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mud on their face and this is a lie from the treasury secretary exposed by the new york times , very serious for the treasury secretary because we know the treasury department was not for the lifting of the sanctions and he over rode them. why once again do they always want to make oligarchs happy? i think we know the answer. harry, that is the big why. yeah, absolutely. again, if you re looking to try to figure out does the president act like somebody who feels an obligation to do things that are supportive of putin like we saw saw, that s the way he s acting. he s not acting like somebody who can maybe even as a demonstration of his independence slap back at putin and allies. to frank, its was very clear that someone like deripaska is
house senate is on track. the vote would take place on thursday. the problem is of course this plan is likely headed nowhere. democrats say it s a non-starter. the government shutdown now in it s 31st day. 31 days without pay for more than 800 thousand americans and yet another paycheck going to have zeros on it on friday. abby phillip is outfront live at the white house, what is the white house thinking tonight. reporter: the white house is keenly aware the second paycheck federal workers will receive with no money is coming up this friday and they are seeking to really change the dynamic. after president trump. voters stood by that and took him at his word and an effort to really change that dynamic to get democrats to the negotiating table and make it seem more that president trump was eager to end the shutdown. the white house introduced this plan but democrats have said and they have said this from the
happening and said there were fleeting conversations he told the new york times. the new york times interview was particularly damaging potentially for rudy giuliani s client and in the cleanup attempt, he says these conversations were simply hypothetical and not based on actual conversations with the president. so now if you re a prosecutor sitting at robert mueller s office, you have every reason to come back to the president s team and say look, you guys have to clear this up and the only way to clear this up is for the president to sit down for an interview with the prosecutors and i got to tell you, the reason why this is a big deal is because here we are, all indications are we re close to the finish line and the president s team has managed to stop any sitdown interview between the president and robert mueller s team and here
very beginning, they want to reopen the government before they have any discussions about the border wall or border wall funding. so while the president s plan is going to be introduced this week, might be voted on as early as thursday, there is no expe expectation on either side this plan will in fact advance because it won t get enough votes in the senate and also because nancy pelosi is unlikely to take it up in the house, that means that we are really nowhere here. this is day 31. there is no progress being made to end the shutdown and democrats and republicans are once again staring at each other in the face and really neither of them getting closer to a resolution. what we re seeing here is an effort to change the political dynamics around this shutdown more than ending it, erin. abby, thank you very much. and now i want to go to the chairman of the house homeland security committee democratic congressman benny thompson. i appreciate your time, congressman. were democrats too q