thank you so much. joining us congressional reporter for bloomberg, eric lawson. good morning to you, eric. good morning. before we get to the money aspect of this, particularly and specif specifically on wall street, i want to ask about the human element, it s about people. you wrote a great piece in bloomberg, about how there are members of the treasury
house. and i was struck about your comment about tom and daisy. one of the people that we talked to for this story also made that comparison and said, you know, there was a kind of that ivanka just tossed up her hands and said look, i didn t get all the e-mailsn s about the specif of the rules. i don t know what you expect of me. that was the impression that people got. isn t there one thing that you would want to do coming into the trump white house, and that is to understand how you do e-mail right? i can t really think of anything else that there would be more important than that, dpimpb wgi happened during the campaign. carol, i m going to play a bit of sound and come back to you. i just want to mention for folks joining us, carol leonnig broke this story tonight, that ivanka trump was busted using a personal e-mail account to send hundreds of e-mails about
from now. what are his priorities for the new year, if you could sum it up in a little bit of a sound bite. sure. he s got a couple of bipartisan opportunities coming up this year on an infrastructure package and on immigration, two issues, on which the president could potentially work with democrats to score a big win if democrats are willing to work with him, as you pointsed out, in an election year. you mentioned the tax cut the president and his party will going to try to sell the plan. that s the president himself when he talked to reporters about this last night. he was far more opt mittsic than specif optimistic than specific about what he plans to do. we ll have a fantastic year. we re off to a very good start. with great tax cuts and anwar, getting rid of the individual mandate, which was very unpopular, as you know. but we re going to have a