and it was easy for him to do because he is out of there in a week but you know who is not out of there in a week is probably donald trump and he is not taking seriously what is coming down the pike at him, in a new democratically controlled house that is actually going to do its job, in terms of oversight. and to sit there and to not just try humor, but worse than anything, to not be funny in the attempt at humor, and to just kick congress in the shins, when these people are going to come after you, and to go to glenn s point, i don t think he was being fully truthful, we really believe he didn t talk to anybody in the white house or connected to the white house about the mueller investigation? no, that s not true. i m being told my five minutes is up. one candidate, another possible contender, never very smart, president trump sizes up the competition as the list of 2020 hopefuls grows longer host is in, who s out and who is still on the fence, when we come back. l on the fence,
negotiations. you had quite the showdown with speaker pelosi. what did you learn about negotiating with her? well, i think that she was very rigid, which i would expect. but i think she s very bad for our country. she knows that you need a barrier. she knows that we need border security. she wanted to win a political point. i happen to think it is very bad politics. when you have people dying all over the country because of people like nancy pelosi who don t want to give proper border security for political reasons, she s doing a terrible disservice to our country. let s bring in nancy cook, white house reporter for politico, chris lieu under president obama and glenn kirshner. nancy, let s start with this, what is the president setting in his words, setting the table for come the deadline? what does he want to get done? what does he think mitch mcconnell might do in reaction to that? well, i think the where the white house has moved to this week is they re very much
entirely. nancy cook, thank you so much. chris lu and glenn kirshner. i owe you. it is a lot of breaking news. we re getting in new tape and i do believe this is from the lieutenant governor. is that right? justin fairfax, this is after the comments coming from the governor. i want to play that tape if we can. we also issued a statement and said we believe the images were vile and abhorrent and it was disturbing and i think it would serve a lot of people not just in the commonwealth of virginia and around the country and we re at this important moment in the history of virginia and of its nation and we need leaders and leadership that could unite us and help us rise to the better interest of our nature and that is what i m focused on in my life in public service and so i think that i think the governor would make the best decision hopefully and in the interest of the commonwealth of virginia and that is what i ll always continue to do. he s had a lot of supporters who do you
are not familiar, it is between the united states and russia banning all land-based missiles in the range of about 310 to 30004 3 to 3400 miles. and glenn kirshner, looking at this space for years and trying to secure what we have today and you live through the 80s and you go, i don t know what is happening here. yeah, it is hard to understand. how can it be that if russia is actually violating the terms of a long-standing treaty or agreement that we have with them that the way we think we can move forward and holding them accountable is to basically withdraw from the treaty and give them free reign to now, i guess, develop intermediate term nuclear weapons. i m not sure where the administration is going with that. ly s i will say, richard,
closely guarded secret as well as their identities. with me this hour, glenn kirshner, liz plank, and kevin barron, the executive editor of defense one. kec kevin, let s start with you. 706 days into his presidency, finds his way into a military zone. how successful was it? . i was a pentagon reporter. the troops love these visits when they get to see especially the president. so the way they talk about it is a little different than what they ll talk about when they get back home. this was about the least controversial safest, quickest way to visit troops overseas, to