and certainly not taken seriously until months later, which is why the evidence matters. it s why, when you hear people saying, gosh, haven t we talked about this enough? sometimes they are guilty people or apologists for coup plotters. we re talk about how trump and his aides were hoping to mount an attack, hence secret at the time, to submit a false slate of fraudulent elector that would somehow inject last-minute doubt into the january certification. aides initially hid the plot, but evidence and emails have come out which shows how they were discussing it, and then we of course have tried to interview them to learn more about it. now there are reports that even the lawyers pushing it knew at the time that s they did not have the law on their side as the washington post is now reporting, so the plots are coming into more view. trump had seven plots thwarted. the lawsuits that game into court, somehow calling the military to help. that got shutdown inside the government.
shut down as a criminal enterprise including the mob stuff. it s weird, right? it s just uncanny. after the third straight firm he worked at got shut down and excelled from the securities industry lev parnas finally appears to have given up his work in finance. of course we know he lands on his feet because now he works for the president of the united states of america. at least he was. we re not sure if that continues now while he s under arrest and awaiting trial. but this is just a remarkable thing that is plodding along, alongside what is happening on capitol hill with all the impeachment drama. i mean, there s this guy who s under arrest, he s facing more than 30 years in prison. he s charged with funneling illegal foreign money to the president s re-election effort and other republican campaigns. there are enough pictures of him with the president and the president s eldest son and the president s lawyer. i mean there s enough pictures of this guy with the president and the presi
week of a partial got shutdown over funding over a wall at the membering can border. chris stirewalt is here. we just found out the president will be giving a primetime address. it will be at 9 p.m. we also confirmed it will be from the oval office. that will be president trump s first speech from the oval office. that means it s high stakes. this is a chance for him to really use the biggest tool that he has, the biggest communication that he has, to try to turn the tide on this thing. chris, your thoughts. you and i talked about this very thing on our delightful pod cast. and you said then and were 100% right that this is a president who needs to ask for the american people s attention and say, okay. this is what i m talking about. nancy pelosi in that clip, was praising him in her own way. she obviously respects him in the same way that he respects her as a tactician.
government will be open. it won t be open until we have a wall or fence or whatever they want to call it. it s all the same thing. it s a barrier from people pouring into our country from drugs. it s a barrier from drugs. elyson is at the white house. what s the late scene of the accident reporter: the president said he will not end this shutdown until democrats agree to pay for some sort of physical barrier at the southern border. he also told reporters this morning he plans to go to texas in january. yesterday i gave out 115 miles worth of wall. of texas. it s going to be built hopefully rapidly. i m going there at the end of january for the start of construction. that s a by stretch. we re talking about 500 to 550 renovated a massive amount of wall. in addition to that, and i think very, very importantly, we ve built a lot of new wall.
reporter: mr. trump began with a video call to troops overseas and took a number of questions, talking about the shutdown, his treasury secretary, the federal reserve. the president mentioning he stayed in washington, d.c. because of the shutdown. democrats, of course, say it is a shutdown of his own making. the people of this country want border security. it s not a question of me. i d rather not be doing shutdowns. i have been at the white house. i love the white house. i wasn t able to be with my family. i thought it would be wrong for me to be with my family. my family is in florida, palm beach. i just didn t want to go down and be there while other people are hurting. it s gonna all work out. reporter: the president did tell senator chuck shumer in the oval office that he would be proud to shut down the government and that he would take the blame if one were to occur. mr. trump told reporters he cannot say when the government